Activity Alliance – Your Leisure
Over the last three years, Kent-based leisure provider, Your Leisure, has been working on a national project in partnership with Spirit of 2012 and Activity Alliance to encourage lcommunities to Get Out Get Active’(GOGA), with the goal of improving people’s health and wellbeing by helping them enjoy Kent’s beaches, parks, woodlands and countryside.
The scheme has helped to provide funding for bespoke equipment — New Age Kurling sets and replacement parts for fully accessible bikes – that has enabled those who struggle to maintain an active lifestyle due to living with long-term health conditions and disabilities.
Ian Barker, Your Leisure’s Community and Funding Manager, said: “The support from Activity Alliance and Spirit of 2012 has been outstanding and not only in the form of funding, but even more importantly in the form of inspirational leadership, guidance and encouragement to try different ways of working, learning and sharing. From that, our organisation’s aspirations continue to evolve, nurtured by our partners’ influence and support.”
QEQM Hospital League of Friends
Broadstairs Men’s Diners Club have donated some of their residual funds to the QEQM Hospital League of Friends, which has enabled the charity to fund the purchase of a blood pressure monitor for Rainbow Children’s Ward. Pictured with the monitor are Emma Desmond and Catherine Teixeira from the ward and members of the former Club, Brian Laker and Henry Martell together with the Friends’ Chairman Jeremy Voizey.
Seaside Jazz Club
The Black Cat Jazz Band with Tony O’Sullivan (leader, trumpet & vocals), Ian Turner (clarinet & vocals), Keith Blundell (trombone), Andy Maynard (banjo), Colin Martin (piano), Colin Hodges (bass and vocals) will perform in Ramsgate.
Date : 12pm, Saturday, December 14
Venue : Ramsgate Small Boat Owners Club, Guildford Lawn, Ramsgate, CT11 9AY.
Admission : Members £10, Visitors £15, including buffet lunch.
(Membership is £10 per annum)
As it is a special date, remember to bring your decorated brollies for the ‘jazz around’ New Orleans-style at the end.
For more details – 01843 596789