The main focus of this event will be health and having fun as well as fundraising. It will round off the school’s Health Week which runs from Monday 17th May and includes fitness sessions, health and safety, healthy eating, dance and Tae Kwon Do.
• There will be basketball, football and cricket challenges, as well as karate and dance sessions. The karate and dance sessions will be half-hour slots, the other sports will be ongoing so people can move around from one to another. The basketball will be inside, with everything else outside – weather permitting!
• There will a fitness challenge for the under 5s in the Nursery garden.
• The Police Dog demonstration has been booked. This will be followed by the raffle which closes the event.
• Face painting has been booked and Annie Marrs, Merkinch Arts Worker, will do a craft session.
• There will be a range of snacks available, including healthy options such as melon slices, small apples and bananas.
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NHS Highland has joined the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme. Bowel screening aims to cut the number of deaths from bowel cancer by finding cancer at an early stage in people with no symptoms.
Bowel cancer is the third biggest cause of cancer deaths, after lung cancer and breast cancer. People who get treated early have a good chance of being cured.
People aged 50-74 years will be asked to do a home test every two years. The kits will be sent out over two years. Some people will already have got theirs. Some people will get them soon. Some people will not get theirs until next year. Test kits are posted to peoples’ homes. If you get one, please do the test – it could be a lifesaver.
More information about the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme can be found at www.bowelscreening.scot.nhs.uk/ or by phoning the Scottish Bowel Screening Helpline on freephone 0800 0121 833.
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Monster FM is a brand new radio station broadcasting to Inverness this September.
This is your chance to be on it!
Moray Firth Media Trust is looking for people to make short features on a range of subjects. The Trust is offering a free four-day training course on 1st, 2nd, 15th and 16th June. Places are limited so apply now!
This is your chance to get your voice heard in your community!
Contact Ken Kelman or James Macdonald at
Radioskills on 01463 224433
info@radioskills.org.uk or www.radioskills.org.uk
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Merkinch Partnership is working with the British Trust of Conservation Volunteers on a pilot project for a Youth Ranger Scheme in the Merkinch Nature Reserve.
The scheme is intended to educate the participants about local wildlife and wider environmental issues using an informal and enjoyable approach. Each session will have tasks, games and challenges relating to a specific nature and environment theme.
The ‘Young Rangers’ project will be focused on contributing to improvements in the Nature Reserve. The scheme is designed to give young people a sense of ownership of the reserve and to go on to develop into environmentally responsible citizens.
Each challenge completed can contribute towards gaining a Youth Achievement Award. These awards give merit based on roles within a specific project i.e. bronze for participation and gold for helping to support and lead a project.
The pilot project will start in April 2010 and is open to young people aged 10 to 12 years. Sessions will take place fortnightly.
For more information on the project contact Anne Sutherland on 01463 718989.
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Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions. The rules allow the use of striking and grappling techniques, both while standing and on the ground. Such competitions allow martial artists of different backgrounds to compete.
The group meets every Monday and Thursday from 4-5pm in The Bike Shed on Grant Street, £1 per session for 16 years and older. Thanks go to Arts in Merkinch for the use of their venue without which the classes would not have taken place.
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Merkinch Greenspace and Highland Council would like to invite you to come along to an open meeting to set up a Merkinch Allotments Society.
The meeting will take place on Tuesday 23rd March at 7.00pm in Merkinch Community Centre and will be facilitated by Central Ward Manager Jimmy Flint and Keith Walker, Highland Council Policy Officer.
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Thanks to the support of Iqbal Mohammed and local councillors, mp33 is now operating extra youth work sessions from Grant Street Coffee Shop. Two new sessions are now available:
Wednesday from 7pm to 9pm for young people aged 12 to 14 years
and Friday 7pm to 9pm for young people aged over 14yrs.
The Cafe will host a series of arts and crafts workshops, live music nights and information sessions. A pooltable and juke box are also available for use on less formal evenings.
As well as being staffed by youth workers from mp33, two local young people are helping on Wednesday evenings as they work towards their Youth Achievement Awards.
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