Movement to Music for the Over Sixties and Less Able People

ESTABLISHED IN 1976
Our purpose is to provide quality assured training, accredited qualifications and best practice advice for our teachers of recreational exercise to music for the over-sixties and those with special needs.

RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE &

PUSHING OUT THE BOUNDARIES
Click here for >Message from the Chairman and click here for the Annual Reviews

EXTEND Teachers are accredited through The Register of Exercise Professionals (REPS). Click Here

INTRODUCING EXTEND
President
W J MacLennan

Vice President

Mae Lonergan, Baroness Greengross,

Seona Ross, Ronald Holpin
Chairman
Ann Thomson
Vice Chairman
Dawn Skelton
Trustees
Hannah Ellis
Ann Thomson

Seona Ross
Peter Jones

Joan Baty
Treasurer
Hannah Ellis
Secretary to Trustees
Tracy Levy
Administration
Ruth Griffiths
Director of Training
Pat Goodacre

Members of The Board of Trustees back row Pat Goodacre, Tracy Levy, Peter Jones, Hannah Ellis, Mae Lonergan,

front row Seona Ross, Ann Thomson and Dawn Skelton

HOW EXTEND IS FUNDED
EXTEND is continually seeking sources of funding for consolidation, expansion and development.  Presentations to interested organisations are given on request. Appreciating the potential of EXTEND, the former Department of Health and Social Security gave an early pump priming. Since then there has been a degree of support from charitable bodies (Hanover Housing Association, Age Concern, Help the Aged, Northern Rock Foundation) as well as from commerce and from interested individuals. 
In 2003/04 the Department of Health, through a Section 64 Grant agreed to help fund EXTEND for three years.  Nevertheless, vigorous fund-raising is essential in order to maintain momentum and answer the ever-growing demand of the community for our services. If you would like to help us with this vital work please click here for our gift aid form.

HOW EXTEND IS MANAGED
EXTEND is a Registered Charity.  It is managed by Trustees, appointed because of their special expertise, together with EXTEND Officers from the Executive Committee.  The Training and Development Committee, composed of Area Directors of Development, plans and organises Teacher Training programmes, and deals with general matters in their own areas.

EXTENDING OURSELVES
Annual Review, Accounts and Progress with plans for the future.  Our Annual reviews are available to download:-

2003/4

2004/5

2005/6

These require Adobe Reader which you can download free. Click on image below

If you would like to receive a copy of our annual report by post please Contact Us

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Extend is a member of the CCPR - an umbrella body for 270 national governing bodies across the UK. Extend is part of the dance and movement division. Click the CCPR logo for more information. Tracy Levy is the Extend representitive.

EXTEND STATISTICS

Active teachers with open classes to the public (2007) 453

Active teachers/Teaching teachers (2007) 1249

Non-active teachers/non teaching teachers (2007) 145

Course Directors (2007) 13 of which two are Area Administrators

Area Directors of Development (2007) 8

Training Courses (2007) 18

New Teachers this year (2007) 175

This figures were up to October 2007 and will change as more courses are held later in the year.

Enjoying the fun of a weekly session

in Bradford

EXTEND teachers co-operate widely with sponsored housing groups who recognise the positive contribution to physical well-being, morale and social interaction achieved by residents who participate