Pinnacle Performance

Yesterday was a pretty epic gym day!

Not 1 but 2 of our Active and Able participants attended for an independent open gym session🏋️‍♀️

We have been so lucky with Mencap believing in us and giving us the funding to allow these incredible participants to shine! Mencap have funded our Active and Able project on a Monday and a Friday for 18months. They have also funded our Thursday dance group for 12 months and to top it all off they have paid for 7.5 participants to have a membership to access our gym facilities independently during open gym slots.

We have given 4 out of the 7.5 memberships to participants already, and to see them blossom from where they first began, never lifted weights previously, to now following their own gym programmes independently is incredible! To see their confidence within the gym environment grow like this reinforces our passion for why we do what we do. To see them share our space with people from all walks of life and to feel included is epic.

Our hearts burst with pride to see every participant walk through our door that’s for sure, but yesterday to see 2 attend open gym independently was really really special!

We set out to break down barriers to physical activity, and do you know what, ITS HAPPENING and we could not be happier ❤️

On Sunday the main man Suleyman took on a fundraising challenge and hosted a kickathon. Inspired by Bruce Lee, Suley set us the challenge of completing 10k kicks!

We had participants from across our classes join us, some mini me’s, some parents, a whole range of participants contributed and we are pleased to announce that in around 90mins we smashed the target of 10k kicks and hit a grand total of 12,706 kicks!

Our little girl woke up yesterday and said, “mummy my legs ache from those kicks yesterday” 🤣🤣🤣 The beauty was, the more kicks my babies did, the less kicks I had to do 🙌

Massive well done to all those that came down to join us. Thank you to all those who have donated (donation link still active for those that want to contribute 🙏) big thanks to Suleyman for giving up his time to organise the event! 👏

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/5lL74mRy?utm_campaign=sharemodal&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=shortlink

Here is the link for anyone wanting to sponsor and there is donation pots in the gym for anyone wanting to donate cash donations.

Thanks again team!

This we have the pleasure of welcoming in some visitors from one of our funders who fund both the Active and Able gym sessions on a Monday and Friday as well as funding 7.5 participants to have a gym membership where they can access our gym independently outside of the taught class hours. They also fund our inclusive dance session on a Thursday evening.

It was so wonderful for them to come and see what we do. They gave us some lovely compliments and were really impressed with the session and could see the progression in participants. Some of our participants are now totally independent and access the gym environment and equipment, following a gym programme which they have created themselves with some support from one of our team. The funders could not believe how active and able the participants were. Massive thanks to Mencap for believing in us and supporting us to provide sessions for our incredible participants!

Tomorrow our guy Suleyman is running a kick a thon to help raise funds for our gym!

Collectively our aim is to complete 10,000 kicks between us! This has fallen on a bad day as my legs are currently in absolute tatters! (Wish me luck 😭)

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/5lL74mRy?utm_campaign=sharemodal&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=shortlink

⬆️ here is the link to donate