welcome! Hello and welcome to our Winter newsletter, and now the Christmas madness is behind us, we can concentrate on making sure 2014 gets off to a great start, and helping you with those New Year resolutions to be more healthy, get fitter, meet more people, and have more fun! We always have a huge intake of new members joining us at the start of the year, so a big friendly WELCOME from all of us in Spice, take a deep breath and get on that first event, and prepare for the most exciting year of your life! It’s also Ski season, and with over 19 Ski Trips running, we wish all skiers a snowtastic time. Many of our trips are full but cancellations come in and we still have some spaces on our March trips, the snow’s looking its best for 15 years, so if you want to join a group of happy Spice Skiers this season, better get your skis on! Our Easter Programme is also featured, four days of fab fun – our weekend breaks usually sell out so again, don’t snooze and lose! Presented within is another huge batch of wonderful opportunities to experience more fun with a ready-made bunch of people who by their decision to belong to Spice, want to share in life’s rich and varied experiences. If you’re new to Spice, the front and back coloured sections relate to the wider world of the Spice network of Groups, while the middle section from Page 7 onwards, relate to your local Branch of Spice. Bear in mind this printed word is so very quickly out of date, as our rolling programme of events is added to on a daily basis, some with short notice, so do use this newsletter in conjunction with the website, so you don’t miss anything. We also like to keep you updated with our weekly email featuring next week’s events.
Facebook is also a great way of staying in touch with us, particularly for photo-sharing. Our National Facebook Page is at www.fb.com/spiceuk, and there are links from there to all the local Spice groups pages. If you are big on Twitter, follow us at Spice_UK, and use the hashtag #spiceuk on your tweets, to make sure we don’t miss anything! And we are always very grateful for all your social networking support by liking, comments, sharing, retweeting, subscribing, thumbs up, google plus-ing, pinning and whatever else you can do to spread the Spice word! Across the page you will see we feature some of the members from around the groups, and we like to cover a broad spectrum of people, from newbies to oldies, the social types and the adrenaline junkies, singles and couples, as it helps show the world the type of people who join our happy band and what they get out of it. I have often said the answer to the Question – ‘What is Spice all about’ has 10,000 different answers, as it means something different and personal to each and every member. We are always looking for volunteers for this section, so if you are up for it, please drop me a note (dave@spiceuk.com) and I can send you the list of questions. So enjoy the Winter months, and look forward to seeing you on an event soon!
Dave National co-ordinator
Steve Dell Spice East Midlands
Jamie Morris Spice Scotland
Dianne Livingstone Dominic Renshaw Spice London and Spice
Spice Thames Valley & Solent
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Bristol / Cardiff
Spice West Midlands
meet the team
Lauren Fawkes
Ian Purvis
Spice Manchester & Yorkshire
Holiday Manager
Richard Coulter
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