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Freshbrook Community Celebrating community in the West
Centre open week The Link Centre and the West Swindon Forum came together on 10 July to mark the twenty-fifth year
26 - 31 July since the building opened its doors and also celebrate the community that has developed around it since
Find out more about the the first people arrived in the town’s ‘western expansion’ 34 years ago.
groups using the building and Sports clubs put on demonstra-
how to hire the centre tions of basketball and martial arts
Fun day and centre staff ran children’s keep
Saturday 31 July fit sessions and Body Attack rou-
tines. Local groups like Freshbrook
Opened by the Community Centre and Swindon
Mayor of Swindon at 2pm Twin Peaks walking group also put
Family games, Irish dancing, on stands, whilst the police and a
talent show, rodeo bull, number of council departments
bungee run, bar. Evening disco. such as Streetsmart organised in-
formation displays.
Coffee and health Event coordinator and long time
resident Pam Pixton said the day
Swindon NHS Health Ambassadors was the first of its kind and showed
Sam Harper and Matt Glover, below, the range of organisations involved
hold a coffee morning every Friday, in the area. “West Swindon is a
8.45am to 10.45am in Freshbrook place where several generations
Community Centre to discuss op- have grown up and because it’s an
tions for healthy eating, taking more attractive place, many have stayed
exercise, stopping smoking and to bring up their own children or to
drinking sensibly. look after grandchildren. It’s been Comparing then and now. Holding back copies of The Link published when Link
Turn up and chat or call Sam on an amazing journey.”
07818 510515. Centre was built. (We were responsible for naming the building). Robert Buckland
Nicky Howard from Freshbrook MP, right, with Rachel Aplin and her children, Joy Doerr and Coun Peter Greenhalgh
said the photographs displayed on
some stands had brought back a is closeby. I wouldn’t want to live with a group of women who I used
lot of memories. “Honestly, about anywhere else.” to go to a toddler group with over
30 years ago, having been brought Jacqueline Kirwen from Grange twenty years ago. We lost touch
up in the country I didn’t want to Park commented that she had col- when we went back to work but
come here and I really didn’t like it lected every Link magazine pub- now we get together to catch up
at first; it was like Legoland. lished. “I’ve been keeping them for with our own children’s careers,
“But my children grew up and my children because they represent and talk about what it’s like to be
I met lots of people and came to local history. a grandmother and how the area
like it. Nearly everything I need “Recently I’ve started to meet up has changed.

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