Advantage! Barrow Raiders Community Foundation are about to deliver a four week, 16 day programme of activities for children aged 5 – 14 years old, thanks to Government funding secured by Marcus Rashford and Cumbria County Council.  

As well as rugby skills activities, the coaching staff have been working hard to plan a variety of activities, including dodgeball, netball, football, rounders, kwik cricket, capture the flag, scavenger hunt, boules, orienteering, archery and much more.

As well as this summer camp, Advantage! will be continuing many of their community activities:

  • Boxercise, which takes place down at the stadium on a Tuesday evening at 5:00pm
  • Junior Raid Runners Track and Field which is every Saturday at 9:00am at Furness Academy athletics track
  • Silver Raiders walking rugby training, weekly at The Matt Johnson Prestige Stadium, 1.30 – 2.30pm during the summer hols, 11:00-12:00pm term time.
  • Mini Raiders, which delivers multi skills to 2-7 year olds at 9:00am before every Raiders’ home game
  • Raid Runners Ulverston – a weekly couch to 5k running programme on a Monday at 4:00pm, meeting at the pool at Ulverston leisure Centre
  • Able Raiders – we have three sessions taking place per week for our adults with learning disabilities, with a zoom fitness session on Monday at 2:00pm, a walk in Ulverston on a Tuesday, meeting at 2:00pm at Lightburn Park and a sports session on a Wednesday at the Matt Johnson Prestige Stadium, 1.30 – 3:00pm.
  • Finally, the Advantage! staff will be delivering special events for Furness Young Carers, Youthability and to a group from Womens’ Community Matters.

All in all, we have a busy summer, and not forgetting our match day festivals, with a very special date to put in the diary – a Walking Rugby festival on Saturday 28th August, taking place at the Matt Johnson Prestige Stadium between 11am and 1pm.

Advantage! also recently hosted a ‘Day of Sport’ for St George’s primary school.

On Thursday July 8, St George’s drove up to the gates at the Matt Johnson Prestige Stadium with a minibus full of excitable Year 1 students. This was the first of three groups to occupy the pitch at the stadium, enjoying a variety of rugby skills and fun games, including tag, catching and kicking challenges mini games such as catching tennis.

Year 3 and 4 came along during the afternoon, still full of energy, and were able to show off to coaches Callum Bustin and Ruth Parker, their grubber and punt kicks, catching a high ball, and evasion skills with a dodgeball game.

The ‘Day of Sport’, organised by Mr Herbert, Head Teacher at St George’s, also involved other year groups being transported to the football stadium and local cricket pitch.