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John Sage
@john_sage
Loving sport & responsible business stuff, mainly. Any views are my own.
Haywards Heath, SussexJoined May 2009
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John Sage
@john_sage
The team at
@SkySportsNews
have captured in this package exactly what
@LYRowing
is trying to achieve - and the simple stats they've highlighted show just how important the charity's work is. 👇
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New Reach PR
@NewReachPR
Thank you to @SkySportsNews for their piece with @LYRowing highlighting the historic issues of rowing, and how LYR is addressing these challenges to create a more diverse & inclusive sport. skysports.com/more-sports/ol
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John Sage
@john_sage
This will be brilliant - go see! 👇
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Morgan & Pochin
@morganpochin
Delighted to announce we will be performing three shows @brightonfringe this May 22-24, 8:30pm @CaravanseraiBTN Tickets: brightonfringe.org/.../music-mayh Hope to see some of you there - plenty of pop up bars and street food to make an evening of it!! #Brighton
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John Sage
@john_sage
Cool place for a morning bike ride! Six
@TidewayLondon
colleagues got to do this for charity recently and now the Beeb have had a go, along with our CEO Andy Mitchell who explained how the #SuperSewer will clean up the Thames for future generations.
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BBC Breakfast
@BBCBreakfast
WATCH: Inside Britain's biggest sewer under London's River Thames. On #BBCBreakfast Jonah Fisher rode a bike along the seven metres wide, 25km long tunnel before it fills up with sewage bbc.co.uk/news/av/scienc
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John Sage
@john_sage
I love that
@LYRowing
's impact & influence is about so much more than just physical fitness & rowing skills - today it was about giving young people the chance to talk life skills with
@Keir_Starmer
& visit Parliament. Great work
@andrewthodge
@mattrostron100
& the LYR team 👏
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London Youth Rowing
@LYRowing
While @Keir_Starmer was pretty good at PMQs he had a challenge with the question for students from @smmacademy & @CFBSlondon - amazing lessons on life skills and learning from a national leader! @UKLabour
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John Sage
@john_sage
At
@LYRowing
we don't just do Youth - love that we are helping NHS staff with their own mental and physical health, supporting them as they look after these things for other people. 👇
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London Youth Rowing
@LYRowing
Great to be back at Barking Community Hospital re-launching our project to help #NHS staff from @NELFT get active during their day. Coach Tilda is helping the team get to grips with the basics of indoor rowing ahead of starting regular weekly sessions @Concept2UK @Sport_England
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John Sage
@john_sage
Very proud
@TidewayLondon
is doing this for the
@HardmanTrustUK
& other charities. The project is more than 80% complete, so direct employment opportunities are much more limited now, but we are still taking action to support people with convictions to get a hand back into work.
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
“So many of the people we work with are eager to enter the world of construction and just need a helping hand" @TidewayLondon is helping people leaving prison to gain jobs in the industry by supporting the work of a number of London charities.  📖tideway.london/news/press-rel
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John Sage
@john_sage
Had a lot of fun presenting this episode of
@TidewayLondon
's #TunnelVision series, revealing how material we have dug to create the tunnel is being used to restore wetlands in the Thames estuary. Check it out! 👇
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
🚨Brand new episode📺 On the all-new #TunnelVision, our behind-the-scenes YouTube series, we find out what happens some of the millions of tonnes of excavated material as we dig the #SuperSewer and how it's benefitting wildlife Watch the full episode: youtu.be/714dhojw_DU
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John Sage
@john_sage
Love this news - next term more young Londoners will see and experience how rowing can give them fun, fitness, teamwork and other life skills.
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London Youth Rowing
@LYRowing
We are excited to announce our new partnership with secondary schools across the borough of Islington, Active Row Islington will be engaging young people in physical activity and rowing starting in September 2022
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John Sage
@john_sage
Enjoyed showing some local councillors
@TidewayLondon
's progress in creating a new area of riverside public realm at our Putney site today. It's going to be a really lovely space and help people make a new connection with the River Thames.#supersewer
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
Local Councillors @EthanBPutney and @_JamesJeffreys saw progress during a tour at Putney today, hosted by Tideway’s @john_sage and the site team. The newly-elected Councillors saw how the new public realm at the site is shaping up, including new granite paving and site kiosks
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John Sage
@john_sage
V happy that we
@TidewayLondon
helped these talented youngsters in Battersea, some of whom never give the river a second look, to create songs about the Thames - love the voice on Go With The Flow!
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
A music workshop in Wandsworth @whbeat – one of five community groups in the borough to receive support from the @TidewayLondon project – has produced and released four songs, including one celebrating the River Thames. Read: tideway.london/news/site-news 📺youtube.com/watch?v=TQAM8c
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John Sage
@john_sage
Congrats to coach Lawrence on 10 years at
@LYRowing
- he is the heart and soul of the charity and has helped so many young people 👏 👏 #UKCoachingWeek
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London Youth Rowing
@LYRowing
#UKCoachingWeek seems like the perfect time to congratulate Coach Lawrence, who has just completed 10 years coaching at LYR. He's worked with thousands of young people on our #ActiveRow programme, helping them get active, build life skills and have a great time. #Born2Coach
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John Sage
@john_sage
In #MentalHealthAwarenesssWeek it's lovely to hear from young rowers at Mossbourne Academy in Hackney about how the sport has helped them. This is why Tideway has supported
@LYRowing
to give everyone the chance to benefit from giving rowing a try.
