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200 students delivering sports activities in schools and the community
4000 children offered high-quality sports provision
16,000 hours of practical volunteer support
Over 2700 community visitors each week

Community

Team Durham is based upon the three core strands of Participation, Performance and Community. Our Community Sports Development and Physical Activity Programme is wide-ranging, covering a broad range of age bands and a variety of abilities.

Community Sports Programme

Our community sports programme includes session for juniors and adults, including activities during the school holidays.  

See below for more detail on our current sessions.

Holiday Camps

We run holiday sports camps throughout the year through the school holidays at Easter, summer, October half-term and February half-term. Click on the picture to the right of the page for further details. 

Sculling Camps

This summer saw the return of our popular summer sculling camps. From learn to row through to performance camps our rowing team worked with young people to develop and improve their skills. 

Information on future camps will be posted here. 

Fitness Centre and Classes

Find out about the Fitness Centre and its classes
The interior of the Fitness Centre with people using various gym equipment

Holiday Camps

Find out about upcoming holiday camps
The Team Durham Holiday Camp team in fancy dress

Team Durham Sports Clubs

Team Durham currently host a number of regular Junior Sports Clubs across a number of sports. These can change throughout the year and currently include volleyball, tennis and hockey. Ages range from as young as 3 through to 17 depending on the activity. For more information please see our Team Durham Sports Club page Junior Sports Clubs - Durham University or email us at teamdurham.community@durham.ac.uk with any questions or to reserve a place.

Sport for Adults

We also provide opportunities for adults to access sport and physical activity provision, working with our community partners (Lanchester Road Hospital, Changing Lives, Blindlife, Waddington Street Centre and Resolve Care) where we use sport and physical activity to increase wellbeing and social inclusion.

Community Partnerships

We work very closely with the local community, working in partnership with organisations to offer a range of opportunities. These include working with Durham City and Chester le Street School Sports Partnership to host a variety of festivals and events, we offer strength and conditioning support to the Durham Institute of Sport programme working with Durham County Council and work with County Durham Sport to support the delivery of the School Games Programme.

Supporting Local Clubs

The University Sport and Wellbeing Park is home to many local clubs and teams including Durham City Harriers, Elvet Striders, Lazlo's Fencing Club, Durham Mums on the Run, Durham City Hockey Club, City of Durham Fives Club and Durham Women Football Club. For more detail and contact information click here Community partner update  

Volunteering and Coach Development

Volunteering and coach development is at the heart of our programme and we offer both opportunities to members of the public through our Holiday Camps programme and to University students with our Community sport activator scheme .

Contact us on teamdurham.community@durham.ac.uk for further details. 

 

A selection of our community activity videos

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