New beginnings at Slimming World

Afterthe sad closures of several of our local groups due to lockdown we are delighted to be able to reopen two of those groups.

With two new consultants coming onto the team late last year we have now reopened the group in Loftus and the members are loving having their group back on their doorstep. The new consultant, Claire Dewsbury, loves being in the centre of town at the Club on Monday evenings. She was a member at the previous Loftus group and knows how hard it was for people when it closed. She has a fabulous weight loss of 12 and a half stone behind her and knows exactly how important a local group is.

The same can be said for Sam Jackson in the Skelton group. She’s the new consultant there and was a successful member of the previous Skelton group where she lost three stone.

The previous venue was unavailable so the reopened group is at North Skelton Village Hall on Thursdays. Sam is really pleased to be able to bring back a very much missed local group.

Both the new consultants became members with Stevie at Saltburn, who managed to keep her groups running throughout lockdown, albeit in the virtual form.

“It’s been great to see groups reopening, because basically I had the only two groups between here and Whitby for quite a while,” said Stevie, who has been a consultant for 21 years. “It’s been awful not being able to provide the service to people that we wanted to provide but now I’m so proud of our two new girls, Claire and Sam and their efforts with the