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The Vital Role of Sport in Children’s Wellbeing

The Covid period taught us all that sport and exercise play a vital role in the overall health of youngsters of all ages.

Now, as the difficult memories of that period fade away, we must really celebrate our love of sport and take all the benefits from it that we can.

With sporting fixtures now well and truly back on the agenda, it’s time to check over existing sports equipment to ensure everything is fully prepared and in place when the teams hit the pitches. This is where Sporty-Co can help. We supply the full range of sports equipment for indoor and outdoor use and are able to advise on and provide quality cricket, tennis and athletics equipment.

As cricket specialists we manufacture the full range of cricket sight screens and offer everything from mobile pitch covers and scoring systems to practice cages, netting and grounds equipment. On the scoring front , as manufacturers, we can custom build solutions to suit all kinds of requirements.We also install artificial cricket wickets.

Sporty-Co is a family firm with more than 36 years’ experience in supplying quality sports equipment. Our customers include top public schools, major universities including Oxford and Cambridge, local authorities, MoD, colleges, academies, schools and clubs

throughout the UK

We work for the MCC, having built the large manual scoreboard being used extensively at Lords Cricket Ground and we also partner the I.T.F. making their tennis players benches for the Davis Cup. which are sent all over the world. We also export our equipment and have supplied goods as far afield as the Cayman Islands, the Falklands, Mauritius and the West Indies, as well as to many European destinations.

Our specialist team is happy to advise on sports hall installations, electronic

and manual scoring systems, artificial surfaces, athletics requirements and the full range of goals, nets and equipment for all sports.

If you need quality products, assistance and genuine customer service SportyCo is the company to call.

Contact us at sales@sportyco.co.uk , check out our website at www.sportyco. co.uk or call 01664 481700 to discuss any sporting needs and we will be happy to help.

Sport and its proven importance for both the physical and mental wellbeing of our young people is firmly back at the heart of school life.

Football Goals to Suit All Ages:

Football remains most schoolchildren’s number one game and Sporty-Co offers a huge selection of goals to suit all age ranges.

There is everything from the newly introduced top of the range aluminium portable “revolution” goals with inline swivel wheels and 60mm ground clearance making them brilliant for manoeuvring through narrow accesses and angles, right down to the more economical steel socketed models. Sporty-Co also supplies ball stop nets to protect spectators and property. We can suit most requirements with fixed systems and a lift/lower option where the nets can be dropped when not in use or when high

winds are forecast.

We pride ourselves on providing quality products for all indoor and outdoor sports, including hockey, football and rugby along with scoring systems both electronic and manual customised with school titles and crests where required.

.Sporty-Co is a family firm with more than 36 years’ experience in supplying quality sports equipment. Our customers include top public schools, major universities including Oxford and Cambridge, local authorities, MoD, colleges, academies, schools and clubs throughout the UK

We also export our equipment and have supplied goods as far afield as the Cayman Islands, the Falklands, Mauritius and the West Indies, as well as to many European destinations.

Our specialist team is happy to advise on sports hall installations, electronic and manual scoring systems, artificial surfaces, athletics requirements and the full range of

goals, nets and equipment for all sports. If you need quality products, assistance and genuine customer service Sporty-Co is the company to call. Contact us at sales@sportyco.co.uk , check out our website at www.sportyco. co.uk or call 01664 481700 to discuss any sporting needs and we will be happy to help.

Looking after sports equipment –How to reduce risk and save money

For over 12 years, Mark Harrod Ltd has been manufacturing and supplying a wide range of sports products to clubs, associations and schools with quality football goals and sporting equipment.

As well as manufacturing and supplying the equipment, the team offers installation, maintenance and servicing support for its customers to help them ensure that the equipment remains safe in use for years to come.

Mike Bugajski, has been visiting customers for 10 years to check that the products are being installed and maintained correctly and is concerned to find that, more often than not, basic guidelines are not being followed which could result in injury or damage to the product. Taking goal posts as an example, injuries are completely preventable if they are installed correctly, inspected regularly and used appropriately. Mike said: “All of our products are supplied with a general maintenance and safety guide outlining how products should be installed and checked. Health and safety is of upmost importance to any club, school or association offering

fit for purpose and maintained to the required standard. None of the customers that I visit would refute this but they don’t always realise that by regularly checking their equipment, not only keeps it safe and in good working order, it saves them money too. I often go on site visits to find football posts that have been installed incorrectly to start with. Not only could this create a health and safety hazard, it could put pressure on the component parts and damage them requiring them to be replaced – an expense that could have been simply avoided by following the installation guide correctly. Similarly, I sometimes find that posts have been dragged along the ground instead of dropping down the wheels that have been specifically designed to make moving large, heavy equipment easier – again resulting in parts needing replacing. The examples are endless. Of course, it is sometimes difficult for equipment to be monitored 24/7, especially if it is used out of hours by third parties and may be misused resulting in damage. However, these instances make the need for regular inspections

group/individual allowing their equipment to be used could be liable for any injuries sustained. Lack of respect for the equipment is out of our customers’ control but ultimately it will have implications for the ongoing safety of the products in question.”

Mark Harrod Ltd can ease the burden of keeping an eye on equipment and provide customers with peace of mind, ensuring that goal posts and other equipment remain fit for purpose and safe to use.

The general maintenance and safety guide provided with all Mark Harrod Ltd goal post products covers assembly, dismantling, checking, anchoring, moving and storage as well as inspection sheets for recording all observations made and for keeping as evidence of best practice.

Service and Maintenance Contracts are available at an additional cost which ensure sports equipment at customers’ premises conforms to the BS8461:2012 Code of Practice, BS748:2004 AND BS8462:2012. Visit www.markharrod.com to download a copy of the maintenance and safety guide and to view the product range or call 01502 710039

Quality sports equipment for schools

services. With competitive pricing being ever more important for all schools sportsequip.co.uk continue to secure more and more school orders and contracts for football goals, hockey goals, rugby posts, cricket cages & artificial wickets. In addition sportsequip.co.uk are unusual in offering a full Contract Management & Installation Service for all their sports equipment along with ranges of timber Fitness Trails including their range of new contemporary unique illustrated instructional signs, pitch divider and surround netting systems, indoor sports hall netting and athletics runways

Sportsequip.co.uk are a Leicestershire based company specialising in the supply and installation of quality sports equipment for schools, colleges and universities. Sportsequip are major distributors for the most popular ranges of sports

equipment for schools including UK manufacturers Harrod UK Ltd and Edwards Sports Products Ltd. With a wealth of experienced personnel on board sportsequip offer unbiased, balanced advise to go alongside their extensive range of products and

Other new products introduced in 2017 include a range of outdoor concrete table tennis tables which have proved to be very popular with schools throughout the UK. For more information visit our website www.sportsequip.co.uk, email info@ sportsequip.co.uk or call our sales team on 01858 545789