Mr Wrong and Mr Right

Reblogged from Halifax North & East Blog:

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Being able to tell Mr Wrong and Mr Right apart can help you avoid an abusive relationship.

The Freedom Programme is a weekly support group that covers a 12 week rolling programme for women who want to learn more about the reality of domestic abuse.

The next programme starts in January 2013.

• Daytime group – Mondays at 10am from 7 January – 25 March…

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Support for younger carers

• Are you aged between 18 and 25?
• Are you caring for someone?
• Do you need some support?

Calderdale Carers Project is here to help you as a carer!

We offer a range of services especially for young adult carers such as:

• Case Working (Including a home visiting service to identify your needs)
• Activity Sessions/ Support Group
• Access to £250 small grant to take a break
• Emergency Back-Up Plans
• And much much more!

For More Information Please Ring Lydia on

01422 369101 or 07858714068

Also please search for our Facebook Page: Calderdale Carers Project.

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And you are also invited to the launch of this project:

The launch event will take place on Tuesday 16^th October from 6.30-8.30 pm in the Bancroft Suite at Calderdale Carers Project, Rimani House, Hall Street, Halifax, HX1 5BD.

The event will include:

• Get to know each other activities
• Brainstorming activity to gather further ideas for the new service
• A handover presentation from the young carers service
• And a pizza buffet!

If you would like to attend or would like more information please contact Lydia on 01422 369101 or email

lydia@calderdale-carers.co.uk

Online weight loss clinic – open til 8th June

If you’re worried about your weight or trying to lose weight, the online clinic on weight loss, run by NHS Choices, is your chance to get expert advice and information specifically about your concerns.

Specialist consultants, dieticians and fitness experts are available to answer your questions on diet and dieting, obesity, nutrition, exercise, fat and health issues related to being over or under weight.

The clinic is in ‘forum’ format, and there is information on the front page helping you to understand how to use it. First of all you will need to register with TalkHealth – you can do this by clicking here. Once you are registered and logged in, you’ll have access to all of the information on the forums.

The online clinic on weight loss, hosted by talkhealth with support from the charity Weight Concern, is open until Friday June 8 2012.

Upcoming online clinics in 2012:

• Skin cancer and sun safety (open now)
• Diabetes (20 – 26 June)
• Dementia (18 – 24 July)
• Fertility and contraception (15 – 21 August)
• Skin conditions (19 – 25 September)
• Mental health (17 – 23 October)

Jubilee charity coffee morning at Southowram

 A Jubilee charity coffee morning takes place on Tuesday, 5 June at Southowram Community Centre, Law Lane between 10 am and 12 noon.  Please join us for a cuppa and cakes.  There is no set charge but donations are welcome to the Woodlands Trust Jubilee Woods project.  This event is organised by members and friends of Boothtown & Southowram Methodist Church.

 

SOFA AGM

                                                                                                                                               

SOFA are to hold their first AGM on

Tuesday 17th April 2012, 2.00pm

at Southowram community centre off Law Lane

All members are encouraged to come along and celebrate the groups independance from Calderdale Council and share ideas of how your group can progress in 2012. There will tea/coffee and cakes served after the meeting.

Southowram Over Fifties’ Activities (SOFA) Go Independent

On Friday 30^th March the Neighbourhood Scheme group SOFA became an independent group. After only 9 months of being together the steering group took over the running of SOFA. Members had been paying £2.50 for each activity  attended and as a start up grant 50% of monies paid were reimbursed. As a cabinet member for Adult Health and Social Care and also as one of the ward Cllr’s Cllr Bob Metcalf kindly agreed to hand over the cheque which totalled £1700.

The group run activities on Monday afternoon from Southowram community centre which includes an art group, Tal Chi and chess and Thursday afternoons from St Ann in the Grove community rooms which includes New age Kurling, dancing and table tennis. If you would like to know more about SOFA please visit their web site www.southowram50.btck.co.uk

                         

 Cllr Bob Metcalf handing over the cheque for £1700 to John Nicholson SOFA treasurer 

Speaker for Southowram

Are you paying too much for your energy?

Gas and electricity bills burning a hole in your pocket?

 Southowram Over 50 Activity Group (SOFA) has invited a representative from Age UK to give advice on how you might be able to save money and get the best deal from your energy supplier

 Come along to

Southowram Community Centre on

Wednesday 8^th Feb at 2.00pm

and find if you could save on fuel cost.

