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Gym With Paula

Thanks to some funding from the League of Friends of Teddington Memorial Hospital the Cambrian Community Centre Gym has been able to work in partnership with Richmond Mencap to provide a new service to service users of Mencap.

Gym with Paula provides a one hour gym session for Mencap service users supported by Sarah, one of our gym instructors and a support worker from Mencap. This pilot scheme has allowed 5 service users to begin their exercise and fitness journey in a supportive, safe and friendly environment.

The group are currently half way through their initial 13 weeks and their feedback has been positive, with each service user seeing improvements to their health, wellbeing and fitness.

This project has shown how partnership work between local charities can provide an inclusive opportunity to the local community. We look forward to more feedback from participants, watching people with learning disabilities grow on their fitness journey.

Please contact Mencap directly for more information on 020 8744 1923 or office@richmondmencap.org.uk

Gym Fundraiser

  • Vicki, Gym Manager getting the kilometres in on the bike
  • Walking the Thames map
  • The km are adding up
  • Ashley running on the tradmil
  • Gym users busy accumulating kilometres
  • On your bike…..
  • Centre Manager David popped in to add some kilometres
  • A big push at the end from Becky, the last 12 kilometres takes our total to……346km
  • Scan to donate!

We did it! We successfully ran, walked, cycled and rowed the distance of the River Thames on Saturday 11th October. Alongside gym users the Community Centre and Gym staff team worked tirelessly to cover the full 346 kilometres from source to sea to raise funds for much needed gym equipment.

Thank you to all who participated as well as those who sponsored participants and made donations to this very worthy cause. At 3pm we were 40km short of our target, so a few volunteers and the staff team hopped back on the gym equipment and we were able to make those finish line at 3:20pm.

There is still time to support the fundraiser by donating using the QR code in the above photo gallery!

Gym Fundraising Raffle Results

A big “Thank you” to everyone who bought a Gym Fundraising Raffle Ticket.

The raffle was drawn on Saturday by Sue Pendle, Chair of Trustees, Vicki Hatton, Gym Manager and Hazel McCrory, volunteer. We are proud to announce the winners below.

Winners will be contacted this week to arrange collection of their prize.

PrizeWinning Ticket Number
1Spa treatment and goody bag           (Roko)  617
2Dinner for 2 (Portofino)136
3Digital photo frame541
4Day at Champeneys4
5Box of wine (2)                        369
6Box of wine (2)                        642
7Box of wine (2)                        81
8Candle538
9Six wines  (Dukes Head)         807
10L’Occitane gift set.                    617
11Bottle of Cava                            379
12£50 (Tap Tavern) voucher       67
13Thai package (Rosa’s Thai)205
14Man’s haircut (A&N)    593
15Odeon tickets (Odeon)      374
16Cake – (Richmond Hill Bakery)     23
17Massage with Becky.                  555
18Bundle of package of Tights113
19Har Spa gift set (Har Spa)605
20Breakfast for 2 (Albert’s Deli)769
21£30 (Saffron) voucher855
22Beauty Treatment (50 Hill Rise)415
23Coffee and Pastries (Wildbush)573
24Bundle of books (Books on the Rise) )833
25Bag of oriental snacks 779
26Hypnobirthing voucher            534

Autumn Gym Fundraiser

Join staff, trustees and volunteers of the Cambrian Community Centre as they aim to raise money for new gym equipment. This year we have a two pronged approach. We are raising funds to replace one of the gyms exercise bikes and also to purchase a chair to accompany the MOTOMed Muvi that allows people of all abilities to exercise.

On Saturday October 11th between 8am and 3pm we are aiming to WALK, RUN, ROW or CYCLE the length of the River Thames. From source to sea the Thames is 238 miles in length and we are aiming to combine all distances covered (however great or small) to raise money through sponsorship.

If you are interested in joining us, you can sign up to do as much or as little on October 11th, alternatively you can sponsor one of the staff team to cover as much distance as possible on the day. Further information on how to sign up, sponsor or donate to the cause is available from the gym staff.

We are also holding a RAFFLE to be drawn at the end of the fundraiser, and we have been donated a variety of prizes, details of which can be found HERE. Tickets are £2 each, and area available for the gym team or Centre Manager David.

