Club info not to be missed!

Membership Referral Deals

Refer a friend to join the club for any category during December & January and choose one of the following rewards for both the new member and you!

- a spin class
- one free personal training session
- one free tennis lesson
- one free squash lesson

To book your free session just make a note on the application form when joining and we will contact both of you!

Members upgrade from racquets to full ?

Why not become a gym member as well for only £30 for a 6 week trial period? A free programme is included at the start of the trial period (any time until the end of January)
Contact mark@glasgowwestern.co.uk to arrange your free programme


Boot camps at Western! Beginning early January if enough interest.

Boot camp will be taken by Chris McKenzie (one of our top trainers who is from California) and the camps will take place on our tennis courts or in a squash court during daytimes if required.
Chris has a vast experience in both participation and training of sports/fitness in general.

He has experience in Baseball, Basketball, American Football, Volleyball, Athletics, Surfing, Snowboarding, Skateboarding, Wake boarding, Climbing; and a brief period training with Team GB Athletics.   

Chris will tailor the boot camps to suit your current level of fitness.

In order to gauge interest please help us choose your preferred times from the following options? All sessions are 1 hour.

Mon/Wed/Fri - 7am
Sat - 9am
Lunchtimes - Monday to Thursday
Evenings - Tue/Wed/Fri - 730pm
Cost
Members - £6 per session or 10 sessions - £55
Non members -  £7 per session or 10 sessions - £60

 Please reply to ian@glasgowwestern.co.uk with any queries and preferred times.

Christmas Club Opening Times

Closed 25th December and January 1st
Open 24th & 31st Dec until 7pm
Open 26th Dec from 1pm - 7pm
Open 2nd Jan from 12 noon until 7pm

Social Tennis/Squash Xmas break times

Social tennis will restart on Sunday 15th January

Social squash will restart on Sunday 8th January

Pilates announcement for week of 28th Nov

Due to holidays, there are no Pilates classes this week.  Classes are back to normal from Sunday, 4th December

News

Babolat Tennis Equipment for sale during December in members bar!

Ian has all his Babolat merchandise on display during December in the bar with rackets, bags and stocking fillers if you are looking for ideas? Open from 9am onwards every day until stock lasts! (as they say)

You can also buy tennis lesson vouchers or 6 month gym memberships for friends?? 

We are delighted that Renato is still running Art and Food from the members bar during December. Please do pop in and say hi. He is serving teas, coffees and cakes during the day and after school and has a wonderful selection of speciality food on sale that would make great Christmas presents too.

Xmas Trees on sale from Edenmill Farm
 9am-5pm at the club
1st -  22nd December
Santa & Reindeer 4th December

Happy Back - ( Mensendieck)

CLASSES Wednesdays 11.30 - 12.30 Mensendieck ( All levels) Thursdays 13.00 - 14.00 The Release Method

PRICES 6 x 1 hour group classes: £45 Drop-in (per class) £8 One to one sessions & Physiotherapy (45min) £40

Physiotherapy and One to One Pilates sessions available by appointment

What is Mensendieck? Mensendieck is a therapeutic posture and movement therapy. It consists of a series of exercises designed to treat and/or prevent physical complaints, incorrect posture and/or chronic pain. The exercises teaches you body awareness and how to move consciously from the centre of the body, following the breath. This results in conscious and gracious movements in daily life, reducing stress and pain and improved posture. What is The Release Method© ? In this class we combine gentle movements on foam rollers and soft spiky balls with deep breathing techniques to achieve connective tissue and muscle release

To book, please contact Ronnaug Smith, Chartered Physiotherapist on 07813843539 or book online www.happybackglasgow.co.uk Western Health & Racquets Club 30 Hyndland Road, Glasgow G12 9UP

NEW PILATES CLASS STARTING SUN 6TH NOVEMBER…

In response for increasing demand for the Sunday pilates class, we are pleased to announce there will now be two Sunday classes running back to back at the western tennis club.

Class 1 - running from 10-11

Class 2 -11:15-12:00

Both classes will cater for all levels.  Class 1 will suit both beginners, refreshers and those wishing to work at their own pace.  Whilst class 2 will be a shorter more intense fast paced session.

