Date: Wed 27 May
Time: 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Venue: Acomb Explore Library
Cost: £5
What does the London Underground have to do with York? It’s all in the typeface!
Help! Can you look after a bog baby?
Date: Tue 26 May
Time: 10.30am – 11.30am
Venue: Acomb Explore
Cost: £2, booking essential
Come along to a special interactive storytelling session for 2-8 year olds with Mud Pie Arts – ‘Jump Inside a Story’
Residents invited to get ‘Footy Fit’
Residents are being invited to net the chance to take part in a new football course to get them ‘Footy Fit’.
The new course, run by City of York Council in partnership with the York City Football Club Foundation, kicks off at Burnholme Community Sports Hub, starting on 3 June at 6.30pm and will run every Wednesday for ten consecutive weeks.
The aim of ‘Footy Fit’, which is open to all adults who want to reach their fitness goals, is to gradually improve fitness using football drills and regular games.
This fun and friendly class is ideal for all abilities and a great way to get back on the ball. All ages and levels of fitness are welcome and all attendees need to do is dust off their boots and put on some shin pads.
Equipment will be provided and the course will be led by a York City Foundation Football coach who is also qualified in building strength and conditioning.
The course costs just £30 for ten weeks and sessions will last one hour. To book a place please contact Dean Sharp on 01904 553377 or e-mail dean.sharp@york.gov.uk. Places are limited for the course and booking is essential.
Planting the past and future
Date: Sat 23, Thur 28 and Sat 30 May
Times: Start times vary , finish at noon
Venues: Tang Hall, York, and Acomb Explore Libraries
Cost: Free drop in events
Come along and find out what was grown in YOrk in the 1800s – and take part in our greate sunflower challenge!
Huge spring clothes swap
Date: Sat 23 May
Time: 11.00am – 3.00pm
Venue: York Explore Library
Cost: £3 entry to clothes swap
Does your style need a Spring clean? Then come along to our fashion event, clothes swap and workshop.
Acomb Explore Library in giant sunflower bid
Can you grow the tallest sunflower?
Come along to our drop in session – Saturday 30th May 9am – 12pm!
Time out from Anger at Westfield School
More about modern computers at Explore York in June
Adult Learners Week is coming in June – fancy a free lesson in cloud storage, social networking and more?
Holgate Windmill open days
Holgate Windmill will be open on two weekends next month,
Saturday 6 & Sunday 7th June,
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June.
The hours for each day are 11 to 4.
Admission costs £3 for adults, £1 for children aged 5-18.
Please park along Acomb Road or take the No 1 bus and walk up the snickleway by the bus stop.
Walk to jog – even further
Following in the sprightly footsteps of the Walk 2 Jog programme, City of York Council’s Sport and Active Leisure team is introducing a new course to help more people jog even further.
Developed following the successful Walk 2 Jog programme which helped beginner joggers to complete a five kilometre (5k) run, this course steps up the distance from 5k to 10k.
The programme is timed to help people to run a full distance at the Jane Tomlinson’s Run For All ASDA Foundation York 10K on Sunday 2 August.
A group of up to 20 participants, led by fully-qualified run leaders, will gradually increase jogging distances each week and will receive suggestions for additional exercise to complete between sessions to help achieve the 10k goal.
This longer distance course offers ideal progression for anyone wanting to increase their jogging distance and is another way in which the council is encouraging more people to undertake moderate intensity physical activity for 150 minutes a week.
Sessions start Wednesday 27 May at 6.30pm from Rowntree Park and will continue weekly for 10 weeks. The course costs £15. Everyone is welcome, but participants should already be able to jog 5k.
For further information and to book your place please contact Dean Sharp on 01904 553377 or e-mail dean.sharp@york.gov.uk