Over 500 people turned out to the 2018 UK Wallball Open to attend a 4 day international festival to celebrate the sport of Wallball and everything we’ve been doing this year. The festival took place on 16th to 19th February on our new courts at the Westway Sports Centre. Key stats: Over 500 people playing […]
The UK Open is back and this year it’ll be bigger than ever. Over the weekend of 17-18th Feb we’ll be hosting a massive tournament at a brand new venue with 6 courts at the Westway Sports Centre, Latimer Road. The Open forms part of a larger festival that sees us showcase some of the […]
Team GBR are back from a wonderful and inspiring week in Pasto, Colombia, where we competed in the CIJB World Team Championships. We may not have won a trophy this time, but we’ve plenty to be proud of, had some phenomenal experiences and left with memories and friends for life. Like all CIJB tournaments there […]
Coaches Shareen & Kamran have been tirelessly delivering weekly sessions to two stroke rehab groups. The aim of the trial, designed by our very own President and doctor, Daniel Grant, sees us use wallball as an adjunct intervention to community stroke rehab sessions. We hope that by gamifying some aspects of rehab, wallball can help […]
We’ve got three European Tour events to report on. Spanish Open Thomson, Grant, Stradwick, Rowe, Denman and Maddy Raynor all travelled to Valencia for the 3rd Spanish Open. Another wonderful event hosted by Tavernes Blanques. Thomson: Runner-up men’s singles to Conor Mcelduff Grant & Thomson: Runner-up in men’s doubles to Mcelduff & Van Der Schoot […]
UK Wallball are thrilled to have been awarded another round of Sportivate funding and we look forward to partnering with London Youth to launch 10 new youth clubs and try a new model of expansion that will let more people than ever get involved in wallball. Many thanks to London Sport for having faith in […]
We’re delighted to unveil our brand new video that has been produced in conjunction with SENSE and Swiss Cottage School. Swiss Cottage School is an SEN school for children with learning disabilities, visual and auditory impairments. Coach Sam has been going in to deliver groundbreaking sessions at the school, thanks to funding made available through […]
There’s some amazing trips coming up and there’s loads of opportunities to get involved. The European Tour Events are suitable for all players – even beginners and the World Championships next year are an absolute must! For the European Tour we’ve arranged limited accommodation which will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. […]
It was a pleasure to be at the Carpenter’s Cage 1 year anniversary. Carpenter’s Cage, on Warton Road, is home to our first community court in the Olympic Park. Designed by the local school and free to use by everyone and anyone, the Carpenter’s Wallball court is open for business during daylight hours. Bring your […]
On the 15th July Penn and Gareth went out to Liberty Festival in the Olympic Park to run an brilliant day of modified wallball in the great company of many other sports and arts organisations, and of course, the World Paralympic Athletics. At least 400 people gave wallball a go. We had our first ever […]