Which ever class you choose the numbers will be restricted to allow individual supervision and instruction within each session.  Due to popularity of the classes it is advisable to book in advance  to secure your place!

To book email Jackie at jackieanderson.pilates@gmail.com

Txt or call 07751476746

Join us TODAY - Sunday 6th November from 2pm

We would love you to come and join us in the members bar from 2 pm today to celebrate Andy Murray becoming world number one. Friends welcome and Stefano has kindly offered to serve up pizza slices during the match. Free family tennis with Cameron will run from 4 - 5 pm so bring your trainers and join in the fun after the match. There is also an art exhibition in the bar today as well so sport and culture under the one roof.

Cardio Tennis at Western!

Alberto will be running cardio tennis on Wednesday evenings from 8-9pm starting this Wednesday 26th October. This is a fun and very active session to music where no tennis experience is necessary. .It's basically a good workout on the tennis court doing lots of hitting and footwork drills to high tempo music on a boombox!

Maximum 9 people per session so if interested please reply asap. If very popular we will run more classes.

Cost is £7 per session paid direct to Alberto on the night.

Please let me know if any queries

ian@glasgowwestern.co.uk

Club News October 2016 - 2

Cello Night! Club Champs Finals Report - correction

We are building up the different kind of activities we are doing in the bar! any ideas please email us info@glasgowwestern.co.uk

Tennis Club Champs Finals Day Apologies but we omitted the Junior Champs from the email last week! Junior Champions Winner        Runner Up Under 8  Harry Sangster        Tom Sproule Under 9 Harrison Goss - Pastor    Harry Sangster Under 10 Harrison Goss - Pastor        Lucas Reid Under 12 Boys Aaron Purba            Alexander Goss - Pastor Under 12 Girls Lucy Yeadon        Kate Yeadon Under 14 Boys Marcus Macaulay        Matthew Gibson-Smith Under 14  Girls Anna Yeadon        Kate Yeadon Thanks to everyone who took part and in particular to Currie & Quirk opticians who once again sponsored the event. All photos will soon be up on our facebook

Western Club News - October 2016

Welcome to the Western Club News Italian Deli in members bar! Treatment room nearly finished Xmas Night in Caffe Parma Club Champs Finals Report

Italian Deli in members bar! Called "Art & Food" Starting this coming Tuesday. From Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm  we will have an Italian deli operating in our members bar area. Renato from Abruzzo will be offering a variety of products imported from Italy not currently in mainstream shops. He will also arrange various evenings of "show cooking" which will involve a small number of people being shown how to cook traditional Italian dishes. (Dates & details to follow) Renato also intends organising music nights, art exhibitions, sporting photo competitions, fashion shows, beauty products and even "Italian chat" days where you can improve your Italian and have a coffee at the same time! You will also be able to buy coffees, drinks and snacks from Renato during daytimes when the members bar is generally quiet. We feel that this will be a worthwhile experiment attempting to bring more life to this area and introducing a variety of new club events. More details to follow but all going well this will continue up until Xmas at least!

Xmas Night in Caffe Parma Please remember to pay your deposits direct with Caffe Parma for our annual dinner/awards night on Saturday 10th December. There are only 60 tickets available and half have been sold already so don't miss out! Treatment room nearly finished It looks great and should be up and running early November!

Tennis Club Champs Finals Day Congratulations to all the winners and runners up on a fabulous day last Saturday when the sun split the skys and we enjoyed some wonderful tennis from our balcony! Both the mens and ladies singles finals were of an extremely high quality with Hamish Stewart becoming the youngest ever male winner in club history at 17 years of age! (as far as I know ) The runner up was another 17 year old Euan Gibson Smith who then went on to win both the mens doubles with John Ratcliffe and the mixed with Aimee Black. Aimee defeated Kirsty Macdonald in the ladies final for her 3rd singles title! The ladies doubles was won by Aimee and Jotie Purba while the ladies over 35 was won by Maggie Mclellan and the mens over 35 by Gordon McGuigan. Thanks to everyone who took part and in particular to Currie & Quirk opticians who once again sponsored the event. All photos will soon be up on our facebook

