Market Harborough Rugby Club – Leicester Tigers Foundation Wheelchair Multisports

MARKET HARBOROUGH RUGBY CLUB, together with Leicester Tigers Foundation and Everyone Active are running wheelchair multi-sports free sessions, Sundays from 1.30pm - 3.30pm at Harborough Leisure Centre, using the 'Dome', for 5 weeks starting on Sunday 11th June.

With our wishes to offer sport to as wide a catchment of our community as possible, we have explored starting a wheelchair sports section to the club. With Tigers providing opportunities for wheelchair rugby for adults, we are initially experimenting with a junior wheelchair multisports offering to encourage young people to come and enjoy team sport, which will utilise sports wheelchairs.

Of course we don't have a sports hall, so we are very grateful to our neighbours and partners at Harborough Leisure Centre, Everyone Active, for gifting the use of their facilities for this initiative. Leicester Tigers Foundation coaches will also be providing the expertise to make these sessions fun for young sportspeople.

Our hope is that this is the beginning of something new for the club and for local people and that in time we may even have our own junior wheelchair rugby section, but for now, it's a chance to enjoy team sport for those who may not otherwise get that opportunity. All under 18s are welcome. We will see what happens next and hope it evolves into a regular activity if the interest is there. We now wish to build on the initial interest and promote this as far as we can to ensure everyone get's to hear about it and join in if they want to.

Free sessions are on Sundays from 1.30pm - 3.30pm at Harborough Leisure Centre, using the 'Dome', for 5 weeks starting on Sunday 11th June.

Mike Fletcher MHRUFC M&J Chairman [email protected]

[email protected]