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Haddington Table Tennis Club

haddington table tennis club

4.7(3)

Haddington

“Anyone for table tennis?” was an article published in the East Lothian Courier in November 2002. It resulted in an agreement by six local enthusiasts to start a club, playing in the Corn Exchange. In 2015 the Club embarked on a 5-year plan to boost the numbers at all ages playing table tennis across East Lothian. Providing opportunities for young people to take up the sport through schools and community centres and establishing table tennis as a regular form of exercise for people of all ages, including as a therapy for dementia. We run coaching sessions for juniors and seniors twice weekly as part of our club nights, playing on 10 tournament standard tables. In 2015 the Club secured 4-year funding from Sportscotland for a part-time Development Officer. As a result the Club has launched Table Tennis East Lothian in partnership with Active Schools and with sponsorship support from Hab Fab Ltd and EDF Energy. The club leant tables and equipment to primary schools to promote and develop table tennis. As a result of this several hundred pupils each week across East Lothian will be playing table tennis. In 2016, Haddington Table Tennis Club were named ‘East Lothian Sports Club of the Year’. Richard Yule, Chief Operating Officer of Table Tennis Scotland, adds: “Haddington Table Tennis Club are regarded by Table Tennis Scotland as one of our most progressive clubs and a role model for others across Scotland. Their progress is particularly impressive for such a relatively new club.”

Leven Crafts

leven crafts

4.9(74)

Chaloner Street

Visit Leven Crafts today at our needlecraft shop in Guisborough and meet our lovely, friendly team. We love talking about all things sewing, crafts, embroidery, and more, and love sharing our needlecraft knowledge with our customers in a warm, friendly environment. Family Run and Dedicated Sewing Specialists At Leven Crafts we are proud to be a family owned and run, independent business. Based in Guisborough, sisters Ruth Myers and Lorna Shepherd run things with a dedicated small team of staff, each of them hand-picked for their needlecraft expertise, their superb customer service skills and friendly approach. We like our customers to have a relaxing and pleasant visit to our shop and needlecraft workshops, and we do this by making everybody feel welcome. All of our team are dedicated to making your visit enjoyable and welcoming, ensuring you will want to come back to visit us again. We also have an online store where we sell everything from quilting fabrics, embroidery and haberdashery supplies to knitting and crochet yarns. This is in addition to knitting needles, crochet hooks and sewing notions. Passionate and Knowledgeable We’re a passionate bunch, and our enthusiasm for all things needlework shines through in all areas of our approach. Our experience across many needlecrafts is wide-ranging and our goal is to pass this knowledge and experience on to our customers. So, whether you need advice on how to make a quilt, or perhaps you’re looking to buy knitting needles, quilting material, haberdashery equipment or dressmaking supplies, we’ve got you covered and can help you today. Come and Visit or Get in Touch Come and say hello and find the perfect range of quilting, sewing, embroidery and haberdashery, supplies in the UK. We love meeting new customers and sharing our wealth of knowledge with them, so come along to our Guisborough store for a chat about your needlecraft project or to buy your much-needed needlecraft supplies.

Duck And dive / The Aqua Clinic

duck and dive / the aqua clinic

Bradford

Duck and Dive was formed over 25 years ago. After teaching scuba diving in Cyprus, Garry returned to the United Kingdom and opened Duck and Dive, originally teaching theory from his grandmother’s cellar in Eccleshill in Bradford. A few months later we had out grown the premises, so bought a static caravan at Moor Valley Park, Hawksworth, over the moors near Baildon. This became his base for academic training for 6 years. Previously using Shipley dive pool for practical teaching, it was limited to 45 minutes a week and it was used for as long as possible before moving to Tong pool, which we used twice a week on Thursday and Saturdays. Unfortunately, Bradford MDC closed the pool, so operations were moved to Bingley Grammar school. The pool was not deep enough for Scuba and was not fit for purpose, it was then, we decided to be in control of his own destiny and build his own pool In Shipley. Ten years ago, the journey of The Aqua clinic begun. Before the pool was built we had a fully functioning and stocked dive shop in the building next door in Shipley. It was here in the late 1990’s he started teaching technical diving and exploring ship wrecks around the UK. This led onto Garry forming a company called Narked at 60, which was his own brand of diving equipment and was one of the first online e-commerce scuba equipment web stores. This evolved into the range being sold in most major dive shops in the UK and in an array of dive stores around the world. This success meant bigger premises were required so we moved to a larger unit off Preston street in Bradford. Work commenced with the famous brand RAB clothing on our under-suit garments, Typhoon international and ISP for our buoyancy products and Bowstone diving on the design and development of utility equipment. Garry then worked with specialist metal work companies their services of laser cutting, tumbling/ deburring, electro polishing and powder coating of the stainless-steel range which helped make a more rounded product. Garry also teamed up with local companies in the Yorkshire region to offer dry suit repairs and produce his own branded Narked at 60 made to measure Dry suits, both in neoprene and membrane materials. Garry worked with Business link and target export support team (TESS) and wrote manuals for their product range and CE marked goods. This enabled him to start travelling to worldwide exhibitions, demonstrating the British made product range and signing up distributors helping him to become one of the biggest British made suppliers. This was run in line with him teaching courses in which students were using his own equipment, this included police forces across the U.K. At its peak he was teaching over 450 students a year at all levels and became some of the youngest TDI /SDI Instructors in Europe. Garry has been a PADI instructor for over 25 years and retains his qualification. Garry has worked with the BBC helping produce documentaries for the television and has written articles for the Telegraph & Argus newspaper and technical dive magazines. Garry in 2008 started work with building his own pools in the current premises and he was keen to teach main stream scuba and offer specialised swimming lessons which is offered today in Duck and Dive.