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BabyNatal Developmental Baby Massage and Sensory Play
uitable from birth, 5 week courses, specially designed to support your baby’s, development, remaining baby-led & flexible.
Stage One (birth—14 weeks) developmental baby massage and gentle movement to support your baby through their ‘fourth trimester’.
Stage Two (14 weeks—8 months) playful and sensory rich, alongside baby massage we also enjoy song, Makaton sign and traditional rhymes.
Contact: [email protected] or 07738572554
Buying & Selling Children’s Clothes
& Toys
Children outgrow clothes and toys quickly, and replacing them with new items can be costly. Swapseez UK is a venture that will pay you for toys and clothes and provide bargains on nearly-new items as your children move into the next size or developmental stage.
Sales events are run at Cranham Community Centre on Mondays during term time, from 9:00-12:00.
For more information, visit the website: www.swapseezuk.com
or email us at:
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Chelmsford & District Welsh Society
Membership is open to anyone with Welsh origins or connections, or to anyone with an appreciation of Welsh heritage and traditions.
Visitors and guests are warmly welcomed to attend our meetings.
The Society’s monthly meeting is held in St Cedd’s Hall, Cathedral Chapter House, Chelmsford, CM1 1NX, and is usually on the fourth Thursday of every month.
We hold a variety of events, including a ‘Noson Lawen’, St David’s Day Dinner, Church Service, ‘Cymanfa Ganu’, and an annual concert featuring a Welsh Male voice choir, held at Chelmsford Cathedral.
Throughout the year there are also fund raising events such as coffee mornings, musical evenings and a Garden Party.
For more details please contact Gwenno on 07724144432
www.chelmsfordwelsh.org.uk
www.facebook.com/chelmsfordwelsh
Counselling
Counselling for whatever your reason maybe, it matters to us so please contact us Sue/Karen
0758 1624063 / 0742 8911002 based in Cranham Community Centre, Upminster. Fees upon request.
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Dance Your Way to Fitness
Dance away your blues. Join us on a Thursday and put on your dancing shoes. Ballroom and sequence dancing 8.00pm til 10.30pm every Thursday in Cranham Community Association Centre, Marlborough Gardens, Cranham, Upminster.
For more information please call Bob on 01708 226445.
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Euromedical Ambulance Service
A volunteer led charity serving Upminster and Havering providing first aid cover at sporting,social and school events with weekly training sessions leading to recognised first aid qualifications for members.Meetings are held at the Rush Green Community Assn Social Club.
For more information contact Melvyn Gallagher 01708 224167 or e – mail [email protected]
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Friends Of Upminster Mini Golf Course
We are a recently formed group with the aims of promoting the Mini Golf Course in Hall Lane, Upminster and working in partnership with Havering Council to improve amenities and to encourage people of all ages to participate at the course. Find us on Facebook.
Why not come and give it a go. Equipment is supplied and the course suits all abilities from novices to experienced golfers looking to improve their short game.
More information on the Councils website:
www.havering.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceChild/Hall-Lane-golf-course.
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Heartfelt Yoga For Adults In Upminster
Yoga is great to help physical fitness developing flexibility, strength, posture, co-ordination as well help you to relax and be calmer.
ALL LEVELS ADULT YOGA CLASSES; weekly 90 minute class at 8pm on Tuesday or Wednesday at The Old Chapel. Bring a mat and blanket- £7
per session.
For further information about all classes please call Vikki on 07976 589133 or email [email protected] or visit the website
www.heartfeltyoga.co.uk
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MummyNatal with Your Natal Way
MummyNatal antenatal classes supporting mums-to-be to tune into what their birth experience is, focusing simply on the present moment and finding confidence and acceptance.
Weekly classes include mindful meditation exercises, breathing practice, birth ball exercise, exercises for encouraging baby into optimum position for birth, managing intense sensation exercises, birth physiology and birth choices education.
Classes at The Sanctuary, Upminster, Tuesday 8-9pm – [email protected] 07738572554
MOTR® Core, Cardio & StrengthTraining
Neil Carpenter brings the MOTR® fitness machine from the US for prebooked ‘drop-in’ classes on Monday evenings in Cranham (maximum 8 to a class for close supervision). The MOTR® and its resistance bands
will challenge your strength, core stability, stamina, control and agility
in a full body athletic workout that will burn fat, tone and condition your
body like no other workout. This is a fast paced class so you must be injury free with a basic level of fitness. Flexible online booking is ideal for those with unpredictable schedules.
