Avenues Badminton Club

So why isn’t sport prioritised for girls?!🤷‍♀️

New research from Sky has revealed...

🚧Boys spend 1.4 hours more per week playing sport than girls – that’s the equivalent of 280m hours per year across the UK

📉 Girls are facing a postcode lottery with those in urban areas missing out on 100 minutes of exercise each week

😔 In areas with the lowest levels of sports provision, the participation gap is 46% wider than in places with the highest provision

The research also found that increasing teenage girls’ access to sport could save the NHS £73 million.

This is exactly why we created our Big Sister initiative, which provides free and discounted gym memberships and girls-only sessions to teenage girls in selected leisure centres.

Our ambition is for Big Sister to be available in leisure centres across the UK, ensuring that girls everywhere can access the support, opportunities and environments they need to stay active throughout their teenage years.

Sport transforms lives. We can’t gatekeep it from half the population.

Do you agree? Donate to our charity today to help us break down barriers and keep teenage girls in sport.

Donate now: https://womeninsport.org/take-action/donate/

Awesome night at our annual Bay of Plenty awards ceremony!

Great to see everyone there!

Congratulations to all of our members that won awards, was awesome to see.

Josh, Matthew and Ansen (absent) for taking out the premier division Interclub, good job guys!

Well done to Sharon for winning the administrator of the year award, thank you for all the hard work you put into badminton for Bay of Plenty! 😁

And also a thanks to Matt and Josh for volunteer recognition, awesome to see you boys giving back to the community!

Well done to John from avenues badminton club and everyone else in the masters 2 team for winning Div 4 masters, good job guys!

Great job to Ryan (present), Priyash, Alex and Olivia from avenues badminton club and to the rest of their team for winning Div 2 U17 at the NZ junior championships at Palmerston North this year!

Excellent work to Sharon, Delwyn, Louise, Ethan, Matthew, Ansen and Josh from avenues, for being part of the team that won Div 4 Seniors and the team of the year award this year!

And special for mention to Ansen Bee for winning senior player of the year! Goodluck with your U19 NZ squad trials for 2026! 💪

Thank you for organising a fun night and making it a special year for badminton in the Bay of Plenty, look forward to seeing you all next year! 💙💛

Woohoo!! A number of Avenues Badminton Club members are participating in the NZ Masters Champs being held at QEYC Hall (Doubles day Friday and Mixed Doubles day Saturday). Feel free to come down to watch some great Badminton and support your club members!!

Some great results for BOP players at NZ Masters Nationals Singles day!
Delwyn Cooper - Runner-up 50s Women's Singles
Kesh Gurung - Runner-up 55s Men's Singles
Donald Koh - Winner 55s Men's Singles
Brian Christensen - Winner 60s Men's Singles.

Tomorrow (Friday) is Doubles day - come down to QEYC Hall in Tauranga and check out some great badminton!!

We have access again to Tga Boys College Gym so the Senior session badminton is now on again tomorrow evening (23rd September) 7.30pm to 9.30pm. 😁

NO BADMINTON CLUB TONIGHT!!
(Tuesday, 20th May)
Tga Boys College are using the gym for exams.

Reminder!!
No badminton club on tonight!
School gym unavailable 😪

To register click on the link ⬇️

https://bnz.tournamentsoftware.com/tournament/D8CC9E23-02C4-4E41-82C7-F566C429F06E

Reminder!!
NO ABC junior club session tonight
(6pm to 7.30pm).
Senior ABC club session is on (from 7.30pm to 9.30pm).

Would be great to have some Avenues Badminton Club members come along and support this and have a fun night!!