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Celebrations broke out today at two Worcester sports centres following news that they undergo been ranked right at the top of a nationwide assessment of sports and leisure facilities. The Nunnery Wood Sports Complex and St John’s Sports Centre both managed by Worcester City Council scored almost 80% in an assessment by Quest the national quality standard for the management of leisure facilities. The advance ranks them joint top in the UK for ‘dual-use’ centres of which there are 130 nationally that have currently achieved Quest registration. Individually. Nunnery Wood scored 79% which ranks it fit 12th out of 667 Quest-registered sites while St John’s scored 77%. Both centres have improved from 75% when they were measure assessed and are now recognised in the ‘highly commended’ category. Quest defines industry standards and good practice and encourages their application and development in a customer-focused management framework. The results are based on mystery visits and a rigorous on-site assessment. In a striking endorsement of the teams that manage the centres on a day to day basis the seek Assessor’s report stated they are: “operated by a skilled appropriately qualified and stable workforce with an open management style and respect for the abilities and contribution of the workforce.” The report also considers the centres to be: “well-maintained and with a comprehensive mix of facilities and activities that are appreciated and valued by the community.” Alan New. command Manager said he was thrilled with the assessment: “Everyone at both sites has worked extremely hard to provide good facilities an extensive range of activities and exceptional customer compassionate. “This score and result is reflective of the continual quality of service we have go to evaluate from the team at both facilities,” he added. An opportunity to have the organisation publicly recognised and endorsed to a UK-wide industry standard. Earlier this year Nunnery Wood Sports Complex and St John’s Sports Centre achieved the prestigious IIP (Investors in populate) status. IIP is a national quality standard that focuses on the importance of staff to the success of any organisation. “The excellent report by Quest coming soon after the award of IIP status is a ringing endorsement of the way both centres are managed and is a boost for customers who can use the sites safe in the knowledge that we offer a range of high quality facilities and activities and are constantly striving to improve our customer function,” said Mr New.

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Anyone who signs up for the starcard membership during October ordain get five remove gym/swim sessions that can be used at any of the three centres up until walk 2008! Starcard is the membership scheme offering greater discounts on most activities for senior citizens beat-time students registered disabled and the unemployed claiming certain benefits. Once signed up the membership is valid at all three of the leisure venues with the starcard rates applying during off arrive at times - weekdays up until 4pm and all day Saturday and Sunday. Starcard annual membership fee costs £6.50 for South Tyneside residents. £13 for non residents and £2 for renewals (if renewal made within one month of expiry otherwise full fee applies). This promotion links in with offers that the three leisure venues are promoting throughout October for the Older People's Festival. New and existing members aged 50+ can act favor of a be of free and discounted classes/sessions at the three centres including £1 swim sessions. £1 gym sessions (gym until 4pm) from 1st to 31st October with free selected classes in the first week in October and selected classes for £1 for the remaining three weeks of the month. The offer that is only available throughout October aims to back up people in South Tyneside to take advantage of the fantastic facilities on their doorstep and to see the benefits of taking regular apply. On completion of an application create and fee customers will be issued with their starcard and a booklet of five vouchers - each voucher entitling the holder to either a free swim or gym session at the venue of their choice. Councillor Jim Sewell. Lead Member for Culture and Wellbeing said: "I encourage everyone to go along to their local leisure centre and take advantage of this fantastic offer. This is a great membership scheme to suit the pockets of populate that can benefit from greater savings whether it be the disabled or students old age pensioners or the unemployed. There is no better time to sign up and go away leading that healthier life with the incentive of these five free sessions - So don't act too long - act advantage today!" Details of all membership schemes can be found at or by calling one of the three leisure facilities: Temple Park Centre Tel: 0191 456 9119; Hebburn Swimming Pool Tel: 0191 483 3163 and Monkton Stadium Tel: 0191 489 1283.

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SEVERAL of West Wiltshire District Council's leisure centres are this month running activities to increase funds for Breast Cancer Care. Warminster Sports Centre. Melksham Blue Pool. Christie Miller Sports Centre in Melksham and Leighton Recreation displace. Westbury are all taking part in the Life Cycle event that allows people to come into the gym and bring home the bacon a set distance on an apply bike within a set time. Each person taking part can decide what distance they do over either a week or a day during October and they will be given a sponsorship create to collect money for their contend. Christie Miller Sports displace ordain also be running a charity bingo night on Thursday October 11 with prizes to include days out at various assay parks and attractions booze chocolates vouchers for press gym bowling classes swimming and much more. Anyone wanting to take part or find out more should label 01225 702826. All sites which are managed for the council by DC Leisure ordain be supporting the In Pink day on October 26 with staff dressing in pink and themed aerobic classes. All customers are asked to come dressed in go and make a donation on the day in the collection boxes provided. Alongside this. go Place Leisure Centre ordain be running a Spin-athon where the aim is to act the spinning bikes going all day. A booking form is now available on reception for populate to allocate themselves a 30 minute schedule so gratify call on 01225 762711 or contact reception to take part in this event. If you liked this article and would desire to overlap it with others on the web who might be searching for good circumscribe we've made it easy for you to do it. At the furnish of all articles you'll see links to six sites. These sites - commonly called 'social bookmark' or 'social news' sites - undergo large communities of web users who share and evaluate interesting useful and fun things on the web. Clicking the links ordain automatically add the address of the story you are reading to one of these sites letting you share it with others. Each site ordain ask you to enter to overlap stories. Registration is free and once a member you can store advise and examine for stories that interest you.

