Headway Dorset Winter Newsletter 2012/2013

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Inside this issue:

Page 1 Welcome

Page 2 Winter events at Headway Dorset

Page 3 New Groups for 2013

Page 4 Carers Corner, Easter Quiz!

Page 5 2012 in pictures!

Page 6 Bournemouth Marathon Festival 2013, Befriending Scheme

Page 7 Thank-yous!

Page 8 Volunteer Vacancies, Contact us

Headway Dorset Winter 2012/2013

Newsletter

Welcome to the Winter 2012/2013 newsletter and all of us

here at Headway Dorset hope you had a brilliant

Christmas!

We are busy as ever, with new groups being planned,

upcoming events and our social enterprise Headway

Care.

If you havent had a chance, please check out our

Facebook and Twitter pages, have a look at our website

and subscribe to our mailing list, we want to make surethat we make sure everyone hears about what we have

got going on and gives us feedback on how we are

doing!

Join us now on

Facebook and

Twitter!!

e come to t eWinter2012 /2013Newsletterfrom HeadwayDorset!

Winter 2012 Volume 1, Issue 4 Headway Dorset (01202) 606560


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Our BOLLYWOOD NIGHT on 17th November

was a great success, everybody enjoyed

themselves and we raised just under 1300!!

A huge thank you to our band The Volatile

Agents who were thoroughly entertainingand had the dance floor heaving all night,

our dancers who put on a brilliant display,

Usha who did some fantastic henna tattoos

and to volunteers Sue Stanford, Kirsty

Stanford, Jaine Logan and Kim Simmons who

gave up a lot of their free time to help with

the planning and organisation to make the

night such a success!

More pictures of the evening can be seen

on our Facebook page!!

Winter Events at Headway Dorset

Headway Dorset was back in Sainsburys at Talbot Heath in the lobby on the

19th December!

We raised over 300 with our Christmas raffle, watch this space as we will be

back in store at Easter!!

Bournemouth and Poole College presents Headway Dorset Charity Gig!!

Annas daughter Bea is holding a fundraising gig with her band and other bands from

Bournemouth and Poole College on Wednesday 13th February.

The gig will be held at the Winchester Pub, 39 Poole Hill, Bournemouth BH2 5PW from

6.30pm9.30pm and tickets are a bargain at 2 each in advance or 3 on the door.

The gig will be part of her coursework at college, and all proceeds will go to Headway

Dorset. To get tickets, see Anna or Kerry 01202 606560 or

[email protected]
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NEW GROUPS FOR 2013 AT HEADWAY DORSET!

Headway Dorset Mens Group

We are pleased to announce that we

have been granted funding from

Awards for All to run the eagerly

anticipated mens group for a year.

After the success of our ladies group, we

didnt want our men to feel left out, so

planning is underway to get a similar

group off the ground in the near future.

If you would like to hear more about

what we have planned or to put your

name down to be involved with the newgroup, please contact us at Headway

Dorset!!

The ladies from our Weymouth Mirror Image

Group take on the climbing walls at

Weymouth Outdoor Centre!

Mirror Image Womens Group

Following a successful first year, we arepleased to be awarded funding for a

further 18 months from Lloyds TSB.

Headway users from all over Dorset have

had fun taking part in sessions to

improve their self esteem, confidence

and body image and we are looking

forward to bringing the project to other

service users this year!

If you want more information or to put

yourself down to be involved, contact

Maria or Kerry at Headway on 01202

606560.

Musical Therapy Group

We are very excited to have also receivedfunding for a Musical Therapy Group this year.

The Radcliffe Trust has approved us funding

for the group, which will be overseen by our

Occupational Therapist Claire.

The group hopes to help people with

enhancing memory capabilities, alleviating

depression and frustration, self expression,

communication skills and self esteem to name

a few!

For more information or to let us know if you

are interested in taking part, please contact

Claire at Headway Dorset

[email protected]
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Carers Corner!

Free Training Course offer to all Carers.

St Johns Ambulance Carers Support Programme will teach first aid techniques to adults who look

after friends, relatives and neighbours.

You can learn how to deal with bleeding, burns, choking, fractures, hypothermia and how to put an

unconscious person in the recovery position.

The course is weekly over four 3 hour sessions, running in Sturminster Newton, Ferndown, Purbeck and

Christchurch, [email protected] ring 01305 751160 for more information or to book a

place.

Web forum to hear the views of Carers.

An opportunity for Carers to give their views and experience to a Parliamentary Committee. The

Joint Committee on the draft Care and Support Bill has set up a web forum that gives Carers a

chance to be heard.

