Team GB and Persimmon Homes have launched Get Set to Build a Community , a cross-curricular challenge to support the development of employability, teamwork and decision making skills in students aged 11 – 14 across the South West in the run up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Originally created as the official education programme for London 2012, Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s youth engagement programme Get Set now offers a broad programme of free, cross-curricular resources and activities for schools and community groups.
Get Set to Build a Community tasks students with...
Parents in South West are being offered an online ‘sports day at home’ pack thanks to a leading housebuilder’s partnership with Team GB.
With the current Covid-19 crisis still unfolding, many parents have had to get used to home schooling amid the uncertainty of when their children will return to school.
Now Persimmon Homes South West, thanks to its ongoing partnership with The British Olympic Association, is offering parents the chance to download special sports packs for free and start planning their own sports day at home.
Six of the West Country's top sporting stars will descend on Exeter's Sandy Park for the third Question of Sport night, in aid of the Exeter Foundation.
Olympic Gold Medal winning hockey player Giselle Ansley and fellow Olympic athlete Jo Pavey head up a star-studded list of sporting guests, which also includes Exeter Chiefs stars Julian Salvi and Gareth Steenson, Somerset Cricket's Lewis Gregory and Exeter City's Lee Holmes.
Based around the hit BBC show, the stars will have their sporting knowledge tested during a series of fun-filled rounds that will be overseen by...
Exeter's Kam Powell has been selected for the Great Britain Men's under-19 water polo squad.
The team are ready to compete in the European Championships Qualifiers this week in Antalya where they will face Montenegro, Belgium and the hosts Turkey.
The four-team competition will take place at the Süleyman Erol pool from May 6th-8th and the top two sides will progress to this September’s showpiece tournament in Holland.
As part of Team GB’s preparations, the players have spent the past 12 months training intensively in the new 30m pool in Beswick, Manchester, and they...
