Sports Clubs

Barnstaple Football Club provide adapted football coaching sessions for adults with disabilities on Thursday evenings at The Park School. There is also a club for children on Thursdays. 

The club provides friendly coaching sessions, suitable for male or female players age 16 and over (there is no upper age limit) and all playing standards.

New players of all standards are welcome – it does not matter the level of a players mobility, coordination or understanding.

The club currently has over twenty players, including players with learning disabilities, autism, down’s syndrome and sensory and physical impairments such as cerebral palsy.

For keener players, the club also offers the chance to play in one of three disability football teams, in the Devon Ability Counts Inclusive Football League.

Football club for adults with additional needs – both male and female.

Barnstaple Ability FC currently has five teams, including a ladies side, which compete in tournaments against other sides six times a year.

The club trains every Thursday evening between 5.45 and 6.45pm.  Winter training sessions takes place at Park Community School until the end of March before it moves to Tews Lane.