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A national junior snooker summer holiday club is coming to Reading.
Crucible Reading Snooker Club will be running six sessions as a fun introduction to snooker and billiards for young people aged six to 16.
The sessions will take place in the summer holidays and will coordinated by a WPBSA Snooker coach.
Each session will be available for £1 per person to make them accessible to everyone.
The sessions will take place at Crucible Sports & Social Club, Reading 6 Richfield Avenue, RG1 8EQ.
The first session will take place on Saturday, July 23 from noon-1pm, with five more sessions running each Saturday, with the final session being two hours.
Crucible Reading are a member of the English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards national club scheme which means that it meets the governing body standards of safeguarding and equality, as well as adopting a code of conduct to ensure the right setup for juniors, overseen by a club welfare
officer.
The programme will also develop a selection of ‘Young Leaders’, who will complete an online skills syllabus and become club role models, encouraging other young people to take up our sport at their local club.
To find out more about the national snooker development initiatives please visit https://www.epsb.co.uk/ https://facebook.com/epsbofficial https://twitter.com/epsbofficial
To book your place on the sessions, call Paul Vallance on 07817 114732 or email paulvallancesnooker@gmail.com
