Friday 8th June 2018 - Ups and Downs (the joy of a business)

Posted 2:10pm

It has been a week of highs and lows, ups and downs, joy and frustration.  New ideas are forming too, as well as sorting out current issues.

After the postponement last week of the Islington Giving funded Ajani programme with Highbury Grange Medical Centre, we were told we were getting at least 7-8 people this week.  At the time the course was meant to start we had 1, and the second turned up 25 minutes later as we were packing up. It's a challenge, and we are dealing with it.. But HMHB themselves had an internal problem that day too, so maybe it was for the best.  After discussions, we will be running the program starting 11 July, with five sessions over four weeks.  Fingers crossed we can do the project justice.

We need to be able to face difficulties, and prove we can not only deal with them effectively,, but also come out with positives.  I think we handled the position.

On Thursday, we had an official Islington Council photographer come on our walk, accompanied by Council representative Elsa. Thankfully the weather was fantastic,, and the turn out wasn't bad, as I was aware several people would not be coming due to commitments. In the end I think there was nine of us. We are appearing in the next Islington Council magazine issue, and we may even be on the front cover.  There will be a feature about us inside - and this is great timing as we are hoping to get some small funding from the council to finally expand to five weekly health walks around the borough.

Our third SHP Ajani programme starts next Tuesday, and it looks like it is going to be the best yet - with a good number saying they will attend. This is five sessions over four weeks, and we have two days out planned, plus PT sessions, two gym sessions, as well as our usual games and fun, and will be inviting people on our walk.  We are all excited to see how this one goes.

Really excited at a couple of new ideas we have been mulling over for a couple of weeks, and which we will now be looking to do - and more news on  them will be on here soon.