Silly Army

The Silly Army wants You!

A New sports club invites young and old to join The Silly Army, the most exciting and fun way to keep fit in Bournemouth this Easter.

The club meets every Sunday afternoon at King’s Park, in Boscombe at 1pm. The event consists of a wide range of silly and not so silly sports and games, usually around 10 to 12 per session until everyone involved is tired out.

So if gym prices are too expensive, jogging is to boring or you are intimidated by most of sports clubs around than this is a perfect way to find the right sport for you. The sports and games consists of inventions like spacehopper polo and spacehopper sumo, gymball-dodgeball, combination ball (mix of volleyball and football) as well as more known sports like hockey, catchball and rounders. The children games include crows and crumbs, splat and bulldog.

The clubs chairman and co-founder Pete Reed says about the event "The things we play vary each week, we are always inventing and trying new games, and in the summertime, to keep cool everyone brings along water guns".

While Club secretary and co founder Dave Hamm says "Whilst we are fairly competitive when playing, we don’t take things too seriously- we want members to laugh a lot, let their hair down and be kid’s again for a few hours.

Membership for the Silly Army is free and the club has recently been awarded a grant to purchase more quality equipment.

More information email The Silly Army at
thesillyarmy@yahoo.co.uk or visit the website at www.thesillyarmy.org.uk .