An absolutely brilliant day was had by all on Saturday 6th August – the day where we launched Wallball officially in East London. Carpenter’s Court, a stone’s throw from the Olympic Stadium, was the venue and dozens of local kids and families descended on the venue for a fun day of face-painting, BBQ, football, spike […]
We had a really brilliant day today at the London StreetGames Festival at the Copper Box. About 3000 kids came to the amazing venue to try their hand a whole array of activities; from pickle-ball to judo, zorbing to parcour, wheelchair basketball to football pool and of course, wallball. We were delighted to see so […]
Pel-Law, Wales’s forgotten sport: ‘Just a ball and a wall’ Football and rugby haven’t always been Wales’s only national sports. In the 19th century, handball courts were everywhere and were used by the mining community in particular. Now only one remains, in the village of Nelson near Caerphilly. BBC News went to find out what’s […]
Wallball is spreading fast across the UK and today we took part in the StreetGames festival in Lincolnshire. This event was organised by the Positive Futures team and approximately 250 children took part. Wallball was situated in the opportunities area and we set up 3 courts against a building wall. The courts proved to be […]
You’re invited! We’re officially opening our new court and we’d love to have you come and join the festivities! Carpenter’s Court is our first court in Stratford and we’ll be hosting a festival of fun between 11-5pm on Saturday August 6th. There’ll be a BBQ, music, face painting and of course, loads of wallball! We’ll […]
The Westway Team, led by Darren Doherty, have been doing amazing work in their first 2 months. Heading into the summer holidays Darren, Andy Ibbetson and Paul Bowden have been approaching schools around the local area (West London) and helping UK Wallball out in East London. The Westway Sports Centre is a sports venue in […]
Top Radio DJ, Robert Elms and President of UK Wallball, Daniel Grant spoke on the radio last week. Daniel was part of the Elms’ “Listed Londoner” section – a short interview where Robert talks to the listener about his or her perfect weekend in London. This weekend the honour fell to Daniel who, of course, […]
Street art! We’re opening our new court in August and it’s a community court through-and-through. In conjunction with UCL and LLDC we’re going run a competition in the local schools for 15-20 kids to design the wall! That’s right, this is Street Art – by you! Each school will be given the flyer (which you […]
In the Olympic park on Thursday 2nd June, two of our Team GBR women, Briedenhann & Mills, headed to a community sporting event to introduce locals from the surrounding area to Wallball. Genesis Housing and the London Legacy Development Commission invited UK Wallball, West Ham Football Foundation, and London Lions Basketball to run free sessions for […]
We’re really proud of this. Christopher Wheeler has been Activated by one of our new coach, Darren Doherty. Chris is our first person with autism to be trained up and we’re delighted at how he threw himself into the programme. Chris has been playing at the Westway Wallball club for a few years now and […]