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25.01.2022 Adaptive game for little ones

23.01.2022 Our junior goalball morning today. Nice to see friends and hear each other’s voices

21.01.2022 Due to the Long Weekend there will be NO GOALBALL tomorrow for juniors & youth :)

21.01.2022 Australia’s largest 2020 Youth Survey is now open!. The survey seeks the views of young people and asks their perspective on a range of important topics. Key focus areas for 2020 include: list of 5 items Mental health and wellbeing; Help seeking; ... Transition to employment; Discrimination; and Financial concerns and exclusion. list end The online survey is open to young people between the ages of 15 and 19, and can be completed on a computer, laptop, tablet or mobile phone. Open until 14th August. www.missionaustralia.com.au/youthsurvey click on ‘toolkit’ to download all the relevant information about how you can participate in the survey. Help us spread the word by promoting the survey on your social media. See more

21.01.2022 From The City Of Belmont: You’re invited to the City’s All Abilities FunFest! In celebration of the International Day of People with Disabilities, the City will be hosting programs, activities and entertainment for all ages and abilities from 3 - 5 December at the Glasshouse (former Ruth Faulkner Library, 215 Wright Street). Book your free tickets to events such as a Lego lounge, print making workshop, low impact yoga, open mic talent quest and more at www.letscelebratefestiv...al.eventbrite.com The All Abilities FunFest is part of the City's Let's Celebrate Festival presented by Live_Lighter in partnership with Healthway and supported by Lotterywest. We are specifically hoping to engage local community members/youth in our ‘Open Mic Talent Quest’ on Saturday 5 December Open Mic Talent Quest (10:00am 1:30pm). Click here to register as a participant and here to register as an audience member. See more

16.01.2022 Dear Members Re: COVID 19 NOTICE The committee has met and after careful consideration we have decided that we are going to suspend Goalball for the time being, this is for ALL players, juniors, youth and seniors.... We will reconvene to discuss further action with the view to recommence in May, dependant on the situation. We would like the younger teams to still be able to connect during this time, so we will look at running an online platform for them to get together and do some activities, we will let you know in the coming week about this. Yours Sincerely Nicole Abbott Chairperson

15.01.2022 Congratulations to our junior and youth teams who were both nominated for WADSA teams of the year. We are very proud of their accomplishments. Most attended the award ceremony last night unfortunately a few had other engagements. Congratulations also to Ryan and Darren for their coaching nominations. And congrats to young Darren for being nominated for sports star of the year. Image description: players, coaches and managers of the junior and youth teams proudly holding and displaying their framed certificates.

15.01.2022 Hi All, If any Goalballer families are available tomorrow (Monday 3rd Feb) evening from 5pm, we are retaping the courts. We will remove the old tape, give it a mop and reline the courts. The more helpers the merrier...... as the saying goes, many hands make light work. Hoping to see some there :)

15.01.2022 Tonight, on International Day for people with a disability, we held our AGM and wind up awards dinner. The year has been such a difficult year for every one so it was nice to finish off with dinner and some creative awards. Awards were: Ally - The Sleeping Beauty Award - For managing to fall asleep on court when a full game is in swing. Nakeata: For managing to change the side she dives to up to three times every shot... Savannah: The Comedian Award - For telling the worst Dad jokes- only coming 2nd to coach Darren Tyanh: The Twirling Award - for being the youngest and smallest WA player to achieve the discuss throw and score goals with it Tyson: The Tough As Nails Award - for taking the most amount of throws to the face and still playing on. Coach Darren: The Wee Awww award: For reffing and dreaming of Fire Engines Raquelle: The Octopus Award - for managing to look after 4 kids, work full time and assistant coach the juniors team. Caitlin: Darren: The Terminator Award- For taking out the referee table and making the scorers scream Harry: The Dwayne Johnson Award - for trying to grow as tall as Michael (Magic) Jaycob: The Toilet Award - for his great details on how much toilet paper he has had to stack Jayde: The Gordon Ramsey Award - for knowing where the good food is on the way home Joe: The Bear Grylls Award - For thinking wearing shoes for training is for woosies Michael: The invisible Cloak Award - For consistently being at training (tongue in cheek) Murron: The McDonalds Award - - for making Maccas profits by preferring that over training Ryan: The Grandpa Award - For staying involved in playing when past his prime ;) Nikki: The Princess Award - For reffing in high heels and clip clopping her way around the court. Alan: The High Balls Award - for the world record of high balls Dan: The Cool Chill Award - For being the most laid back player in Goalball WA Ikee: The Pack Horse Award - For always, without a doubt volunteering to help pack everything away Ming: The Got It By This Much Award- For the most amount of goals scored under the armpit. Salih: The Peter Pan Award - For believing he is still young but is turning 30 this month. Thanh: The Eager Beaver Award: For encouraging his kids to play at 9am, staying to mentor the youth then playing in seniors in the afternoon Congratulations on All being Great Sports! See more