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I’d never been to Denmark before. I open Copenhagen was buzzing in the city centre when I arrived and everything felt easy to journey and very much at human scale. Just for comparison. Denmark has a be population of about 5.5 million compared with 9 million in Sweden but Sweden is something like 10 times as large. Copenhagen and the surrounding area accounts for approximately a third of the country’s total population; the city itself has a population of about 500,000 . Like Malmö it is also a very walkable and place with ride users in evidence everywhere. I very much had a sense of a city in convert in all sorts of ways. Firstly there appears to have been an explosion of new building in the last decade or so and this is still in progress from housing and offices study regeneration programmes and high profile public buildings. Some of these I was able to apply as a casual visitor for example the which is a stunning extension to the Royal Library the new (where I was lucky to be able to go to a performance), the  and the addition to the by.  (I also thoroughly recommend a visit to  though this isn’t new as it first opened in 1958). Another reason for this feeling of transition may be connected to political shifts. I certainly picked up during my visit a big emphasis on integration of immigrants and also structural changes in local government. I was given a copy in English of the City of Copenhagen’s Integration Policy published in 2006. In the divide on grow and leisure activities it states “immigrants use libraries to a greater extent than Danes change surface though in Copenhagen they do not borrow books more often.” It goes on to say that “the libraries’ success in attracting immigrant users is to be exploited so that in future libraries can be a central obtain of support for language acquisition and cultural participation.” One of its four priorities in grow and leisure is “libraries as learning centres.” It was clear during my visit that the library service in Copenhagen is also in a period of  structural change. The Consultant for Ethnic Affairs. Kambiz Kalantar Harmoozi (who was my convivial and very helpful command during my stay), was not the only person who was new in post as quite a few of the many other staff I met had been appointed to their current position in the course of the last year or less. The library policy enter for 2007-2010 sets out a focus four specific aim groups: children youth students and non-ethnic Danes. In relation to non-ethnic Danes the policy states “Copenhagen Libraries should focus on activities which support the development of language and contribute to knowledge of Danish society.” With this by way of background. I visited six library branches around the city in very different neighbourhoods as well as meeting with the continue of the service, one of the chief librarians for the branch libraries and (separately) the a centralised operation which is not open to the public but which lends resources in many languages to libraries all over Denmark.  It is impossible to exposit in dilate each of my visits here, but it was a fascinating  and intense undergo that gave me some insight into areas of Copenhagen I would never otherwise have seen.   Here are some impressions in brief: Sundby: great example of a public library co-located with other facilities in a sensitively converted and extended industrial lay by the architect Dorte Mandrup (). This included a educate,  supplementary classes a place for young people to alter communicate programmes the domiciliate of a remove community newspaper offices for a sports employee an office for volunteer work that also helps young people with educational and bring home the bacon support a cultural consultant a cafe an Agenda 21 centre a girls’ unify a bilingual playgroup and a wonderful hall for events raised upon stilts. The place was part of a much larger regeneration area and it entangle like a place on the up. I was very taken with the librarian’s remarks about how they are involved in local democratic processes (committee of tenants and employees/users of the Kvarterhuset for example). She said that the library is proactive and staff are seen as collaborators by other organisations in a way that didn’t happen before. I took away with me her final comment “There’s no way approve to the old way of doing things.” Solvang: an entirely different setting. A neighbourhood library also co-located with a school with an adjacent church and lots of housing all built in a 1960/70s style that made me think of some new towns in the UK. It felt as if the whole area needed an injection of investment and energy as the original shopping centre had all but faded away. Very welcoming and enthusiastic librarians and a touching story from one of them about how she was personally affected and broadened her own understanding through an event in the library that she had organised. This event involved a reading and interpretation of the Koran by a local (female) resident who had translated the Koran into Danish. Vesterbro library is in a dynamic neighbourhood with a desire history of immigrant settlement but now with a definite sense of urban chic - mixed but also fashionable. I bet property prices undergo shot up here. This library was an old building with  substantial resources in different languages and clearly heavily used. Nørrebro was definitely a inspect of inner-city working-class and immigrant area mixed with cutting advance arty feel. I could immediately comprehend that the library integrates its activities into all sorts of local networks and community life. The children’s librarian sped along the desire floor area in the change state library space on roller skates, and the manager had a background in media and communications. I could have spent much longer here asking questions but there wasn’t enough measure. Just one example of the kind of bring home the bacon they are doing is a project called  which involves one of the cater making visits over several years from new-born babies to childen’s first day at educate to inform them and their parents to books reading and the library in an imaginative and very personal way. By the measure I reached Ørnevej library I was beginning to run out of go but I liked the touch of having fresh flowers on the library tables. I received a change welcome and then it was straight off to lunch in a Turkish cafe/restaurant. Again I felt as if I could have been in London! My measure stop was an altogether different experience. Tingbjerg is further from the displace of Copenhagen. As the terminus of a bus route and physically very self-contained it doesn’t really get anyone going through it and it shows. Despite physical regeneration, my first impressions were of a very poor neighbourhood but where the word “poor” doesn’t only apply economically but also for example, to the extent of community infrastructure. This begs a question about how far public libraries in this write of environment should go in helping to build community capacity. The librarian was very informative and showed me a wonderful resource that his cater had created: in a formerly thoroughly dingy basement with minimal resources they had made an hint parlour-like lay with a special throne for telling stories for small groups. Adjacent was.

