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SOUTHAMPTON
Oaklands Team And Recreational Sport
Affiliated with Special Olympics GB
Southampton Oaklands Team & Recreational Sports (O.T.A.R.S) working in partnership with Southampton Day Services, is a club designed to support adults with learning disabilities.
Our aim is to increase their access and use of sporting activities within the local community.
As an active member of the British Special Olympics programme, we currently offer a dozen different sports and offer support to as many local athletes as we can.
Do you know someone with a learning disability who would benefit from a more active lifestyle?
OTARS exists to help!
Call Nikki on 023 80 834750
A huge thank you to all those who make such kind and generous donations to OTARS
Skylark Golf & Country Club
A big welcome and thank you to our new sponsors, Skylark Golf & Country Club.
They have chosen us as their charity of the year in aid of our athlete Stacey Morse who sadly passed away just before Christmas last year. I'm sure you will agree that this is such a nice way of doing something in her honour, as we all know Stacey loved our golf days.
We cannot thank you enough for choosing us this year and all of us here at OTARS are very much looking forward to working with you.
They have chosen us as their charity of the year in aid of our athlete Stacey Morse who sadly passed away just before Christmas last year. I'm sure you will agree that this is such a nice way of doing something in her honour, as we all know Stacey loved our golf days.
We cannot thank you enough for choosing us this year and all of us here at OTARS are very much looking forward to working with you.
Future of Monday evening swimming at Oakland’s Pool.
Over a year ago as you may be aware we were struggling to cover the costs of the pool hire at Oakland’s for the Monday evening swimming session due to low numbers attending and insufficient income from subscriptions. At that time Active Nations kindly stepped in and provided a subsidy to keep session going and in order to see if numbers attending would rise. Sadly numbers have not increased sufficiently over the year and Active Nations have decided they are no longer able to subsidize the activity going forward and will withdraw funding at the end of January 2018.
This along with continued low numbers attending means that OTARS are again in a situation where we cannot meet the cost of the pool hire through subscriptions alone. It is therefore with regret that we are going to have to cease the Monday evening swimming session with effect from Monday 29th January 2018, that being the last session.
Active Nations are going to be looking at how they may be able to provide an open swimming session early next year and will keep OTARS updated as to progress. You can also check the Active Nations Facebook page for all activities that they offer.
We will continue to offer the Zumba session on Tuesday evenings 7.30 – 8.30pm at Freemantle Community Centre at £4.00 per session and Football on a Thursday evening at Great Oaks School at £5.00 per session, Football is run in partnership with MLT coaching. For further details please call Nikki Hunns/Carole Richardson on 02380 83 4750 or check the Southampton OTARS website.
Finally I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the support you have given over the years to both the Swimming and to OTARS.
Yours sincerely
Dermot Feely
OTARS Chair
Over a year ago as you may be aware we were struggling to cover the costs of the pool hire at Oakland’s for the Monday evening swimming session due to low numbers attending and insufficient income from subscriptions. At that time Active Nations kindly stepped in and provided a subsidy to keep session going and in order to see if numbers attending would rise. Sadly numbers have not increased sufficiently over the year and Active Nations have decided they are no longer able to subsidize the activity going forward and will withdraw funding at the end of January 2018.
This along with continued low numbers attending means that OTARS are again in a situation where we cannot meet the cost of the pool hire through subscriptions alone. It is therefore with regret that we are going to have to cease the Monday evening swimming session with effect from Monday 29th January 2018, that being the last session.
Active Nations are going to be looking at how they may be able to provide an open swimming session early next year and will keep OTARS updated as to progress. You can also check the Active Nations Facebook page for all activities that they offer.
We will continue to offer the Zumba session on Tuesday evenings 7.30 – 8.30pm at Freemantle Community Centre at £4.00 per session and Football on a Thursday evening at Great Oaks School at £5.00 per session, Football is run in partnership with MLT coaching. For further details please call Nikki Hunns/Carole Richardson on 02380 83 4750 or check the Southampton OTARS website.
Finally I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the support you have given over the years to both the Swimming and to OTARS.
Yours sincerely
Dermot Feely
OTARS Chair
Special Edition Newsletter
Southampton Day Services
Southampton Day Services have produced a Special Edition of their Newsletter to cover the Sheffield Special Olympics. In this issue you can see all of our athlete's results, plus their say on how it was to take part in such a wonderful event. Also it gives a little insight from the staff team who supported their Service Users to compete and take part in all the activities during that week. Enjoy!
WEEKLY EVENTS
We are always on the look out for new ideas
so If you have a fund raising idea why not contact Nicki at nicki.parsons@southampton.gov.uk
so If you have a fund raising idea why not contact Nicki at nicki.parsons@southampton.gov.uk