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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

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.