14.01.2022 Yay, training is set to return on Saturday 8th August. We have a COVID plan in place that players and spectators must read and abide by. I will send it out via email. We will have a 'train and leave' policy, which unfortunately no dilly dallying around before or after your time slot for now. Teams must sanitise goalballs and equipment on the commencement and end of their session times. See you all soon :)

13.01.2022 Thank You to our secretary Raquelle who has stepped up as our COVID co ordinator. We are doing our best to keep our athletes safe. Balls are washed and goal posts wiped over between each age training session, hand sanitiser on arrival and an attendance register.

13.01.2022 WA Goalball Championships ----- Be In It! Saturday 14th November (9am - 4pm) & Sunday 15th November (11am - 4pm) Let us know if you will join in.... one day..... or both days! IBSA Rules event. Referreed By Mr Darren Coyle

09.01.2022 A little bit of Yoga for this morning’s juniors and youth Photo descriptions: 1st photo shows the junior and youth players in a circle concentrating on some yoga, the second is more of a close up. The third photo is of the junior and some youth standing in a circle with arms stretched out.

09.01.2022 Hey members and volunteers, Re: COVID 19 and Goalball WA We all know the world events surrounded by the virus. At present our risk at Goalball WA is low for community transmission, but the committee will meet and decide on our steps from here. Tomorrow our training games will still go ahead. But please follow the following:... Come for your time slot of training - and maybe not ‘hang around’ at other session times. Please stay away for 14 days if you have any symptoms of feeling ill, runny nose, sore throat or a raised temperature. Use thorough hand washing techniques - lots of soap with water, and sing Happy Birthday twice while really washing the hands - all the nooks and crannies between the joins of your fingers and joints etc. Parents please show your juniors how to wash their hands correctly. Wash hands inbetween playing and eating/drinking. Do NOT share whistles or any other item that can cause cross infection. If you have travelled on a flight in the past 14 days, please do not come to Goalball - we have nurses and some immunosuppressed players/volunteers who need to keep safe, as well as the rest of us. Remember we are a community and like a family. The committee will meet regularly and make an action plans to get us all through the season. Kind Regards Nicole Abbott Chairperson.

08.01.2022 Goalball WA is hoping to start back up either next Saturday or the following, we just have a few housekeeping items to do. GBWA would also like to thank our wonderful @Steffan Nero for all that he has done for the club in playing, coaching and supporting. He has moved over to Sydney for personal reasons. We will miss you. We will think about if we will give approval and release you to NSW ;)

08.01.2022 A big THANK YOU to 3CM School of Management who offer us a free space for our monthly committee meetings, it is very much appreciated. Here is a little bit about 3CM - 3CM is the Leadership and Management specialist providing Training, Coaching and Mentoring of accredited, non-accredited , micro-credentials and Science of Self in workshop, workplace, online and one on one sessions; giving Leaders and Teams the tools to drive organisational success.

08.01.2022 Just over 13 hours to go to our new season! Can't wait to see you all tomorrow :)Just over 13 hours to go to our new season! Can't wait to see you all tomorrow :)

08.01.2022 Today Goalball WA visited Murdoch University HPE to run a fun and interactive Inclusion Education session. We had a great time talking about how inclusion can be incorporated in sports within the school class. Students then had the opportunity to join in a practical session of the Goalball game. (Attached photo of our youth team on court at 2019 AGC's)

07.01.2022 Our junior coach headed out to John Septimus Roe school to help our year 7 athlete organise a scratch match between teachers and staff to celebrate INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY. If your school would like to hold a Goalball experience in 2021 (for a small donation) please get in touch with us via our email [email protected]

07.01.2022 If you would like to try some cycling, WA Tandem Cycling is having a come and try day on Sunday 30th August. RSVP's are essential.

