March 2011

Customer Information on Management Restructure at Tone

Wednesday, 30 March 2011 Letter to customers from our Operations Director, James Curry.l Dear Customer As you will be aware we are currently operating in challenging economic conditions, exacerbated by significant funding cuts announced by central and local government in the autumn of 2010.  As a result of the current climate Tone has like all businesses had to evaluate where it can make efficiency savings, while also maintaining our objectives as a social enterprise and charitable trust, ensuring we...
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Impressive results for Tone’s MEND programme

Thursday, 17 March 2011 Tone has recently received a personalised report on the MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do it) programme we’ve been running in Somerset for the past three years. The family-focused treatment and prevention programme is for children aged between seven and 13 who are over a healthy weight and aims to educate and motivate the children and their families on issues such as exercise and nutrition to help tackle the growing problem of childhood obesity. Tone receives funding from The Big...
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Only four weeks to go until the worlds biggest fundraising swim at Tones Taunton Pool.

Monday, 14 March 2011 With Swimathon 2011 just around the corner, social enterprise Tone’s Taunton Poolis encouraging people in Taunton Deane and the surrounding areas to take part in their sessions on the 8th to the 10th of April. Taunton Pool is one of 580 pools across the UK taking part in Swimathon 2011. Here is an opportunity for locals to take on the swim of their lives, and join thousands of other swimmers in the world’s biggest fundraising swim for Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Swimathon...
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LTA President to visit local Tennis Club

Monday, 14 March 2011 Peter Bretherton, recently elected president of the Lawn Tennis Association is travelling to Somerset on Wednesday 9th March to meet with Taunton Tennis Club’s Head Coach Simon Woodhill. The visit will allow Mr Bretherton to tour the facilities as well as watch the best U10’s in the South West play tennis. Elected in December 2010 for a two year period, Mr Bretherton will be leading the LTA into new territory. His appointment coincides with a change in LTS policy from...
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Charity Challenge for Devon Air Ambulance

Monday, 14 March 2011 Wright Night Runner Debbie Miller Wright, Boxercise Instructor for Tone at their Totnes Pavilion site is taking on a massive challenge in support of Devon Air Ambulance Trust and Help for Heroes. On the weekend of May 28th & 29th Debbie plus four other runners and a support team will be running from Exmouth to Plymouth on the SW Coastal path in one continuous effort, including running through the night. Details of the progress in training for the team is proving a popular blog...
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2012 hopefuls to compete in 4 nations Trampoline challenge

Monday, 14 March 2011 Tone’s Wellsprings Leisure Centre will play host to two hugely significant Trampoline Internationals in 2011; opening with a 4 Nation event against Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark and Portugal in May, and following up with a Youth Match against Germany in September. Both events will see emerging trampoline talent from all over Europe with many of the British members looking to develop into World Class senior performers with ambitions for 2012 Olympics Games and beyond. 2011...
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Dance your way to fitness

Monday, 14 March 2011 A new initiative launching at Wellington Sports Centre, one of the Taunton facilities managed by social enterprise Tone, is bringing Dance in its many forms to the centre.   New sessions for Adult Beginners, running on Tuesday from 2.00-3.00pm, will be introducing locals to Dance styles including: Freestyle, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Salsa, Disco, Charleston, Bollywood, Michael Jackson and  Mix and Match.  Partners are not necessary for these sessions, so it is also a...
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Tone helps customers 'feel good' with new inch-loss results

Monday, 14 March 2011 Leisure trust and social enterprise Tone has revealed that clients of its unique Feel Good Factory have lost a combined 2,500 inches in a 10-month period since it opened – that’s the equivalent of around seven and a half London Routemaster buses lined up end to end! Tone’s Feel Good Factory, based at its Blackbrook Pavilion centre in Somerset, is a ladies-only power assisted fitness and inch loss centre. It has its own entrance and reception that separates it from the...
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Tone begins work on second Feel Good Factory

Monday, 7 March 2011 Following on from the success of its first Feel Good Factory, leisure trust and social enterprise Tone has announced the commencement of work on a second model at one of its Devon centres. A former kitchen area at Ivybridge Leisure Centre, which Tone operates on behalf of South Hams District Council, is set to be turned into a ladies-only power assisted fitness and inch loss centre, becoming Tone’s second Feel Good Factory. Like the first facility at Tone’s Blackbrook...
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New Results Show MEND Programme Can Successfully Combat Growing Problem Of Childhood Obesity

Monday, 7 March 2011 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. ...
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Leisure Trust Launches Major Re-brand

Monday, 7 March 2011 Not-for-profit leisure trust Tone (formerly known as Tone Leisure), has announced the conclusion of a major re-branding exercise, which will see the organisation drop the ‘leisure’ from its name to reflect its community outreach work as well as its management of leisure centres. Alongside running 11 community leisure facilities, Tone operates a flourishing community development programme and the Somerset-based trust was awarded the Social Enterprise Mark earlier this year in...
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Youth Related Crime Successfully Tackled By County Council And Leisure Trust Partnership

Monday, 7 March 2011 A Devon initiative in which young people are encouraged to visit local leisure centres on Friday nights has been hailed as a success after new figures show a significant reduction in youth related crime across the district in the period since the project started. The VIBE Youth Leisure Nights project is run by Tone Leisure – a social enterprise and charitable trust which operates leisure centres on behalf of South Hams District Council – in partnership with Devon County...
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Devon Villages To Get Active With Tone

Monday, 7 March 2011 Social enterprise and leisure trust Tone Leisure has been appointed to operate the first ever Active Villages programme in two Devon districts, as part of an initiative supported by Sport England. Created by Active Devon, a countywide partnership for physical activity and sports, Active Villages is a development programme designed to provide long term, sustainable sports opportunities for village residents of all ages.  Funded by Sport England and Devon County Council, the scheme is...
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Tone Helps Taunton Walk Its Way To Fitness

Monday, 7 March 2011 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...
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