Sports 

Basketball
Bowls
Fishing
Leisure & Sports Centre
Riding & Driving
Sailing
Sports Clubs
Swimming

BASKETBALL

Haverhill Wheelchair Basketball Club
Meets at Samuel Ward Upper School.
Open Tuesday: 7.30pm - 9.30pm and Sunday: 6.00pm - 8.00pm

BOWLS

• Blind Bowls Club
  Contact Pamela Pyke. Tel: 01379 388637

• Kensington Gardens Tel: 01502 573731
  Two purpose-built chairs can be hired for free by disabled bowlers. The chairs have stabilisers and special wheels to protect the green.

• Stowmarket Rotary Bowls Club for Visually Impaired People
  Mr D Yorke, 2 Orchard Gate, Needham Market, IP6 8UD.
  Tel: 01449 721618 or Brian Annis, Grinstead House, Grinstead Hill, Needham Market. Tel: 01449 720531

FISHING

• Alderson Lake, Needham Market. Contact Mr Aldeson, Gipping Angling Preservation Society, 19 Clover Close, Ipswich, IP2 0PW.
  Tel: 01473 602828

• Essex & Suffolk Disabled Fishing Club Contact David Harvey.
  Tel: 01502 523952 for fishing at Lound. Members only, purpose built fishing platforms and toilets.

• Needham Market Permits for Needham Lake are available from Bosmere Tackle, High Street, Needham Market. Tel: 01449 721808.
  Mid Suffolk District Council or The Warden. Tel: 01449 727247.
  
  Please note that reduced rate Fishing Permits are available from Post Offices.

• Suffolk Disabled Angling Forum This group aims to tackle the lack of angling opportunities for disabled people. Tel: 01449 770154 for further information regarding fishing trips.

LEISURE & SPORTS CENTRES

• Bury St Edmunds Leisure Centre Tel: 01284 753496

• Crown Pools Crown Street. Tel: 01473 433675

• Felixstowe Leisure Centre Tel: 01394 670411

• Fore Street Baths Fore Street. Tel: 01473 433668

• Gainsborough Sports and Community Centre 5 Braziers Wood Road, Ipswich, IP3 0SP. Tel: 01473 433644

• Great Cornard Sports Dome Tel: 01787 374861

• Haverhill Leisure Centre (basketball for the disabled) Tel: 01440 702548

• Hadleigh Swimming Pool Tel: 01473 823470

• Hadleigh High Leisure Centre Tel: 01473 824441

• Leiston Leisure Centre Tel: 01728 830364

• Maidenhall Sports Centre Maidenhall Approach. Tel: 01473 433622

• Newmarket Exning Road. Tel: 01638 662726

• Northgate Sports Centre Sidegate Lane. Tel: 01473 433433

• Stowmarket Tel: 01449 674980

• Sudbury Sports Centre Tel: 01787 373132

• Waveney Sports & Leisure Centre (Lowestoft) Tel: 01502 569116

• Whitton Sports and Community Centre Whitton Lane.
  Tel: 01473 433633

• Yellow Dot Sports Centre Tel: 01787 312065

For a copy of The Leisure Connection Sports Directory. Tel: 01473 433433
Information on all outdoor/indoor facilities in Ipswich (including parks)
Tel: 01473 263500

HORSE RIDING/CARRIAGE DRIVING

• East Suffolk Riding for Disabled Association
  Tel: 01473 726710

• Horse Riding/Carriage Driving
  Available at many centres near you. Contact DIAL Rethink Disability

• Mid Suffolk Driving Group
  Contact Mrs G B Bell (Secretary). Tel: 01728 685442

• Riding & Driving
  Horse and Trap. Contact J Smallcombe. Tel: 01728 628567

• Riding for the Disabled Association
  Shirley Green, Pettistree Hall Farm, Sutton, Woodbridge.
  Tel: 01394 410014 or Jim Hiner Tel: 01638 742376
  A local group enabling disabled people to ride horses and ponies.

• Riding for the Disabled
  East Suffolk, Sue Diggens. Tel: 01787 248231
  Pakefield Riding School, Lowestoft. Tel: 01502 572257
  West Suffolk, Judy Buckley. Tel: 01440 783101

SAILING

• Sailing (Wolverstone Project)
  Sailing on the river Orwell for people with disabilities from April to October on Tuesday & Thursday. For Longboats and Trimarins contact Mrs Waters, Sycamore Cottage, Mill Hill, Capel St Mary, IP9 2JE. Tel 01473 312299

• Jubilee Sailing Trust
  Hazel Road, Woolston, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 7GB.
  Tel: 023 8044 9138.
  Runs voyages for able-bodied and disabled crews aged 16-70.

SPORTS CLUBS

• NRCP
  Stuart House, Butt Street, Minchinhampton, Stroud, Gloucestershire,
  GL6 9JS. Tel: 01453 887 390.
  Uses exercise and physiotherapy as a rehabilitative tool for people with spinal injuries and other disabilities.

• Sports Club for the Disabled
  Mrs P Hoy, 65 Ranelagh Road, Ipswich. Tel: 01473 690834
  Woodbridge Club, Tel: 01394 387310. Open Sundays: 12.15pm - 1.45pm.

SWIMMING

• Avocet Swimming Club
  16 Mallard Way, Gt Cornard, Sudbury.

• Bungay (Waveney Valley Swimming Pool)
  St Johns Hill, Bungay, NR35 1PH. Tel: 01986 895014. Swimming for disabled people every other Sunday between 5.30pm - 6.30pm.

• Felixstowe Leisure Centre
  Tel: 01394 670411. Swimming for disabled people every Saturday between 4.45pm - 6.15pm.

• Hadleigh Swimming Pool Tel: 01473 823470

• Ipswich Swimming Pool
  Fore Street. Tel: 01473 253089. Swimming for disabled Sundays between 10.00am - 12.00pm

• Ipswich Swimming for the Disabled
  Mrs A M Welham, 7 Buttercup Close, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP8 3RG.

• Leiston (Pisces Swimming Club) Tel: 01728 831444 (Treasurer). Swimming for the disabled Saturdays 4.30pm - 6.00pm.

• Lowestoft (Waveney Sports & Leisure Centre)
  Water Lane, Lowestoft, NR32 2NH. Tel: 01502 569116
  Swimming for the disabled Sundays between 12.15pm - 1.15pm
  (pool hoist and two lifeguards available).

• Special Needs Swimming Club
  Tel: 01394 670411 or 01473 749169. Swimming for the disabled Saturdays between 4.45pm - 6.15pm.

• Stowmarket (Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre)
  Gainsborough Road. Tel: 01449 674980

• Stradbroke Pool Wilby Road, Stradbroke. Tel: 01379 384376

• Woodbridge (Deben Pool) Tel: 01394 384763

See also Leisure & Sports Centres