Category: Sport

On Thursday 27 May Kibworth Golf Club members Graham Thompson and John Addison completed their 12 hour, 54 hole golf challenge in aid of LOROS. The challenge was in memory of past members Nick Lacey and Rod Mitchell who sadly passed away within 24 hours of each other at LOROS Hospice last October.

This is a singles competition organised by the Lawn Tennis Association(LTA).The winner of the club competition will take part in a County competition at the beginning of July. The winner of this event will then play at Wimbledon!The competition at the club took place during half term.

I hope that many readers from the Kibworths will remember the first Get Active Day that the two Kibworth Parish Councils funded at Warwick Park on Sunday 6 September 2020. The success of last year’s inaugural event run by Fiesta Sports Coaching means that it is being repeated this year on Sunday 23 May at Warwick Park, again funded by the two parish councils.

The tennis governing body, the LTA, are running a great initiative. Young children can sign up for a discounted 6 week tennis coaching course, and they also receive a free tennis racket, balls and a shirt. It is a fun course introducing children to Mini Tennis, and we hope they want to carry on playing! 16 children signed up for these courses at the club. The photo shows some of the children from one of the courses. We would like to introduce more children aged between 4 and 8 to Mini Tennis, so we will be running more of these courses during the Summer Holidays.

We are delighted to report that three of our club members took part in a physical event for the first time in over a year. Bernie Owen, Abby Davies and Alan Gibson all represented the Market Harborough team in the Battle of Brampton Valley Way on Sunday 18th April.

 As lockdown restrictions ease, we’ll be organising our famous club rides from 29th March. As a social cycling club we'll be adhering to the 'rule of six' (British Cycling-affiliated clubs can do groups of 15) and Government guidelines - watch on our Facebook page for dates and times of rides. We're looking forward to getting back together again!

After nearly three months of being in lockdown, Kibworth Tennis Club is open again.Tennis was able to start again on 29 March. A lot has been happening since the restart.

Every year Kibworth Bowling Club supports a local Charity via our Club President. This year our President is The Rev Alan Pyke, his nominated Charity is Admiral Nurses.The charity works alongside people with dementia, and their families, giving one-to-one support and expert guidance. Here at the Bowling Club we hope to raise enough money to enable an Admiral Nurse to operate in the Kibworth/Harborough area.

The golf course has been extremely busy since reopening, with members keen to resume play. There has certainly been a few oooooos and ahhhhhs on the first tee whether from aching limbs or stray tee shots! The first few competitions are  scheduled to take place very soon and are well subscribed.

We are pleased to announced that the ECB All Stars and Dynamos Cricket courses are open for entrants. We are proud to be able to provide these courses.