Here is your opportunity to publicise your club here. You might be running a festival, successful funding and sponsorships you've gained, or you may just want to share some good practice. If you have your own website, we can add a link to it.
Pictures are welcome, as they will add interest in your club page. If you intend to send photos of younger members, please make sure that you have permission from their parents.
Please keep your text content informative, brief and to the point – about 200 words will be excellent. Do include a phone number or email, so that potential members can contact you. Just email your details to customer-services@highpeak.gov.uk and write in subject field WEBSITE – FOCUS ON CLUBS. We're waiting to hear from you.
If you can't find a club or activity here, you may try looking for it at the Derbyshire Sport website. (external website**)
The Air Training Corps is an ideal organisation for any young person, who is interested in aviation or in joining the Royal Air Force.
Crown Green Bowls, also known as Lawn Bowls or Lawn Bowling, is a precision sport, in which slightly radially asymmetrical balls, or bowls, are rolled towards a smaller white ball – the jack or kitty or sweetie. The aim is to get closer to the white ball than one's opponent does. Bowls is most popular in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and in other Commonwealth nations, and is related to bocce and pétanque.
Anyone interested in ball juggling, club swinging, poi, diabolo, plate spinning, unicycling or any other circus skills can find their niche here:
Cricket is one of the most popular team sports, established for hundreds of years, and followed with passion in many parts of the world. It is a bat-and-ball sport, contested by two teams, usually of 11 players each, on a grass field, roughly oval in shape. In the centre of the oval is the cricket pitch – a flat strip of ground, 22 yards long, with a wooden wicket placed at each end.
For people who enjoy dancing or would like to keep kit by dancing. Musicians are also welcome to join in here.
Always seeking any players of varying ages and from different backgrounds.A great way to get fit and make new friends, enjoying the game on the pitch and an active social life off the pitch.
A Devon golfer from Westward Ho Club moved to Buxton and one day, brought his sticks to Fairfield Common ground. Inspired by the open air and the joy in seeing the gutta percha rubber ball fly from his stroke, he eventually founded a club, which later developed into an excellent 18 hole course.
In June 1887, when the nation was celebrating Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, a group of golf fanatics met to set up the foundation of the Buxton and High Peak Golf Club – now the longest existing golf club in Derbyshire.
Land-locked Derbyshire has produced some super sailors, such as the petite Ellen MacArthur from Whatstandwell.