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Ms Jane Turner, Turning Worlds, thanked the Chairman for the opportunity to address the Committee and gave a verbal presentation regarding their grant application.

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Ms Jane Turner, Turning Worlds, thanked the Chairman for the opportunity to address the Committee and gave a verbal presentation regarding their grant application and drew attention to the following:

·                Turning Worlds was a non-profit organisation that focused on performance and participation, a dance theatre group for both men and women;

·                No specific dance genre;

·                Vocal Techniques;

·                Theatre Games;

·                Since 2005 the organisation had been based predominantly in East Anglia and London;

·                Wished to run a series of Workshops for residents of Baldock aged 55+ at The Baldock Arts and Heritage Centre;

·                Pilot project had taken place and they wished to continue and develop what had already been successfully started - drop in workshops were already well established with Tuesday evening sessions; and

·                Social engagement – giving a sense of wellbeing for both individual and group health, in response to the key findings of the Centre for Policy on Ageing Report which stated that older people do not get enough exercise.

Ms Turner confirmed that they had already run a workshop with the involvement of The Women’s Institute.  Whilst it would be a big networking process, ideally Turning Worlds wished to interconnect with other groups as opposed to competing with them.

All of the Members of Baldock and District Committee asked questions of Turning Worlds and contributed to the debate of the application for grant funding.

The Chairman thanked Ms Turner for her presentation.