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Throughout February Redbridge Libraries are celebrating all things LGBT
Each year Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure are proud to host LGBT+ History
Month, an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. Throughout February
Vision RCL services dedicate time to celebrate and promote equality and diversity for the benefit of
the Redbridge community.
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Virtual preview of Reading’s new leisure facilities unveiled
Reading Council and GLL have launched a video promoting the modern new facilities
Reading can look forward to. The video offers a glimpse of what the new facilities located at
Rivermead and Palmer Park will look like by showcasing virtual CGI models combined with artists'
impressions and drone footage.
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Initiative to combat holiday hunger
Abbeycroft Leisure in partnership with Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils,
Bury St Edmunds Town Council, Suffolk Community Foundation and SynTech Research
has further developed its ‘Festive Food’ initiative to support families in need
during February half term.
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HLH emphasises partnership working with NHS Highland
Steve Walsh, High Life Highland’s Chief Executive has come out angrily to quash
various rumours that have emerged around the Highlands with misinformation about
the Charity refusing access to its locations for use as vaccine centres.
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Torfaen Leisure Trust provides facilities and volunteers for vaccination clinics
Torfaen Leisure Trust, like all of the Leisure industry currently find ourselves
with empty Centres and our business unable to operate.
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GLL covid protocols recognised
GLL’s approach to Covid Secure protocols and training has received the highest
endorsement in the land with our social enterprise being chosen to represent the
leisure sector on the HSE website.
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Pendle Leisure staff help roll out covid vaccine
Pendle Leisure Trust staff have once again stepped in to help the local community
while on furlough. All staff – from lifeguards and beauty therapists, to gym instructors and swimming
teachers – have volunteered to help roll out the COVID vaccine in Pendle.
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Videos highlight impact of East Lindsey’s SO Festival
The huge impact of East Lindsey’s SO Festival upon local, national, and
international communities is highlighted in a set of unique videos that chart the
event’s history, document its virtual presence during COVID and look forward to
its future in 2021 and beyond.
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Active Luton Supports Public Health
As a community wellbeing trust, Active Luton is playing a key role in supporting
Luton’s Public Health team with its response to the COVID pandemic.
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Redbridge shines 'light in the darkness' in tribute to Holocaust
The Redbridge community stood in solidarity as they honoured Holocaust Memorial
Day safely in their homes on Wednesday 27 January. Candles were lit in windows
across Redbridge to remember those who were affected by the darkness of prejudice
and hatred.
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Abbeycroft Leisure extends free online programme to support social isolation
Abbeycroft Leisure, Suffolk’s largest independent leisure provider, has extended a
programme of free online sessions designed to support loneliness, isolation and
dementia awareness.
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Better supports fight against Covid: closed facilities recommissioned as testing and vaccination centres
Better leisure centres across the land are playing their part in the national
Covid response - repurposed as much-needed community testing and vaccination
facilities.
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GM Active launches bespoke workforce training academy
Employees working across diverse roles in Greater Manchester’s community leisure
and cultural sector are to undertake a strategic transformational development
programme to boost their understanding and skills surrounding the public health
agenda and in turn, provide their communities with an innovative ‘health and
wellness service’.
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Impulse Leisure supports the local community by donating food
Thurrock Community Leisure (operating as Impulse Leisure) have gone above and
beyond in supporting their local community over the festive period by donating
food to vulnerable people in Thurrock.
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Walking app helps families discover zombies and dinosaurs in Hollingworth Lake and Country Park
An interactive mobile app has helped Rochdale residents discover the great
outdoors as part of a new trail on the Love Exploring app at Hollingworth Lake and
Country Park.
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Iconic Victorian pool closing for major investment
Another of Edinburgh’s iconic Victorian pools, Warrender Swim Centre, home to the
Warrender Baths Club said to be the oldest, most famous and most successful
swimming club in Scotland has temporarily closed for a major refurbishment, with a
planned reopening in September 2021.
