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To mark the 60th anniversary of the charity Carers UK, ‘Better’ leisure centres in Bath and North East Somerset (BANES) are partnering with the organisation to offer a programme of activities supporting the health and wellbeing of local carers....

Newquay Leisure World’s fun pool will be back in action on Saturday 5 April. Featuring a happy hippo flume, an extreme orange flume, a bubbly volcano, the tippety toppety bucket, Sally the slow snake and Sammy the spitting snake, the pool provides family entertainment...

Dudley’s thirteen libraries are all offering a wide range of free activities for children this Easter. They include spinning eggs craft at Dudley Library, a circus skills workshop at Stourbridge, board games and Easter stencils at Kingswinford, Nintendo Switch at Lye,...

Tips on how to stress less and live better are the subject of a free talk being given at Coseley Library on 3 April at 6.30pm. April is Stress Awareness Month and author Cath Lloyd will be sharing her expertise on how stress can be managed during turbulent times,...

A new Disability Football Hub is being launched at Liskeard Leisure Centre on Tuesday 1 April. It will be the second hub to be established in Cornwall following the success of the first at St Austell Leisure Centre which began holding weekly sessions in November....

Better leisure centres throughout Cornwall will be taking part in an NHS April campaign to raise awareness of bowel cancer screening. Run by not-for-profit social enterprise GLL on behalf of Cornwall Council, the nine centres will be displaying posters that promote...

A local community group is helping transform areas around the velodrome at Better Maindy Centre into a lush, green environment. Cathays Wild Gardeners is made up of resident and student volunteers who want to make Cathays a better place to live. Working in partnership...

Local author Michael Braccia, from Stourbridge, will be launching his new novel ‘Vision of Another Life’ at Dudley Library on 8 April at 7pm. The book is a paranormal mystery and marks Michael’s debut as a contemporary fiction author. As a passionate reader himself,...

A free swim school open day is being held at St Ives Leisure Centre on Saturday 15 March. There will be foundation level taster session for children aged 4 years and over at 9am and 10am and a pre-school session for children aged 3-5 years old at 9.30am. Current swim...

Swim the length of the English Channel to support vital diabetes research For the second year, ‘Better’ leisure centres across Cornwall will be supporting leading health charity Diabetes UK with one of the charity’s key fundraising initiatives – Swim22. Swim22...

Swim the length of the English Channel to support vital diabetes research For the second year, ‘Better’ leisure centres across Reading will be supporting leading health charity Diabetes UK with one of the charity’s key fundraising initiatives – Swim22. Swim22...

Swim the length of the English Channel to support vital diabetes research For the second year, ‘Better’ leisure centres across the Cardiff area will be supporting leading health charity Diabetes UK Cymru with one of the charity’s key fundraising initiatives – Swim22....

Jesse Kaur is one of seventeen children’s authors from across the UK to win an inaugural GLL Literary Foundation bursary placement, worth £4000. Born and brought up in Dudley, the secondary school cover teacher had her first picture book published in May 2023. Since...

Lye Library in Dudley has been chosen as a finalist in The Bookseller’s Library of the Year award for 2025. Recently reopened after major refurbishment, Lye Library is run by charitable social enterprise GLL on behalf of Dudley Council. “To be shortlisted is a hugely...

Have you ever wondered where superstitions come from and why they’re so powerful? Join Professor Black at Sedgley Library, Dudley, on 1 March at 1pm to be enlightened – and a little scared. Aimed purely at grown-ups, ‘Superstitions’ is a free talk that will...