Term 2 CACTUS

With 37 students, this is our biggest ever group and it's great to see so many wanting to get involved. At the start of each term we take applications. This term many missed out on a space, but students need to keep applying, as they will get in at some point. CACTUS is an ever-evolving machine and this year we have gone through a few changes to fine tune the programme. Our Term 1 group kicked off our fitness testing last term and we were able to track the massive changes in fitness that the students gained. In some cases the results were over 100% in improvement and this term's group have already begun the process.

For the last three years we have been supported by CYDP, which is the Canterbury Youth Development Programme. Sadly this organisation has recently folded and we now have to seek all of our own funding. Hamills North Canterbury have kindly come on board as a sponsor and supported us by providing our t-shirts for this term and we greatly appreciate this. We are always after more sponsorship and support and if you can help with this, please don't hesitate to get in touch. We do charge each student $60 a term and this covers our breakfast costs, but we also have significant other costs, such as instructors, equipment and transport.

If you want to see what we are about at CACTUS and see the videos or photos of the course, search for Kaiapoi CACTUS on Facebook and 'like' our page.

https://www.facebook.com/cactuskaiapoi/?fref=ts