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Construction Training Centre

Planning permission has been given to create a Construction Training Centre in Leytonstone.The centre will provide training for local residents to gain the skills needed for construction jobs within the Olympic Park. The site, on Cathall Road, is currently being cleared and construction of the centre is expected to start within the next three months. At the same hearing, permission was also granted to convert 2-4 Cathall Road from a betting shop into a temporary training facility. It is currently being refurbished and should open its doors to trainees in May.

2012 Training camps in Waltham Forest

Seven potential training camps have been selected within the Borough, and this includes the Score Centre and Leyton Orient FC! These will be added to the London 2012 Organising Committee Pre-Games Training Guide, which athletes and teams can chose from 600 facilities to train in for the 2012 Games. The other training camps that will be made available within the borough are:

Leyton County Cricket Ground, indoor sports hall, boxing gym, playing field for archery and boxing
WF Pool and Track (swimming pool,outdoor track) for Athletics
Rushcroft School, indoor sports hall for Fencing
Leytonstone School, indoor sports hall for Fencing
Leyton Sixth Form, indoor sports hall for Fencing

Come and Try Fortnight update

Over 300 local residents benefited from the Council's 'Come and Try' fortnight aimed at encouraging residents to try out new sports, with a particular focus on Olympic and Paralympic sports.

As a direct result, many residents also joined clubs as full time members and have been going back ever since. Over 30 people attended Leyton Boxing Club in the fortnight, some families went on new bike rides with the Lea Valley Cycling Club.

Esrar Ahmed, Senior Instructor from Hadri Taekwondo in Walthamstow said ‘The 2 weeks were an amazing success for us. We had 20 new people during the fortnight - the class was absolutely packed out and we had extra black belts on hand to help out. The atmosphere was great since then we've had more participants every week.’

Youth Ambassadors meet Prime Minister

The Waltham Forest Youth Ambassadors met the Prime Minister earlier this month to welcome the Olympic Torch to London. 100 young people joined Gordon Brown to welcome the torch to 10 Downing Street as part of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay. The relay lasts 130 days with more than 20,000 Torchbearers, over a distance of 137,000 km.

Contact us

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the 2012 Team:

Waltham Forest 2012 Team
Sycamore House
Waltham Forest Town Hall
Forest Road
Walthamstow E17 4JF