 Entry is FREE with tea, coffee and biscuits provided for a small donation.

 Visit our website to see what SOFA can offer you

www.southowram50.btck.co.uk/

Exciting news from Southowram Over 50 Activity Group (SOFA)

SOFA have now got their own web site. The site gives you details of what activities the group have going on as well as other things in the Southowram area click here to visit SOFA

Thinking about stopping smoking?

If you’re a smoker, did you know you are 4 times more likely to quit if you use a stop smoking service?

You can call the stop smoking service on 01422 281505 or email help.2quit@swyt.nhs.uk. Or join your local NHS Stop Smoking Group – no appointments necessary and a friendly welcome guaranteed!

• Illingworth every Tuesday morning at Illingworth Methodist Church, off Keighley Road. Come along at 11.15.
• Ovenden every Wednesday to Beechwood Health Centre at 11.15.
• Sowerby Bridge on Wednesdays, 1.00 at New Road Children’s Centre, or on Fridays at St Paul’s Methodist Church at 2.00
• Pellon every Monday at Sunshine Children’s Centre, 1.00
• King Cross every Monday, 4pm at the library
• Rastrick every Monday, 9 – 12 at Field Lane Children’s Centre
• Mixenden every Thursday, 10.30 at Mixenden Outdoors Centre
•  on Thursdays at 4.45 and Fridays at 2pm – appointments only.

New activities for Southowram 50 Plus Activities Group

Southowram 50 Plus Activities Group are trying out some new activity sessions for 2012 starting on week beginning 9th January

Tuesdays starting 10th January and “FREE” for the first 2 weeks at Southowram Community Centre.

1.00 – 2.30 Vintage Sewing – making clothes from the 30′s – 80′s

2.30 – 3.00 break for tea/coffee and biscuits

3.00 – 4.00 Photogaraphy for beginners – if you have a camera bring it along

After the first 2 weeks each session will cost £2.50

Wednesdays starting 11th January at The Cock & Bottle Bank Top.

5.15 – 6.45 Chess – run by a member of the Halifax Chess Club - all abilities welcome.  £2.50 per session

Thursdays starting 12th January at The Cock & Bottle Bank Top

5.30 – 7.00 Mobile phone workshop – learn how to use your mobile phone -from texting to email. Don’t forget to bring your mobile along. £2.50 per session

Thursdays starting 12th January at St Ann in the Grove Community Rooms at running alongside New Age Kurling and Dancing.

1.00 – 2.00 & 2.30 – 3.30 Table tennis all equipment provided but if you have your own bat why not bring it with you. Each session £2.50

Southowram 50 plus Activities Group celebrate their first 6 months

The Southowram 50 plus Activities Group are having a “Bit of a do” in celebration of their first 6 months of activities.

At

Southowram Community Centre Law Lane

Southowram

On Thursday 5th January 12.30 – 2.30

Please come along and see what types of activities the group get up to. There will be free refreshments available

Council consultations – all in once place

Did you know that Calderdale Council has a page on its website where you can find all of its current consultations? From libraries to speed limits, service cuts to the Piece Hall, your views are sought to help make decisions about what happens in Calderdale.

You can find a list of consultations by visiting www.calderdale.gov.uk – use the menu on the left to find and click ’Council and democracy’, then choose the ‘Consultations’ option from the new menu.

…or click this link!

 

Council budget consultation

 

 

One consultation which is going to affect everyone in Calderdale concerns the council’s budget. Here’s the information from the council website:

To make difficult decisions to achieve our savings for the next 3 years, we will:

 

• need to change the way we provide some services
• respond to population changes, for example more people needing care in later life and more children requiring intensive support
• have to charge more to maintain some services
• have to stop doing some things
• consider how our decisions can support jobs and economic growth
• identify how our decisions affect our communities.

 

Let us know what you think

 

Should we:

 

• Maintain our approach to putting the needs of the most vulnerable people first
• For some services increase charges for people who use them
• Widen the role of local community groups and volunteers in running services
• Stop providing some services.

Click here to complete the survey and stand up for the services you believe in.

Form a team: Kurling Challenge to start at the Shay!

Form a team for our first joint

Kurling Challenge

 Thursday 24^th November, 2 – 4

at the Shay Stadium Supporters’ Bar,  Halifax

 We want to bring together keen kurlers from our Neighbourhood Scheme groups to compete at the Shay Stadium!

You’ll need four people to make a team and we can help to organise lifts to ensure everyone can get to the Shay. Refreshments are provided. 