Club News - October 2016

Tennis Club Champs Finals Saturday + Barbecue! Quiz Night Caffe Parma  Anniversary + Jazz Music Dates for your diary Squash court maintenance November Treatment Room in Club opening soon! Club Champs Finals Saturday (plus barbecue!) Sponsored by Currie & Quirk All finals will take place this Saturday from 11am onwards as follows: 11am - Mixed Doubles semi final To Follow -  Mens Over 35 Final  Gordon McGuigan v Stuart Clarke 1pm - Mens /Ladies Singles Finals +  Barbecue begins! To follow - Not before 3pm Mens/Ladies Doubles Finals To Follow - Not before 4pm Mixed Doubles & Mens Plate Finals Prize giving - 5pm approx. (includes junior event winners) Ladies Over 35 singles final will take place on Friday at 10am between Maggie McLellan & Julia Campbell Mens singles semis are taking place as follows: Thursday 12 noon - Hamish Stewart v Ian Campbell Friday 6pm - Jason Cask v Euan Gibson Smith Both matches are junior v senior affairs with Hamish as no 1 seed and Euan the no 2 seed - both juniors!

Quiz Night - Friday 14th October The next social event to be held in the members’ bar will be a Quiz Night on Friday 14th October - a wide variety of questions for all tastes and valuable prizes on offer! We will start at 8pm, with a break for light bites from Caffe Parma and there will be an entrance fee of £10 per team. Teams can be up to a maximum of 4, with friends and family welcome, but no need to organise them before the night. Hope you can make it and RSVP as soon as possible so that I can have an idea of how much food to order    Allan.Mowat@glasgow.ac.uk  Caffe Parma 1st year Anniversary  - Sunday 23rd October Now that we have settled into the restaurant, we want to get stuck into the members bar and get a few regular nights and events on the calendar. We would like to gauge the level of interest for a wine club. Potentially it would be every six weeks, there will be tasting, nibbles and an opportunity to stock up on your favourites.  Please let us know if you are interested. Our first birthday is coming up at the end of the month.  We will be celebrating on Sunday 23rd with live music in the restaurant, and we would love to see you there. The Jack Ruby 5 Jazz, Blues & Samba Grooves 3-6pm The Caffe Parma team. Treatment room opening soon in club! There will be a new treatment room for various disciplines including physio, nutrition,osteopathy etc opening early November in what was our old cellar. Work is taking place at the moment and this area will be managed by Faith Johns who some of you may know as a member of the club.Faith has been operating in the gym room upstairs up until now as an osteopath but will soon have a new , more spacious room downstairs.. More details to follow soon! Any queries please contact Faith on email below  faith.osteo@gmail.com Dates For Your Diary Annual Xmas Dinner - Caffe Parma Saturday 10th December - numbers are limited so all you have to do is pay your £10 deposit to the Caffe Parma team asap! Squash Court Maintenance Annual squash maintenance will take place from Thursday November 10th until Wednesday 16th. Courts 1 & 2 will be operational from Monday 14th and court 1 from Wed 16th so as not to disrupt match nights

QUIZ NIGHT - 14TH October 2016

The next social event to be held in the members’ bar will be a Quiz Night on Friday 14th October - a wide variety of questions for all tastes and valuable prizes on offer!

We will start at 8pm, with a break for light bites from Caffe Parma and there will be an entrance fee of £10 per team. Teams can be up to a maximum of 4, with friends and family welcome, but no need to organise them before the night. 

Christmas night out - 10th December 2016

Member announcement:

Our annual Christmas dinner will be at Caffe Parma on Saturday 10th December. To sign up all you have to do is pay a deposit direct with staff in restaurant. Max 60 like last year. 

