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Take the plunge with a Summer swim challenge

The team at Gourock Outdoor Pool have come up with the perfect way to get fit and have fun this Summer with an exciting swim challenge called ‘Tom and Gerry’. Facility Manager Kenny Fulton explains how the challenge works: ‘We’ve introduced a really simple challenge with the aim being to catch ‘Gerry’ by swimming 3 miles/144 lengths per week. The overall goal is to reach a target of 45 miles/2100 lengths by the end of the summer”. A leader board has been setup which keeps track of everyone’s distance and is displayed on the wall next to the pool. It is hoped that the challenge, which

Date set for the 2014 Taunton Business Games launch

Taunton’s newest corporate event, the Taunton Business Games, will be officially launched at a free event at Somerset County Cricket Ground on Tuesday, 25thFebruary. The Taunton Business Games will involve teams from local companies being pitted against each other in a series of events, including Mini Olympics, Golf and a Pub Quiz. The February event will kick things off by giving interested businesses an opportunity to meet the UK Business Games Ambassador, Olympian Jo Pavey, and get an overview of the planned Games plus information on signing up. The evening will take place in

Google Diploma for Devon Digital Director

Simon Beer, Digital Director at Exeter-based full service marketing agency, Big Wave Media, has been awarded a digital marketing qualification by internet giants Google. The new course, called 'Squared Online', is a recent development by Google and Simon was one of only 150 candidates selected for the first intake. The course is aimed at tomorrow's connected leaders and has been built by the best practitioners. It is delivered collaboratively online to create a new movement in career learning, often featuring high profile guest speakers. To gain the qualification, Simon spent 6

Bay Leisure urges Swansea to Get Active

A local Swansea not-for-profit company, Bay Leisure, is promoting physical activity in Wales with their brand new gym offering exciting equipment and low prices. Bay Leisure has invested heavily in their new Simply Gym site at Gorseinon, as well as adding to their established Simply Gym at Llansamlet, with state-of-the-art functional, resistance and cardio kit. However, memberships remain at just £15.99 per month. The new Simply Gym Gorseinon has already proved hugely popular with new members. Jo Price, General Manager of Simply Gym, said: “We’re extremely pleased with the positive

GORSEINON’S NEW AFFORDABLE GYM TO OPEN ON OCTOBER 17TH

A new low cost gym opening in Gorseinon, Swansea is aiming to prove that low cost doesn’t equal low quality. Simply Gym, which already has a site in Llansamlet, will open their second premises in Gorseinon on October 17thon the site of the old Trainers Car showroom, Victoria Road. Although memberships are currently only £13.99 a month, the new gym will boast over 100 pieces of the latest Life Fitness equipment. The gym will offer machines with internet access and the ability to choose to run, cycle or walk following routes in New Zealand or other picturesque parts of the world to keep

EXCLUSIVE LADIES-ONLY HEALTH CLUB TO OPEN IN COLCHESTER

An exclusive ladies only health club offering a new way to exercise opens in Colchester on Friday, 11th October. Livia Club, located in Global House in Colchester, differs from traditional gyms by housing HUR resistance equipment and pioneering SmartCard technology in a luxurious environment. The HUR resistance equipment creates a circuit combining strength and endurance training which provides safer, effective exercise for women of all ages and abilities from mainstream exercisers to seniors. The HUR equipment works with the SmartCard technology to manage training programmes and

Exeter Business Games raises nearly £8,000 for Exeter Foundation

22 Exeter businesses have together raised nearly £8,000 for the Exeter Foundation. As part of taking part in the Exeter Business Games 2013, teams from each business raised £3939 for the charity. This amount has been generously matched by Thomson Reuters, bringing the total to £7878. Anette Grahns, of Thomson Reuters, said: “Thomson Reuters have been involved with Exeter Business Games since its inception. Apart from it being a fun annual event for Exeter businesses, it gives us the opportunity to give something back to the local Exeter community. Thomson Reuters is very proud to be

Welwyn Garden City Sailor wins World Title

A Hertforshire-born sailor this week secured the Ladies’ World Title at the 420 World Championships, held in Valencia, Spain. Annabel Cattermole, a seventeen year old who learned how to sail with Welwyn Garden City Sailing Club at Stanborough Park, and her crew Bryony Bennett-Lloyd from Norwich, passed the finish line at the top of the leader board on Tuesday, 30thJuly. The pair needed a top-ten placing to win the overall championship and sealed the world title with a fourth place finish in the final race. Talking about her win to the Royal Yachting Association (RYA), Annabel said:

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