This summer the DSActive team are launching our DSActive athletic sessions. The first session to launch was our running group in Manchester, the second is with athletics club Exeter Harriers in Devon. One of the DSActive team popped along for the very first session. The Exeter Harriers are an athletics club which was founded back […]
We had a great meeting in London last weekend. 21 Down2Eearth members came and we welcomed some new volunteers. We talked with each other about what helps us to be healthy. We thought about our Annual Health Checks. Some of us think we are not included in the discussion with our doctor as much as […]
Summer can bring many happy changes: longer evenings, lots of sunshine and warmer weather. For the DSActive team, summer means that the tennis season is well underway! Recently, the DSActive team paid a visit to Portsmouth to run a DSActive tennis festival with John and his excellent team at Portsmouth Tennis Centre. The festival started […]
The DSActive team recently visited a tennis session at Shooters Hill Tennis Club. The coaches started with a group warm-up which involved all the players and some of their parents. The warm-up activity was called handball and each player was demonstrating fundamental movements such as throwing the balls, catching the balls and running with the […]
Many of our WorkFit employers choose to support our work in a range of ways alongside employing candidates. We were delighted to visit the Marine Hotel in Devon recently to collect a cheque for their fundraising efforts in 2017. The hotel has raised a fantastic £1,172 from the sale of raffle tickets during their “Tinsel […]
Christopher’s story…by his mum, Mary I was told that Christopher has Down’s syndrome within hours of his birth. At that time, what I knew about Down’s syndrome would have fitted on the back of a postage stamp. The hospital had no literature to give me on the subject so their health visitor contacted the Down’s […]
This summer the DSActive team, with the support of England Athletics, are launching athletics sessions!
Carol Boys, Chief Executive of the DSA said today: “I was horrified to read the news about the deaths of Sandra Miller and Jackie Maguire this weekend. It is frightening that people with Down’s syndrome are still losing their lives needlessly, through lack of training and awareness of the condition.” According to Mencap, 1200 people […]
A guest post by Liz of Coraline and Us Liz and Kevin are parents to Coraline who is just coming up to her first birthday. Liz writes a beautiful blog called Coraline and Us. You can also find the family on Facebook and Instagram. As Liz puts it on her About Us page, after Coraline […]
Scientists are a step closer to understanding which genes are responsible for early onset Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down’s syndrome
