Pittville Badminton Club is a friendly, sociable and ambitious club, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. We are an accredited Premier (Clubmark) Club and have something to offer junior and adult players of all levels of experience. We run weekly club nights for our members to play socially, coaching sessions (both for juniors and adults) to help players improve and arrange club socials and competitions. We also provide the opportunity for our members to represent our club in the local Gloucestershire Badminton League and in county junior competitions.
Sat 07 Oct 2023 16:08 Chris Travis
Exciting news everyone - we will once again we running a Raveminton event this year!
On Saturday 11th November, we will be turning off all the normal lights, laying down fluorescent tape to mark out the court lines and playing badminton with glow in the dark shuttles under ultra-violet (UV) light!
Players should wear appropriate clothing for the event - think white and other bright colours rather than black or dark colours. That way you will glow in the dark!
We will have a small supply of accessories that you can borrow to complete your UV badminton outfit - headbands, wristbands, tshirts, laces, UV body crayons, glow sticks, stickers, tape that you can stick to your racket... plus we've got a few challenges with prizes lined up to test how well you can play badminton in the dark!
If you've not been lucky enough to attend the event before then you can check out some photos from 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022. to see what it's like.
We are only able to run this event once a year so make sure you free up space in your calendar for it as you won't want to miss out! We will be running 3 sessions during the evening so that we can give as many players the chance to enjoy the experience as we can. Although it doesn't particular matter which session you sign up for, we've made some suggestions on which age groups should attend each session so that the other players are of a similar age and ability to you:
Session #1: 5pm - 6:30pm: Recommended for players in school years 4-8
Session #2: 6:30pm - 8pm: Recommended for players in school years 7-11
Session #3: 8pm - 9:30pm: Recommended for players in school years 9-13 and 6th form
Our junior members should already have received an email inviting them to attend a session. Players from local schools and other junior clubs are welcome to join in, just send us a message to ask for a link to the signup form.
Wed 04 Oct 2023 01:20 Chris Travis
This week the NSPCC's Child Protection in Sport Unit are running a Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport campaign. In support of the week, we ran a Family Badminton πΈ session last night. We were delighted to have 14 juniors and their parents join us!
We ran through just some of the important things that parents do to enable their children to participate in sport safely and how they can help influence their enjoyment. Most importantly we asked our juniors to join us in thanking them for all they do! π
We then split into groups and worked together to complete some badminton challenges:
1οΈβ£ Around the World
2οΈβ£ Smash Pyramid
3οΈβ£ Bullseye Targets
4οΈβ£ Volleyball Badminton
before playing some friendly family doubles games!
We hope everyone had fun! A couple of photos from the session can be found here.
Tue 26 Sep 2023 12:44 Chris Travis
Congratulations to all 44 of our players who competed in the Gloucestershire Junior & Senior Restricted Tournament at the weekend. Lots of great games were played at a very competitive level! Well done to everyone who picked up a medal:
SENIORS
π₯ Womens Singles (Plate) - Tilly
π₯ Open Singles (Plate) - Saksham
π₯ Open Singles (Plate) - Ben
π₯ Open Doubles (Plate) - Harry & Louis
π₯ Open Doubles (Plate) - Jed & Saksham
U12
π₯ Boys Singles - Vihaan
π₯ Boys Doubles - Vihaan (& Daksh)
π₯ Girls Singles - Libby
U14
π₯ Girls Singles - Zara
π₯ Girls Doubles - Ananya (& Alvy)
U16
π₯ Boys Singles - Will
π₯ Girls Singles - Tilly
π₯ Girls Singles (Plate) - Meg
π₯ Mixed Doubles - Tilly & Ben
π₯ Mixed Doubles (Plate) - Nel & Isaac
π₯ Boys Doubles - Dan (& Aarav)
π₯ Boys Doubles (Plate) - Harry & Rufus
π₯ Boys Doubles (Plate) - Jude & Shivi
π₯ Girls Doubles - Tilly (& Urvi)
U18
π₯ Boys Singles - Rex
π₯ Mixed Doubles - Rex (& Chin)
π₯ Mixed Doubles (Plate) - Sri (& Kashvi)
π₯ Boys Doubles - Rex (& Ayush)
π₯ Boys Doubles (Plate) - Chong (& Prem)
The full results can be found on Tournament Software.
Wed 05 Jul 2023 14:52 Chris Travis
Happy World Badminton Day Everyone! ππΈπ
Thanks to everyone who competed in our tournament last night to celebrate World Badminton Day! I hope you all had fun - I know I did! Well done to everyone - not only for plenty of great game play, but for picking up the slightly complicated scoring system.
For those interested in the format:
Hopefully I've done all the sums correctly, which means the top scorers were:
Sat 27 May 2023 14:07 Chris Travis
Hi Everyone, just a quick reminder that all of our junior sessions will be taking a break for the half term holidays. Hope you have a great week. Sessions will resume from Sunday 4th June. See you all then.
Thu 27 Apr 2023 15:11 Chris Travis
Hi Everyone, please note that our Monday sessions that are running on Bank Holidays in May will instead run at Balcarras Sports Centre: