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School Holiday Activities

East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure’s, Holiday Activities are now available for booking and spaces are filling up fast!

We are proud at ERCL to have an array of fantastic, supportive and enthusiastic coaches who strive daily towards building an active, healthier and positive future for you and your family!

Rest assured, you and your child(ren) can learn and develop in a fun, safe and friendly environment, where you can hone skills to use for the rest of your lives.

To view our activities, please click on the following link for Holiday Activities and we look forward to seeing you soon!

Sports Development
East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure Limited

Scottish Women & Girls in Sport Week

East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure (ERCL), in partnership with sportscotland is committed to raising awareness of the importance of increasing participation in sport and physical activity amongst women and girls in East Renfrewshire, and to reducing the barriers to participation.

Thiss week we will be supporting ‘Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week’. The week will culminate in Active Girls Day on Friday 6th October.

ERCL and sportscotland will be posting and promoting content across social media to support this week and Active Girls Day. Below you will find an outline of this activity and ways you and/or your children can get involved.

Visit our website to view our specific activities www.ercultureandleisure.org/womeninsport or view our general programmes here www.ercultureandleisure.org/sport

#SportHour – Monday 2nd October at 9pm
Aileen Campbell, Minister for Public Health and Sport, will be co-hosting sportscotland’s monthly Twitter discussion, themed ‘girls’ participation’ alongside Hannah from the sportscotland Young people’s sport panel. Join in this positive online chat with people from across the sporting sector. Follow @sportscotland and find out more here.

How to engage: follow @sportscotland on Twitter and join in at 9pm on Monday night to chat!

Active Girls Day – Friday 6th October
Active Girls Day aims to raise the profile of the amazing work going into girls’ sport, and the incredible role models making it happen. Activities will be happening across East Renfrewshire secondary schools during the day and across ERCL venues in the evening for girls aged 8 and over.

How to engage: Visit our website to view our activities www.ercultureandleisure.org/womeninsport and join in on social media using #ActiveGirls

 #unstoppablegirl
Members of sportscotland’s the Young people’s sport panel working group on women and girls have been creating videos to engage and inspire women and girls in sport. They want to inspire women and girls to become #ActiveGirls and to love sport as much as they do – join them on social media as they talk about #unstoppablegirls and ask for your views!

How to engage: watch the videos on sportscotland’s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram pages and send in your pictures and clips featuring #unstoppablegirls and #ActiveGirls.

East Renfrewshire Volunteer Programme

East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure Limited are looking to recruit an enthusiastic group of sports volunteers, aged 16 or over, to assist in the delivery of their sport and physical activity programmes including multi-sport coaching (daytime, after school, evenings or weekends) and school holiday activities.  Our next recruitment evening will be held as follows:

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
St Ninian’s High School, Giffnock
6.00 – 7.00pm
 

If you think you have what it takes and can make a difference to the local sports community, we’d love to hear from you!  For more information or to book a place, please contact Barry Cook, Active Schools Team Leader on 0141 570 7330 or email activeschools@ea.e-renfrew.sch.uk

 

East Renfrewshire Active Schools Need You!

If you would be interested in volunteering with us or finding out more about Active Schools please click here for more information.  Forms can be returned to your child’s school office (if you require a form to be printed off, please ask the office).  We look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you as a volunteer!