Welcome to the Bilborough Buzz – Issue 4 of the new look college magazine that brings together stories at Bilborough from students and staff.

Plenty of news in this latest issue including Marcellus Baz’s visit, Bilborough Performance Group, Foreign Language Exchanges to Berlin and Cáceres, LGBTQ, New York Trip, This Bilborough Girl Can, Shobana Jeyasingh and much much more……

At the start of the academic year, the college were awarded funding to become an English College Football Association (ECFA) Football Hub. Part of the funding we had to recruit 2 student Football Activators, who were Rohan Williams and Hannah Askew. The activators aim was to engage students who currently do not take part in football engage into participating.

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This term we have teamed up with This Girl Can and Cancer Research’s Pretty Muddy to run a female only boot camp.

Over 30 female students have signed up and are regularly attending our #ThisBilboroughGirlCan Boot camp. The 6-week fitness course is designed to improve the student’s fitness and strength via fun and exciting activity. The training all comes to a head as the students enter into the Pretty Muddy 5k obstacle course on Sunday 14^th May.

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12 Bilborough College students have qualified to represent Bilborough College and the region at the AoC Sport National Championships 2017, which take place next month in Nottingham.

The students from Bilborough College fought off stiff competition from colleges across East Midlands to which qualifies them for the national finals taking place at the University of Nottingham and surrounding facilities over the weekend of 21-23 April.

The AoC Sport National Championships will see the team competing against athletes from colleges across England and Wales. As well as individual glory, teams will be aiming to accumulate points for their region and win the prestigious Wilkinson Sword trophy.

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