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Sunday, June 17th 2012, is the occasion for another Tour de Waltham Forest cycling event in the Borough.

Starting in the Town Square at 10.00am, you and your bike can get cycling around a range of circuits – all assessed for level of difficulty and length of cycle ride.

This Bike Week event is supported Cycle Magic, who supply all types of bikes, Dr. Bike – who will check your bike over, as well as a range of other bike interested services.

You can download your borough cycle map here. (.pdf)

To take part in this free event, just turn up, register and get started biking on your chosen route.

Get your bikes out this weekend in Waltham Forest.

We have just published details of a new First Aid course we are holding in the Centre in December, 2011.

On Thursday 1st December, between 12.45 and 2.45 – read more here on our main web site. You do need to book and we do have some limited crèche spaces available, so make contact with us early to make sure of your place…

(Have you had a look at our Dads Group pages recently…lots going on, read more here).

Helping you keep up your skills at Barclay.

Don’t forget to ring and register for your free smoothie on the day of Le Tour de Waltham Forest – Sunday 26th June 2011.

You can call on 020 8496 3000 and get involved in this great day of cycling, exercise and fun taking place in Walthamstow Town Square.

Why not go along and and check out the great cycle displays and get a free bike safety check?

On the day you can take part in bike rides around the borough. For the really keen try the bronze, silver or gold rides – from 6 to 22 miles.

Is your bike fit enough? See you there…

See the poster online here.

We have just posted details online of our Wednesday yoga sessions.

You can read more about them on our yoga page on our main website.

We have also put, on our training page, details of our Kis Training pre-employment workshop sessions due to run during May and June.

These are a great way to find out more about your skills and how they would fit into the retail, hospitality, customer service, health, business or construction sessions.

Check out our training page for details and to see if you qualify for an appointment with one of the Kis Team.

See you in the Centre!

Would you know what to do in an emergency? Come and get some training in our Centre.

We are holding First Aid Training for Parents in the Centre on Tuesday 29th March, 2011.

Starting at 1.00pm until 3.00pm, this is a great way to learn new skills and awareness in our supportive atmosphere.

Course cost is only £7.50, and you do need to book.

Contact our Centre team for more information.

This is a new form of news distribution for Barclay Children Centre. More news to follow shortly.

We aim to bring you up to date news from our Centre, our ward and our Borough too. We will use our blog, which is featured on the front page of our website, to keep you up to date.

You can also subscribe to our news automatically by using our rss feed. You can get our news, when you want it, by using our subscribe button on the top left of our blog home page – so that our posts are delivered automatically to you.

You can use a free service like Google Reader to get our news, or you can use a free web browser like Opera, which is a great way to handle rss ( …really simple syndication)). There is a page on our main website that helps understand how rss works.

We look forward to keeping you informed…The Barclay team