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The Access to Sports Project offers to young people coaching and competitive opportunities in a variety of sports and activities including: archery athletics badminton basketball baseball boxercise fitness football multi-sports netball roller skating tag rugby The Project also offers opportunities for young people to gain…

Archway leisure centre: has a fun leisure pool with a wave machine, water run, water jets and spa pools. The pool also accommodates lane swimming. There are swimming sessions for disabled people.   has a two storey gym has spectacular views over the leisure and…

After-school club and football sessions. Free club for children and young people aged 8 to 13. The Arsenal Double Club programme has been running since 1998 and combines football and literacy sessions to help children with their school work and give them a chance to…

Arsenal Community projects provide sport sessions and pathways to accreditation which take place in schools, leisure centres, housing estates and parks. Sports include:  bowls double club (sport combined with homework, maths, English help) football including walking football and football for disabled people

Barnard Adventure Playground isn’t just home to a dragon – we’ve got jaw-dropping canyon cliff rope swings too. Come and jump from a platform across a swamp of hungry crocodiles. Let your imagination loose! Feeling bold? You can put on the performance of a lifetime…

The team offers a range of Bikeability cycle training courses for children, young people, families and adults. We also coordinate local, community cycle rides. For further details please use the link below to Islington's web pages.

GP and community health services including health visiting.

Cally Pool & Gym:  has a 25 metre pool and large shallow pool has a gym overlooking both pools with cardiovascular machines such as treadmills and rowers, resistance equipment including dedicated stretching areas and fitness aids such as Swiss balls offers fitness classes has a health suite offering…

At Cape Adventure Playground adventurers can get creative, explore nature and play outdoors, making full use of the labyrinth of rope bridges and tree houses. Bounce on a trampette, create a theme song on a piano or design your next costume in our play building.…

Welcome to Cornwallis Adventure Playground – where we have our very own pirate ship. Are you ready to take charge at the helm of the ship or will you make a treacherous landlubber walk the plank? Swing, crawl and climb through the rigging with your…

Crumbles Castle is has an actual castle on site! Children play above ground in a network of exciting treetop structures. We encourage child-led play experiences outdoors in all types of weather and throughout the seasons. Play is free here. Islington Play Association's adventure playgrounds are unique…

Families for Life provide free healthy lifestyle programmes and sessions to families in Islington. Families for Life is made up of two types of programmes: Family Kitchen is a cooking course with healthy lifestyle messages that has been designed to help families with children aged 2 to…

Awesome Adventure Playgrounds are running Family Play Sessions this summer for vulnerable children and those who had little or no access to outdoor play over lockdown. Any age children can attend with their parents. This project will run until 6 September 2020. Click here to sign…

Fencing for all ages, levels and abilities. Free taster sessions, beginners courses and professional training for competitive fencers. All kit and equipment is supplied for all sessions including electric scoring equipment.

Finsbury Health Centre provides a range of services for the local community including: Child health (including hearing tests); Special Needs dental clinic; district nurse; health visitor; GP's surgeries; physiotherapy; podiatrist; speech therapy; Michael Palin stammering centre; family planning (including cervical smears and pregnancy testing) -…

Finsbury Leisure Centre has:  four outdoor football pitches four squash courts a six-court multi-sports hall for badminton, basketball and table-tennis exercise studios offering a range of fitness classes including pilates and yoga activity rooms

We’re FoodCycle Finsbury Park, serving tasty meals every Saturday lunchtime at1pm at the Finsbury Park Community Hub in London. Each week, we collect surplus fruit and veg from local suppliers and turn these ingredients into free nutritious (and delicious!) three-course meals for the community. Come along…

Ante-natal, child health, including baby clinic, neo-natal hearing tests. Community dental clinics, district nurse, health visitor, podiatrist, post-natal. Child psychologist for children 0 -11 years old by appointment. For GP's Services call 020 7619 6670. Please ring for details of other clinics.

GP and community health services, including health visiting.

Hayward Adventure Playground is especially for children with Special Needs and their siblings. This playground provides the space and freedom for disabled children and young people to experience child-led free play and be themselves. Here children are able to play adventurously, creatively and imaginatively in…

The full healthy child programme is still being delivered. Contacts from the health visiting service are being managed as a ‘blended offer’ with face to face contacts in your own home and in local health centres by appointment as well as video or audio contacts.…

Antenatal by appointments (via the Whittington Hospital), child health (including baby clinic, toddler clinic, BCG injections by appointments, hearing tests, breastfeeding support group, first time mothers group (booked sessions) community dental clinic, district nurse, health visitor, podiatrist, GP's surgeries, Enuresis (bed - wetting clinic) by…

Highbury Leisure Centre has: two swimming pools. This is a large main pool and a warm teaching pool. Swimming lessons are on offer for all ages. There are swimming sessions for women only. THE SWIMMING POOLS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED a large fully equipped gym with cardiovascular…

Highbury Roundhouse is a community centre based in Highbury. We deliver lunch clubs for the elderly, projects for young people, including a young club and holiday playschemes. We also have activities for under 5s and provide a Stay and Play, and Childminders' project. If you are interested in…

GP and community health services.