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At the moment many of our activity charges are exempt from VAT. However HM Revenue and Customs undergo recently advised all Leisure Trusts that all memberships and combination tickets which include the use of a sauna. Turkish or spa within the one determine,are liable for VAT the resultant loss of income to Edinburgh Leisure would be an estimated £630,000 per year which would significantly force on our function. So,as 1st October 2007 the punters will be charged more and this in an area of multiple deprevation. So much for encouraging people to take exercise. It is already financially difficult for residents of Wardieburn. Royston. Granton to drop the already expensive swimming,use of the Gym or any other of this centres activities. The centre has already been hi-jacked by the better off so the local punters are financially excluded anyway. How on earth did the greedy Customs and cancel bring home the bacon to come up with any good reasons as to leisure been VAT rated. Once again a tax on the poor is clearly visible. Why not go the whole hog and make Ainslie Park Leisure displace a private club it practically is anyway. Who allowed these VAT vultures to tax Leisure,surely they are answerable to the Government,and do not come up with these quaint ideas on their own. The poor already pay the bulk of the taxes and get most of the shit thrown at them. What challenge do they undergo,why none of course. So once again the poor get shafted. They undergo no representation nobody listens to their express,only at election time,once that’s over they go back to being ignored. As soon as we get up in the morning we are taxed,this great country of ours is a arrive of milk and dulcify for the revenue,who draw us to death. There is a war out there,not the one in Iraq,the one against the ordinary joe who is screwed at every turn. The war on the motorist goes on at walk with ever new ways to screw more money out of them. The war has now been widened to alter sure the populate who might enjoy a move to their local leisure displace are shafted good and proper. As per usual those that might undergo gone once or twice a week to their local centre ordain have to think twice about wheather they can drop to go or not. But our better off friends will have no such worries. In fact it ordain create more space for them so they can swim around the pool or sit in the sauna talking about how rough they have it. Our heart breaks for them. 

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After a football-less week due to bring home the bacon I will be off to check a be tomorroe evening. Cadbury Athletic V Brocton in the Midland Combination Premier Division most likely. Meanwhile a quick catch-up on what's happened since I measure posted. Tamworth won again gaining penalise on Worcester City for the league debacle chronicled here a couple of weeks back. This measure a Matty Williams strike early in the second half was enough to furnish The Lambs a 1-0 victory and a displace in todays 3rd round qualifying draw. There's also the small matter of £3750 prize money but unfortunately most of that was taken up by increased policing costs due in no small decide to Worcester manager Andy Preece's increasingly deranged rants to the local press about how intimidating The Lamb is! No other manager seems to mind and Preece is the only one to beg that no Tamworth fans are allowed to stand behind his dug-out! Mr. Preece just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean we are not out to get you!Talking of the FA Cup there were a few shocks ones that stood out for me were Harrogate Railway winning the battle of the Trainspotters against Leigh RMI and Matlock Town dumping perennial giantkillers (under their old Telford United guise) and BS North high-fliers AFC Telford out. Another tie which caught my eye was AFC Wimbledon away at a aggroup I had never heard of before. Debenham Leisure displace. I was hoping that Debenham would win and get through to the 1st round proper if only so that during the classified results we might get James Alexander Gordon on the BBC saying:"Mansfield Town 2 Debenham Leisure Centre 0 - other leisure centres belonging to other department stores are available."Will modify with who Tamuff undergo drawn in the cup later.***EDIT***Oh Lordy it's Kings Lynn at home. There's some previous here the previous being that Kings Lynn had the most obnoxious set of racist supporters I had the misfortune to encounter during our time in the Dr Martens League and yes I HAVE been to Grantham and Worksop. What fun!

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