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ZUMBA Fitness at Kingsbridge
Monday, 9 August 2010 Zumba® is coming to Quayside Leisure Centre on Sunday 22nd August. Free taster sessions are being held from 10.30 – 11.00am and again from 2.30 - 3.00pm so that people can try out this Latin groove prior to the Exercise4Life Dance Challenge being held at the centre in September. The Exercise4Life Dance Challenge takes the form of a 5 hour Zumbathon and is being held over 2 Sundays, Sunday 19th & Sunday 26th September between 11am and 1.30pm with the aim of raising...Read more...
LOCAL SWIMMERS AT TAUNTON POOL HELP RAISE £2MILLION FOR MARIE CURIE CANCER CARE
Monday, 9 August 2010 Taunton Deane locals who took part in Swimathon 2010 at Tone Leisure’s Taunton Pool have raised £6,083.10 for Marie Curie Cancer Care and The Swimathon Foundation. They have greatly contributed to Swimathon 2010’s fundraising total of £2million - £500,000 more than 2009. The fundraising will help support Marie Curie Cancer Care nurses who provide nursing care to people with cancer and other terminal illnesses, at the end of their lives, in a place of...Read more...
National Playday 4 August 2010 - Tone Leisure Backs The Importance of Free Play for Children
Monday, 9 August 2010 Tone Leisure will be celebrating this year’s National Playday by holding eight play events funded by the Big Lottery throughout the summer as part of the trust’s commitment to developing local play opportunities – something Tone considers a vital part of children’s health and wellbeing. The events, which allow children and their families to take part in activities such as archery, woodland crafts, sports, skateboarding and lots more, prove very popular with...Read more...
Devon Villages To Get Active With Tone
Monday, 9 August 2010 A new pilot scheme is being launched in the South Hams and in Mid Devon following the appointment of social enterprise and leisure trust Tone Leisure to operate the first ever Active Villages programme as part of an initiative supported by Sport England. It will focus on parish communities with between 500 and 2,000 residents by developing bespoke sports packages tailored to local needs and delivering them within the communities themselves. The team, which will be headed up by...Read more...
MEND 7-13's recruiting families now!
Monday, 9 August 2010 Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do it! FREE fun after-school course to help you and your family get fitter, healthier and happier! The next two MEND 7-13 programmes start in Wellington in September and Taunton in October. Register now for a place on the next course! Contact Melissa McCarthy on 01823 273084Read more...
Tone Celebrates Mark of Social Enterprise Success
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 Tone Leisure, the charitable trust that operates sports and leisure facilities on behalf of South Hams District Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council, has become the first leisure trust in the south west to be awarded the Social Enterprise Mark. The Mark is administered by a joint venture set up between the Social Enterprise Coalition, the national body for social enterprise, and RISE, the social enterprise regional network for the south west. It is awarded to businesses that meet...Read more...
Tone Helps Taunton Walk Its Way To Fitness
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 A Taunton walking scheme is celebrating its fifth birthday with the news that the total number of yearly participants recorded has increased by over 3,000 since the scheme began in 2005 – and it is now launching a new-look programme of walks for summer 2010 to encourage even more people to take part. The Walk Well in Taunton project is run by Tone Leisure as part of a Department of Health-funded scheme by Natural England, designed to quadruple the number of people who take part in...Read more...
Learner Pool Improvements at St James Street
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 THE popular learner pool at St James Street Baths in Taunton is to close on Sunday July 25 to allow vital remedial work to be carried out. The pool, owned by Taunton Deane Borough Council and operated by charitable trust Tone Leisure on behalf of the Council, is used by thousands of schoolchildren each year and for swimming lessons. It is not open to the wider public. This work is aimed at reducing the amount of time it take for the water to circulate through the filtration system as...Read more...
New Results Show MEND Programme Can Successfully Combat Growing Problem Of Childhood Obesity
Thursday, 8 July 2010 Results from a family-focused treatment and prevention programme for children who are over a healthy weight indicate the effectiveness of the initiative as a key tool to tackle the growing problem of childhood obesity, claims charitable trust Tone Leisure. One in three children aged five to 13 in the UK are obese or overweight according to the new figures which were recently revealed by independent research company Datamonitor*, with this proportion expected to rise to 40% by 2014. ...Read more...
Website Maintenance 6th July from 10pm
Tuesday, 6 July 2010 Due to scheduled maintenance the online bookings facility will be unavailable from 10pm Tuesday 6th July to 2am Wednesday 7th July. We apologise for any inconvenience.Read more...