Ironmonger Row Baths was reopened in 2012 following a major refurbishment. It has:  a 30-metre main swimming pool offering different swimming sessions including a session for women a warm teaching pool with an adjustable floor a state-of-the-art gym a cardio zone to develop cardiovascular fitness fitness classes Turkish…

Boxing club for young people.

A youth project offering water-based youth activities including canoeing, sailing, bell boating, mountain biking and powerboat driving skills. We are open to other youth and community groups. The club also has activities for adults, including people aged 50+ and also disabled people. Holiday projects weekdays…

The after-school club supports a small number of children and young people over a long period of time to progress them to the point where they can integrate into the open access youth club. Our inclusive activities give participants the opportunity to try something new…

Islington Boxing Club, which is also known as the Islington Boys' Club, offers boxing training for young people from the ages of 8 years up to 40-year-old adults. The club which is Clubmark accredited, is very active and busy and has had a number of national…

Gillespie Park is a 2.8 hectare Local Nature Reserve in the heart of inner city London. The reserve is managed for the benefit of wildlife. An amazing 244 plant species, 94 bird species and 24 types of butterfly have been seen here. Take a walk…

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team…

The Islington Play Association (IPA) is an umbrella organisation that provides support, advice and training for voluntary sector play and childcare providers in the borough. The IPA manages 6 adventure playgrounds and the Paradise Park Children’s Centre and Nursery.

Islington Tennis Centre has: six indoor and two outdoor tennis courts a 50 station gym that has cardiovascular machines such as treadmills and rowers, resistance equipment including free weights and dedicated stretching areas and fitness aids such as Swiss balls a studio for fitness classes…

Killick Street Health Centre offers a range of services including; child health services, baby health reviews, immunisations, library books, midwifery clinic, counselling, adult psychology, child psychologist, drug and alcohol counselling, podiatry, benefits advice, smoking cessation, contraception and getting back into work advisor.

Make sure you’ve got your binoculars and maps handy because we’re going to explore! Get ready to make an award-winning nature documentary of Islington’s very own wildlife. Why not hop on the wooden bus designed by our very own adventurers or sail the seas to…

Lift youth hub has a gym, kitchen, dance classes, archery, boxing training and pod casting. We run weekly home cooking and baking classes. Spaces are available for young people to use for their own creative projects. Lift also provides information and advice for young people,…

Coronavirus update: Light Project Pro International is running a foodbank for local residents in the Caledonian and Holloway Wards. You do not need to register beforehand, just turn up on Wednesdays, 10.30am to 12.30pm; or contact us if you are shielding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Usual Service: Light Project…

Pre school football based physical activity. The programme was developed by FA qualified coaches and school teachers. At little kickers the focus is very much on fun rather than focusing purely on football, the programme incorporates a number of early learning goals. Valuable concepts such…

The award winning Little Kickers comes to Hilldrop this January! Classes are tailored to children from as young as 18 months, giving them a fun and positive introduction to football and team-play in a friendly, pressure-free environment.

Lumpy Hill has exciting structures and swings. Children grow vegetables and flowers in a fabulous garden and make artworks which they display all over the site. There is a big grassy space for ball games. Play is free here. Islington Play Association's adventure playgrounds are…

CLOSED FOR REFURBISHMENT We are in the process of creating a new building and amenities for Martin Luther King Adventure Playground.

Mary's provides an all-day holiday playscheme. Places will be limited and priority will be given to children of critical workers and families of vulnerable children. Evidence of eligibility for priority will need to be provided. All remaining places will be open to all children with…

A weekly self-development activity and running programme to help girls build confidence and to feel how movement can positively affect their physical, mental and emotional health, working towards a 5K challenge at the end of the 8 weeks. Contact Khara for more information and times.…

Northern Health Centre provides community health services to local people, including GP Surgeries. The Centre houses a number of groups and facilities for mothers and babies, under 5's, young people, parents, family planning clinic, child and family therapy, adult physiotherapy and podiatry.

The centre caters for child health (including baby clinic, toddler clinic, hearing tests), and appointments based services for Podiatrist, Speech therapy and Child psychology for children aged 0 -11 years by appointment. It also carries out follow-up bedwetting clinic by GP referral and provides District…

Rose Bowl provides activities for children and young people including an after-school drop in, dance, arts, media and sport. On Tuesdays - Fridays from 3.30-6pm there is a programme for 8-12 year olds. From 6.30-8.30pm there is a programme for 13-19 year olds. including the…

Royal Free London CAMHS Eating Disorder Service aims to help young people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or atypical variations of these disorders, to recover fully in the community.

Each school in Islington has a named school nurse who is based at a local health centre and visits the school on a regular basis. School nurses and their teams carry out health assessments and immunisations at targeted ages. Health promotion is a main part…

There are scout groups situated throughout Islington for children (boys and girls) aged 6-8, 8-10, 10-14 and 14-18. Click on the link below for downloadable documents to find a group in your area or call John Cronin, District Commissioner.