Weekly Activities

Day	Activity	Description of event
Monday
Tuesday	Age Concern Tea-Dance	1pm to 3.30pm Dancing away to your favourites.
	Dance Classes	Childrens freestyle dance classes, Tuesday 5.15 to 6pm for 3 - 5 year olds.  6pm to 7.30pm for 6 years and over, and 8pm to 9pm adults.
Wednesday	Golden Gloves - young people's Boxing Club	Train here between the hours of 5 and 6.30pm with a qualified coach.
	Ladies Club	Meet here 1pm to 3pm.
	Easington Folk and Acoustic Club	The Folk Music group meet in the lounge bar every Wednesday evening.  The first hour of the session is a learning workshop for all ages for Guitar, Bodhran (Celtic Drum), Whistle, Harmonica and Mandolin.  The more traditional singaround & Buskers' starts at around 8.30pm.  Come along with your instrument and just join in.  Contact John or Diana on 0191-5861639 or email barlowjr@sky.com
Thursday	Dance Classes	Starting February 25th - Adult Dance Exercise Class 6pm to 7pm
	Easington Writers Group	Meet here every 2 weeks.  If you are interested in joining the writers group please come along and join in.  Contact the centre for the next meeting date.  The group meets at 1.00pm.
	Keep fit for the over 50's	10.30am - 11.30am
Friday	Golden Gloves - Young people's Boxing Club	Train here between the hours of 5 and 6.30pm with a qualified coach.
Saturday
Sunday	Childrens Drama Classes	These are held every Sunday morning 10am till 12noon

BE Enterprising coaches are now using Easington Social Welfare Centre. 

People across Easington are being bitten by the enterprise bug and encouraged to turn their business ideas into new businesses. Tanning salon and jewellery makers are just some of the businesses that have been set up in the area in recent months thanks to support from Be Enterprising. Be Enterprising is County Durham’s Local Enterprise Growth Initiative and provides support to people looking to start up their own business, helping with everything from business planning to legal advice, finance to skills development.

The programme was set up to tackle unemployment within County Durham. With a network of community based coaches it has already helped more than 3,000 people into employment in the last three years. One of those is mum-of-one Carrie Million who has set up Signing Tots to provide signing classes to help mothers and babies communicate with each other. Carrie is currently a part-time teaching assistant at East Durham College and works with students with learning difficulties. It was the College that first pointed her in the direction of Be Enterprising.

Elliott Paterson, from Be Enterprising, said: “Going it alone and setting up your own business can seem a bit daunting. Our enterprise coaches are experts and friendly, down-to-earth people who can help to take the stress out of it.”

Anyone living in County Durham who would like support making their business idea into reality may be eligible for support from Be Enterprising.

For more information call 0800 030 4134 or visit www.be-enterprising.biz.