This week we welcomed 14 mainstream and special schools to Inspire for the Ipswich and Suffolk School Games ‘Christmas Cracker’ event. The event was a great way to end the year filled with lots of school tournaments hosted at Inspire for Ipswich and Suffolk School Games. (more…)
Bailey Fleming, Sports Coach at Inspire, has been recognised in two regional awards for his contribution to sport! We are extremely proud that he was a finalist in the Suffolk Sport Awards for Sports Personality of the Year and the Stars of Suffolk Awards for the sports category. (more…)
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Inspire! Notcutts have transformed our Inspire HQ in Ipswich with their very generous donations of a Christmas tree and beautiful decorations. (more…)
We would like to announce our Inspire Youth Teams new sponsors! Thanks to Fred Olsen Cruise Lines and Kerry Alex Thorpe Trust for supporting our youth teams this season. Our Football Teams have had a great first few months to the football season with some fantastic games played and securing new sponsorship which gives them the opportunity to progress with their football. (more…)
Inspire are backing the Ipswich Star’s campaign to get every local school signed up to the Daily Mile campaign – after a study found English children are among the least active in the world.
Students at West Suffolk College had a taste of real business when they set about raising money for our Charity during Global Entrepreneurship Week. (more…)
Inspire has now been running independently for three years! Thanks to your support, we have been able to better the lives of thousands of young people through our work. We aim to make a positive change to the young people we work with, encouraging personal development, boosting confidence, learning new skills and inspiring through sport. (more…)
This Autumn we had another group of young people take on a challenge and come on National Citizen Service (NCS) with Inspire! Find out more about their adventures on NCS! (more…)
Calling all of our supporters! We are in the running for Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund to win £300 for our Charity and would be hugely grateful if you could vote for us. (more…)
We are very happy to announce that our Team Programme has won an award at The Prince’s Trust‘s Celebrate Success Awards for the East of England and will be going to the national awards in the Spring!
Shoot some hoops at our new free Basketball Turn Up and Play sessions! (more…)
Over 100 young people from Suffolk have graduated from our NCS programme at Inspire! We had an amazing graduation ceremony hosted by the team at Radical Lounge with live music and photo booth fun! Our young people spent their Summer holidays taking on new challenges, learning new skills and giving back to the community for three weeks on the National Citizen Service (NCS) youth programme. (more…)
Read all about our glittering Charity Ball last weekend which helped us to raise over £8,000 for our Education Charity! (more…)
Brides and grooms-to-be have been flocking to Inspire for the Savvy Wedding Show in our main events hall in Ipswich. Our hall was packed with local wedding suppliers on Sunday for the Wedding Show hosted by The Savvy Wedding Planner. Read more about the great event here…
To mark World Mental Health Day on 10th October, we held a football tournament at Inspire for our Health Kicks participants!
We had 4 teams and 12 games played in total with our Health Kicks participants who join us weekly on Monday’s and Wednesday’s to get together and play sport to build confidence and gain the mental and physical benefits of being active. (more…)
We are pleased to announce that Ipswich School of Dancing will be joining us at our Holiday Clubs this half term. They will be running dance sessions at our Ipswich holiday clubs on Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th October! (more…)
Our Team programme in Ipswich have refurbished the gardens of St Michael’s Community Centre Ipswich to benefit the users of the centre as part of the Community Project phase of their programme! (more…)
We are very grateful to Fred. Olsen who have raised over £3,000 for our Charity! Staff at Ipswich-based Fred. Olsen dug deep in their pockets and joined together at their ‘Summer Ball’ at Trinity Park in Ipswich to raise a staggering £10,000 for their three chosen charities for 2016 – Inspire, St. Elizabeth Hospice and East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices to each receive the sum of £3,333. (more…)
Our groups young people on the National Citizen Service (NCS) youth programme have spent their Summer holidays giving back to the community. We have had over 100 young people take part in the NCS with us this Summer and with graduation next week, we wanted to tell you all the amazing things they’ve been up to! (more…)
For the past few months, we have been holding free ‘turn up and play’ sport sessions to get children (5-12 years) involved in new sports and to keep them active. For the next group of sessions, we have decided to start FREE CRICKET clubs. (more…)
We will be putting on extra Inspire Holiday Clubs provisions at our Ipswich base just off Nacton Road for your children who are out of school this week due to the Broke Hall Primary School closure. (more…)
Next week is our last week of Summer holiday clubs, but fear not, Summer is not over yet! Book your space on to our last week of holiday clubs at our Ipswich base on Lindbergh Road, IP3 9QX to join in with the last but definitely not the least of the Summer fun! Take part in sports and crafts all week (excluding Bank Holiday Monday). (more…)
On results day 2016, we want to discuss the options we have available at Inspire for those leaving school including our Sports Coaching Apprenticeships and our Team programme.
Good luck to all of those collecting results today and we are available all day to discuss your options, call 01473 353 194 or email info@inspiresuffolk.org.uk (more…)
This Sunday 14th August we held a youth football tournament for clubs and children across Suffolk to get active and get some football games in before the season officially starts.
We had a great turnout and a fantastic day! With lots of fun football activities with our Inspire coaches and numerous fixtures played. (more…)