Football Programme at Longfleet Youth FC – One Year On!

…its for players and parents are clear to see. Players show an improved mood-state and an increase of self-esteem and are enjoying new experiences and making new friends etc. They are also getting some exercise and learning new football skills. Parents get the chance to meet other parents, share stories and make new friends, whilst watching their child participate in their football training sessions. The DSActive players were fortunate enough to be…

Millwall Community Trust’s DSActive team goes from strength to strength

…e, the first session is for those aged 5-9 and the second for those aged 10-16. The standard of football on display was fantastic to watch, the keeper couldn’t save a single penalty in either session! The sessions really highlight that football is fantastic for all ages and it was great to see the parents getting involved in the sessions as well.   If you would like to find out more about the sessions then email disability@millwallcommunity.org.uk…

A visit to Albion in the Community

…ou would like to find out more about Albion in the Community’s disability football programme, email disability@albioninthecommunity.org.uk….

Millwall Community Trust host a taster day to launch their new DSActive tennis programme

…ham, for the DSActive tennis taster event run in partnership with Millwall Community Trust and the Tennis Foundation. The session was split in two for different age groups. The first 45 minutes was for players aged 5-9, and the second 45 minutes for those aged 10-22. It was lovely to see everyone who came along and they all thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The coach worked through a fun warm up to get everyone’s feet moving and then moved on to some…

Data Protection & Cookies policy

…rvice providers. The DSA uses Google Analytics as the main form of website statistics tracking. Any visitors to the DSA websites who don’t want their data used by Google Analytics can install the Google Analytics optout browser addon. This addon instructs the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) running on websites to prohibit their information from being used by Google Analytics. To optout of Google Analytics for the web,…

World Down’s Syndrome Awareness Week 2019

…s such as David Tennant, Bradley Walsh and David Mitchell amongst many others.   How can you help? By wearing #LotsOfSocks! But not just any socks wear our official #LotsOfSocks socks or other brightly coloured, mis-matched socks. You can wear them at home, nursery, school, college, university, work, play, travel, on holiday, gym, at sports events, cinema, wherever you are and whatever you’re doing on 21 March 2019!…

“That was so mint”

Photo courtesy of Down Syndrome Liverpool

…ricane Lorenzo hitting Liverpool the very same day. In the run up to the festival, strong winds and rain had hammered the centre making us all doubtful that we would be able to get out on the water. However on the Saturday, the weather cleared, and a huge amount of credit is due to the staff at the centre for putting on a great range of activities for the participants. Participants could choose between a variety of activities, including outdoor cl…

#Challenge21 arrives in Swindon

…wed and being our most recent member he did this with no problem at all. Lastly, Andrew stepped up to the plate and with a little help from the coach got to 21. Challenge No 3 – 21 shot rally over the net This was supposed to be the hardest but a surprised coach looked on in awe as they all got to 21 and in some cases much more. Andrew was a revelation in this task and gets a special mention for doing so well. Lane’s tournament success Lane is not…