Welcome to Havering Sports Council, our aim is to promote and encourage sporting activity throughout the borough by representing all our affiliated members. All sporting organisations and individuals are welcome to become members and attend our monthly meetings held at Romford Town Hall on the 4th Tuesday of each month (except for Aug & Dec).


Sports Bursaries The next round for a sports bursary finishes at the end of June, send in your application form to the Chairman, see under 'Funding' for criteria and application form.

Club Reports:Information on forthcoming events and results of past events
Minuted Club Reports from the April Sports Council Meeting

Havering 90 Joggers A Learn to Run course with 17 participants is currently taking place with the next course scheduled for September.  Future events include a Midweek 5k road race on 12th June and an Aquathon on 19th August.  Discussions on holding a Parkrun event at Harrow Lodge Park were due to take place shortly.

Stubbers Young Mariners An open day will be held on 13th May at Stubbers with taster sessions available.

Havering Sailing Club The Chairman welcomed three representatives from Havering Sailing Club.  They wish to recruit new members and the Chairman outlined the assistance available and future events including Romfest and the Havering Show where HSC representatives attend to promote their member clubs.  He added that any information on their club activities for inclusion on the HSC website should be sent to him.

HDSA and Broxhill Archers HDSA finished in 4th place in the winter league and the Easter shoot was very successful.  Broxhill Archers finished in 5th place in the winter league.  Two members went to the Havering Youth Games and medals for 2nd and 3rd places were won.  A medal for 1st place was won at the Essex County Clout Shoot at Woodford.

Havering-atte-Bower Cricket club Future events include a charity match on 3rd June in aid of the British Heart Foundation and the Kwik Cricket final on 15th June.

My Place Harold Hill Cllr Curtin reported on the new facilities available at the My Place Youth and Community building which include a stage and auditorium, a games room and spaces for hire by local community groups and businesses.  It was noted that there is only limited parking available.

Sports Development Margaret Campbell reported on the following recent and planned events:- Mini Marathon – This event took place the previous weekend and was very successful with team results produced in the next few weeks. Havering Tennis Festival – to take place on 29th April. Events planned include mini tennis, adults’ cardio tennis and an adults tennis tournament. Euro 2012 tournament - to be held on 27th May at Westlands.  Each team will be given a country name and the draw will be the same as the main Euro 2012 event. Romfest 2012 – on 4th June to include a fun run and sports festival in Raphael Park. London Youth Games – starting at the end of May until 1st July.