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He has also entered the BIKC (British Indoor Karting Championship*) and is showing promise to get into the regional finals! Go Leo! If you would like to have a go behind the wheel, check out:www.team-sport. co.uk/go-kart-tracks/leicester

You don't need a licence to race and the minimum age is 8.

Motorsport offers lots of benefits including:

� offering children a supportive and encouraging environment and community

� it promotes a healthy lifestyle

� racing offers children a safe outlet for their energy

� it educates children on safety and mechanics - which can lead to so many opportunities!

*TeamSport Karting partnered with Motorsport UK, the governing body for four-wheel motorsport in the UK, to create an accessible and affordable grassroots racing event set to revolutionise indoor karting across the UK.

From Potatoes to Plant to Share

The children in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) at The Merton Primary School have been busily homing their green fingers this Spring and Summer.

During the Spring the children planted potatoes after exploring the story Oliver’s Vegetables byVivian French. The children successfully harvested a great crop and enjoyed homemade chips to celebrate their efforts. They have been planting a variety flowers, vegetables and herbs which they have shared with the school community as part of the Soil Association campaign ‘Plant to Share’. They have nurtured a vegetable patch in the school garden in which they are currently growing; courgette, pumpkins, carrots, beetroot, peppers, corn, cabbage, lettuce and much more.

Sophie Edwards

EYFS Teacher |The Merton Primary School in the local area.

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ARIES March 21 - April 19

This is not a good month for Arians with any kind of healthy ego! For others will challenge you and present obstacles and make it just so difficult to get your own way and work towards what you really want. Time spent on a new hobby with a special someone will take on a romantic note; just what you need to unwind and relax.

TAURUS April 20 - May 20

Your attention turns to more emotional matters and it really is time to set your sights on what you really want. With Jupiter in your sign, you’re most likely to succeed at this right now. Business ideas are particularly likely to get off the ground. And with Uranus – the ‘clever’ planet in your sign – you’ll turn into a creative genius!

GEMINI May 21 - June 20

Changes to the daily routine are much to your liking with the pleasing presence of Venus helping you, also bringing warm happy company and more than a smattering of romance! Ideas are flowing and will certainly distract you quite positively even though you’ll feel at times as if you’ve escaped into your own dream world! Why not?

CANCER June 21 - July 22

A new way of making money will certainly appeal to you and a loved one may be joining in to help! You have to assert yourself when it comes to the daily routine and you learn that good communication is the key. Relationship decisions are due.

LEO July 23 - August 22

The new moon in your sign this month brings in an era of ‘putting yourself first’ and this includes that special romantic someone in your life! You spend cash on uplifting things, whether forking out on a holiday or treating yourself to healthy spa days – whatever makes you feel good. Some connections finally move on.

VIRGO August 23 - Sept 22

You need to communicate your great new ideas this month if ever you want to achieve results and you so want to get things done. You spend cash on all this and feel quite excited by the results. Both work related topics and your close personal relationships are all up for a review; you use your instincts but it’s hard work too.

LIBRA Sept 23 - Oct 22

Worries on your mind are expressed to others in practical ways as the month goes on and only by doing so can you hope to make find solutions and make progress. Both your work and hobbies suffer as you pursue and explore some great new social contacts, especially a promising new love affair which reaps rewards.

SCORPIO Oct 23 - Nov 22

Changes in your home life impact positively on your hobbies and interests! Basically, it’s ‘out with the old’ and so then there much more space –and time – for all those things that you enjoy doing the most. Still, you discover that even having fun takes a good deal of hard work and imagination. Time to plan a holiday...

SAGITTARIUSNov 23 - Dec 21

Having completed one or two projects just lately, changes are bound to take place when it comes to your routine. The home front too benefits from the extra time that you can spend there as a result. New ideas at work can now be put into action and material profits are most likely to occur. Well done you!

CAPRICORNDec 22 - Jan 19

Your thoughts have been largely all about how you can secure your current position and not lose one iota of clout. However, life is all about change and things move on whether you’re ‘ready or not’. Take time to reassess your financial position for starters and then some hard work is required to follow your dreams.

AQUARIUSJan 20 - Feb 18

You reach the completion of a personal phase in your life this month. Your finances too will undergo a deep transformation! All this does involve some honest thought and application –which is basically quite hard work. You also need stamina too as your whole life swings round to something rather more to your liking.