You can comment on your experiences as a Carer and what impact you thinkthe Governments

proposed legislation might have on your own situation. Your comments will help inform

recommendations made to the Government in the Committees report. To take part, please follow

this link

http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/draft-care-and-support-

bill/web-forum/

A new edition of the booklet Caring for someone with a brain injury is now available. Ask atreception if you would like a copy.

Headway Dorset Easter Quiz!!

The Befriending Scheme would like to invite you to take partin our Easter Quiz. Its been a while since we had a quiz night,

so we are all looking forwards to getting our thinking caps

on!!

The Quiz will be held at St Nicolas Church, Wareham Road,

Corfe Mullen BH21 3LE on Saturday 9th March from 7.30pm

9.30 pm.

We are looking for teams of up to 6 participants who may

enter at 3 per person. If you dont have a team, dontworry, we will find you one!

Contact Lynn or Kerry on 01202 606560 or

[email protected] an entry form or just

turn up on the night!

There will be refreshments and a raffle on the night and of

course Lynns famous Easter Chicks will be available!!Lynns Easter Chicks!!
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As we start on a New Year, lets remind ourselves of what we got up to in 2012!!

2012 in pictures!!

2012 has been a good

year for Headway Dorset,

with the opening of our

Horten Lee Accessible

Garden, the introduction

of our domiciliary care

agency Headway Care,

the success of our Mirror

Image Group, some pretty

amazing fundraising events

and lots more, what wereyour favourite moments

from 2012?

Our Kayakers Mark and Jaine paddle

the River ThamesKirsty and Lynsay at the Befriending

Group

The opening of the Holten Lee

Accessible Garden

The holiday winners of our Sainsburys

Talbot Heath raffle

Lynns Easter chicks make it all the way

to Kenya!

Gwen scales the rocks at Weymouth

Outdoor Centre

Mark and Jaine celebrate raising nearly

3000 for Headway Dorset

Lynns granddaughter enters the Scary

Baby competition

Jaine and Claire on the catwalk Dancing at Bollywood Night


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Bournemouth Marathon Festival 2013

We were excited to hear that Bournemouth will be holding its first Marathon

Festival in October 2013, comprising of a weekend of events including

Bournemouth Marathon Half Marathon Supersonic 10k Speed of Light 3k Junior Race 1.5k Junior Race 1.5k Wheelchair Race 1.5k Handbike Race

So who is feeling brave then?!! Anybody who would be interested in taking

part and helping raise money for Headway Dorset, contact Kerry at

[email protected] on 01202 606560!!

Befriending Scheme

We would like to thank wholeheartedly

all of our volunteers who help with the

Befriending Scheme. They really do a

brilliant job and we couldnt do it

without them!

Here are a few pictures of some of

their antics!


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Does anyone have poems, artwork

or stories that they would like to

submit to the next newsletter? Talk

to Kerry or email them to her on

[email protected] big thank you to the following:

Adrian and everyone elseat Sainsburys TalbotHeath for their ongoing

support

The Volatile Agents forplaying free of charge at

our Bollywood night

Asdas Canford Heath fora cheque for 100 from

their charity nomination

scheme

All the lovely people whodonated raffle prizes for

the Fashion Show and

Bollywood night

Amanda Sands for herongoing support with

raffle prizes and selling

tickets and manning the

raffle stall at events!

Coles Miller for theirdonations for our

Christmas Hampers

Hunter Personnel for theirdonations for our

Christmas Hampers

Ringwood Brewery fortheir donation for our

Christmas Hampers

All our volunteers andfamily members whodonate their time and

energy to us and without

whom we could not

deliver such a level of

services.

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Thank you!!

The Volatile Agents

Asda present Kirsty with their cheque


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Volunteers needed

We currently have plenty of

opportunities for anyone who

wants to volunteer some of

their spare time.Volunteering can be a

rewarding experience, a useful

addition to your CV and helps

Headway Dorset to keep

running the high level of

services that our service users

deserve.

Current vacancies

Drivers Befrienders Gardening group Mirror Image group Mens group

If you think you might be

interested in any of these

vacancies or would like more

information then please get in

touch with Headway Dorset

01202 606560 or [email protected]

Telephone: 01202 606560/01305 257990

Email:[email protected]

Or [email protected]

Website:www.headwaydorset.org.uk

Facebook:www.facebook/headwaydorset

Twitter:www.twitter.com/#!/HeadwayDorset

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up to, achievements that you are proud of or

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