06.01.2022 Come along and listen to our own Ben Rowe at the Beaufort St Songwriters Club, on March 12. More info on the link below

05.01.2022 It was great to see so many faces back at Goalball today, and thanks to those who put up and took down the goals; this will now need to be a weekly exercise. If anyone out there in the community would like to volunteer with us putting up goals or learning how to be a referee please get in touch. Also if you know anyone who is blind or has a vision impairment and loves their sports please put us in touch.

05.01.2022 November Grill'd East Victoria Park is Supporting Blind Citizens WA and Dinner Dates is supporting Blind Citizens WA, on Saturday 21 November at Grill'd East Victoria Park as a Dinner Date! Dinner Date: Saturday, 21 November 2020 at 6 PM... Facebook event apgeL https://www.facebook.com/events/2704185703126434/ November Grill'd East Victoria Park is Supporting Blind Citizens WA Grill'd help organisations fundraise through tokens in jars! Spreading the community spirit one token vote at a time. Once people purchase a burger at Grill'd, they are given a token to place in the jar of 3 different not for profit organisations. For all of November 2020, Blind Citizens WA is one of the 3 organisations. So please support Blind Citizens WA, buy a burger at Grill'd East Victoria Park shop (only) and hopefully Blind Citizens WA, will be the organisation with the most tokens at the end of November. MADE TO ORDER: Each burger is made to order, when you order and never before. Grill'd East Victoria Park is located at 895 Albany Hwy, East Victoria Park WA 6101, near Westminster Street. It is open from 11am to 10pm daily. Go there any time in November for a burger and support Blind Citizens WA. Grill'd Local Matters Project: Our Local Matters jars are a fixture in all of our restaurants. Each month, in every restaurant the jars promote three community groups for our guests to support. With every burger ordered, a Local Matters token is handed over for our guests to drop into the jar of their choice. At the end of the month $500 is split between the groups ($300 for 1st, $100 for 2nd and 3rd), with a total of $70,000 given back to the community every month. See more at: https://www.grilld.com.au/about/localmatters Grill'd East Victoria Park is located at 895 Albany Hwy, East Victoria Park WA 6101, near Westminster Street. It is open from 11am to 10pm daily. Go there any time in November for a burger and support Blind Citizens WA. Remember, it is only the East Victoria Park shop, that is fundraising for Blind Citizens WA. Help us out by eating Grill’d burgers! Remember, it is only the East Victoria Park shop, that is fundraising for Blind Citizens WA. Help us out by eating Grill’d burgers! Erika Webb Blind Citizens WA Email: [email protected] Website: www.bcwa.org.au

05.01.2022 Youth training with some adults thrown in. Photo descriptions: photos of youth and adult players playing a game today at Goalball

04.01.2022 Nominations for the 2021 WA Disability Support Awards are now open! Visit https://dswa.org.au/nominations/ to nominate a Western Australian who has shown excell...ence in supporting people with disability. Who has made a significant contribution in your community or organisation this past year? If you need tips and support with writing your nomination, NDS is hosting a Nomination Masterclass on Tuesday 18 May, 2021. Follow this link to book your spot: https://bit.ly/3nUJGkH NDS recently spoke with 2019 Award Winner Ryan Honschooten and VisAbility CEO Elizabeth Barnes about their Disability Support Awards experience. In this video, Ryan discusses how winning the award enabled him to reflect on his career and his passion for support work. Nominations close Tuesday 1 June, 2021.

04.01.2022 Goalfit at Perron Place (Visability in Victoria Park) Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm commencing Wed 12th May. Join a fun, social and inclusive fitness program in partnership with Goalball WA, welcoming kids of all abilities aged 8-12 years old. Goalball is a unique sport that is played by people who are vision impaired but due to its design can be completely inclusive for most. Goalfit will incorporate some Goalball skills within a fun circuit program. Cost: $7 weekly participation fe...e Photo Description: Flyer with above information with a young boy who is wearing glasses, flexing his biceps. See more

01.01.2022 Reminder: We have a pre season catch up tomorrow 11am at Burswood Park for players and families. BYO chairs, blankets, picnic or BBQ supplies. It will be great to see each other and have a chit chat. See you there! PS If you are needing a lift from a station please let us know and see what we can organise.

01.01.2022 Goalball WA is looking for other sports groups or corporate team building exercises who would like to come and learn about goalball and play against our teams. If you know anyone who would be interested, please put us in touch. We are looking at Saturdays to play against our youth or a Monday evening to play against our youth & seniors. It is a great experience to don a blindfold and get out of your comfort zone.