National Safeguarding Adults Week 2019 takes place 18-24 November.
Ann Craft Trust (ACT) is heading the annual awareness raising campaign which focuses on safeguarding issues across society. Each day will be focused on a different safeguarding adults at risk issue, culminating in two days about safeguarding adults in sport and activity. …
Today was another of those unique events – Yelverton Rotary Club’s annual Sport and Craft Play Day. …
As Swords in the Park continues, we’ve found a new threat at 9pm sharp – a huge infestation of midges. Somehow I doubt any Medieval war or Renaissance duel was called off for ‘insects stop play.’ …
West Devon Swords attended OCRA’s Super Sporting Sunday at Okehampton College/Simmons Park this weekend as part of the Okehampton Sports and Fitness Festival for 2019. …
West Devon Swords returned to Simmons Park last night for our first Swords in the Park session.
We continue there weekly from 7.30pm on Thursdays through July and August, weather and daylight permitting, assembling in front of OCRA Pavilion. …
The Okehampton class not only fills the available space, but needs more room to train and spar; just as well we’re moving to Swords in the Park from next week (18 July) for the Summer.
For the remainder of July and all of August, we meet outside OCRA’s Pavilion in the Park from 7.30pm until we lose daylight around 9pm (or get rained on). We will also be at Super Sporting Sunday on July 21st, same location.
As part of OCRA’s Summer Holiday programme, West Devon Swords will be running another Family Fencing and Archery camps for parents and children. Parents of any age and children over 8 yrs can develop skills in these ancient sports on Fri 23 August, 2-4pm – £8 per adult, £6 per child.
Booking is online via the OCRA website at ocrasport.org.uk/get-involved/holidays.
As the second half of the Summer term rolls around, West Devon Swords is out at the Devon Federation Schools annual sports jamboree, the 
Multi-skills Festival for primary age pupils.
Hosted once again at Whitchurch Cricket Club, the outfield becomes a circuit for a collection of different sports, with each group of 9-20 pupils rotating through all the sports in the course of a morning or afternoon. …
The weather gods were kind to another, very well attended, Bluebell Sunday at Okehampton Castle on 19th May.
West Devon Swords turned out to run a series of talks and demonstrations, our famous 900 Years of Swords in ten minutes or less, this year supplemented with some live sparring. …
