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Walsall hotel throws beach party to get into shape for summer

Staff at the Village Hotel Walsall warming up on the barbeque for the beach party weekend

A Walsall hotel is throwing a beach party, complete with surfing, Hawaiian shirts and a Zumba workout for the whole family, in a bid to help people get in shape for the summer.

The Village Hotel, just off junction 10 of the M6, is hosting the leisure weekend on June 25 and 26, to persuade people to get more active.

“The whole weekend is to encourage people to get exercising, but to have fun with it, which is why we have chosen the beach theme. People associate the beach with enjoying themselves, but they also want to look good, so we are offering them a helping hand,” explained Damian Goom, general manager of The Village.

Slade legend Dave Hill to be head judge for Compton Hospice Battle of the Bands

Legendary Slade lead guitarist Dave Hill is set to be head judge for the Compton Hospice Battle of the Bands contest at West Park on Sunday June 26.

Wolverhampton’s own iconic glam rocker will head a panel of entertainment experts as the bands perform in a sing-off, in front of a 4,000-strong crowd at the Compton in the Park fun day.

Eight groups from across the Midlands have lined up to fight it out in the Battle of the Bands contest.

The six most popular bands will perform live at West Park with the best band winning a professional recording session at Wolverhampton’s Bullet Studios and a day-long photoshoot with Dark Lens Photography.

The first round of the battle has started after phone lines opened on Monday June 13 for supporters to vote by text for their favourite group.                                   

                                                                                                        Photo from Flickr by Migamunck 

We're helping Compton Hospice to Raise the Roof

Passionate Media has been working with and supporting Compton Hospice in Wolverhampton for the last six years and this year, we're really getting stuck in, helping to boost their Raise the Roof capital appeal.

This month our new media director Neil Aitchison is heading up a golf team at Compton's charity golf day at Whorfield near Bridgnorth. There are 20 teams entering so it should be a busy day and no doubt slightly competitive!  So good luck Neil and the rest of the Passionate Media golf team.

Neil has also been roped in to join the Wulfrun BNI team for the It's a Knockout competition at the Compton in the Park Fun Day on June 26 at West Park in Wolverhampton.  If last year is anything to go by, it looks like it will be great fun.  

However, it's the Passionate Media ladies who are really going out on a limb this year.  Our director Carol Garrington and marketing co-ordinator Kim Nash have just signed up to do a skydive in September.  What were they thinking?


Of course we'll be cheering them on from the ground.  In the meantime, we need to help them raise at least £800.  There's talk of a curry night at Suki's Restaurant and a quiz night to help them raise the money.  We'll keep you posted.  In the meantime, they've set up a Just Giving page and all donations and support will be very much appreciated.

 

Compton Hospice look for X Factor in Battle of the Bands competition

Wolverhampton’s Compton Hospice hopes to find the next chart toppers in an X-Factor style  Battle of the Bands competition.

A prize of a professional studio recording session is up for grabs in the contest which will see finalists battle it out in a sing-off.

The six finalists in the music competition will perform in front of an estimated 4,000-strong crowd at the Compton in the Park Fun Day at Wolverhampton’s West Park on Sunday June 26.

The winner will get the chance to produce their own track with a free recording session, worth £200, at Wolverhampton’s Bullet Studios.

Bands from across the region can enter by submitting an online video, DVD or demo CD with supporters voting for their favourite bands by text.  Each vote will help raise money for the hospice’s Raise the Roof capital appeal.

Giant budgie call for Compton Hospice It’s a Knockout challenge

Organisers of the Compton Hospice It’s a Knockout Competition are hoping competitors will flock to this year’s contest with the chance to dress up as a seven-foot tall giant budgie.

The It’s a Knockout competition is set to be the highlight of charity’s Compton on the Park fun day at Wolverhampton’s West Park on Sunday June 26.

The enormous feathery fancy dress is just one of the costumes from the original BBC TV series that contestants will try out as they take on a series of fun-packed, water- filled challenges on the day.

Midlands Business Dragon Comes to Tigers’ Stadium

Picture caption: Business guru Nigel Botterill, with Leicester businesswoman Julia Canham, who will share his secrets of achieving business success in the recovery at the entrepreneurs’ seminar. 

Leicestershire entrepreneurs can learn how to take advantage of the economic revival at a seminar run by business guru Nigel Botterill, known as the Midlands Dragon.

The event is being promoted by Leicester business woman Julia Canham after her fortunes were transformed by the entrepreneur, and she says county firms can share the same success.

During the seminar, at the Leicester Tigers’ stadium on June 27, Nigel Botterill will explain his secrets of success, after setting up six multi-million pound companies in the last eight years and becoming a Times best-selling author.

Julia Canham, who lives in Leicester and is a director of two highly successful health and beauty companies, said the seminar will help businesses prosper in the economic recovery.  

“It’s not all doom and gloom out there, the reality is there are great business opportunities for entrepreneurs as the economy recovers and this seminar will show people how to take advantage of them, so they can grow and not merely survive,” she said.

Shropshire optician shines light on reading difficulties

A Shropshire optician is offering a new service which can help people with a wide range of reading and learning difficulties, such as dyslexia.

Orthoscopics uses light – specifically, different combinations of the colours that make up white light – to help people with a range of different conditions.

Using different combinations of blue, green and red light has been found to help people read, who had previously complained of not being able to see letters clearly, or having them move about, or even disappear off the page, which is a common trait in people with dyslexia.