Active High Peak – the Activity Zone for young people in High Peak
The Activity Zone is the place to chill out and find out all the sporting and fun events that are happening in your area. Many of them are FREE. Everyone under 16 years of age is welcome to join in.
Summer 2008 starts here...
Free Swimming at the Leisure Centres
This summer, once again, High Peak Borough Council is offering FREE swimming to all young people, aged 16 and under, at all our pools. Just turn up at any of our pools - Buxton, Glossop and New Mills - during specified public swimming times and splash hours for your free swimming, from Thursday 24 July until Sunday 7 September, 2008.
Summer holiday specials at the leisure centres.
General Sports with our Community Partners
brought to you by High Peak Borough Council and our partners, who are dedicated in bringing all the sporting activities across High Peak for young people throughout the summer holidays.
Buxton Community School Sports College
Buxton Opera House
Buxton Opera House organises:
- workshops in primary and secondary schools for acting and dancing;
- holiday time programmes and workshops in dance, drama, music, art, puppetry and photography, for young people, from toddlers to teenagers;
For more details, visit the website (external website**)
Buxton Volunteer Centre
Activities for the children are organised during some of the school holidays.
The Buxton Volunteer Centre's Children’s Service provides support for children with additional needs up to the age of 18, and their families, in High Peak. The flexible service (with trained and police checked staff) care for children in the home and take them out on trips or support them at activities in the community, according to the needs and wishes of the children and their families. For more details, visit the website (external website**)
Chapel Leisure Centre
Fairplay
- Fairplay, in Chesterfield, aims to increase services for all children and young people with disabilities, and their parents and carers, through playschemes, activity days, youth clubs, sibling days and support groups, throughout North Derbyshire, and can be accessed in High Peak and Glossop. Join Fairplay here (external website**)
Gamesley Community and Sports Centre
- Offering all kinds of activities from arts and crafts, sport, and workshops. Find out more here
Glossop Volunteer Centre
- If you are aged 12 to 21 years, then we welcome you to join the Hands On! Youth Project and realise what you can do. We aim to offer new opportunities to young people within the Glossopdale area, while encouraging them to be everything they can be. With the Hands On! Youth Project, young people have been involved in a huge variety of events, ideas and activities over the years, achieving things they never thought were possible.
High Peak Community Housing
- All kinds of sports, arts and crafts, and other activities for young people, are offered at Fairfield, Glossop, and Gamesley. More info here (external website**)
Peak Active Sport
- Peak Active Sport, based at Hadfield in Glossop, offers multi-sports training for young people, including soccer coaching, and after-school clubs. Find out more here (external website**). Alternatively, call 07814 390740.
St Philip Howard School
- St Philip Howard School became a designated specialist sports college in September 2005 and received a grant to build / refurbish an area dedicated to Sport and PE, which is used out of school hours as a Community Sports Centre.
The Community Sport Centre includes a fitness suite, accessible community changing and toilet facilities, gym, hall and tennis courts.
Adults use the Community Sport Centre's Fitness Suite, for fitness classes, spinning bikes, cheer aerobics, circuit training, table tennis hire and for legs, bums and tums exercises.
For children and young people, there is the Mad 4 Sport (Multi-Skills Club), Boccia, Table Tennis Centre of Excellence and a Holiday Activity Programme and a number of sports clubs based at the school.
High Peak School Sport Partnership
- The High Peak School Sports Partnership is working with High Peak Borough Council to improve PE and school sports by developing sporting links between schools and with local clubs. Together, we will also look to improve the quality of teaching and increase the range of sports available to all children of all abilities in schools. There will be gifted and talented programmes put in place for any children who show particular aptitude.
The Youth Service
White Hall Centre
- White Hall Centre, situated on a 35 acre site, three miles from Buxton in the Peak District National Park, offers sports and adventure activities. It is surrounded by an area of outstanding natural beauty within easy access of some of the best outdoor activity sites in the country.
We believe every child and young person should experience the outdoors as an integral part of their learning and development. More details here (external website**).
Your contact
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Need more info? Phone Customer Services on 0845 129 7777 or 01298 28400, or email customer-services@highpeak.gov.uk
**Please note: High Peak Borough Council is not responsible for the content of any external websites.
