Posted 11:00am
Time for an update on HMHB - what is happening, where we are going, and what we need to do.
We are looking all over for funding opportunities. We put in recently for Big Lottery Awards For All, and hopefully should hear some time around the end of May or start of June. We are also putting in to the Gunners Fund for funding to run an Ajani program with Brickworks Community Centre in Crouch End.
However, we attended a great event managed by Voluntary Action Islington yesterday that involved talks from the Big Alliance and The Lottery. Both were interesting and applicable to us. Through the Big Alliance we are hoping to get a local trustee, as well as seeing how they can help us move forward in the borough. The Lottery have relaunched their "communities" and "partnership" fund, and the timing is terrific - as we think we can use that to help us deliver work on local Estates with the Council and CCG. Plenty of work to get along with there.
We have an exciting meeting with UkActive this Friday, They are a great organisation that focuses on getting more people, more active, more often. They really resonate with us. I attended an event at the olympic park last week - ActiveLab on FitTech - and was impressed with their overall attitude to working with others. I am hoping there is a way they can help us as we move forward.
We should be getting a start date for our Ajani program with Highbury Grange Medical Centre very soon - but we are already planning for it. I am organising the days out - and look like I will take the group to the Arsenal Stadium, Docklands Museum (just one bus ride away), and hopefully the British Library. I am also planning on surprising oour Izzwalkz group with a tour of the Library too.
Next wednesday, we are meeting up with the new manager of the Highbury Pool and Gym Centre (their recent refit is excellent, with a larger gym, new exercise studios, and improved sauna/steam room area. They like the project we are running, and I am hoping to get 2 free gym group entries for our Ajani program users, which would be terrific.
Izzwalkz - 19 April 2018
PT Dean is joining us on our Izzwalkz tomorrow - which continues to flourish - the pic above was taken in front of the Clissold Park lakes in the brilliant sunshine last week. Dean and I can chat about how we develop the fitness side of the Ajani project, as well as our ideas for the Council Estate presentation we will be giving to Islington Council in May.
The Council has contacted us in regards to Izzwalkz. They want to run a feature on it, which should generate publicity and maybe some funding if we get them to word it correctly. More info on that to follow.
Exciting times are ahead, we hope. But it still is reliant on funding that covers salaries.
No comments:
Post a Comment