PISCESFeb 19 - March 20

You’ve more staying power than most folk this month with Saturn in your sign, giving you a distinct advantage when it comes to getting things done. Yes, ‘hard work’ is something that you do believe in and yet it’s your intuition that really saves the day. A new job proposition is just perfect and brightens up your day.

Community Support Service Groups to Be Showcased at Summer Fayre in ‘Help Is at Hand!’ Pavilion

The annual Syston Summer Fayre to be held this year on Central Park on Saturday 2nd September, offers community support organisations an annual opportunity to publicise their services, extend their client base, recruit members, attract volunteer support and raise much-needed funds. This year, many of them will, as usual, organise their independent displays. With the benefit of a subsidy from the Volunteer Centre, others - many of them participating for the first time - will showcase themselves in a special ‘Help is at Hand!’ Pavilion organised by the Centre.

Syston and neighbouring communities are exceptionally well-served by the number of currently active support groups. In an ongoing survey, Syston and District Volunteer Centre has already identified over 150 such organisations, many of them led by volunteers, offering social, cultural, sporting, educational, financial, medical, health and emotional support to those in need and enhancing the quality of life for people of all ages. Many of these groups operate ‘under the radar’ with a great deal of work being put in by small but dedicated groups of volunteers. As a result, too many local residents ‘suffer in silence’, experiencing great inconvenience, distress and loneliness simply through ignorance of what support is available locally.

Centre Trustee, Colin Grimes, says: “The Volunteer Centre has a proud record of matching local needs with local support services. Through this event, we are pleased to offer financial and organisational support to deserving community groups. To complement those organisations with a presence at the Fayre, the Centre has also launched an on-line Directory of Community Support Services Organisations (www.syston-vc.org/ directory) which offers a ‘one-stop’ guide to what is available and clearly demonstrates that, whatever the individual need might be, there is likely to be a local solution. Printed copies of the Directory will be made available from the Volunteer Centre’s own stand.”

Volunteer, me? Why?

Having retired and still feeling fit and alive, I decided to visit the Syston Volunteer Centre and see if they wanted me to become a driver. There were no awkward questions, no interview but Yes Please! Twelve months later on just one day a week, I am increasing my knowledge of traffic and roads around the city, driving around the local area to pick up clients and meeting some lovely people who administer the wonderful service provided by the charity and keep it running. I have been able to practise my driving skills without pressure and learn more patience, slowing my speed and my life style.

As to the clients I transport – well they are lovely humans and thankful for seeing a smiley, friendly face and receiving a door-to-door service.

I occasionally escort clients to their appointment through NHS corridors if their family are still working and unavailable or do not live nearby, they are very grateful for our assistance. It makes one feel good inside as you know you are helping people who are less fortunate than yourself and makes you grateful for your own life.

The volunteer centre also allows me to drive a minibus when required. Wow! What fun!

However, the Syston Volunteer Centre needs more drivers to ease the pressure on others.

It needs more drivers to provide a better and more efficient service. So, come on, pop into the centre in School Street and talk to Andy.

Oh, you can use your own car and you are re-imbursed for the mileage you drive.

D Necklen

Riverside Utd JFC Presentation Night

Riverside are always in the lookout for local businesses to get involved by way of sponsorship. With new teams forming regularly each season it’s a great way for businesses to get themselves noticed all over Leicestershire as shirt sponsors whilst helping the local communities to which they belong. If your business would be willing to sponsor a team, in whatever way kits or equipment, please do get in touch through our website riversideutdjfc.com. We look forward to you help us help out local communities.

24th June 2023 marked the annual awards celebration of Riverside Utd JFC sponsored by Syston Doors. The event was held at Syston RFC, and although the venue was a rugby club, it was very much about the football achievements of all the players and coaches involved in this fantastic local club. The site boasted a huge 400 seat marquee, with stage, professional sound and lighting set-up, inflatables and plenty of food and drink options to cater for all. It really was a day to remember for all involved at Riverside!!

Riverside Utd JFC is a Syston based junior charity football club with its home ground being Wreake Valley academy. The football club provides a safe and friendly environment for children of all ages and abilities to learn and enjoy, through its F.A accredited coaches, how to play football. It has upwards of 500 subscribed members of ages between four up to 17, spanning across the communities of Syston and its surrounding villages and can also boast its newly formed all girls team.

Club and Team Sponsorship

As a charity based football club,

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