Category: East Midlands News and Lifestyle

East Midlands 62nd Regional...

October 30 2019

Our 62nd East Midlands Regional AGM was held on 26th October at Brockington College, Leicester and hosted by the Liecs./Northants KFA. The AGM meeting was chaired by Sue Bennet with an interactive presentation that moved the Agenda along with interesting visuals and pictures. ...

Diana Bigley Celebrates 50 ...

October 13 2019

In September this year Diana Bigley celebrated fifty years of teaching with a get together at the Village Hall in Moulton.  Friends and former classmates joined members from her current classes to commemorate this anniversary. Some she taught to become teachers also came, as did...

Barbara Green Awarded Volun...

October 06 2019

Every Teacher needs a Barbara Derbys & Notts KFA was delighted when Barbara Green was declared recipient of the Volunteer of the Year Award in the Member category at the National AGM in Darlington in October. Barbara was nominated by her teacher of over 40 years, Frances...

Kathie Lynch awarded Teache...

October 06 2019

At our 62nd National AGM held in Darlington on 5th October 2019. Kathie Lynch was awarded Teacher of the Year. Those who know Kathie (which is just about everyone in the East Midlands Region) will appreciate how well deserved this recognition is and will m...

Keep Fit Association Champi...

August 06 2019

What a fantastic show our KFA Championships offers. The East Midlands region was again very well represented and supported, and we can be justifiably proud of every one of our team members – who display a variety of skills in many categories. The show opened with the Fitness Fu...

‘The Keep Fit Associa...

July 27 2019

On holiday while visiting Yorkshire some of us visited the Filey Lifeboat Station to check on the lifeboat which the Keep Fit Association helped to buy. Four of the group were there on Saturday 31st August 1991 when the boat was first named and launched. There was a Service of ...

First Time Performer’...

July 27 2019

Never Tear Us Apart ‘You’ll enjoy it’ they said, ’we have a laugh’ they said. But as I stood on the steps waiting to go out and perform our dance in the Albert Hall in Nottingham, I wasn’t sure if I was enjoying myself. My heart was pounding in my ears, I suddenl...

Party on the Pier

July 27 2019

This year’s Leicester & Northants Summer event on Saturday 22nd June, was a Party on the Pier, held at the unlikely seaside resort of Cogenhoe & Whiston Village Hall. The seaside theme prompted some to come dressed in Victorian bathing costumes,  a Surf boarding wets...

Community Awards 2019 ̵...

June 23 2019

Fantastic news we have 3 finalists for the 2019 Community Awards and Frances Dickins from East Midlands is one of them. This is great recognition for the Keep Fit Association. We know all our teachers provide amazing Laban Dance Fitness Keep Fit in the community. This is our ch...