Course Title: Virtual Multi-Sport Time to Listen Course Date: Tuesday 23rd February 2021 Time: 18.00-21.30 Location: Online, Zoom. Cost: £40 per person. Description: This virtual Time to Listen workshop for Club Welfare Officers (CWO) will be delivered via Zoom over 3.5 hours and at the end of the course participants will be able to: – Identify what a club welfare officer does…
A life-long member of the Leighton Buzzard community who has raised over £75,000 for local and national charities helping the young, the elderly, the sick and the needy, has been awarded the BEM in the New Year honours list. Retired bookmaker Geoffrey Dimmock, 78, raised the money for worthy causes with an annual golf-charity day…
Despite the social restrictions to help curb the spread of the Covid 19 virus, there’s no shortage of Christmas spirit at Leighton Buzzard’s Plantation Road golf club. Last year, a three-strong group of ladies dressed up as elves to help Santa on his busiest night of the year……this year three have become four – a…
The daughter of Leighton Buzzard Golf Club’s highly-regarded professional is to be the next Captain of the Junior Section. Seventeen year-old Olivia Campbell will succeed Ed Stephenson in January – with Ed’s younger brother George her Vice Captain. Olivia, whose dad Maurice has been the Leighton club professional for almost 20 years, took up golf…
Golf is back on the sporting menu as from tomorrow (Wed 2nd December) after a month-long national lockdown to help curb the spread of the covid virus. Almost 300 Leighton Buzzard members have booked slots to play their Plantation Road course, with fourball groups teeing off at ten-minute intervals from 8am. Although virus infection rates…
For more than 20 years, retired bookmaker Geoff Dimmock has raised money for worthy causes with a golf charity day at Leighton Buzzard’s Plantation Road club. And against the odds, 78-year-old Geoff has succeeded in raising £3,100, despite his golf-day plans being abandoned due to the pandemic lockdown. “Local businesses, friends and supporters at the…
Measures imposed to help reduce the spread of the Covid pandemic wiped out virtually all competitive and inter-club matches for Leighton Buzzard golfers this year…while new Senior Section skipper Denis Leitch is hoping a troublesome shoulder injury won’t sideline him during his forthcoming year in office. Denis, 59 is due to succeed Ian Rimmer as…
https://www.teambedsandluton.co.uk/children-and-young-people-online Team BEDS&LUTON have recently launched an online children and young people survey which will be used to help us understand young people’s activity levels, motivators and barriers to sport and physical activity across Bedfordshire and Luton. The survey consists of 20 questions and should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. The…
A Leighton Buzzard schoolgirl who took up golf less than four years ago has caught the eye of club and County officials after slashing her playing handicap by two thirds – at the age of 10. Sports-mad Sommer Chan was given a handicap of 54 when she joined Leighton’s Plantation Road club at the age…
Golf clubs in Bedfordshire are spearheading a national drive to demonstrate the sport’s commitment to safeguarding children and young people as well as adults potentially at risk. Bedfordshire County, organisations representing around 10,000 male and female members of the 21 clubs in the County, have achieved the SafeGolf accredition, the sport’s safguarding standard, from England…
