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Sign up for summer sports festival Netballers offer three training sessions
Gold medal boxer, Jamie Cox, was knocked out by his first experience Abbey Meads Netball Club runs two teams in the Swindon and
of climbing as he launched Challenge Swindon Festival of Sport in District Ladies Netball League and half way through the season both
early February. teams are doing really well.
A third team is being planned and new players are invited to join in.
On reaching the top of the
Link Centre’s indoor climb- The club trains three times a weeks, Monday 12noon to 1.30pm,
ing wall, he unfurled a ban- Thursday 9.30am to 11pm and Tuesday 7.30pm to 9.30pm. There is a
ner to promote the commu- free crèche at the day time sessions.
nity sports tournament, For details call coach Lorraine Hegerty on 07949 194160 or just turn
which builds on last year’s up at Abbey Meads Community Primary School.
successful Corporate Creche places should be booked by calling Roxanne on 07966 023636.
Games. The club is sponsored by Philip Andrews Estate Agent, Mortgage Hori-
Challenge Swindon will zons, the Drove Veterinary Hospital and the Abbey Mead public house.
be spread across 12 leisure
centres in the town. There Low cost homeopathy available
should be something for eve-
ryone from individual pur- Homeopath Ruth Derham explains how she is able to make
suits like golf, squash and a complimentary therapy within the reach of all
swimming to team games in- Complementary medicine should me to offer treatment at approxi-
cluding football and hockey. be available and affordable to eve- mately half the usual cost from my
There’s a chance to try some- Jamie helps Mayor Mike Bawden ryone. In reality, this is often not practice in Purton.
thing different like beach and coun Justin Tomlinson at the launch the case, as very little is available All cases will be taken by an
volleyball, dragon boat rac- on the NHS, which means the experienced homeopath with a
ing, speed climbing or South Asian by Get Active Week from 4 to 10 majority of practitioners run pri- small group of mature students in
sport kabbadi. June. Activity levels in Swindon vate clinics for which they have attendance, who will observe the
Jamie said, “it’s great to see so are still below the regional aver- to charge. procedure. All students will be
many sports involved. More peo- age with only 19 per cent of people After I was approached by a near the end of their professional
ple need to get active; I would exercising for 30 minutes three group of third year students at the training to become qualified
definitely encourage people to get times a week. The aim is to have college where I teach homeopathy homeopaths and will therefore
involved in June.” half the population meeting that to set up and run a stu- work to the same code
As for his first experience on the target by 2020. dent clinic, I saw a po- of ethics in practice as
climbing wall, he said, “it was a bit Mayor Mike Bawden said, “I was tential answer to the myself.
scary at first and I had to cling on. disappointed that Swindon peo- problem. This as a wonderful
But the safety rope gave me confi- ple do less exercise than the na- Because students teaching and healing
dence and I was able to get to the tional average, but the events in will benefit from my opportunity for all in-
top to unveil the festival banner.” June give us the chance to change.” being able to teach volved. If you would
The tournament will be followed www.challengeswindon.org.uk them how to under- like to book an appoint-
stand a case and work ment, or are curious and
with individual pa- would like more infor-
tients, they will subsi- mation, please call me
dise the clinic, enabling on 772883.

Train like a NASA astronaut
Exercising on a mini trampoline may bring back childhood memories
of bouncing on the bed, but NASA scientists take the health benefits
so seriously that they use them to train astronauts.
Personal trainer ins out of the body.
Richie Jeffers first It’s the only exercise
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poline or rebounder in the body.”
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rebounder was 68 per versions. The exercise
cent more efficient will suit all ages and
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uses them with all his with joint problems or
clients and has started injuries.
teaching small classes. Not only is re-
The bouncing ac- bounding a tremen-
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