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New strength and conditioning suite complete
High Life Highland has completed its new strength and conditioning suite at
Inverness Leisure.
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Valentines makes it into the nation’s Top Ten favourite parks!
Vision RCL is delighted that Valentines Park is one of the ten most popular Green
Flag Award-winning parks in the country – for the second-year running.
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Freedom Leisure scoop two wins at the Swim Wales National Awards
This year’s virtual awards ceremony was held on Thursday 18th December. The event
run by Swim Wales recognises the inspiring work that individuals and organisations
deliver across Wales to enable people of all ages and abilities to learn the skill
that saves lives – swimming!
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Christmas cheer, festive frocks, and delicious delights for everyone, socially distanced of course!
According to AGE UK more than 850,000 older people could have spent Christmas
alone in 2020.
Despite being unable to prevent their participants being alone this Christmas, The Community Team
at Magna Vitae Trust for Leisure and Culture, swapped Christmas parties, buffets and winter games
with personalised gifts, festive food filled hampers and Christmas Carols.
More than 70 food hampers, each filled with delicious treats, were made by the local and independent
business Pocklingtons Bakery in Withern. All were hand delivered to participants doorsteps, along
with a personal gift, by the Community Team.
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Sport Aberdeen to support people with respiratory conditions in partnership with NHS Grampian
Award-winning charity Sport Aberdeen has developed a programme to specifically
support people with respiratory conditions to be active and live well, in
partnership with NHS Grampian.
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GLL wins Water Leisure Operator of the Year Award
GLL has won a major award for its swimming facilities. The UK Pool & Spa Awards is
the annual 'Oscars' for the leisure industry's swimming providers.
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Rochdale leisure centres receive glowing customer feedback
When Leisure centres in the borough of Rochdale reopened their doors to the public
in December following a month of closure, they picked up glowing customer
satisfaction scores.
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Launch of nationwide campaign to recognise and promote leisure and cultural trusts
The ‘Key to Health and Happiness’ campaign is a nationwide effort by Community
Leisure UK and Bigwave Media to help communities take advantage of their local,
Trust operated, leisure and cultural facilities and raise awareness of the amazing
job they do in keeping local communities healthy and happy.
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Introducing Vision Fitness on Demand
In this weird new world that we find ourselves, Vision Redbridge Culture &
Leisure, like many other trusts, have had to adapt to provide services in a
different way for their users.
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Sport Aberdeen helps to tackle ‘period poverty’ with CFINE
Award-winning charity Sport Aberdeen has said it is ‘proud’ to be providing
complimentary sanitary items throughout the city again, with the aim to help
tackle ‘period poverty’.
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High Life Highland Youth Centres planned to reopen with phased approach
High Life Highland is continuing its bounceback campaign with the reintroduction
of face-to-face youth work across the Highlands.
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GLL to deliver winter flu vaccinations
GLL is partnering with Pharmacy2u and St John’s Ambulance to deliver free ‘drive
through’ flu vaccinations for those who meet NHS eligibility criteria.
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Live Active Leisure's 12 days of Christmas
Live Active Leisure (LAL), Perth and Kinross's sport and fitness Trust, have
linked up with a local Gift Card provider, Miconex, to reward their customers this
Christmas and to support the growing Shop Local message.
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Active Luton Celebrates 15 Years
Active Luton has been celebrating its 15th birthday. Due to the recent lockdown
the occasion was marked online by celebrating the organisation’s history and
awarding long service certificates to employees who’d been there right from the
start.
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Sport Aberdeen named ‘Team Aberdeen’ at this year’s HEART Awards
Registered charity Sport Aberdeen took the top spot in the Team Aberdeen category
at the HEART Awards on Thursday 3 December, an annual event organised by Aberdeen
City Health & Social Care Partnership, recognising people working and volunteering
in health and social care in Aberdeen.
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tmactive MoveAnywhere
"MoveAnywhere plays an important part in our package of measures to help ensure
survival," says Martin Guyton, tmactive chief executive, on switching to a hybrid
fitness model.
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