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The Mover North East Region

Spring 2013

Spring 2013

The Rhythm of Life

To feel the rhythm of life,

To feel the powerful beat,

To feel the tingle in your fingers,

To feel the tingle in your feet…

… So sang Sammy Davis Jnr

Let’s celebrate the Rhythm of Life

with our movement and dance

events of 2014, topping it all off

with our fantastic National

Festival in Birmingham.

Plenty to look forward to.

So… keep dancing!

Catherine

Inside this issue: Fundraising Workout 2

NEAGM 3 /5

Panorama 6

National Festival 7 /8

Ladies Day 9

Branch News 10/ 11

Dates for Your Diary 12

Your contacts on the

Regional Committee

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See how to obtain your tickets for this fabulous show (p.7&8)

Birmingham – Here we Come !

Winter 2013/2014 Volume 3, Issue 1

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North East Region

Banish those Winter Blues …

At our

Fundraising Workout

In aid of

Performance Fund 2014

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Tickets £4.50– from your Branch Reps

(includes tea/coffee)

Teachers:

Nicola Pilmoor

Bernadette Rogers

Carole Johnson

Denise Durkin

Raffle in aid of KFA National Charity –

(Raffle prizes welcome)

City Dance

will be selling books to help raise

funds towards going to the

National Festival

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Nominations for Roles on the Executive Committee

The Committee are currently looking for volunteers to take on the following roles:

Minuting Secretary

Vice-Chair

Child Protection Officer

Funding Officer

You will be given every support to assist you, and the Committee meets approximate ly

6-8 times a year. If you would like put yourself forward for one of these roles, please contact

Marilyn (Tel: 0191 3888125 / mazza.laverick@gmail.com) by the end of February.

Volunteer of the Year

Show your appreciation and nominate

that hardworking member!

Categories:

Member

Teacher

Committee Member (at Branch/Area or Regional Level)

Whoever receives the award for the Region will then be put forward for the National Award.

Please fill in the sections of the form on the opposite page, after first asking the permission of the person

concerned, and send to Marilyn by the end of February.

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Move along … to our Spring Workouts!

Saturday 22nd March 2014 The Free School, Gilesgate, Durham DH1 1HN

Teachers: Sue Watson, Sharon Batty, Ethel Ramsey

Meet & Greet - 9.30am - 10am

First Session - 10am-10.45am

Second Session - 11am-11.45am

Break (tea/coffee & biscuits provided) – 11.45am -

12.15pm

Third Session 12.20pm – 1.05pm

AGM - 1.30pm-2.30pm

Displays - 2.30pm - 3.15pm

Afternoon Tea (provided) – 3.15pm

&

Panorama

2014

Tickets (available from your Branch Reps):

All Day Ticket (including Afternoon Tea) £8

Teachers Afternoon Session* (including Afternoon Tea) £2

* (For teachers attending morning training)

Afternoon Tea

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Presents

ITS ANNUAL FESTIVAL SHOW

A PANORAMA OF

MOVEMENT

AND DANCE DOLPHIN CENTRE, DARLINGTON

Saturday 17th May 2014

Tickets: £10 (Adults) £5 (Children)

First performance 2pm – Second performance 5.30pm

For more information and tickets

contact your Branch Rep

or Marilyn Laverick

Tel. 0191 3888125 Email: mazza.laverick@gmail.com

North East Region

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National Festival of Exercise Movement & Dance 2014 –

“Move to the Rhythm!” 2pm, 5th July 2014 – Birmingham Symphony Hall

This year KFA Moves is excited to be holding the National Festival in Birmingham. KFA Moves North

East Region will be well represented. Two producers (Tonia Gabriel and Lisa Clarke) will be taking

teams on behalf of the North East, while under the Youth Moves “banner”, there will be Christine

Chapman and her Young Adults team, along with Janet Balfour with her Junior Youth Mo ves Key

Stage 2/3 team. As show producer, our very own Lynne Casey will be choreographing and coaching the opening and closing

numbers with the girls from City Dance.

