The Society is based in Much Wenlock. It’s aim is to encourage and promote Sport and the Live Arts. An Olympian Weekend with a number of sports is held in July each year. Fourteen sports were included in the Games programme in 2009. Complete results of the 2009 event are shown on the WOS web site.
The annual Live Arts Festival for students of school age is held in March and has competitions in music and creative writing.
Membership of the Society is open to everyone and WOS welcomes new members. The Annual General meeting and Committee meetings are open to visitors.
On Wednesday 19th May WOS was invited to join the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) to host the unveiling the 2012 Olympic mascots, ‘Wenlock’ and ‘Mandeville’. The names honour Much Wenlock’s famous son and WOS founder, William Penny Brookes,as the inspiration for the International Olympics, and Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who inspired the formation of the Paralympic Games in Stoke Mandeville. The evening was presented by Jonathan Edwards with Bill Morris, LOCOG’s Director of Culture, Ceremonies and Education.
Wenlock and Mandeville will be visiting the Wenlock Olympian Games in person on Sunday, 11th July in the afternoon.
Photos & more information here
On 27th May, Jonathan Edwards and David Moorcroft were in Much Wenlock to launch the Community Games Toolkit. This event was a media launch, focused primarily on attracting members of the press and attended by about 40 people from West Midlands 2012 and the Community Games office, and also representatives from Much Wenlock stakeholders.
The Toolkit has been designed to support communities/groups in organising their own Community Games covering everything from how to get started to activities to include to how to promote the event.
Funded by Legacy Trust UK, Community Games is part of the West Midlands Culture Programme for London 2012, which draws on the inspiration of William Penny Brookes’ original concept for the Wenlock Olympian Games. It is hoped they will encourage and enable a region-wide street-level celebration of sporting and cultural abilities, run by communities for communities .
For anyone inspired to organise an event the Toolkit is available to download from www.wmfor2012.com/community-games.
Full story with video & photos here
Contact Ismay Cowen 01952 740429 for details of the club’s activities.
This is the only Club in the County catering for fencers of primary school age and above.
The club caters for athletes 8 – 16. Our emphasis is on enjoyment of athletics with the opportunity to compete. The club competes in local leagues and provides opportunities for a wider range of competition for older athletes. We focus on track and field, cross-country and sportshall competition.
Check with Linda Dadswell (01952 882848) for details of training. Come along initially to the Saturday sessions if you would like to try athletics. Saturday training is on the athletics track at Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology, London Road, Shrewsbury, 9:30 to 11:00am. At the beginning of June we will return to Much Wenlock to the new athletics facility at William Brookes School.
If you have an interest in the sport and would like to be involved please contact us. The club will meet UKA costs for coach training. Contact: Linda Dadswell
If you are an older athlete and would like to be involved with the club we offer senior affiliation. There are informal training sessions for all levels of athlete arranged to suit the needs of members.
The green is now open for competition and social bowling. Thursday afternoon sessions are available for all levels starting at 2:30pm. Bowls are available for beginners and the first three sessions are free of charge.
Enquiries to Don Davies (01952 727507) or Brian Davies (01952 728191) Web site http://muchwenlockbowlingclub.co.uk
The Golf Competition will take place at Shewsbury Golf Club’s course at Condover on Monday 12th July. The event will be run as a Stableford and teams of four ladies or four men are most welcome to enter. Entry forms are available from the WOS web site here, or from the organiser: Helen Clare Cromarty on 01952 277772.
124rd Wenlock Olympian Games 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th July 2010
Committee meeting Thursday 15th July 2010 William Brookes School 7:30pm