- Council considers new games area for young people in Ham
- ‘Drop in’ and find out more about your Village Plan
- Online one-stop-shop for Council services launched
- Keep busy this summer
- Take part in your own road race
- Be inspired by the Olympics
- Children’s centres open for summer
- Be a part of Orleans House Gallery’s Big 40
- Richmond Youth Council wants you
- Carers offered a well deserved break
- Mayor gets into the Olympic spirit
- Richmond overwhelmed by 120 Olympics volunteering applications
- Plans approved to consider integrated health and social care services
- Richmond outlines new priorities for community safety
- Council confirms £400,000 extra cash for new Community Road and Pavement Fund
- Stay Safe During The Games
- Residents asked about proposed changes to Council Tax benefit
- Cabinet agrees funding for Sixth Forms
- First Volunteering Richmond Roadshows
- School opens for summer
- Richmond's registration services go online
- Business start-ups offered ‘pop up’ shop in Richmond
- Council service delivery during the Olympics
- Crane Park scoops Green Flag Award
- Playbeach back for the summer
- Richmond in Bloom winners dazzle judges
- Over 500 primary school places approved for the borough
- Heathrow expansion no more viable today than in 2010
- Olympics museum display wins Civic Pride funding
- Youngsters capture spirit of Paralympics in poetry
- Deadline is looming to nominate for dignity in care locally
- Hampton carer to carry Olympic flame
- Last call for Olympic Volunteers
- It’s Showtime
- Summer events announced for new-look Twickenham Riverside
- Scholarship boost for aspiring students
- Community spirit at Heatham House
- Be a good neighbour during the Olympics
- Richmond Children’s Services Director gets new post
- Major plans to revitalise Twickenham take a step closer
- New facilities for children with SEN
- Complaints against parking services at an all time low
- Parking during the Olympic Games
- Hampton North set for regeneration boost
- Community spirit gets funding
- Take part in Summer Reading Challenge
- Team Richmond celebrate Games triumph
- All in One Village Plans to launch this week
Release Date: 27/07/2012
Be inspired by the Olympics
Youngsters are being encouraged to be inspired by the Olympic Games and use the free Richmond leisure and youth card for all their sporting activities this summer.
With the Games about to commence, young residents can access any one of the borough’s seven local sports centres at a bargain price with the card. Many Olympic sports are on offer with £1 swimming, tennis, and basketball sessions. Cardholders also get up to a 10% discount on all courses and classes.
Cllr Pamela Fleming, Richmond Council’s Strategic Cabinet Member for Community, Business and Culture said:
“I encourage all our young residents to get into the Olympic spirit and take up a new sport. This card means young people can get a great deal on the many sporting activities available in the borough. There’s something for everyone and with the Olympics on our doorstep there’s no better time to get active.
“The real legacy of the games should be a generation of young people taking up sport and hopefully this card will give them a head start.”
Anyone aged 0 to 19 years, up to 25 years with a disability, can sign up for a free Leisure and Youth Card. You must either live, work, go to school or be registered at a youth club within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames to be eligible. For more information visit the Leisure Card page.
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