Meet Action for Blind People's Sports Team!
Meet some of the people who are helping to make such a crucial difference to our young Actionnaires' lives.
National Sports Development Manager
Name: Colin Vince
Contact Number: 07793 527032/ 0121 200 3934
Responsible for: Managing the Actionnaires clubs across the country.
Favourite sport: Skiing - I love the environment and the challenge and it’s also a very sociable sport!
What do you enjoy about Actionnaires: It’s a fantastic project to be involved in which is growing all the time and only going to get better!
Deputy Sports Development Manager
Name: Lesley Inganni
Contact Number: 07703 099354
Role: Supporting Colin on the management of the Actionnaires clubs across the country.
What do you bring to Actionnaires: I have lots of experience running disability sports clubs as well as several qualifications in fitness and sports coaching.
Hobbies: Surfing, swimming and generally keeping fit!
Sports Development Officer, South East
Name: Nicky Holloway
Contact Number: 07793 527031
Actionnaires clubs: Ashford, Essex, Portsmouth, Southampton, South London and West London.
Hobbies: I play lots of different sports including rugby and karate and I love travelling.
Funny fact about yourself: There are too many! I am always the last person to get the joke which means my friends try to wind me up as much as possible…
Favourite moment at Actionnaires: When Actionnaires children ran up to me at the end of their climbing wall session to tell me it was the best thing they had ever done.
Sports Development Officer, Midlands
Name: Steven Bradley
Contact Number: 07739 819953
Responsible for: Setting up and running Actionnaires clubs in the Midlands.
Actionnaires Clubs: Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham, Peterborough and Oxford.
Favourite Sport Playing Hockey, watching cricket in the summer at Edgbaston, and also watching Tottenham Hotspur when i can bear it!
Hobbies: Anything sporting (with varying degrees of success/or failure), travel. I love coaching cricket in the summer as I get to be outside in the sun for a few hours, or the rain as is often the case in England!
Favourite food: I enjoy eating most foods and will try most things, although anything with rice sums up a lot of favourite foods!
Funny fact about myself: I have been compared as a look a like to a character in 'EastEnders', you'll have to decide! Usually at weddings by strangers though!
Sports Development Officer, South West
Name: Rebecca Frost
Contact Number: 07894 390288
Responsible for: Setting up and running Actionnaires clubs in the South West.
Actionnaires clubs: Bristol, Dorset and Swindon
Hobbies: My favourite sport is swimming but I also love taking part in other sports - the more unusual the better! Recently I’ve learn't to play dodge ball and have taken street dance and break dancing lessons! (I really wasn’t very good but it was great fun!)
Favourite moment: My favourite moment at Actionnaires so far was the Dance Festival held in Bristol, it was great seeing everyone from Bristol, Swindon, Dorset and Wales Actionnaires all have a go at PURE FUNK's street dancing lessons. Making the t-shirts at lunch was fun too and a bit different!
Sports Development Officer, North West
Name: Phil Wagstaff
Contact Number: 07894 598766
Responsible for: The Actionnaires Clubs in the North West.
Actionnaires clubs: Blackburn, Carlisle, the two Liverpool clubs, Manchester and Sheffield
Describe yourself: Football mad!!!!
Favourite food My favourite food is Indian.
What do you like about Actionnaires: I enjoy seeing the children try new sports, develop confidence and self esteem.
Sports Development Officer, Wales
Name: Nicky Malson
Contact Number: 07894 598860
Responsible for: The Actionnaires Clubs in Wales.
Actionnaires clubs: Torfaen Actionnaires
Favourite Food: Curry - but not too hot!
Favourite Sport: Rugby! Is that an obvious choice being Welsh?
Hobbies: Fishing, but not just in the UK. I'm planning on going fishing in Costa Rica next year.
Sports Development Officer, North East
Name: Anthony Hall
Contact Number: 07595 090 862
Responsible for: The Actionnaires Clubs in the North East.
Actionnaires clubs: Bradford, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Scarborough, Sunderland
Marketing and Administration Officer
Name Fiona Ahearn
Contact Number: 0121 200 3932
Favourite Food I enjoy many types of food and can't really say I have a favourite, although I always manage to find room for a dessert.
Favourite Sport Athletics and swimming.
Hobbies Running, swimming, and salsa dancing. Does shopping count as a hobby?
Funny fact about yourself I hope to one day appear in a West End musical, the problem is no one is too keen on my singing. Apparently I'm very out of tune.
National Soccer Sight Development Officer
Name Sue Neale
Contact Number: 01792 366756/ 07908527522
Sports we play
Our Actionnaires clubs play different sports and activities every week from archery, goalball to swimming, there's something for everybody.
My Action
Competitions, games and podcasts. Send in your own content, tell us a story, write a poem or record a podcast. Tell us what you like and make this place your own.
Ian Rose Podcast
We interview Ian to find out the secrets of his success and to hear why he thinks Judo is the perfect sport for people with a visual impairment.
Actionnaire poet Liam Midwood
Inspirational Actionnaire 13 year old Liam Midwood recently had a book of poems published inspired by his experience of living with blindness.
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