News - April Courses & Clubs

Yoga Classes

As requested, we are now running 90-minute yoga classes on both Friday and Saturday mornings from 10am to 11.30am.  We are trialing this as a monthly class, with home practice being given in-between.  Each session is £12.00.  The class is run by the, I am told internationally renowned teacher, Jane Aldiss.  More importantly she is a very warm, funny woman who I’ve worked with for decades and highly recommend for her understanding of how our bodies work, or more often – don’t work!

Fencing Courses

Next junior and adult courses start 27th April for 6-weeks.  Club sessions have started and run every Saturday from 10am to 11am and are bookable on our website – www.longridge-uk.org

Easter Holidays

In addition to our school holiday courses, we are running Activity Days for young people 8 years and over, every week day of the School Holidays, the day starts at 8.45am and finishes at 5.45pm.  Earlier starts and later finishes are available on application.  We also have Family Activity Days and Family Short Breaks on 9/10^th April.  So lots of opportunities to come along and enjoying our range of activities.

Kayaking Club & Courses

Club sessions start in April

Tuesdays from 09.45 / 11.15 / 18.30 - adults

Wednesday from 18.30 – juniors

Sundays from 16.15 - families

Club sessions are booked via our website – www.longridge-uk.org

Courses for April are:

BCU Paddle Power Passport (8 – 14 years old).  The first part of the BCU paddling syllabus

11/12^th April  :  13/14^th April  :  18/19^th April  :  30^th April / 1^st May 

Or after-school from 16.30 – 17.45, starting on either Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday the week of the 25^th April for 8-weeks

BCU Paddle Power Discover (8 – 14 year olds).  The second part of the BCU paddling syllabus

11/15^th April or after school from 18.30 on 26^th and 28^th April for 8-weeks

BCU 1-star (14+, fits into the GSCE syllabus for this subject)

5/6^th April  :  30^th April/1^st May

In the evening, starting 19^th April and 21^st April 20.00 – 21.15.  However, if we get a lot of younger people booked on we could consider also running this course just for teenagers from 18.30.  Let us know if this would be your preference.

BCU 2-Star (14+)

In the evening, starting 19^th April and 21^st April 20.00 – 21.15.  However, if we get a lot of younger people booked on we could consider also running this course exclusively for teenagers from 18.30.  Let us know if this would be your preference

Rowing Club & Courses

Club

Sessions run onTuesdays, Fridays, Saturday and Sundays and all sessions you can book via our website – www.longridge-uk.org

Courses

Next adult course starts 10^th May from 09.45am – although if we get enough interest for an alternative date/time, we will certainly look at creating another course.  So let us know if you can’t do then, when you can do and we can try and make it happen.

Junior Courses are running as follows:

11/12^th April  :  31^st May/1^st June  :  28/29^th July  :  11/12^th August

And after-school starting week of 18^th April.

To book on any of the above courses, contact our bookings team by email bookings@longridge-uk.org or call 01628 483252. We have a automated calling system being installed tomorrow, so press 1 to get through to bookings or extension 204 to get through to me.

I hope you will come down and visit us soon, if you visit in the next few days our reception has moved to the house in the carpark – we are a bit difficult to find at the moment as lacking signs, so don’t feel put off if you can’t see us straight away, hopefully we will have signs soon and the fence removed so we are immediately visible.

There is lots going on in April and May at Longridge.  By the end of April our new accommodation should be ready and in addition to this sparkly new building, we are looking to fund PODS, which are little mini eco-lodges, very cute and snuggly and ideal for a short family break.  We are officially opening the new accommodation, called Softcat Rooms (after our main sponsor, who allowed this project to go ahead – although we are still seeking a further £8k in funding to complete it) on April 29^th, which is our first Open Day, the second being on the following bank holiday Monday – 2^nd May.  You may book individual activities on either day, with prices starting at a £1, on our website – www.longridge-uk.org.  We hope to announce in the next week or so, that we will have a VERY special guest with us on the 29^th April, so watch this space and the news feed on our website for further details.  If we manage to tempt him along for a visit, I may well become the most popular person in the area ……

See you all here very soon I hope.