Club News: MUSIC NIGHT in the Members' Bar There will be live music in the Bar Friday 16th September for members and friends. Doors at 730 pm. The club are trying to organise more social events in the newly refurbished bar so please feel free to come along and join us for a drink. This event is free but places are limited so please email geoff.cordwell@me.com to go on the guest list. NEW BAR MENU There is a new bar menu coming THIS WEEK. Great value food especially for members. Ask bar staff for details. SUNDAY MORNING SPECIAL OFFER You can now get a bacon roll and a tea or coffee in the bar for only £5 on Sunday mornings up to 12 pm.

Boiler Room Fitness and Team Western before MOSCOW to HOUSTON Cycle Ride on Sunday 21st August. Raising money for Cancer Support Scotland. Well done to all involved! The sponsorship page can be accessed HERE

Squash News (1): Anyone for ... squash? The ladies teams at Western are looking to recruit more players at Western. If interested in this opportunity, please contact jackfancy@hotmail.com who will arrange to meet up wth you to chat more about the league and perhaps get on court for a try out. Squash News (2): Any junior interested in squash coaching and matchplay opportunities, please fill in an enquiry form HERE

Tennis News (1): SENIOR TENNIS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016 Online entry is now open for the Tennis Club Championships and can be accessed HERE CLOSING DATE: 9th September

Tennis News (2): Hillhead Tennis Club hosted the finals of this event on Saturday 28th August. Pictures can be viewed on the event Facebook page HERE and winners and runners up can be found HERE. A picture of all the finalists is below. Well done to all the Western participants.

Walker Wylie West End Tennis Tournament

Dear Tennis member,

We are writing to invite you to enter the West End Tennis Tournament.

The online closing date is 20th July at 10 am so it would be great if you could enter ON TIME and ON LINE!!

You can enter online here and more content will be added to: http://glasgowwestern.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cee3d74b0a207fcf83d28a235&id=ffa22aadbc&e=07bc46fe77
which also gives a brief synopsis of what we plan to do i.e. run it more flexibly over a month with scheduled ties from the quarters or semi finals onwards (depending on size of the draw).

So although the closing date is 20th July, early ties would be played flexibly over the first 2 - 3 weeks in August with quarters/ semi final ties scheduled in the 10 days or so leading up to Finals Day.

Finals Day will be at HILLHEAD on Saturday 27th August and the scheduled ties from the semis will be at Western and Hillhead. The JUNIOR events will be SCHEDULED and run over the weekend of the 19/20/21 August with Finals Day also on 27th August.

Walker Wylie are a new online estate agency who are kindly sponsoring the event. Information about them can be found here: http://glasgowwestern.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cee3d74b0a207fcf83d28a235&id=8863c0a2f3&e=07bc46fe77

Best wishes,

The Organising Team (Keith/Simon/Julie)

Free buffet and see Murray beat Raonic at the club!

As promised Caffe Parma will be offering a free buffet from 1pm - 1.45pm on Sunday  (for members) in the members bar to celebrate Andy Murray winning Wimbledon for the 2nd time! Maybe not as Raonic is looking good but here's hoping........ This will be a selection of starters and some pizza slices and all you have to do is buy some drinks at the bar! If possible please let me know if coming for the buffet to help the kitchen with an idea of numbers? ian@glasgowwestern.co.uk

Tennis Courts Online Booking System: We are going to launch online booking for the tennis courts in the next few weeks. If you already have a PIN number as a squash player, that will work ok. If you need a PIN to be able to book online, please contact alison@glasgowwestern.co.uk Midgierakers in the Member's Bar! To celebrate the opening of the renovated member's bar, we will be holding an informal Music Night on Friday 22nd July from 8pm. This will feature one of our members, Craig Daly and his band The Midgierakers playing a variety of traditional music (https://www.facebook.com/themidgierakers). Nibbles will be available and entry £5 per person. We’re planning this will be the first of a new series of social events in the bar and it should be a great night. Hope you can join us and please contact geoff.cordwell@me.comor allan.mowat@glasgow.ac.uk for more information   Walker Wylie Glasgow West End Tennis Tournament: Walker Wylie are Glasgow’s new and most exciting Estate Agency. The concept of Walker Wylie was born out of our experience working as Area Directors for one of Scotland’s leading independent Estate Agencies. We understand the advantages of both the high street and online Estate Agents, so have decided to introduce a unique hybrid business model that combines the key aspects of both and provides traditional values with online convenience. And by removing the expensive overheads associated with a high street presence we are able to offer fantastic value with a fixed selling fee of £595 plus VAT and a marketing fee of only £150 plus VAT to advertise your home. We are focused on providing an exclusively “Sales” service to clients throughout Glasgow, with a particular focus on the West End and South Side, where both Company Directors live and work. http://walkerwylie.co.uk For all tournament details click HERE Collect your old racquets A new frame with some old tennis & squash racquets will be displayed on the wall in the members bar this week. If you donated an old bat and it isn't in the display please collect it from the office or let me know that you would like it donated to charity. Many thanks to all who handed in their relics and apologies if yours wasn't chosen to be in the display!

