Leicester
SPA Leicester’s calendar is always packed with events taking
place almost every month, especially from March to December
and this year it has been no different.
We have many major religious events The Children’s Workshop Team
taking place throughout the year continues with various workshops
and I am pleased to report that the throughout the year and they have
participation and support from our proven very successful. We hope
members has been fantastic. Every that members continue their support
event has been a success. Our Bhajan by enrolling their children to these
Mandal have also enjoyed success with workshops to learn about our culture
almost every slot booked during our and about SPAL, as they are the future
regular Bhajans. Many thanks to our of SPAL.
Religious Team and Bhajan Mandal.
Our Social Club committee held several
The activities taking place during the social evenings throughout the year
week at our site have experienced a and are pleased to report that these
significant increase in participation. events were sold out and were very
The Ladies Keep Fit activity has seen successful.
the most increase in participation.
Similarly, we have seen an increase in The friendly darts tournament took
membership of the Table Tennis Group, place in January this year with guests
the Darts group, the Yoga Group and from Loughborough, Coventry, Rugby
the Men’s keep fit group and there is and Bolton and what a success this
room for more. was. The event also helped us raise
approximately £1300 for charity.
In September this year, our SPAL
Raas and Garba group participated in
Gujarat Hindu Association (GHA) Raas
Garba Competition and I a m so proud
to report that our SPAL group was
named Runners up. Many thanks to our
Raas and Garba group.
In June 2017, SPAL Yoga Group staged
World Yoga Day at our site and the
support received was overwhelming.
The Mahila’s have also been very busy
organising events for Mahilas including
the recent Coach Trip to various
mandirs around the country and the
SPAL coach trips have always sold out.
Thank you for your support and I am
sure we can count on our Mahila team
to continue organising events for the
This is one of our very popular weekly
activities.
The 2016 New Year’s Eve party was
also very successful with 400 people
attending. The event organisers made
sure everyone from young to the
seniors had a fantastic time.
ladies in future and supporting the rest After almost a year spending time in
of the SPAL’s events. reviewing SPAL membership policy
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including introduction of Associate
membership, we have agreed and
published our final revised membership
policy in June this year which includes
an increase in membership fee for both
the annual and life membership from
April 2018 resulting in a significant
increase in life membership this year.
This year for the first time we held our
Nutan Varsh gathering in the morning.
It was cold and raining at the time,
but that did not stop our members
attending the event to celebrate our
new year and the prathna hall was full.