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Museum on the Move: The Olympics comes to Herefordshire
Herefordshire will be hosting the World Blind Football Championships in August 2010 and will be fielding some players from its own. The Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford is the home of the England Blind Football Squad who won silver at the European Championships in 2007 and so qualified for the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.
The RNCB is building a state-of-the-art sports centre. This will include teaching and training gyms, outdoor and indoor sports pitches and a treatment suite for complementary therapies. It has been named as a pre-2012 Games Training Camp.
Other Herefordshire training camps approved by Olympic officials are the Bromyard Equestrian Centre and the Bromyard Bowman’s facilities.
In August 2008 two events in Herefordshire commemorated the Olympic handover. At Ross Regatta, a flag raising ceremony was led by Charles Wiggin, an Olympic Medallist rower (Moscow 1980), supported by Junior members of the Ross Rowing Club. On Castle Green in Hereford, Army Cadets from Hereford and Worcester
also raised the flag to recognise the historic moment.
In September the Cultural Olympiad was launched in the West Midlands. Celebrations at Ironbridge featured Herefordshire’s award-winning dance company 2FaCeD. Paul Keynes, West Midlands Cultural Olympiad Programmer for 2012, said,
“One of the major themes of the Cultural Olympiad is about dance and they are such a fantastic example – the fact that one of the UK’s best hip-hop companies is based in rural Herefordshire challenges people’s perceptions.”
Hereford’s Courtyard’s Youth Theatre Company which performed scenes form Shakespeare was described by Keynes as “...another very dynamic, forward-looking group from Herefordshire.”