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Welcome to the Cambridgeshire Badminton Association (Cambs BA), a County association affiliated to Badminton England.

Cambridgeshire Badminton Association is dedicated to the development and promotion of badminton throughout the whole of Cambridgeshire.  The county consists of around 30 affiliated clubs as well as hosting Junior, Senior and Masters teams playing in the Inter-County Championships.

This web site is designed to enable Cambridgeshire Badminton Association to promote badminton through providing news and information on local, County and national badminton. Please visit this web site regularly to keep abreast of all the latest developments.

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BBC Things To Do – Sport Tasters
What an eventful summer we’ve had, and Things To Do is continuing to
work hard to promote your free or cost recovery activities to the public.

SPORTS ACTIVITY PROVIDERS!

This summer has been brilliant for sport and for Things To Do. We want to keep up the momentum and continue to encourage people all over the UK to have a go at sport. Things To Do has been featuring your free or cost recovery sport taster sessions over the past few months and will continue to do so!

Many of you are already sharing some amazing sports tasters with the BBC audience using Things To Do – why not add more and continue to make the most of the exposure available through Things To Do and BBC Sport?

HOW CAN MY ORGANISATION BENEFIT?

Things To Do will be directly promoted from across the BBC Sport website, including a link on the homepage which receives around 4.5 million unique visitors per day!

Not only this, but Things To Do is integrated and linked to across many areas of bbc.co.uk including the regional news pages and across key programme pages and selected iPlayer pages too.

HOW DO I UPLOAD MY ACTIVITIES?
Existing partners: Go to www.bbc.in/activitymaker and log in using your passcode. (If you can’t find your passcode simply click the ‘forgotten password’ link, enter your email address and you will be sent a new one.)

New to Things To Do? If you are not currently a partner and are a not for profit organisation you can become a partner by clicking the above link and registering.

If you haven't yet created an activity, it's an easy to use system. You will need a nice photo that successfully showcases your activity. If you don’t have one, there is advice on how you can source one once you're inside your activity form.

We look forward to seeing all the brilliant activities you submit to www.bbc.co.uk/thingstodo
If you have any questions regarding Things To Do, contact the team on activitymaker@bbc.co.uk

If you’d like to stop receiving updates please email activitymaker@bbc.co.uk stating ‘unsubscribe’
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Eastern Region Junior Competition Matrix

One of the Eastern Regions ​Coordinators has kindly compiled a spreadsheet of the various juniors events in all age groups which are being held in the six Eastern Region Counties for the 2012-13 season.

If you are a junior interested in playing, or a parent keen on getting your child involved in County competitions in the local area, you can check out the spreadsheet for more information.​

Further details are also available on the Badminton England website.​

Cambs Players (Senior Restricted) & U15 Restricted entries now open

Entry forms for the Cambridgeshire Players Tournament and the Cambridgeshire Under-15 Restricted Tournament are now available to download via the Tournament Entry Forms link.

The Players Tournament will be held on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th September 2012 at Cambridge Regional College, entries close 15th September.

The Under-15 Restricted Tournament will be held on Saturday 13th October 2012 at Burwell, entries close 6th October.

Get your entries in and enjoy some excellent competitive badminton!

U11 and U13 Fun Tournament for Juniors and New Players: 22nd September

If you're a budding U11 or U13 badminton player, there's another upcoming Fun Tournament at Burwell on 22nd September from 1pm.

You do not necessarily need to be in a club already to play in a fun tournament. If you want to give the sport a try, or have played at school and enjoyed it, this is a great introduction to a little competition.

For more details see the entry form. There should be some really fun badminton for lots of potential badminton stars!

No Strings Badminton

Announcing a beginners / improvers badminton course being run at Netherhall Sports Centre. The course is a 6 week coached course for adults (16+) of beginner and improver level in badminton.

It starts from the 1st August every Wednesday for 6 weeks 6-7:30pm at Netherhall School Sport Centre. Rackets are available to borrow. The sessions will be fun and sociable allowing people to improve their fitness as well as learn more about playing badminton.

Please contact Di Thomas on 07824 437 107, dithomas@badmintonengland.co.uk or Sarah from Netherhall SC on: 01223 712 142.

For more information download the poster.