What is the Island Games?

The Island Games, is a lot like the Olympics, but only Islands can do it. In the isalnd games you have lots of different sports.

MascotDurrell Wildlife Conservation Trust’s mission is to save species from extinction and Durrell Wildlife Park in Jersey is recognised internationally for its work.

Lee Durrell, Honorary Director of Durrell, said: “We are thrilled that our young gorilla has been chosen and we look forward to welcoming the athletes and their families and friends to the wildlife park during their visit next year.

“Durrell’s work including captive breeding programmes, training international students in conservation, and 45 field projects in 14 countries, demonstrates how small organisations and small islands can make a positive impact on the international arena.”

This is the first time that the NatWest Island Games have had a single living animal representing its spirit and values. The Island Games Association delegates have already visited Indigo, and all competitors and other visitors will have the chance during Jersey 2015. Toy versions of the Silverback with the Jersey 2015 logo will be given to medal winners and sold to raise money for Durrell.

Phil Austin, chairman of the Jersey 2015 Organising Committee, said: “Indigo is young, energetic and active, and with the right encouragement, diet and exercise will grow into a strong Silverback.“It is similar for the thousands of competitors who are preparing to come to Jersey. Their attitude, dedication and general wellbeing will all help shape whether they are able to represent their island, and how well they do when they are here.

“By coming together in friendship and under a sporting banner, the NatWest Island Games enables is to share our varied cultures and history. On a wider platform, as small independent islands we can also share and discuss joint concerns such as conservation, and by adopting Indigo we bring to the fore the need for all of us to protect and nurture our own unique environments and bio-diversity. I am confident that our guests will leave Jersey with some strong global conservation messages and also many fond memories and images of our beautiful island.”

The time table!

If you go to http://www.jersey2015.com/schedulesYou will find all the activities going on and if you choose the one you want to look at and press it, you will be able to see the time table.Time tables can be very usefull if you want to know when something is or when you should do something.

Here is a list of all the sports:ArcheryAthletics

BadmintonBasketball

CyclingFootball

GolfSailing and windsurfing

ShootingSwimming

Table tennis Tennis

TriathlonAnd finally, volleyball and beach Volleyball

Is there a games village?

The answer is…Yes. The games village is in Howard Davis Park. It will be where the opening Ceremony is on the 27th of June and the closing ceremony on the 3rd of July. This is a place where the competitors can relax and Enjoy Jersey thought the week.

The Islands

There are 24 islands cometing in the Island Games. If you go to this linkhttp://www.jersey2015.com/the-islandsYou will be able to see all the islands.

The Host

The host for the island games in 2015 is … Jersey!

Archery

Archery is one of the Activities in the island games.

The Archery in the island games

The Archery competition is going to be held at the Rugby Club in St. Peter. The facility meets the distance and safety which is required, 100m. It is based in Pitches 4 and 5. There is going to be Portaloo toilets there for women, mens and disabled. On the next page

Information about one of the archers in the island games.

• Island Games 2015: GB archer Lucy O'Sullivan in Jersey squad

• Great Britain international Lucy O'Sullivan will again be among Jersey's leading archery medal hopes after being named in the 2015 Island Games squad.

• The 2011 gold medalist will shoot in the compound at Jersey Rugby Club.• Angela Perrett, Matt Dale, Dan D'Orleans, Cliff Graves and Daryl Mavity will

line up with O'Sullivan.• Meanwhile, Karen Barnes, Maria Mitchell, Mark Renouf, Tadhg MacFirbhisigh,

Bjarne Jacobsen and Tim Bridges make up Jersey's recurve squad.• Jacobsen was part of the group that won team silver the last time archery

was included in the Games, at the Isle of Wight four years ago.• The multi-sport event is expected to attract about 3,000 competitors from 24

islands, and will take place between Saturday 27 June and Friday 3 July.

Shooting in the Island games.

A total of 23 islands will be represented across four shooting disciplines at Jersey 2015.

The Åland Islands or Åland (Swedish: Åland, Swedish pronunciation: [ˈoːland]; Finnish: Ahvenanmaa) is a region of Finland that consists of an archipelago lying at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. It is an autonomous, demilitarised and is the only monolingually Swedish-speaking region in Finland. Collectively, the islands in the archipelago form the smallest region of Finland, constituting 0.49% of its land area and 0.50% of its population.

Åland comprises Fasta Åland on which 90% of the population resides[6] and a further 6,500 skerries and islands to its east. Fasta Åland is separated from the coast of Sweden by 38 kilometres (24 mi) of open water to the west. In the east, the Åland archipelago is contiguous with the Finnish Archipelago Sea. Åland's only land border is located on the uninhabited skerry of Märket,[7] which it shares with Sweden.

Åland's autonomous status means that those provincial powers normally exercised by representatives of the central Finnish government are largely exercised by its own government.