Pilate summer break

Pilates update

Due to holidays there will be no Pilates classes during  July.

Classes will start back Tuesday 2nd August.

         Have a good July everyone and see you in August!

Welcome to the Western News - June 2016

Wimbledon begins on Monday: We are delighted to announce that Wimbledon will be on screen in the member's bar every day from 2 pm. Caffe parma are offering prosecco and strawberries and cream for only £5 throughout the Championships and a FREE buffet on Sunday 10th July if Andy Murray gets to the final so COME ON ANDY!! Tennis Courts Online Booking System: We are going to launch online booking for the tennis courts in the next few weeks. If you already have a PIN number as a squash player, that will work ok. If you need a PIN to be able to book online, please contact alison@glasgowwestern.co.uk Midgierakers in the Member's Bar! To celebrate the opening of the renovated member's bar, we will be holding an informal Music Night on Friday 22nd July from 8pm. This will feature one of our members, Craig Daly and his band The Midgierakers playing a variety of traditional music (https://www.facebook.com/themidgierakers). Nibbles will be available and entry £5 per person. We’re planning this will be the first of a new series of social events in the bar and it should be a great night. Hope you can join us and please contact Geoff Cordwell or Ian Campbell if you want more information.

Walker Wylie Glasgow West End Tennis Tournament: Walker Wylie are Glasgow’s new and most exciting Estate Agency. The concept of Walker Wylie was born out of our experience working as Area Directors for one of Scotland’s leading independent Estate Agencies. We understand the advantages of both the high street and online Estate Agents, so have decided to introduce a unique hybrid business model that combines the key aspects of both and provides traditional values with online convenience. And by removing the expensive overheads associated with a high street presence we are able to offer fantastic value with a fixed selling fee of £595 plus VAT and a marketing fee of only £150 plus VAT to advertise your home. We are focused on providing an exclusively “Sales” service to clients throughout Glasgow, with a particular focus on the West End and South Side, where both Company Directors live and work. http://walkerwylie.co.uk For all tournament details click HERE Currie and Quirk Western Tennis Club Championships 2016: Entries and dates coming soon...

Rally for Bally 2016 - Saturday 4th June 1 pm till late

We are getting ready for our annual Rally for Bally event. Last year we raised almost £15,000 thanks in no small part to your generous donation to our raffle and auction.

We are very grateful to Vanilla Square who have come on board as our main sponsor this year so that every penny we make on the day can go straight to the charities.

This year we are raising money for Elena Baltacha Foundation, Playlist for Life (Sally Magnusson's dementia charity) and also Cancer Support Scotland (based at Gartnavel Hospital).

We have a day of fun filled activities planned from 1pm including live music, interviews with Sally Magnusson and friends about their playlists and then our usual tennis fun with confirmed players so far:

"BBC Burds": Kaye Adams, Sally Magnusson and Judith Ralston

 

"Sporting Heroes": Ian McCall, Alan Rough and commentator Alison Walker

and our very own River City superstar, Sanjeev Kohli 

as well as free coaching and tennis challenges throughout the day.

Tickets are on sale via www.jumblebee.co.uk/rallyforbally2016. Tickets are £15 for adults and £10 for children and the ticket price includes food from our on site restaurant, Caffe Parma.

It would be great if you could spread the word about this great event and if you were able to contribute to our raffle or auction then please get in touch.