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London Sport
@LondonSport
"It really helped my fitness and my mental health a great deal" 💬 Joe. 📺 Check out how @TidewayLondon's support of @LYRowing is supporting young people's physical and #MentalHealth. #MentalHealthAwarenesssWeek
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John Sage
@john_sage
Brilliant news for anyone who believes in the power of sport to help young people to develop. Nottingham is the latest city where LYR will help young people to get active, learn new skills, gain confidence and improve wellbeing through rowing #sportforall #proudtrustee
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London Youth Rowing
@LYRowing
We're incredibly excited to announce the launch of Active Row Nottingham, the latest expansion of our Active Row programme and partnership with Henley Royal Regatta Charitable Trust. @HenleyRegatta @Concept2UK
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
We have something really special coming your way on the
@TidewayLondon
YouTube channel this morning 👉youtube.com/channel/UCEfCK
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Rob Lewis
@rlewiscomposer
I am performing a newly composed work ‘Tunnel To Tide’ live at 9.30am (BST) today, 70 metres underground in the depth of @tidewaylondon’s newly constructed Tideway Super Sewer! Tune in… youtube.com/c/tidewaylondon #livestream #tideway #supersewer #composition #music
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John Sage
@john_sage
The River Thames has its own typeface (yes, really). All is revealed in my project's latest episode of #TunnelVision 👇
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
📺Brand new episode 🚨 This month on #TunnelVision, we reveal the incredible story behind the typeface being used across the @TidewayLondon project and Rebekah visits Putney Embankment Foreshore, where the new river wall is complete. Watch here: youtu.be/XXstIxIEApM
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John Sage
@john_sage
A smashing entrance from Annie in Bermondsey and the
@TidewayLondon
project reaches another milestone 👏
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
It's the hard rock life for us! Welcome Annie! Tunnel Boring Machine Annie completes the Greenwich Connection Tunnel breaking through at Chambers Wharf, Bermondsey. #SuperSewer 👉📖tideway.london/news/press-rel
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John Sage
@john_sage
You're never too young to get connected with your river...and of course our littlest neighbours were full of perceptive and brilliant questions 👇#BritishScienceWeek2022
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
We hosted five- and -six-year-olds from Boutcher Primary School in Bermondsey (@boutchercofe) as part of #BritishScienceWeek2022 to talk about our work to clean up the Thames! Read more: tideway.london/news/site-news
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John Sage
@john_sage
Is your organisation doing good work? Enter the Global Good Awards and it could be recognised by one of the most prestigious awards around👇
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Global Good Awards 🌍
@GlobalGoodAward
Entries are open and there’s 20% off if you enter before 25th March - that's only 2 weeks! If your org is doing #GlobalGood for their people and the planet and delivering purpose led #CSR activities, then enter today! buff.ly/3swVexj
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John Sage
@john_sage
Some brilliant projects in this lot, looking forward to watching them develop...and supporting them further where we can #greener #community
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
A series of 27 London-based projects designed to ‘clean and green’ the city have been given a helping hand to turn into reality with support from a new ‘Our Space’ initiative, which is backed by @TidewayLondon. 📖tideway.london/news/press-rel
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John Sage
@john_sage
Another incredible week of physical activity - 5,600 hours and 48,000km travelled, by all and any means - to raise funds for
@LYRowing
and 30 other charities.
@andrewthodge
@mattrostron100
and the rest of the LYR team...you did it again!! #proudtrustee
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Race the Thames
@RacetheThames
🏁We're still reeling after a fantastic final day of RTTv22.. ✅Almost 120k raised for 30 charities ✅126 teams and 1000 people taking part ✅ 5,660 hours & 48,000km logged in total Check out a clip from the final day highlights and thank you to everyone!
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John Sage
@john_sage
Always good to get confirmation your business is doing the right things - particularly when it's linked to financing a vital environmental project... #ESG
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Tideway
@TidewayLondon
Tideway’s environmental benefits and focus on sustainability have been highly rated by S&P Global Ratings. 📖tideway.london/news/press-rel
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John Sage
@john_sage
A lot to love about this: not just LYR getting a grant to team up with
@active360
to train more multi-sport coaches (and more SUP coaches in east London) but also 23 other organisations supported by
@LondonPortAuth
to get people active on and around the Thames. #ActiveThames
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London Youth Rowing
@LYRowing
LYR are excited to announce we're one of the winners of the #ActiveThames grant! A big thank you to the @LondonPortAuth and now you can find out more about the #ActiveThames fund here 👇 twitter.com/LondonPortAuth…
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