NEWSLETTERActive for Life

Helping people since 1907

Active for Life, Guild House, 156 Mannamead Road, Plymouth, PL3 5QL

Phone: 01752 201891 E-mail: active@plymouthguild.org.uk

Website: www.plymouthguild.org.uk/active-for-life

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Ernest English House, Buckwell Street, Plymouth, PL1 2DA Chief Executive: George Plenderleith

This will be taking place on Tuesday, 13th December, at Central Park.

Meet at the clock tower at 11.00am for an

11.15am start. After the walk we will be heading over to the Britannia Inn for a cup of tea and a chat!

There will be a choice of 2 walks, a longer, brisk walk (approximately 60 minutes) and a shorter, more gentle walk (approximately 30 minutes). Feel free to get festive and wear your Santa hats, reindeer antlers, or Christmas jumpers!

This year Plymouth Guild will be holding a 2016 Christmas Fundraising raffle. Prizes up for grabs include:

And much, much more! Tickets are £1 each or £5 for a book.

Winners will be drawn on Friday 16th December

Tickets will also be available to buy at our activities and from reception at Guild House.

To keep up to date with what we are doing: Search Active for Life Plymouth

Christmas Walk

Plymouth Guild Raffle 2016

Train Tickets

£50 Marks & Spencer Voucher

£200.00 Brittany Ferries

Voucher

Christmas Food

Hamper

We would love to hear from you regarding activities you would like to try in the New Year. We have some ideas of our own and are looking at setting

up some taster sessions in:

Nordic Walking Running Sailing Golf Rounders

Do these activities sound good to you?! If so, give us a call on

01752 201891 to register your interest! If there is another activity you would like to try, which we haven't suggested, please call us to let us know

and we will see what we can do about getting some taster sessions arranged!

The Active Team will be on their Christmas Holidays from 12.30pm, Friday 23rd December until 9am, Tuesday 3rd January

Please see the table below for the shutdown dates of our weekly activities.

We hope you have a great Christmas and look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

Please Note - The AM & PM walks will be combined on the 23rd December at 11.15am A long and short route will be available.

Activity Finish Date Start Date

Basketball

15th December 2016

5th January 2017

Boccia

Monday 19th December & Wednesday 21st December

Monday 9th January 2017 & Wednesday 11th January

Football

Tuesday 6th December & Thursday 15th December

Tuesday 10th January 2017 & Thursday 12th January

Dance

12th December 2016

9th January 2017

Gardening

5th December 2016

3rd April 2017

Walking Group

23rd December 2016 AM Walk Only – see above.

6th January 2017

Burrator Conservation

25th November 2016

27th January 2017

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This year, the walking group we deliver in partnership

with the National Marine Aquarium, will be celebrating its 7th birthday!

We will be marking the occasion with a little get together at the Aquarium on Friday 16th December. On that day we will be delivering both the and the walk in the morning.

There will be no afternoon walk that week.

After both of the walks have been completed we will be getting together at the aquarium for drinks and nibbles in celebration! We will also be handing out certificates to our long standing

walkers to mark their achievements over the last year. If you have been involved with the walking group in the past we would love to see you there….all walkers old and new welcome!

Date for your diary! Monday 12th December 2016 Join us at our Christmas themed dance session in partnership with:

Where? Plymouth Life Centre

Time? 1.00pm to 2.00pm

Cost? £3.50 per person

Lots of festive fun - all welcome!

Plymouth Argyle is now supporting us with coaching at our football sessions! This means players will now have the opportunity to join the competitive Plymouth Argyle

Disability Team if they wish. Come along and join us on a Tuesday and

Thursday, 11.00am to 12.00pm at the Nancy Astor Sports Centre. It costs £3.00 per session.

On 10th September, staff, volunteers, members from Active for Life and Ridley's took on a 17.6 mile walking challenge - and a challenge it certainly was!!

In total the team managed to walk a grand total of 197 miles and raised a very impressive:

A special thank you must go to the National Marine Aquarium and the New Continental Hotel for keeping us fuelled up and providing us with refreshments and rest stops along the way!

£1475.67 This will greatly help to support our vital work. Thank you!

At the end of September volunteers and staff from Active for Life, Ridleys and Carers Hub teamed up together to run the Harewood House Community Café in Plympton. The team sold teas, coffee, homemade cakes and sandwiches in a bid to raise money for Plymouth Guild services.

There was bric-a-brac for sale, along with a selection of homemade jams and knitted items. Each day the team worked tirelessly each lunchtime preparing sandwiches and ensuring there was enough cake for everyone!

THANK YOU TO OUR AMAZING

VOLUNTEERS!!!

Santander in Plymstock kindly offered to match fund our efforts for the week, so in total the team

managed to raise a fantastic £976.44!

Thank you so much to our volunteers, and a special thank you must go to Sue for all of the

hard work she put into organising the café crew and food for the week! Your achievements are

amazing!

Ideas Please!

If you have any ideas for fundraising activities, or would like to help us, please get in touch….we would love to hear from you!