Our Rockets Community Basketball Camps are back with our 2025 New Year Basketball Camp – priced at just £25 for TWO days! What’s more – this camp will be led by experienced Rockets coaches Mike Price and Ethan Woodward with special guest appearances from our Rockets first team players! Running from 10am – 3pm each…
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Booking For Our 24/25 Community Sessions Is Open!
Birmingham Rockets are delighted to partner with leading booking and management system Class For Kids for all of our community activity. This new booking system will allow users to save their details to their dedicated account – where you will be able to easily access all of our Birmingham Rockets activities in one place. Click…
Schools Partner Shireland Collegiate Academy Take Jr NBA Title
Birmingham Rockets coaches Mike Price & Reiss Faure-Daley joined our partner school Shireland Collegiate Academy at the West Midlands Jr NBA Finals at University of Worcester yesterday afternoon. It proved a hugely successful day with Shireland winning the Year 8 competition and reaching the finals of the Year 7 competition. Click here to see all…
Rockets In The Community: West Heath Primary School
A cohort of Rockets players and coaches descended upon West Heath Primary School for a fantastic afternoon of basketball fun! As part of our commitment to engage the young people in our local community, our players and coaches assisted school staff with an outdoor basketball tournament. The initiative reflects our joint mission to increase participation…
Rockets In The Community: Shireland Technology Primary
Birmingham Rockets are pleased to enter into a new parternship with Smethwick based primary school Shireland Technology Primary to increase our basketball offering to local schoolchildren. To mark the beginning of the partnership, Rockets first team player & coach Michael Price and Head of Schools & Community Ricardo D’Alva visited the school to talk to…
BasketJoy Erasmus+ Inclusion Project Concludes
For the past two years, the club has been part of the BasketJoy Erasmus+ programme, cofounded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, to promote diversity and inclusive practices through basketball. We would like to thank our partners and friends from Lucentum Alicante, Wetterbygden Basketball & Special Olympics Bulgaria for their hospitality and friendship…
Aston University Become Headline Sponsor For Rockets Secondary Schools Programme
City of Birmingham Rockets are delighted to announce Aston University as a Headline Sponsor of our Secondary School Community Programme. The partnership will see the university headline our school activity with children in years 9-11 with their support set to be crucial in our continued efforts to expand our offering to the young people of…
Rockets Sign The 1,000th Armed Forces Covenant
City of Birmingham Rockets Basketball Club are proud to be the 1,000th sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant – pledging our support to the fantastic work of our armed forces and cadets. Rockets were represented by current first team players & military personnel Jordan Dawes & Samuel Toluwase, CEO Robert Palmer, Chair Kirk Dawes…
Rockets To Welcome Local Schools To Home Fixtures This Season!
The work we carry out in the local community is the foundation of our club, and as such we are delighted to be able to welcome schoolchildren from across the city to selected fixtures throughout our 2021/22 season. Students from Clifton Primary School were the first to benefit from these complimentary tickets on Saturday and…