Greenbank Sports Academy

☀️ Come and Say Hello Today! 👋

The Greenbank Sports Academy team are proud to be exhibiting at Disability Awareness Day 2026 today at Walton Hall Gardens, Warrington.

📍 You can find us in Marquee 8

Pop by to:

🚴 Take part in our Inclusive Cycling Challenge
🏀 Discover our inclusive sports opportunities
♿ Learn more about accessible sport and physical activity
🤝 Meet our Sport Development Manager and find out how to get involved

If you’re attending the event today, we’d love to see you!

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☀️ We’re Heading to Disability Awareness Day Tomorrow! ☀️

The team from Greenbank Sports Academy will be in Warrington tomorrow exhibiting at Disability Awareness Day 2026 at Walton Hall Gardens.

With temperatures set to rise, it’s shaping up to be a fantastic day to get outdoors, meet new people and discover the incredible range of organisations, services and opportunities supporting disabled people and their families.

If you’re attending, make sure you stop by our stand to:

🚴 Take on our Inclusive Cycling Challenge
🏀 Learn more about our inclusive sports programmes and clubs
♿ Find out how we’re making sport and physical activity accessible for everyone
🤝 Chat to the team about opportunities to get involved, volunteer or partner with us

If you’re visiting tomorrow, don’t forget to:

💧 Stay hydrated
🧴 Bring sun cream
🧢 Wear a hat and suitable clothing
🌳 Take advantage of the shaded areas around the beautiful Walton Hall Gardens

We look forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting plenty of new ones throughout the day!

📍 Disability Awareness Day 2026
📅 Sunday 12 July 2026
⏰ 10:00am – 4:30pm
📍 Walton Hall Gardens, Warrington

Come and say hello to the Greenbank team! 👋

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📢 We’re Exhibiting at Disability Awareness Day 2026!

We’re delighted to announce that Greenbank Sports Academy will be exhibiting at Disability Awareness Day (DAD) 2026 on Sunday 12 July at Walton Hall Gardens, Warrington – one of the world’s largest voluntary-led disability exhibitions, expected to welcome around 20,000 visitors and almost 200 exhibitors.

Come and visit our stand to:

🚴 Find out about inclusive sports and physical activities - Try our Arm Crank challenge!.
🏀 Discover opportunities in wheelchair basketball, boccia, powerchair football and more
🏓 Learn about our facilities, memberships and services - Sports Hall, Gym and activity programme.
♿ Learn how Greenbank is helping remove barriers to sport and physical activity
🤝 Meet our team and explore partnership, volunteering and community opportunities
💚 Find out how we’re creating inclusive environments where everyone can be active

Whether you’re a disabled person, family member, support organisation, school, sports club or simply passionate about inclusion, we’d love to meet you and show how sport can be for everyone.

📍 Disability Awareness Day 2026
📅 Sunday 12 July 2026
📍 Walton Hall Gardens, Warrington
⏰ 10:00am – 4:30pm

Come along, say hello, have a go, and discover how inclusive sport is changing lives.

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🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️ Join the Academy July Cycling Challenge! 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

This July, we’re aiming to cycle a combined total of 1,000 minutes – and we need your help!

Whether you choose the Arm Crank or the Exercise Bike, every minute you ride will count towards our community target.

✅ Take part throughout July - Located in Academy reception.
✅ Record your minutes after each ride
✅ Help us reach 1,000 minutes together
✅ Open to all abilities

Participation is completely free, and if you’d like to support our work, an optional donation via our card machine is warmly welcomed. Every contribution helps us continue to provide inclusive sport and physical activity opportunities for our community.

Let’s pedal together, challenge ourselves and show what we can achieve as one community!

📍 Greenbank Sports Academy
📅 Throughout July 2026
🎯 Target: 1,000 minutes of cycling

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Today, the team from Greenbank Sports Academy were proud to attend and facilitate the Sport Experience Session at the Accessibility for All Forum 2026 at the M&S Bank Arena Liverpool.

