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T H E A LW O O D L E Y C O M M U N I T Y A S S O C I AT I O N
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A l w o o d l e y C o m m u n i t y H a l l , T h e Av e n u e , A l w o o d l e y, L e e d s L S 1 7 7 N Z
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Registered Charity No. 523749
Issue: June 2015
w w w. a l w o o d l e y c o m m u n i t y a s s o c i a t i o n . c o . u k
Tel: 267 6697 C
C ACA President - Mr David Hirst
O ACA Chairman - Mr Ian Findleton
Tel: 225 0441 O
N ACA Secretary - Mr Brian Wilkinson
Tel: 267 2627 N
T ACA Treasurer - Mr Simon Taylor
Tel: 267 9751 T
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Tel: 267 3951 C
C ACA Membership Secretary - Mrs Sara Hamilton
Mob: 07580 148 832 T
T ACA Hall Bookings Secretary - Mrs Alison Taylor
Mob: 07581 426 570 S
S Social Club Chairman - Mrs Charli Marshall
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
June 20th - Summer Ball Hall and Lounge - 7:00 pm
June 27th - TG Coffee Morning Lounge - 10:30 - 11:45 am
June 27th - Bingo Lounge - 8:00 pm
July 4th - World Food Festival
July 11th - Carpet Bowls Strawberry Tea Afternoon
YOUR CLUB
NEEDS
YOUR SUBS
These are now due.
£28 for single membership,
£14 for Juniors and
£17 for students.
Remember you can pay 2 half yearly instalments.
Cheques payable to the ACA, to be given to Membership Secretary
Sara Hamilton, your section treasurer or at the bar.
MOT
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CAROL AND CLIVE
WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY
TO THANK ALL OUR CUSTOMERS
FOR THEIR SUPPORT
OVER THE LAST 19 YEARS
TENNIS
The season has got off to a good start, although rain has got in the way of
play on a few occasions. League matches started at the beginning of
May. This season we have four senior teams in the Leeds League – two
men’s, one ladies and a mixed doubles team. We also have a veterans’
team for those available to play midweek
Weather permitting we play social tennis on Wednesdays from 6.30pm.
On Fridays we start at 6.15pm with a one hour session of cardio tennis as
a warm up followed by social tennis. New members of whatever standard
are always welcome. .Adult coaching for beginners and improvers takes
place on Sunday mornings at 9.45am - there is a small charge for this and
you do not need to be a member to participate.
Junior tennis
We recently had to say thanks and goodbye to our coach, Ryan Tansley,
who has moved on to pastures new after having been with us for several
years. We are delighted to welcome new Head Coach, Danny Jones,
who runs the Saturday and Sunday coaching sessions. Danny, who has
an LTA Level 3 Coaching qualification, is at Leeds Beckett University and
has gained coaching experience across a wide spectrum of ages and
abilities from mini tennis through junior to adult tennis. This has included
cardio, recreational and disability tennis.
Junior coaching for children aged 9 and over takes place on Saturdays.
There are 4 different sessions based on age and ability between
12.30pm and 4.30pm. Mini tennis for children aged 4 - 8 continues on
Friday afternoons at 4.30pm and
5.15pm and on Sundays at 9am.
For further information about
junior tennis, please contact our
j u n i o r c o o r d i n a t o r, D i a n e
Corscadden, on 267 5252.
For further details about any of
the above please check out our
website www.alwoodleytennisclub.org.uk
or contact the secretary,
Elspeth Bottone on 268 9688.
TAKE TWO
TAKE TWO
SIMON TAYLOR
Simon is one of the few of us in the ACA who was born outside Yorkshire
but like many of us, came here to study and stayed in what ‘Secret Britain’
referred to many times as ‘God’s own county.’ Born in 1968 and brought
up in Hampshire he came to Leeds Polytechnic to study European
Finance and Accounting, which included a year in Germany. His father
was an accountant and Simon feels its something he just drifted into but
it’ s certainly a career he’s stayed with. His first job was with Plaxtons
coach and bus company in Scarborough as assistant accountant,
followed by posts with Astrocast in Birstall, WY Foundries and now
George Barker ( fridges for supermarkets ) in Idle as financial controller.
He has lived in Winchester, Bremen and then in Leeds, Hyde Park, the
Buckstones for five years and in the Quarry since 2000. His wife Alison is
also an accountant by trade ( they met at the Poly ) and is currently data
manager at Fulneck School. Nineteen year old son James is at
Nottingham University studying, yes you guessed it, accounting and
finance but seventeen year old Tom might break the mould. He wants to
do Drama at university.
Simon’s biggest interest is hockey. He has played since he was
seven and currently plays for Adel, where he enjoys being in the same
team as his son. Tennis became an interest after his sons started playing
at the ACA and the whole family joined, with some degree of success. He
follows Southampton FC, following the tradition of his parents who are
season ticket holders but he is unable to see the team very often. Any
other spare time is taken up with walking the dogs.
