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Babergh District Council Community Achievement Award 2010



Karen was voted BBC Radio Suffolk Unsung Hero 2009



Karen with Inspector Rupert Weeks of the Suffolk Constabulary and

Miss Helen Hughes of Waitrose, Sudbury.  Mpower received a Suffolk

Constabulary Shield and a £750 cheque from the Safer Suffolk Foundation.

Aimee Aitken, Lisa Slade and Tina Cooper are pictured holding their

Certificates of Participation for attending Mpower training in June 2009.


Karen holding the 'Awarded National Lottery Funding' Plaque.

Students from the Sudbury Mpower session in July 2008 hold the

£2,600 cheque and some equipment used in training

 

Karen with the Mayor of Stowmarket, Mr. Frank Whittle.
Presentation of a major grant award from Stowmarket
Town Council to provide Mpower sessions to local women
 
Karen and her son Kurt with their Community and Bravery
Awards from the High Sheriff of Suffolk, Sir John Kemball


Kurt with
Judge Neil McKittrick and
Sir John Kemball
   
Karen performing a self-defence technique on Lynn to
an assembled audience of women outside the Suffolk
Police Pod in Sudbury to mark White Ribbon Day
 
Lynn outside the Suffolk Police Pod highlighting the
extent of domestic violence against women prevalent
in the UK today
                                                 

Warming up before practical sessions is important

 

Stretching is also important

 

Enjoying it is really important!

 

Learning a few simple but effective techniques well

is really, really important!

 

Karen and Kurt demonstrating a self-defence technique

 

Student practicing punching as a warm-up activity

 


Students practicing how to diffuse a situation verbally



Students enjoy the learning experience


Students practicing techniques on each other

 

Students practicing techniques on each other

 

Female student practicing a self-defence technique

 


Female students practicing a self-defence technique

 

Karen and Lynn with some of the equipment used on the courses:

mats, focus pads & mitts, kick paddles and strike shields

 

Examples of safety information, leaflets, personal alarms,

torch-keyrings etc. available for delegates to take away

 

Overhead projector and one of the slides used in the morning

sessions of the course

 

We have the IT capability to utilise any organisation's on-site

training suites for the morning sessions

 

An ideal training room. Tables and chairs can be stacked to the

side in order to create space for the afternoon practical sessions

 

Kingfisher Leisure Centre Dance Studio, Sudbury.

Another typical/suitable course venue 

 

Two female students at a Kuk Sool WonTM of Sudbury self-defence

workshop                                    

 

 

Lynn and Karen demonstrating self-defence techniques at

Sudbury Town Hall Christmas Fair 

 

Karen collecting donations St Nicholas' Hospice
Fundraiser Demonstration in Cornhill Walk Shopping
Centre, Bury St. Edmunds
 
Lynn "looking after the stall" St Nicholas' Hospice
Fundraiser Demonstration in Cornhill Walk Shopping
Centre, Bury St. Edmunds



Karen and students helping to raise money for
CLIC Sargent children's cancer charity


Karen and Lynn with the Mayor of Stowmarket,
Mr. Frank Whittle, following their self-defence
demonstration at Suffolk ACRE's 70th Anniversary
Celebration, Trinity Park, Ipswich


Some of the Community Awards we have won