Throughout the day, delegates had the opportunity to experience a range of inclusive sports, including:

🏐 Boccia
⚽ Powerchair Football
👩🏻‍🦼‍➡️Powerchair Hockey
🏀 Wheelchair Basketball
🏉 Wheelchair Rugby
🏃 Wheelchair Racing

It was inspiring to see so many people getting involved, asking questions and experiencing first-hand how inclusive sport can break down barriers, challenge perceptions and create opportunities for everyone.

A huge thank you to the Liverpool City Region Destination Partnership and all of the partners involved in delivering such an important event. As Liverpool City Region prepares to host more major events in the coming years, ensuring accessibility and inclusion remain at the heart of everything we do has never been more important.

We were also delighted to showcase the work that Greenbank does every day to create opportunities for disabled and non-disabled people to participate, compete and thrive through sport and physical activity.

Thank you to everyone who visited our stand and took part in the activities – we look forward to continuing to work together to make Liverpool City Region truly accessible for all.

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Greenbank Physiotherapy Survey

There is a group of physiotherapy students from Merseyside Health Physiotherapy who would appreciate Greenbank Sports Academy’s club members, gym members, activity users and partner organisations to help with their research.

As part of there project, they are establishing an on-site physiotherapy clinic at Greenbank Sports Academy to provide accessible physiotherapy support for members of the local community and sports clubs. This will be based in the rehab room next to sports hall.

Founded in 2021 by lead Physiotherapist Ben Watkins, Merseyside Health is a local private physiotherapy company. The team is dedicated to providing high quality physiotherapy services to the people living in the Liverpool and wider Merseyside region.

To help them ensure this service meets the needs of those who will use it, they would be extremely grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete a short survey.

Your feedback would be incredibly valuable in helping them develop a service that best supports the Greenbank community.

If possible, we would also greatly appreciate it if you could forward this message and the survey link to other members, users, parents, and coaches. The more feedback they receive, the better they can tailor the clinic to meet the needs of local service users and wider community.

Thank you very much for your time and support.

If you have any questions about the clinic or our project, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Kind regards,

Lewis
Physiotherapy Student
Merseyside Health Physiotherapy

[email protected]

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In July we will see a range of Cycling events that are taking place at Greenbank Sports Academy including outdoor inclusive cycling sessions, employee challenge/fundraiser and anyone can drop in to Academy reception throughout July to have ago on a Arm or Exercise bike and help us reach 1000 miles traveled.

1. INCLUSIVE CYCLING DAY - Thursday 16 July
Join Aigburth Community Cycle Club, Sense and Greenbank Sports Academy on Thursday 16th July for free outdoor inclusive cycling sessions to celebrate the iconic Tour de France. There are 3 rides at the following times:
10:30am - 12:00pm
1:00pm - 2:30pm
3:00pm - 4:30pm

LOCATION
Greenbank Sports Academy, L17 1AG.
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BORROW A TRIKE OR SIDE BY SIDE CYCLE
Adult sized trikes, side by side cycles and 2 wheel bikes available to borrow for the rides.

HOW TO BOOK
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2. Tour De Greenbank
Stuart Davies, Greenbank Health & Safety Advisor is taking on the Tour De Greenbank Challenge by cycling 200KM in just 8 hours on an indoor trainer to raise money for the Lord Mayor's Charity, The Greenbank Project.
Why not hop on a bike and join Stuart for part of his challenge?. Every donation, big or small, will help support the fantastic work of The Greenbank Project. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tour-de-greenbank-1

3. JOIN A CHALLENGE TO PEDAL 1000 MILES IN JULY
As well as the rides there will also be an exercise bike and an arm crank in Greenbank reception where you can join a challenge to pedal 1000 miles throughout July.
There is a suggested voluntary donation to help raise funds for Greenbank Sports Academy which can be made on our card machine on the wall in reception (please add gift aid if applicable). You don’t need to book this activity in advance, just turn up and have a go.

Great to be at the Project Teens event today at Liverpool Central Library. Giving the young people attending the opportunity to taster some Arm or Leg Crank sessions.

Project teens is a free event managed by The Brain Charity for 11-19 year olds, bringing together activities, support and opportunities. Family Information & SEND Directory Liverpool.

It’s on again tomorrow so drop down (but no Arm Crank sessions on Saturday).