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THE PENNYPIT CENTRE

 

  
  The Pennypit Centre opened in October 2006 and is now home to the Pennypit Special Needs Youth Club, Women’s Group, Afterschool Club, Pots and Pans Playgroup, Creche, Preston Lodge RFC and Preston Athletic FC.  We also run regular classes with Jewel and Esk Valley College in Computing, Web Design, Classroom Assistants and Support for Learning.  Adult Literacy and Numeracy sessions are also available in the Centre as well as free career and training advice from Guideline staff.   
 

Our programme is expanding all the time and we will continue to offer all of the courses above as well as some new ones from the end of September in:

 

·        Patchwork

Mondays, 1.30-3.30 pm

·        Indian Head Massage

Mondays, 7.00-9.00 pm

·        Creative Writing

Tuesdays, 2.00-4.00 pm

·        Pilates

Tuesdays, 7.00-8.00 pm

·        Beginners French

Tuesdays, 7.00-9.00 pm

·        Nice and Easy Exercise to Music

Wednesdays, 9.30-10.30 am

·        Healthy Eating – Basic Cookery

Wednesdays, 9.30-12.00 noon

·        Spanish

Wednesdays 4.30-6.30 pm

·        Baby Massage

Fridays, 9.30-10.30 am

Watch out for details on how to book a place in the Focus newsletter which will be distributed to every household from 6 August. 

 
  We also have a number of training rooms available for hire as well as our main hall.  Some recent photos taken of activities currently running in the Centre can be seen below.

 

  
 

We recently carried out a “Have Your Say” survey where we asked local people to give their views on what activities they’d like to see happening in the Centre.  The results of the survey were then used to put on activities at a Taster Day on 12 May where workshops were available in Healthy Cooking and Eating, French, Spanish, Digital Photography, Family History, Indian Head Massage, Aromatherapy and Nice and Easy Exercise. 

 

All who took part in our survey were entered into a prize draw and the winners were chosen at the end of the Taster Day.  The winners were:  Nan Falconer, Mr A M Glasgow, Carole Galloway, Derek Donaldson, Nathalie Coriton, Alan Baillie.  Prizes included gift vouchers for Borders books, Fords and Scotmid.

 

  
  The Centre was recently used as one of the venues for the 3 Harbours Arts Festival.  Ten local artists exhibited their work and very positive feedback was received from all who visited.