Your ‘Active Schools and Community Sports Team’ is very happy to inform you that we have kindly received a huge amount of fitness kit via Councillor Pauline Drysdale which was surplus to requirements. The kit includes high quality boxing gloves and pads, exercise mats, weights, sand bags and much much more.
Exercise to Music instructors will be starting classes across the Stewartry within the next month and are currently working towards their qualifications. However, if you are currently running fitness or exercise sessions and you need some extra kit, why don’t you get and touch with the Active Sports Team and hire it from us, free of charge?
Councillor Drysdale said, ‘I’m passionate about helping to promote positive mental health, getting outside, keeping fit and eating healthily. My objective is to work with Louise Badger Coupar and Amy Niven of ‘Active Sports & The Community Sports Team’ across the Stewartry to get as many people out exercising as possible.’ Louise added, ‘We will be working within communities and have started to create as many opportunities as possible to keep fit, have fun and live life to the full.’
This week Louise and Councillor Drysdale met with Sara-leigh Cain, Project Coordinator of ‘TGB Gatehouse’. The group has recently taken in the lease of the old Bank of Scotland premises in Gatehouse of Fleet.TGB are a charitable group providing intergeneration sessions within the community with a particular focus on young people. The new building will allow the group to further develop their work within the community.
TGB works closely with The Gatehouse Community Church and other local groups promoting good community cohesion.
Sara-leigh explained that they are extremely excited about the upcoming opening of the new premises, looking forward to further developing their provision within an already fantastic wee town! Both Sara-Leigh Cain and Chris, chair of the group and local pastor, have been the key in the setting up of this new unit in Gatehouse.
Councillor Drysdale is passionate about projects which bring people together with purposeful and beneficially mutual activities and skills. She said, ‘We need to look towards Gatehouse and New Galloway as good examples as to where understanding and respect is built across generations. This, in turn, results in more cohesive communities with happier and healthier people.’
Contact Louise Badger Coupar on [email protected] for access to the kit (any groups or schools) which is now stored safely at the Abercrombie depot. Also contact Sara-Leigh Cain on [email protected] for more information on activities at the TGB Gatehouse.