The Festival promises to be fabulous, with guests the Wheelchair Dance Association, Just Jhoom! (Bollywood/Indian Dance),

the Fitness League and Medau.

Christine Chapman will be organising a coach from Chester le Street, leaving on Friday evening and returning after the

performance on Saturday. Anyone who would like a seat, please contact Ch ristine tel. 0191 3884205, email

christinechapman4@btinternet.com.

Please apply for your tickets as soon as possible as they are going fast, either using the form overleaf or download it from the

KFAMoves website www.keepfit.org.uk. Also visit Birmingham Symphony Hall website to see the advertising and write-up on

the event. ‘Like’ the event page and show your support! This address will take you straight to t he page:

http://www.thsh.co.uk/event/kfa-presents-move-to-the-rhythm/. You can book through this site, too, but there will be a £2.50 one-

off charge.

For those wishing to stay overnight, or choose to make it a weekend experience, the following hotel deals have been arranged.

So…let’s get moving, and support our girls!

Hotel Agreements

Hilton Garden Inn

1 Brunswick Square

Brindley Place

Birmingham

B1 2HW

Tel: 0121 6431003

Jurys Inn

245 Broad Street

Birmingham

B1 2HQ

Tel: 0121 698 7999

Hampton by Hilton

200 Broad Street

Birmingham

B15 1SU

Tel: 0121 3297450

All hotels charge for car parking approx. £12 - £14 per day

50 twin bedrooms @ £85 B & B (all rooms have fridge)

Single occupancy @ £75 B & B

Group Code: GKFAA

Any rooms not taken up 35 days before the event will be released back

into system

60 twin bedrooms @ £82 B & B (2 double beds in each room but will

only allow 3 per room)

Single occupancy @ £72 B & B

Group Code: THEK04071

Any rooms not taken up 6 weeks before event will be released back into

system

50 Twin bedrooms @ £70 B & B

No mention of single occupancy rate

Group Code: KF1

Any rooms not taken up 28 days before event will be released back into

system

Lynne Casey has 4 spare rooms available on her booking for Hilton Garden Hotel in

Birmingham if anyone would like them - all twins. Contact Lynne on first come first served basis: Tel. 0191 5202422 or Email lynne.casey@btinternet.com

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With Lunchtime Reception, Meal, Stalls

Sunday 7th September 2014

Bishops Suite, Ramside Hall, Durham

Drinks Reception: 12 noon for 1pm

2 Course Meal (with menu choices – pre-ordered)

Complimentary Tea/Coffee

Entertainment provided by

Dan James (singer) (will sing requests)

Bar will be open

All welcome !

(Bring Friends and Family!)

If anyone knows of any other contacts for

Ladies Day stalls, please get in touch with

Christine, tel. 0191 3884205, email

christinechapman4@btinternet.com

Tickets £25

(available from Branch Reps)

Drinks Reception:

12 noon for 1pm

2 course meal

with menu choices

(pre-ordered)

Further details to follow

With Lunchtime Reception and Meal

Sunday 7 th September 2014

Bishops Suite, Ramside Hall, Durham

Find KFA Moves on Facebook and Twitter

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/KFA-Moves-North-East-Region

(KFA Moves North East Region Page)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/KFAMovesNER/

(KFA Moves North East Region Group)

https://www.facebook.com/CLSKFA (Chester le Street KFA Dance Moves)

https://www.facebook.com/kfamoves.sunderland

https://www.facebook.com/pages/KFA-Youth-Moves

https://www.facebook.com/keepfit.yorkshire

Twitter:

@kfa sland (KFA Moves Sunderland)

STOP PRESS!

Reduced KFAMoves mid-year Membership of only £11 (for brand new members only).

Join between 1st January and 31st May 2014 and you do not have to pay the full fee for

this year. Ask your teacher for a form, or download from www.keepfit.org.uk

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South Tyneside

Are you interested in . . . .?

Are you interested in dancing in a South Tyneside Branch Panorama Item at Darlington on

Saturday 17th May 2014?