Following on from his role as joint treasurer ( with Alison ) of the
tennis section and his involvement in the third court negotiations, he was
persuaded to become ACA treasurer four years ago. Certainly getting the
grants secured for that third court and seeing it come to fruition he feels
has been his greatest achievement within the ACA. He was keen to add
that this involved a number of other people as well.
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He likes to be involved and put something in and
wishes more people appreciated the ACA.
Interestingly he didn’t know it existed when he lived on
the Buckstones and only found out about it when his boys
started playing tennis.
As a footnote he would like to record his thanks to Alison for
taxiing him about after breaking his kneecap playing hockey.
CHESS
Following 16 year old Harry Li representing England at the World Youth
Championships last September in Durban,South Africa I am pleased to
report we are coming to the end of a very successful season for the
Chess Club.
On Wednesdays we play in the Leeds Chess League.Our A team has
finished 3rd in Division 1, our B team has finished 2nd in Division 2 and
our C team has finished 2nd in Division 3.This means that both our B and
C teams will be promoted, which means we will have 2 teams in Division 1
next season. On Saturdays we play in the Yorkshire League. Our A team
has finished 2nd in Division 2. This means we will be promoted back into
Division 1 at the first attempt.This year we introduced a B team into
Yorkshire Division 3 to include juniors from Leeds Junior Chess Club as
an experiment. We are one of the few clubs in Yorkshire to do this.We
won a couple of matches which we did not expect. So all in all, three
promotions. I would like to thank all our players and captains for their
efforts. Next year will be much tougher but we will continue to recruit.
New and experienced players alike please contact Paul Gelder at
pagelder@Hotmail.co.uk or tel. 0113 2697111 Regards PG
HAPPY HOUR
Fancy a drink on the way home from work or after a spot of
gardening or a walk?
£2.50 a pint.
5 - 7 pm Thursdays and Fridays
The Social Club will be open.
PARISH COUNCIL
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ALWOODLEY PARISH COUNCIL
ANNUAL PARISH MEETING HELD
ON 27TH APRIL 2015
We were pleased to see that, as usual, a good number of
residents attended the meeting. Cllr Lyn Buckley, as Chairman of the
Parish Council, welcomed everyone and gave her report at this, the
seventh Annual Parish Meeting. She reminded the audience that the
Parish Council was able to give grants of up to £500 to new and
established groups who needed equipment or resources
Cllr Buckley spoke about her involvement with the Crime Prevention
Panel and her efforts to retain the leafy character of Alwoodley by
working with Leeds City Council to replace diseased trees. She
mentioned that councillors had to stand for re-election in May but only 8
people put their names forward, therefore all of them were automatically
“elected” and there are 3 unfilled places. She invited anyone who was
interested in being a Parish Councillor to contact the Clerk and paid
tribute to the four councillors who were standing down and thanked them
for their hard work in the past.
She then handed over to individual Parish Councillors who each spoke
for a short time about various projects they had been involved with over
the past year. Subjects included planning, festive tree lights, improving
and maintaining local footpaths, the now completed World War 1 garden,
the production of the annual newsletter, the outdoor fitness equipment,
boundary stones, the Yorkshire Local Councils Association, and the
proposed allotments.
Cllr Buckley introduced the guest speakers, Sergeant Simon Garbutt
and his colleague, PSCO Tiff Greensmith, David Burgess (Alwoodley
Parish Neighbourhood Development Plan), Carol Burns and her
colleague, Barbara Bailey from MAECare and Roger Gilbert from
Walkabout and the Friends of Adel Woods.
Sgt Garbutt spoke about the work of the Neighbourhood Police Team and
among other things, explained about a new initiative to kick start the
Neighbourhood Watch Scheme. David Burgess gave a very interesting
update on the progress of our Parish Neighbourhood Development Plan
and a display was available for residents to look at after the meeting.
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Maecare is celebrating its 20 anniversary this year and have just
opened a new activity centre. Carol and Barbara thanked the Parish
Council for its recent grant and explained about their work aiming to
address isolation, including a new pilot group to try and encourage
people to get to know their neighbours and another to start helping
people to connect with family and friends using social media.
Roger Gilbert spoke firstly about Walkabout, the walking group initially
funded by the Parish Council which has now been in existence for five
years. Two walks each month of different lengths are organised plus
evening walks in the summer. He then spoke about Friends of Adel
Woods, which was also initially funded by the Parish Council. They
meet once a month and activities include litter-picking, conservation
work and also nature walks and talks. Both groups have their own
websites and programmes of events are posted on the notice boards.
Cllr Dan Cohen thanked the Parish Council for their work to protect
and enhance Alwoodley for the future and was pleased to inform the
meeting that twenty local residents who ran in the London Marathon
thanked the Parish Council for the adult fitness equipment which they
had used as part of their training.
Full minutes of this meeting are available on request from the Parish
Clerk
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