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GYM RE-OPENS TODAY
The Gym will be open at 4.30 this afternoon, Tuesday 23 April after Easter closures. |
HAPPY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
On Monday 7 April 2014 the Community Gym in Loddon opened its doors for the first time. It welcomed a modest 12 users on that day, including Mike Balmer, Roy McLean and Ted Shread, with Julie Lane, Dennis Passingham, Sue Schopp and Chris Sparkes all coming in the first month. All 7 are still using the Gym to this day. Happy Anniversary everyone, and here's to another 5 years. |
LATEST GYM NEWSLETTER
The Spring 2019 newsletter has been sent electronically to everyone on our mailing list and can also
be read below. It is 3 pages long so click on the down arrow at the bottom to move to the next page.
The Spring 2019 newsletter has been sent electronically to everyone on our mailing list and can also
be read below. It is 3 pages long so click on the down arrow at the bottom to move to the next page.
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The article below appears in
the April/May edition of Sunrise magazine. 
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EASTER DRAW
A big thank you to all those who supported our successful Christmas Draw, either by donating prizes or buying Squares. We are now fast approaching Easter and our next Draw to help raise funds to keep our Gym up and running. Squares on the 100 Square Board cost £1 and you can buy as many as you like. Prizes are on display when the Gym is open and include donations from Tesco, Morrisons and the Co-op as well as generous donations from Gym members. The Draw will take place on Friday 12 April so be there if you can (and maybe collect your prize). Please also remember that you can support the Gym by 1) joining the 200 Club (see below) which costs £12 per year and which gets you a number in each monthly draw with a single £50 prize, and 2) at no cost to yourself, by signing up with GoRaise who donate a small amount of money for every purchase you make online from over 3,000 retailers, including Boots, John Lewis, Argos, B&Q. Sign up today at www.goraise.co.uk/LODDONCOMMUNITYGYM. ------o------ 200 CLUB TICKETS NOW ON SALE
£12 gets you one number in each of the next 12 monthly draws with a chance of winning £50 each time. If you have played previously you can pay online at Barclays Sort Code 20-53-06 Account Number 33523438. If you need a new number either email Mike Balmer at mbalmer@btinternet.com or just ask at the desk. ------0------ |
The Gym has been selected to be one of three local charities which will benefit from the latest round of TESCO's Bags of Help initiative. In two stores (Beccles and Southwold) between 1 March and 30 April, the Gym will occupy one of the three containers in the two stores, and we would ask all our supporters to - firstly - ask for the blue tokens and - secondly - drop them in our area. There are 3 prizes available, up to £1,000, £2,000 and £4,000 and naturally we are very keen to secure the highest award possible. You can help and we look forward to seeing the outcome of your efforts. Thank you all.
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DID YOU KNOW?
that we have 39 people who have used the Gym more than 100 times? The top of the table as of 29 March is: 300+ Mike Balmer (397), Sue Schopp (361), Christine Sparkes (347) and Dennis Passingham (344) 200+ Ian Martin (292), Colin Shearmur (284), Jim Riley (283), Ali Copsey (266), Bill Baxter (256), Ted Shread (232), Jim Bell (229), Karen Moore (229), and Lesley Cant (227) 100+ Fred McEvett (189), Richard Birbeck (184), Adrian Moore (178), Julie Lane (175), Denise Turner (171), Trevor Moore (168), Dave Swinborne (164), Jill Riches (161), Derek Beckingham (156), Caroline Rowland (146), Carole Baxter (146), Clive Rowland (140), Roy McLean (137), Margaret Sloper (132), Bob Demain (129), Katherine Henery (127), Catherine Knight (125), Roger Adams (122), Annette Delph (119), Sharon Vout (119), Linda Alden (116), Bob Dryland (111), Bryon Sparkes (103), George Kemp (102), Brian Moore (101) and Janice Mullen (101) [Those in italics do not currently come to the Gym] ------0------ |
GYM HITS THE 15,000 MARK
On Friday 8 March we achieved another milestone for the Gym, just a month short of our 5th Anniversary, when Linda Perryman became the 15,000th user to visit the Gym since we started in April 2014. We continue to average around 250 visits each month, and would like to thank all our members, new and longer-term, for their continuing support for this valued community facility. ------0------ [posted 24 March 2019] |
NEW EQUIPMENT
The pictures below show Dave Swinborne bench-pressing a modest (!!!) 50 kilos to test our new weights bench.
The pictures below show Dave Swinborne bench-pressing a modest (!!!) 50 kilos to test our new weights bench.
DETAILS OF THE CURRENT PRICING STRUCTURE ARE SET OUT BELOW.
