June 25th, 2009 admin
The Good Gym have been visiting St Hilda’s Community Centre over the last two weeks. St Hilda’s works to meet the diverse needs of the area of Tower Hamlets and offers a fantastic range of services for young and old alike.
The Good Gym team have visited two of the centre’s lunch clubs and discussed the plans for the Good Gym with a range of service users and we look forward to working more closely with the centre over the next few months.
On the 23rd of July, St Hilda’s will be celebrating its 120th anniversary - the Good Gym will be joining in a sponsored walk around the boundary estate - if you’re around on that date please come along and help make up the 120km total!
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June 10th, 2009 admin
Phillip Raymond at Bromley-By-Bow
We visited the Bromley-By-Bow centre yesterday and left incredibly inspired. The centre combines a multi-faith chruch, a garden, a nursery and a health centre with a long list of social enterprises all in the same locality. Its the essence of partnership and integration that is so exciting about how the centre works, because its so closely integrated with so many aspects of the community; gardening, pottery, play areas, cafes- the place has very little problems with crime and its easy for services to refer to each other and provide real holistic care. Ruth Roberts took us on a fascinating tour of the centre and Ivo and I left feeling very excited.
Tags: health, meeting, olderpeople, phillip
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May 25th, 2009 Phillip
In an article entitled, “Boom to Bust: Innovations for When Baby Boomers Age”, Director, Richard Reeves and Senior Researcher, Celia Hannon of think tank, DEMOS describe The Good Gym as an initiative that “has the right starting point.” The article was published by The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) as part of a series of essays entitled The New Old Age, at the recent launch of Age Unlimited, the first programme of work to come out of NESTA’s Public Services Innovation Lab. Inviting ideas from a wide range of organisations to promote learning and innovation around the issue of ageing, the launch of the programme was also accompanied by a research summary outlining the role and current landscape of innovation in the UK in response to the challenges of an ageing society. The article referencing the Good Gym, the full series of essays and the research report can be downloaded from NESTA’s website at http://www.nestalab.org.uk/learning-lab/
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April 17th, 2009 admin
The Good Gym has recruited the wonderful Philip Raymond to manage the day to day running of the project. Philip has a broad experience of research and project management in the third sector and is an active member of the Highgate Harriers running club. We’re very excited to have him onboard and look forward to working with him over the coming months.
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