Interested? Get a team of friends together, or give us a ring on 01422 393794 and we’ll help form a team for you.

The Shay’s Young at Heart group will be hosting the event, which, if popular, may lead to regular competitive events, and maybe the formation of a Kurling league!

Southowram Reading Group – new meeting dates

The next meeting of the Southowram Reading Group is on Thursday 17th November at 4pm. The next meeting following will be on Thursday December 15th also at 4pm. Both meetings will held at the library in Southowram, where further details may be obtained.

Southowram Reading Group – meet the author

As part of the Word of Mouth Festival, come and meet the author Francesca Kay. She will be at Southowram Library on Thursday 13th October at 2pm. Admission is by ticket only, price £3.50 (£2 for concessions), available from the Library – tel. no. 01422 367061.
Please note: there is no meeting of the group on Thursday 22nd September.
Southowram’s Reading Group meets approximately monthly on a Thursday afternoon in the library and over a cuppa, they group discusses a book which has been read by everyone. They read a wide range of books and opinions about them are always varied.

The group welcomes new members but due to the lack of space numbers are limited. However if there is demand a second group could be formed.

The date of the next meeting is displayed in the library. 

Classes for the over-50s in Southowram and Bank Top just got bigger and better!

Starting on Monday 5th September for 8 weeks, 2 new classes will be taking place at Southowram Community Centre. From 1.00 -2.30pm, there will be a Visual Arts class, covering a whole range of activities and suitable for both beginners and those more experienced. This will be followed by the famous Neighbourhood Schemes cuppa. Tai Chi commences at 3 o’clock  for gentle exercise until 4.00pm.

But this is not all, for on Thursdays, again for 8 weeks, at St Anne in the Grove Community Room, Kurling and Wii will take place from 1.00 – 2.00pm. Refreshments follow and then Dancing from 2.30 – 3.30pm. The Dance sessions run the gamut from line to ballroom, so don’t worry if you haven’t got a partner.

If you have any questions, or would like any further information, then contact the Neighbourhood Schemes Team on 01422 393704, or e-mail nst.admin@calderdale.gov.uk

Each class costs £2.50 per session, payable on the day, and is suitable for all abilities. However, we would advise you to consult your doctor if you have any doubts about your ability to undertake physical exercise.

Southowram Horticultural & Allotments Society

Are you interested in horticulture? Thinking about having an allotment? If so why not come along to the Southowram Horticultural and Allotments Society which meets on the last Wednesday of each month (except December) at 8 pm at the New Street Centre Southowram. 

If you would like more information why not have a look at the web site  www.southowram-gardeners.btck.co.uk

Interim Steering Group for Southowram & Bank Top

 The Southowram & Bank Top Neighbourhood Scheme formed an interim steering group at their last meeting held on Wednesday 10th August.

10 members put their names forward to join the steering group with another 9 volunteering to help out in one form or another during activities.

The next meeting will be held on:

Wednesday 24th August 4.30 – 6.00

 Southowram Community Centre,

Law Lane,

Southowram

The steering group will be discussing which activities including venues and times will take place from week beginning 5th September.

Meetings are not a closed shop, so if you feel that you could contribute to the group please come along and have your voice heard.

 Click here to see the minutes from the last meeting

Southowram & Bank Top next meeting

Southowram and Bank Top’s next meeting will be held on Wednesday 10th August (straight after the first Tai Chi session). Everyone is welcome to come along and find out how the new scheme is progressing and have a say in how you would like your group to move forward. We will also be looking at getting the makings of a steering group together and hopefully some volunteers to help out at activity time.

Wednesday 10th August 4.30 – 6.00

Southowram Community Centre

Law Lane

If you would like more information please contact a member of the team on 01422 393738 or email nst.admin@calderdale.gov.uk

 

“Let’s Dance”

The Southowram group of the Neighbourhood Schemes has decided that they would like more dance activities after the success of the 2 taster sessions led by dance instructor Helen O’Hara. The sessions are aimed at beginners, but anyone is welcome to come along and join in. There will be a 6 week course on Thursday afternoons starting 11th August up to and including 15th September at:

St Anne in the Grove Community room

Church Lane

Southowram

HX3 9TD   

1.45 – 2.00 Registration

2.00 – 3.00 Dancing

3.00 – 3.30 Refreshments

£2.50 per session

It is advised that you consult your doctor prior to any form of physical exercise