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Head Rush
✂

73 Basepoint, Rivermead Drive, Westlea, West Swindon
Tel: 01793 602552 ✂

Cut & Blow Dry
£25
(in February with this advert,
excludes Saturdays)
Open Tuesday to Saturday.
✂ Late night Wed & Thurs Paul Stubbs, now a Ninjitsu 15th Dan
Julie, Gemma, Emi & Kathy Free parking
www.headrushsalon.co.uk Ninjitsu master is one of the few
AFTER dedicating over 25 years of of only 20 practitioners in the UK
✂
his life building up his knowledge and approximately 300 across the
Bujin Martial Arts of the Japanese martial art of world.
Ninjutsu, 45-year-old Paul Stubbs
He said: “I travel to Japan twice
UK’s only full time Ninjutsu dojo from Stratton has reached 15th a year to train under Dr Masaaki
Dan, the highest level possible, and Hatsumi, the sport’s grandmaster.
We offer: has established the very first dojo “Ninjutsu is all-encompassing,
• Separate adult & junior classes • Family discounts exclusively for his sport in Swindon. providing physical, mental and
• Lessons 6 days/week • Small class sizes Based at BSS House on Cheney practical lifestyle benefits.
• Outdoor training • Street awareness Manor Industrial Estate, Bujin “What you learn in the dojo
• Close protection skills Martial Arts offers classes for adults you can use in the office, and for
Some of the many skills you will learn: and children during evenings and children the art helps them develop
locking, striking, throws, takedowns, weekends. confidence, respect, focus and
pressure points, escape & breakaway techniques, Paul was assessed and awarded a discipline.”
multiple attackers, defence against weapons and more..... 15th Dan during a visit to Japan in See the advert left for details of
2013 and he is one of an elite group Bujin and to discuss a free trial.
Call now to arrange your free trial: 07727 653852
www.bujinmartialarts.com Giving hard of hearing a fair chance
A CAMPAIGN to make more public hard-of-hearing customers.
and commercial buildings deaf The survey’s ‘secret shoppers’
friendly is holding a free training discovered that where loops
event at the National Trust HQ, next are available they are generally
It was incredibly
helpful to have the support of
to the Designer Outlet, to involve working, but that signs pointing out
Outset. Without them I wouldn’t
more people in becoming aware of loop availability can be very poor.
have known where to begin. The
continued networking events are also
the needs of those who are unable In one case the sign was entirely
an asset to me as a local business.
Alex Secker,
Could you be Outset client to hear clearly. hidden behind a display of sweets,
22six Productions,
the explanation being that
Many buildings have not
your own boss? yet fitted hearing loops a free place at the ‘there is nowhere else to
Register for
to help the hard of
put the sweets’.
Now there’s an idea. hearing communicate Let’s Loop Swindon Supermarkets with
better, or they are training event on loops often only
Have you ever had an idea for a business badly signed or don’t 25 February. Contact have a few of their
but were unsure who to ask for help? work properly Tim Mason: tim.mason@ tills equipped and
Outset Swindon has the solution. Hearing loops can be 1100rotaryclub.org volunteers found
found in shops, banks that they were not in
We offer people in Swindon access to and many public buildings, operation.
FREE support to help start their own
business. Our programme is fully-funded providing a magnetic, wireless Let’s Loop Swindon is a
by the European Regional Development signal which can be picked up by project run by Rotary Clubs in
Fund and Swindon Borough Council. a hearing aid when it is set to the the town and hearing loss charity
Our range of services includes information Telecoil (T setting). They cut out Hearing Link www.hearinglink.org.
sessions, business start-up workshops, exterior noise and ensure that The campaign has received
one-to-one guidance and help with a hearing aid wearer can hear government recognition only a
accessing finance. This is not an academic Information
qualification but hands-on vocational Sessions without any confusion. month after getting off the ground
support and guidance tailored for you. In November volunteers from in the town. The Department for
Let’s Loop Swindon audited 29 Works and Pensions together with
Take the first step! pharmacies in the town and found the Office for Disability Issues
To find out more and book your place One to One only ten had effective working has highlighted what’s happening
call us on freephone 0800 080 3024, Sessions loops. They found in the other 18 here in a case study entitled:
email us at [email protected] that loops either did not work or ‘How private, public and voluntary
or visit www.outsetswindon.co.uk
had not been installed. organisations are improving access
Business A similar survey of 50 for hearing impaired people in
Start Up
supermarkets in the town found Swindon.
nearly two thirds have not installed The training session is open to
a hearing loop to support their business and building managers.
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