Third Floor 28-30 Belle Vue Terrace Malvern Worcs, WR14 4PZ 01684 892381 info@community action.org.uk www.communityaction.org.uk Find us on Facebook and Twitter COMMUNITY ACTION NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2017 * Helping Hands Image: www.pinterest.co.uk/source/wanderthewood.tumblr.com/ Reg. No: 1149335 12
Introduction Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Action Newsletter. I hope you find the enclosed information useful. Please also do check out our newly re-vamped website at www.communityaction.org.uk Should you wish to write an article for inclusion in the next edition, do please email me at corinnep@communityaction.org.uk. Resource Centre at Community Action Community Action are able to offer local charities and voluntary organisations the use of their Resource Centre. This includes: Photocopying Mono A4 single sided 8p per copy; A4 double sided 16p per copy Mono A3 single sided 13p per copy; A3 double sided 26p per copy Colour A4 single sided 21p per copy; A4 double sided 42p per copy; A3 single sided 46p per copy; A3 double sided 92p per copy. Laminating up to A3; Auto Bookie an amazing machine that professionally folds and staples booklets 2p per booklet; Guillotining; We also sell stationery, including coloured card and paper. I'm Catherine Badham and I cannot wait to welcome new people to my very brilliant and exciting shop. I am the new manager of the St Richard s Hospice shop in Upton and have been here since February. We are just in the process of completing our expansion on the premises (High Street Upton) and we're going to be around 3 x the size! So...I need help! Any help is great either in the shop or behind the scenes. We are a bright and vibrant shop and are often complimented on our positive and fun atmosphere and our carefully chosen stock. Being a part of SRH is a privilege and being lucky enough to be in the middle of Upton, a wonderful and thriving community makes it a lovely place to be. We open 7 days a week through the summer and 6 days during winter. Shifts can be anything and everything. It's all very flexible and tea biscuits (and occasionally cake) are readily available! Please pop in or call us on 01684593322 2 11
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Film Classics takes place once a month and is run in association with The Cube in Malvern. This is a lovely way to spend a couple of hours with good company, a variety of films and refreshments. Door-to-door transport can be provided by Community Action. Do you run activities for people who struggle with their hearing? Would you like to make your events and services more inclusive for those with a hearing impairment? If so, contact Deaf Direct! We are your local, deaf-led charity supporting children and adults with hearing loss in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Oxfordshire. We have 90 years experience of helping deaf people within our local communities to access services and achieve their potential. If your organisation wants to reach more deaf and hard of hearing people, we can provide Deaf Awareness Training, including British Sign Language Levels 1, 2 and 3 or bespoke packages to fit the needs of your team and your service users. Thursday 10th August Florence Foster Jenkins Thursday 14th Sept Rebecca (1940) Thursday 12th Oct A Street Cat called Bob We also fit loop systems within community buildings and businesses to ensure older, hard of hearing people do not miss out on activities because of their hearing loss. Loop systems are especially important if you run activities which require a speaker or have a leader taking a class/workshop. For a free no obligation loop system or training quote, please contact us on 01905 746 301 or via email: info@deafdirect.org.uk. Hearing loss is invisible we make sure the person isn t. Thursday 9th Nov La La Land Everyone welcome! Transport can be arranged via Community Action on 01684 892381 4 9
Meanwhile our Coffee Shop at Prospect View continues to be open each Thursday and Friday from 9am 12md. You don t need to be visiting the surgery just pop in and have a welcome cuppa and a tasty slice of delicious cake. As always we continue to need Volunteers to help with Coffee Shop. Call Susie on 01684 594795 if you would like to help for a few hours each month. We would like to thank the Tourist Information Centre for their continued support and for allowing us to promote Community Action in their window in Church Street. Let us hope that they remain as a central focus to the Town! Friends of Community Action continue to work hard in support of the charity. THANKS, as ever, to all those of you who continue to support all our events. Our lovely quiz mistress (Malli Wadge) has now introduced a bi-monthly quiz available at just 1 per copy. The teasing and fun is raising a considerable amount of money and the enjoyment can not be measured! One lucky person stands to win 20 each time. Buy your quiz at any of our events or at our Prospect View Coffee Shop. If anyone would like to put on a fund raising event or support existing events please contact us at Community Action on 01684 892381 The winner of the Sweets Quiz was Sue Henshaw from Malvern. THANK YOU as always Best wishes Susie and Malli 8 5
The regular Coffee Mornings at URCH in Malvern Link continue to be successful and fun. The next one will be on Saturday 16th September and our Christmas Coffee Morning will be Saturday 9th December please join us if you can. C A Friends ommunity ction JOIN US FOR COFFEE & CAKE Saturday 16th Sept 10am 12pm UNITED REFORMED CHURCH HALL MALVERN LINK Cakes and Goodies on sale Our lovely cook book Thymes Remembered is still on sale. We have enough copies to last us until the end of this year and will continue to sell at Craft and Food Markets across the county. 6 We will be at many of the Emporium Enterprises markets and would like to thank Annie Potts for her continued support. In addition we will be at The 3 Counties Autumn Show on 23rd September and at St Peter s Garden Centre Food Fair on September 30th. 7