Want to try out the MOTR® for free?
Book a free class via our website www.upminstersportsmassage.co.uk or email us for further information [email protected]
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OASIS - A ‘disability-friendly’ meeting for adults
On the second Sunday of each month, from 3.00 to 4.30 pm, we have our ‘disability-friendly’ meeting at Cranham Baptist Church, Severn Drive, Upminster, RM14 1SN.
A traditional Sunday Service is not for everyone! Oasis meetings are aimed at people with disabilities and their carers. The meetings are accessible, informal and fun where Jesus is worshipped through Bible teaching, singing, prayer and fellowship with others. We provide a safe environment and loving support for adults with disabilities and their carers.
For more information contact the Oasis Team on 01708 223551, 07714 853545 or the Church Office on 01708 224851.
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Pilates for a Healthier Spine
Experienced Sports & Remedial Massage Therapists Charlene & Neil Carpenter teach traditional Pilates in private sessions and
also to small groups in Upminster & Cranham.
Improve the mobility of your spine & joints, increase strength, stamina & muscle elasticity, improve balance, co-ordination & enhance the way you look, feel & move. Levels: Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate, Men Only, Post Natal, and Gentle Pilates for Seniors. Group classes are Tues-Fri mornings and Mon-Thurs evenings.
For further information or to book a course or trial class please visit www.upminstersportsmassage.co.uk or call Charlene on 07411 826721, or email [email protected]
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Shirley Tours Trips
Coach trips, and short breaks
in aid of fund raising for Hall Mead and James Oglethorpe Schools, All Saints Church and
All Saints Scouts.
Departures from Cranham, flyers on holidays and day trip leaflets available. Please call Shirley Ward 01708 227884 for more details or e mail [email protected] for full list of trips.
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Tennis 4 All
Hylands is delighted to engage with the JW Tennis Academy (JWTA) offering tennis lessons from mini tennis tots to squad level. All abilities welcome 4 -18 years old. A great way to help children improve their co-ordination, balance and listening skills in a fun and social environment. Also available, Cardio Tennis and Tennis Xpress for adult beginners.
For more details please visit:
www.hylandstennis.co.uk or contact us at [email protected]
Thames Chase Forest Centre
The Thames Chase Trust is grateful for the support in helping to secure the maximum grant from Tesco’s ‘Bags of Help’ fund to be used to refurbish the tree nursery at the Forest Centre.
During the summer the nursery will be redesigned, rebuilt and a potting shed added ready for autumn seed planting with children and families. We are now looking for extra volunteers to help build the beds and look after the nursery, so if you would like to help develop a nursery for supplying native trees to plant throughout the Forest contact the Forest Centre.
More details can be found on the website www.thameschase.org.uk or at the Centre.
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Upminster Bowling Club
If you fancy the healthy sport of Bowls played in the open air in the magnificent surroundings of a 15th century Club house in Hall Lane, Upminster RM14 1AU then why not join us on our Open Day on Saturday, 11th June @ 2pm.
Experience is not required and Bowls will be supplied, the only ‘must’ is to come equipped with flat soled shoes. New members are always welcomed.
Upminster Park Towns Women’s Guild
We are a friendly group of Ladies enjoying a chat over tea and biscuits listening to a good speaker or entertainer. Going on outings/theatre trips and promoting friendship and well being.
We meet at St.Lawrence Church, Derham Hall, Upminster on the fourth Wednesday each month at 1.45 - 4 pm. For more information contact Deborah Pryor 01708 226127 or Anne Monk 01708 226305 or simply come along.
Upminster Wine and Social
We are a fun group of people with an interest in wine appreciation and enjoying many social events. We hold meetings every month with a variety of speakers and a wine tasting.
Meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month at 8.00 o’clock in the Cranham Social Hall, Front Lane, Cranham.
For more information contact Maureen Jasper on 01708 223956, or simply come along on the night. You would be made most welcome.
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