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Olympic Torch Relay

Congratulations to Jess Boyce who was chosen to run with the Olympic Torch on Saturday 16th June 2012.

We were all very proud at Sunderland Special Olympics, to watch Jess. It was very emotional to see her smiling and waving to the crowds all the way.

Jess and her parents will bring the torch into our meeting on Saturday 30th June, when our members will be able to have a photograph taken with the torch.

Well Done Jess.

A very generous donation to help with our ongoing funding appeal...

We were delighted this week to receive a donation of £500 from Mr Trevor Mann who is the Senior Vice President of Nissan International.

A big Thank You to Mr Mann this money will go towards helping pay the bills at Raich Carter for the next few weeks.

Kath went to Newcastle University to be presented with the cheque from Mr Mann.

Here are some of our members receiving the cheque on Saturday 18.2.2012

Visit to Mayors Parlour 2012

A very exciting day when some of our athletes paid a visit to the Mayor of Sunderland in his parlour.
It was a very nice, the Mayor and Mayoress made us feel very relaxed and welcome.

He asked what sports are our favourites and was very interested in what we do. He as asked if he can come along to Raich Carter one day and see us in action.

We also met Mr Frank Whittle from Turning Point, he very kindly presented us with a trophy and cup that we can use on our awards evening.  We hope Mr Whittle will come along to the evening and present the trophy and cup to our two most outstanding athletes.
This is something we are all looking forward to.

Congratulations to our Badminton Members....

We are proud to tell you the great news about the success at this weekends 4 Nations Para-badminton English Championship 2012 held at Nottingham University.  Laura, Michael and Daniel entered in the 'Learning Disability' category.

All of our members brought back medals in the events listed below and were a credit to the school club at St Aidan's Junior Badminton Club and especially Sunderland Special Olympics.

Not only did they prove their fine badminton skills, sporting competitiveness and hard work, they also
demonstrated impeccable sportsmanship and good behaviour at all times. Very well done!

Michael Moon  Gold medal in men's singles class 3. 

Silver medal in men's doubles class 2.

Daniel Torczynowycz  Gold medal in mixed doubles class 2.  Silver medal in men's doubles class 2.

Laura Ferguson  Gold medal in ladies singles class 2.  Gold medal in mixed doubles class 2.  Silver medal in ladies doubles class 1.

Children In Need

In 2010 we received funding from Children in Need, that money has now been almost used up.

We recently received a letter from Children in Need telling us they are happy with the administration of money and congratulating us on our projects success.

Top of the list are 22 children who had failed to learn to swim in other classes can now swim competently. Some of those are still with us and have joined our competition team.

We can now say this was well worth the work, time, and money that went into their lessons, and I know our coaches agree with that.

We obviously had many other projects to many to go into but all swimmers felt the benefit of the funding.

February 2012

Badminton Success...

The last 4 Nations Para-Badminton Scottish Championship was held at the Scotstoun Sport Centre in Glasgow between the 17th-18th February 2012.

Laura returned with a winners medal in the finals of the 'ladies Learning Disability (LD) class 2 singles' competition and the 'mixed doubles LD class 3' competition.

She also received a runners up medal in the final
of the 'ladies LD class 3 doubles' competition.

Well done Laura... From everyone at Sunderland Special Olympics.