Best wishes and many thanks, 

Julie Gordon

Western Tennis Club

Rally for Bally 2016

Tickets are now on sale for the Western Tennis Club's annual Charity Tennis Event. Live music, interviews with Sally Magnusson and friends and tennis fun with stars from TV and sport.

This year's nominated charities are: Elena Baltacha Foundation, Playlist for Life and Cancer Support Scotland

Get your tickets now from: http://www.jumblebee.co.uk/rallyforbally2016

April News

Welcome to the Western Club News - Squash Club Champs Finals - Vets Victories - Charity Event Saturday 23rd April - Tennis Season kicking off - Sponsorship required - Facebook   Squash Club Champs Finals 2016  Results are in! Ladies Plate - Won by Jakki Fennessey on a walk over Men’s Plate Won by Robin Smith after Doug Andrew twisted his ankle at 1 all Vets won by Graham Dunns over Paul Whiteley 3-1 Ladies Champs Won by Mhairi Charlton over Alison  Morris 3-0 Men’s Champs won by Peter Halliday over Stephen Halliday 3-0

Vets Victories! A great weekend for Western winning the women's over 55 knockout cup (a hat trick we hear) and the men's over 40 knockout cup. Our pictures feature today's players but all squad players mentioned below: Men's over 40 Tony miles Tony Williamson Gordon McGuigan Roddy Mackintosh Dave Kelly John Colvan Stuart Clarke  Women's over 55  Julia Campbell Jennie MacDonald Maggie McLellan Olive Pearson Liz McCruden Eileen Lindsay  Congratulations to all!! Charity Tennis Event Saturday 23rd April There are only 2 spaces left for this event! thanks to everyone who signed up in advance from our whiteboard notice! If you would like to take part, email westerntenniscoachingclub@gmail.com 2 - 330 - fun drills and coaching 330 - 5 - American Tournie Cost £10 with a slice of pizza at the end. All proceeds go to charity. N.B. We are fundraising to support one of our tennis coaches who is going to Zambia to coach tennis over there this summer. If you would like to sponsor this event, please click HERE   Other News Tennis Season The tennis season is kicking off this Friday night so please check google calendar HERE to check tennis court availability. There are occasions where all 6 courts are being used. We try to avoid this wherever possible. But this Friday night for example, from 630, all 6 courts will be used. We would also encourage you to come down and support the teams. There are lots of great matches on and now with the balcony in operation and the sun shining, there's nothing stopping us! Sponsorship required We are looking for a sponsor to help us with the Rally for Bally Charity event on Saturday 4th June. The sponsorship requited is to cover the cost of hiring the stand and PA system for the event. We are about to start our PR for the event so opportunity for sponsors to be mentioned and have a lot of visibility in our marketing of this event. Please contact Julie on 07910126452 or email juliegtennis@gmail.com if you want to have a chat about this. Facebook  More and more we are communicating via faceboook so please give our pages a like for up today info! https://www.facebook.com/Western-Health-Racquets-Club-102932193079041/ https://www.facebook.com/rally4ballyWesternGlasgow/?fref=ts Fitness Event Whitecraigs Event - How to condition your body for racquet sports We thought you might be interested in attending an event running at Whitecraigs tennis club. Resident sports injury and health experts as well as their tennis coach are putting on a special event on Wednesday 27th of April. They will be hosting an injury prevention and recovery talk as well as a taster session on how to condition your body for the demands of racquet sports as well as some drills on how to be more efficient on court. What will you get from this event 1. How to alter your technique to avoid injury 2. Treatments for the common injuries of racquet sports 3. Simple drills to warm up and cool down 4. How to workout in a way that prepares your body for your sport and greatly improves your performance potential. Spaces are limited and will be reserved in a first come first basis. If you would like to attend or have any questions please contact naomiphysioflexx@gmail.com Get Results Fitness, Shaun Mcdonald and Physioflexx are looking forward to seeing you there. Come wearing your sports gear as you will be doing some exercise and playing on court. Starts at 7pm and will finish around 9pm P.S. We hope to do one at Western soon too so watch this space :-)