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Silver Surfers in Bramcote Company, Cakes and Computers

• Silver Surfers in Bramcote is a warm and inviting café-style club where you can take your first steps in using computers, tablets (like iPads) or smart phones. Or you can brush-up on the skills you already have

• Our friendly and approachable coaches can help you with many things such as browsing the internet safely, using your e-mail or online shopping.

• There is plenty of time to chat over tea, coffee and cake with people of similar age and needs. It is a place to make friends and to take those early steps in using computers and other devices.

Where: St Michael’s Church Hall, Church Street, Bramcote Nottingham, NG9 3HD (on-site parking available)

When: 1.00 – 3.00pm, every Thursday (optional low-cost lunch available from 12.30pm)

Why not give us a try? The first session is free and then £3 for each session after.

For more information contact us at: surfersbramcote@gmail.com

More people can reach their peak fitness goals thanks to Towns Fund grant.

A fitness centre in Stapleford is now able to offer cutting-edge body monitoring services and cardio equipment to its customers thanks to a £24k Towns Fund grant.

Peak My Body Fitness Suite, which opened on Derby Road in July 2022, offers more than a traditional gym through personal and semi-private fitness training, sports performance and endurance training and coaching. Services also include ‘VO2 Max’ physiology and metabolic testing, which measure a clients' lung capacity and metabolism to accurately tailor training plans and nutrition to get the maximum benefits for their individual needs. VO2 Max testing can also support people in their recovery from Covid 19.

The grant, made available through the Stapleford Towns Fund’s Town Centre Recovery Fund scheme, has recently funded new cardio and leg training equipment, more dumbbells, a top-of-the-range resisted cable machine, a body composition scanner for people to see where they are losing body fat or gaining muscle, a new system to allow people to access the suite privately at times that suit them, and general redecoration of the suite, all of which has enabled the business to expand.

Peak My Body is owned and run by personal trainer and strength and conditioning coach, Mike Millers, 30, from Stapleford. Mike saw a gap in town’s gym offer to provide uniquely tailored training and fitness plans to help local people achieve their goals – from mums looking to get fit to sports people and athletes. Trained in sports strength and conditioning, and research in sports performance, Mike offers a wealth of experience from personal training privately and at the University of Nottingham, and from his time spent in Texas, USA, working at Olympic athlete Michael Johnson’s facility, coaching NFL American footballers NBA basketballers, collegiate athletes and children.

Mike said: “I’m so grateful for this grant as it has made a massive difference to my business. With the addition of this new equipment and the new private access, which I wouldn’t have been able to fund for a many years, I’ve been able take my fitness offer to the next level, which will lead to more clients and the recruitment of more personal trainers to my team.”

As a born and bred Stapleford man, Mike is proud to open his first fitness centre in the town. He said: “I’ve lived in Stapleford all my life and it’s great to finally see some investment in the town. I’m particularly looking forward to £6.4m Community Centre planned for the Hickings Lane Rec which will be huge for people of all ages and great for the town as sports can be big business for everyone. “The sports facilities it will offer will be top quality and I’d love to be able to support local clubs with speed and agility training, and offer sports, speed and agility camps for kids over the holidays. So much to look forward to – the town definitely has a bright future.”

Ian Jowett, Chair of the Stapleford Towns Fund Board, said: “It’s fantastic that Mike chose to open his first fitness centre in his home town, offering local people a new way to keep fit. The Town Centre Recovery Fund aims to give local businesses the boost they need to build a strong future and we wish Mike the very best for the future.”This is one of more than 70 grants to be awarded through the £1m Town Centre Recovery Fund (which closed on 31 January 2023) - one of six projects funded through the £21.1m Stapleford Towns Fund, part of the Government’s £3.6bn Towns Deal.