Please contact Ann Brown: tel. 0191 5293095 OR email ann@the-seaside.me.uk

The music is 'Wings' by Little Mix

We shall be using apparatus - large fans in lilac & pink

Our outfits will be something floaty to accentuate the

'Wings' theme

Our rehearsals are :

February 14 - 21

March 14 - 28

April 11 - 25

May 9 - 16

We meet on a Friday evening 7.00 - 9.00pm, at

Mortimer Community Association,

Reading Road, South Shields NE33 4UG

New Year greetings from all at Sunderland KFA.

We are working hard to encourage more to join our classes. Forty years ago when I first joined a KFA

class with Carol Blacklock, there was little for young mothers to do on an evening, however now more

Mums are working full time and there are so many more leisure activities to join. Consequently

branches have to work so much harder to attract members.

We had a fantastic AGM and workout with the wonderful Ivy Purdham in November – what great time

was had by all – it is always a great fun with Ivy.

We have also had a trip to see Birmingham Royal Ballet and the pantomime, Cinderella, at Sunderland

Empire plus a Christmas afternoon tea at Lumley Castle.

We are fundraising for the Macular Society by organising a bottle raffle and this will be dawn at our

Social Evening on 14 March.

Brenda Hall, Publicity Officer

Twitter: @kfa sland

Newcastle Branch have a monthly workout every month on the first Saturday. This is held at the Durant

Hall (Unitarian Church) Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, 10.00-11.00am followed by tea, biscuits

and a raffle. These continue throughout the year until June. A very good atmosphere with a different

teacher each month. We look forward to welcoming visitors from other areas.

Pauline Wright

Newcastle

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And thank you everyone who

came along to our Summer

Classes and helped to raise funds.

We collected £260 for

BreatheEasy, which is a charity

that our Lesley Earnshaw is

closely involved.

Healthy donation from

keep fit group

11:38am Wednesday 22nd January 2014

By Alexa Copeland

A KEEP fit group has given a healthy boost to

Macmillan funds by donating £500 to the charity.

Members of KFA Moves Darlington raised the

amount through a variety of activities, including a

sponsored walk, a silent auction, selling handmade

greetings cards plus raffles and donations.

Keen fundraiser Michelle Thompson, who has raised

around £125,000 for Macmillan since beating cancer

herself, accepted the donation on behalf of the charity.

Heather Towers, chair of KFA Moves, said: “We at KFA Moves have been touched by the commitment,

dedication, and compassion shown by Macmillan nurses to patients and their families.

“It has been a privilege to be able to support their organisation in this small way.”

KFA Moves Darlington is also celebrating 30 years of its Thursday dance exercise class run by Veronica

Ridsdale since the building of the hall at St Thomas Aquinas Church in North Road.

Anyone wishing to join the club can contact Catherine Gilsenan on 01325-332572.

“ nk y K A y ' !!!” Michelle

Thank you all for your donations of doggie treats

for the Dogs Trust!

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2014

KFA Moves North East Region AGM (Gilesgate, Durham)

Saturday 22nd March 2014

KFA Moves North East Region Panorama of Movement Exercise and Dance (Darlington)

Saturday 17th May 2014

KFA Moves National Festival (Birmingham Symphony Hall)

Saturday 5th July 2014

KFA Moves North East Region Teachers’ Forum (Gilesgate, Durham)

Concordat (Swindon)

Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th July 2014

Ladies Day (Ramside Hall), Durham (Hosted by KFA Moves North East Region)

Sunday 7th September

KFA Moves North East Region Cober Hill Recreative Weekend (Scarborough)

Friday 26th to Sunday 28th September 2014

(For further details of these and other events visit www.keepfit.org.uk)

Dates for Your Diary

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Your Contacts on the Regional Committee

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Find us on Facebook – Visit:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/KFA-Moves-North-East-Region

We exercised our minds

with a tough quiz from

Tonia Gabriel –

and another one our

theme for the weekend,

musicals !

And laughed along the way!

Got any news or events to publicise?

You can send me content for this quarterly newsletter at any time!

Email to: catherine.gilsenan@yahoo.com