Sport & Fitness

IT’S been a busy Bank Holiday weekend for Sevenoaks Town Mayor Roderick Hogarth. On Friday he attended a Powerchair football demonstration at Sevenoaks School and on Monday he was cheering on the Dragon Boat Racing at Chipstead Lake.

IF you are looking for exciting things for your children to do during the summer holidays and would prefer them to get some exercise instead of sitting glues to their laptops, ipads and phones, the Better Body Gym at Bat & Ball Sevenoaks has the answer. From the 6-31 August the gym has organised a range of holiday activities. These include: Boxing Fun for six to 12 year olds on Monday and Wednesday starting at 10am and Kids Summer Circuits for 12 – 17 year olds on Thursday and Friday starting at 10am. The cost is £10 a class and you can

MEMBERS of the Sevenoaks Business fraternity, their customers, clients and friends are being invited to take part in a charity golf day and BBQ being organised by the Sevenoaks District Chamber of Commerce.

THE Minster of Sport, Tracey Crouch MP, will be visiting Greatness Recreation Ground on 25 July at 10.30am.

WILLIAM Blackmore of the Invicta Karate club emerged with a silver medal after taking second place in the Boys Kihon Ippon Kumite class at a JKA England National Championships held at the K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley recently. Invicta, which is based in the Sevenoaks area, took a squad of four to the Championships and the other members were Henry Harwood, Alexander Blackmore and Edward Blackmore. www.invictakarate.co.uk

DINERS in Sevenoaks can now easily combine healthy eating with meals out, thanks to a new initiative created by Sevenoaks gym, The Better Body Group (BBG).

Amateur golfer Tom Sherreard from Kings Hill near West Malling stayed cool on one of the hottest days of the year to emerge as overall winner with a five under par round of 67 in the Regional Qualifying event for this year’s Open Championship held at Wildernesse Club in Sevenoaks.

AN adults only Knife Survival Seminar is being hosted by Invicta Karate Academy at Sevenoaks Primary School on Saturday 14 July (10.15am – 1.15pm).

MORE than 120 professional golfers will be descending on Wildernesse Golf Club in Seal on Monday (25 June) to play in one of the Regional Qualifying events for The Open Championship, which will be played at Carnoustie, Scotland in July.

Mike Paterson recently completed the Three Peak Challenge . But in a bid to raise more money for The Lewis Project in Sevenoaks he and his three team mates also decided to cycle the 450 miles between the three peaks – all in the space of six days.