If you are interested in supporting the day, please talk call 020 8948 3351 or e-mail gym@cambriancentre.org

Hartbeeps returns to the Cambrian Community Centre in September

Join the fun with your little ones

Hartbeeps is coming to Richmond at the Cambrian Community Centre this Autumn!

Join us on Friday mornings for magical, musical, and multi-sensory classes designed especially for babies and toddlers and their grown ups! From newborns to pre-schoolers, our classes are filled with music, movement, imaginative play, and lots of giggles!

7 week term (12th September – 24th October)

9.30am (Happy House) Toddlers and their siblings

10.30am (Baby Beeps) Sitting babies to standing

11.30am (Baby Bells) Newborn to sitting babies

Fun-filled sessions that support early development whislt having the cutest dress up in town and a new adventure every week! Come and see why Hartbeeps is the most original baby class in the UK!

Book here

Volunteers Needed

Call out for volunteers to join The Real Junk Food Project

Would you like to be part of a team that helps to reduce food waste and provides healthy low cost food to your local community?

The Real Junk Food Project is looking for confident cooks as well as servers to join their team at the Cambrian Community Centre on Wednesday mornings. You will be joining a dynamic team that creates healthy lunches for 50-70 guests per session, creating dishes from the food donations that arrive that morning. This is food that is rescued from the supermarkets and other local businesses that would otherwise have gone to waste. Our community cafes operate on a Pay As You Feel basis and are open to all members of our community.

Our team of chefs aim to create a soup, two main courses (at least one vegetarian) and a dessert each session. You will get the chance to be creative, and will learn techniques of how to cook dishes in large quantities if you don’t already have experience in catering. Our servers may be serving meals, pouring teas and coffees, or helping with the washing up.

The core hours are 9-11:30 for cooking and 11:30-13:30 for serving and the team are usually all packed up by 2pm.

If you are interested please contact Sarah at trjfp.twickenham@gmail.com or pop into the café one Wednesday for a chat.

New equipment for the gym

The Cambrian Community Centre would like to send a heart felt THANK YOU to the Victoria Foundation for the grant they gave the centre recently. The grant has enabled the centre to purchase a MOTOmed muvi to support gym users who have physical disabilities, neurological conditions and or are recovering from surgery or a fall.

The MOTOmed Muvi provides motor assistance to enable gym users the option to include all limbs in their exercise program with or without motor assistance. Our dedicated gym team are excited to include the MOTOmed muvi in more programs for more gym users in the coming weeks and months and we hope that it will make a great addition to the gym equipment list.

Please contact our gym team for more information on joining, restarting or leaning more about how exercise can benefit your everyday life.

Cambrian Community Centre Trustee wins Community Hero Award

Congratulations to Kate McCormack who won the Trustee of the Year award at last nights Community Heroes event at York House.

Each year Richmond upon Thames council receives a large number of nominations from the community in recognition of the work dedicated volunteers do across the borough.

Not only is Kate one of our dedicated trustees, she also volunteers for the Real Junk Food Project and she singlehandedly runs our social afternoons on Tuesdays which incorporates our table tennis group.

The Cambrian Community Centre is pleased that the borough has recognised Kates dedication to the centre, and we our proud to call her one of our trustees.

Well done Kate!!

Your Community Centre Week 2024

Meet staff from each of the 10 community centres in LBRuT as they introduce Your COmmunity Centre Week 2024

Your Community Centre Week returns this September!
Join us from 16-20 Sept and explore all the opportunities your local community centres provide.
You can also enjoy one of our vintage bus tours 🚍
Whether you are looking to get involved or find a new activity or hobby, come along and join the fun!

We have also introduced a one stop shop for all your information needs about the community centres within Richmond upon Thames. Why not head over to Your Community Centres – Where Connections Thrive to discover what goes on at your local community centre.

We look forward to meeting many of you on the vintage bus tour and at the cream tea.

Kitchen update-half way there

We are nearly at the end of week 3 and thought that we would update you on our kitchen build.

As you can see the kitchen space looks completely different. The base frames for the cupboards and work tops are in place and the new boiler has been installed and is working. The flooring is the next step as is plastering the walls and making ready for the installation of wall cupboards.

It’s progressing well and the builders are working hard. We are looking forward to watching the kitchen take more shape in the next coming weeks. More photos can be seen on our social media accounts, why not follow up on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) or Facebook.