Members of the Norwich City Football Team kindly offered to help us promote National Wear Red Day (Friday 26th Feb) with a photoshoot at Sportspark. Wearing their bright red t-shirts the players leapt into the Olympic size pool, showing just one of the ways they like to keep their hearts healthy – with a spot of swimming! Sophie and Rachael were on hand to oversee the shoot and provide towels at the end of a splashing good session!

A huge thanks to photographer Chris Ridley at 11th Studio for yet more fantastic photos! www.11thstudio.com

February is synonymous with hearts thanks to Valentine’s Day so it seems apt that it is also National Heart Month, the British Heart Foundation’s annual campaign to raise awareness and funds. This year sees the launch of BEAT, BHF’s first ever national heart health code and lifestyle check with which our client Sportspark has become involved. One in three people in the UK have high blood pressure yet 5 million people are unaware they have it, so to encourage people to become aware of their heart and get to know their vital statistics, Sportspark is offering free BMI and Blood Pressure checks to all on 13th February. Head over and take the health of your heart into your own hands.
If you can’t make the date then you can always get involved with some fundraising. We’ll be having a Wear Red Day at our office on Friday 26th February (look out for the photographic evidence at the end of the month!) and asking everyone to donate. For more ideas check online at www.bhf.org.uk.

A 10ft wooden crocodile, a sculpture made of ten thousand toy soldiers and a collage imitation of Monet’s water lilies made entirely from rubbish. Not what you’d expect of an art exhibition exploring our relationship with the environment.

Elements is The Forum’s latest art venture, an exhibition which tells the complex tale of man’s fragile relationship with the world around us. The 70 pieces on display are the work of 60 of East Anglia’s brightest artistic talents and were shortlisted from a staggering 850 submissions.

Last night’s launch event brought together the local art community (including judges Colin Self, Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll and Professor Bruce Black) along with key local businesses, the media and art enthusiasts all keen to get a glimpse of the thought-provoking material.

Elements will be on display in The Forum until Monday 15th February and is so incredibly worth a look. As is the exhibition running parallel to the main event which showcases the work of local school children responding to the same theme.

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Look out for the fragile dresses and the tree stump encrusted with mosaics of coloured glass.