WAPPING WILDCUBS VOLLEYBALL CLUB PARTNER WITH NEWARK YOUTH TO FACILITATE OPEN

COMMUNITY SESSIONS

Not for profit, local community sport club starts partnership with charity Newark Youth London to

facilitate free open community sports sessions.

The WAPPING WILDCUBS, a junior community volleyball club for children of all ages in Wapping and

the Isle of Dogs, would like to announce that we have started a partnership with Newark Youth

London to facilitate free sport sessions for our local community in Wapping and the nearby areas.

The sessions will be held as follows:

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Venue: John Orwell Sports Centre, a GLL BETTER facility.

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Time: 16:00-18:00 on Thursdays throughout the year with breaks during the holidays

and welcome players from the ages of 11-19.

Via our ethos to ensure that sport remains inclusive to all those who wish to participate, we continue

to look for opportunities to facilitate affordable sports programs for children with all ambitions and

see this partnership as one of many we hope to establish. Club co-founder Emanuela Lins who

initiated this project says “this is what we wanted from the beginning, a place for the kids to walk

over to and play sports in the area to build the local community bond we had as children playing in

the park with our friends. Living in London it’s not as easy to have this kind of availability, and we end

up having the kids stuck in the flat playing on the ipads”.

Our club is a not for profit community sport organisation, and caters for players from all different

cultures, religions and social backgrounds. Established in 2017 following a request from a parent

living locally to have fun Sunday sessions for her children and their friends. The word spread fast and

a few years down the line we found ourselves as a fully fledged club offering volleyball to 51

members in a year. The club was one of the first of its kind in the UK, offering a mini-volley program

which accepts children as young as 6 years old to set the physical foundations for volleyball by

focusing on coordination, movement, technique and the fundamental skills.

Earlier in the year, with the support of the Volleyball England Foundation, the club was awarded

return to play funding from Sport England to operate in a post-pandemic world.