South Lanarkshire Provost congratulates Collisdene Care Centre residents who learned tae kwon-do

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The Provost of South Lanarkshire has congratulated care home residents for achieving a yellow belt in tae kwon-do.Residents at Collisdene Care Centre in Strathaven were greeted by South Lanarkshire’s Sports Personality of the Year Stephanie Mackenzie, who trained them in tae kwon-do.South Lanarkshire Provost Margaret Cooper attended the presentation at the facility and praised those who got their yellow belt.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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I can’t congratulate everyone involved enough.”The idea for residents to take part in tae kwon-do classes came from the centre’s activities coordinator Rosie Brennan who saw the activity as an exciting opportunity to bring a range of benefits to enhance the residents’ lives both physically and mentally by promoting confidence, team-working and self-control.She said: “We offer our residents a wide range of activities to suit all tastes and abilities and to help them develop themselves, such as the SQA level 2 in Modern Languages –