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Fundraise for your boccia club with easyfundraising

We have partnered up with fundraising website easyfundraising to help support your club’s fundraising efforts - sign your club up today!
Announcing three new competitions for 2022!

We will be holding three “Back to Boccia Open” competitions early next year. Entries open on 21st October.
Enter the Boccia England Autumn Raffle!

Win some fabulous prizes in our Autumn Raffle. Enter by text message for £3 to win prizes including a £100 Love2Shop Voucher and a set of boccia balls worth £276!
Runners raise money for Boccia England

On Saturday 26th September, team members ran in Nottingham's Robin Hood Half Marathon and Mini Marathon to raise money to change lives through boccia!

Celebrating National Boccia Day 2021!

This year’s National Boccia Day theme was Boccia is Back! People across the UK have been celebrating by holding their own events and helping to raise awareness of boccia within their communities.
Back to Boccia Cup Round-Up

‘Boccia Was Back’ over the weekend with our first competition in 18 months.
Winter Wonderwheels!

SUPERHEROES & SIDEKICKS WANTED! Enter the Winter Wonderwheels event at Dorney Lake, Windsor, on 5th December 2021. Anyone can join the fun as long as at least one person per team considers themselves to have a disability (of any kind).
Host a Tea Break to Fundraise for Boccia England!

We all enjoy an invitation to tea and now we’re able to meet in person again, what better way to get together than to host a Tea Break with friends, family, or work colleagues and raise funds for Boccia England at the same time?
Donate

Boccia England is a charity dedicated to improving the physical, social and emotional wellbeing of disabled children, young people and adults through the sport of boccia. Your donations will change the lives of disabled athletes.

What is boccia?

Boccia is a Paralympic target sport, similar to bowls, which is played indoors by disabled players. Currently the fastest growing disability sport in the world, propelling balls to land as close as possible to a marker ball is the aim of the game and having originated in ancient Greece and Egypt, the sport is now played in over 50 countries worldwide.
Find a club

Find your nearest boccia club here.
Rules of the game

An overview of the rules of boccia
Introduction to boccia
Virtually Boccia

Virtually Boccia schools and colleges competition.
National Boccia Day 2021

Monday 27th September is National Boccia Day! Here you will find all the information about the day and how you can get involved.
Boccia England Competitions update

We are excited to return to competition. Read on to see our update and what we have planned!
Visually Impaired Boccia

A basic guide on how to play boccia when visually impaired using VI grids
Staff

A who's who guide to our small staff team.
Back to Boccia Roadmap

The document below sets out Boccia England’s proposed return to play steps as we look forward to getting back on court and restarting all boccia activity in time.

Safeguarding

We have achieved the Child Protection in Sport Units Advanced Safeguarding Standard to ensure we provide a framework for all those involved in our sport to help them create a safe sporting environment for children and young people and protect them from harm. Read more

Cotswold Crusaders and the Rainbow Cup!

Anna and Archie Eaton tell us why Cotswold Crusaders have been enjoying the Rainbow Cup and how it has brought the club together during Covid-19 when they can't meet to train. Read more