Posted 1:45pm
As many know, we have wanting to expand our walking initiative in Islington - Izzwalkz - for a long time. Part of the reason it has taken so long is finance. It is also important that it happens every week regardless of holidays or weather.
Better Gym in Islington, managed by GLL, have a weekly health walk on Fridays. I went along to it last week and it was really good. It is a health walk, where they meet outside Highbury Leisure Centre at 10:30am, walk up to the top of Highbury Fields, do some exercises (which are available to all ages and abilities) then head back to the Centre.
We have been discussing with them the chance to partner up on this event, which is popular. They get between 30 and 40 people most weeks. It is meant to be part of their Exercise on Referral Scheme / Rebalance scheme, but they allow others to come. It is great seeing many older people coming along.
I am very happy to say that they seem happy to have us join up. In fact they normally have one person who manages the session - his name is Simon and he is very good at interacting with everyone and keeping people enthused. But with so many people attending they really need to have a couple of people in charge - and I think for insurance reasons too that is important. We said that perhaps we could do that and it appears that is going down well. We still have to dot the "i"s and cross the "t" s, but we are 99% there now. And we can now say we are part of two weekly health walks in Islington (the only company doing that!!!).
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