Clissold Park Izzwalkz House Tour
Thursday 17th May 2018
Posted 1:30pm
Hope people will plod through this entry - as I think it is going to be a long one. And we have done so much work in the last three days - extraordinary.
Had a cracking meeting with Joe from SHP on Tuesday - we want to join up with them on the Dynamic Purchasing System used by Job Centres to tender our for work with them. I feel we can run some excellent joint courses. There is quite a lot of online applicating. But can get us noticed.
We have been organising our "extras" for out Ajani programs - it is all part of our USP. We hope to get the Oral Health Team in again - it is a fascinating presentation, and shows the huge benefits to looking after your teeth, and repercussions if you do not. We have also contacted the Smoking people, and put emphasis we want to see people sign up to actually do something about their habits.
We have asked the Red Cross to do a first aid course for our Medical Centre Ajani - the SHP one is being run over a shorter time and we cannot fit it in on that one. We have also asked Arsenal for a tour for the Medical Centre group too. We aim to do the Islington Museum and Docklands Museum as our other trips. I now need to update our programme diaries for the courses, as well as the HMHB diary. It is very easy to get dates mixed up - and with all this organisation we must be careful not to double book.
The exercise part of things is very important, and we will be welcoming PT Darren into our ranks, as PT Dean can only do a certain number of dates. We have never worked with Darren before, so part of his input will be voluntary, and part paid, but there are further opportunities ahead. We had bought some extra fitness equipment from Amazon - but even after six weeks it had not been delivered. We currently have 6 sets of boxing gloves, but only 2 sets of pads. The four extra we ordered we have not got a refund for, and have ordered again - as we will need for both courses in June, as well as using on our Izzwalkz. We are also waiting for our mats to be delivered - we are expecting 12 to come by the end of May.
The photo at the top was taken yesterday - when Ken (standing at the front) who is the Honorary Chair of the Clissold Park Users group - gave us a fantastic tour of Clissold House, and talked about its fascinating history. I know we were all very appreciative for his efforts, and it was great to have Luke and Dean join us - I know the group enjoyed the experience very much. Next week is our British Library tour. Yay!!
Finally, we had an interesting discussion with the Council around our Estates proposal - getting people more active, providing opportunities to have a better and more healthy life. Did not go exactly the way we were hoping. Budgets are very tight, and they would also like to take things a but slower. We understand their position very well. Just frustrating as we wanting to build on our recent good news and development. I think there are still chances ahead.
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