Our Annual General Meeting is being held at The Town Close premises at 7.30 pm on Wednesday the 26th June 2013.
All members are formally invited to the AGM, and anyone interested will be welcome.
Refreshments will be available.
Notice for Organisations re New CRB procedures
CRB checks are now known as DBS checks (Disclosure & Barring Service) to get more details on this change and more visit :
New Circle Dancing Class
We are pleased to announce that we have been successful in our bid to find funds to train volunteers and set up a new Circle Dancing class.
We hope to start our classes fortnightly on a Tuesday in the Spring – so
watch this space!
Craft Materials Request
Community Care Craft Club meet on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each
Month in the Community Rooms, Town Close at 10am – 12 noon.
We are always on the look out for donations of craft materials such as:
wool, material, card making items and our latest request is for
BUTTONS – if you have a tin of buttons in the cupboard and do
not think you will ever use them – We Will!! So please drop them
off to the Community Care Office – 1st Floor, Town Close, Stokesley.
Volunteers’ Grand Prize Christmas Draw
Don’t miss out on these fabulous prizes!
- £30 Gift Voucher
- 2 x Complimentary Tickets for Two on North Yorkshire Moors Railway
- £10 Voucher
- High Vis Padded Jacket (Medium)
- Christmas Gift Parcel
- Large Handbag
- 4 x Complimentary Family Swimming Tickets
- Paintball Experience for 10 Persons
- Jewellery Roll
- Boots Lavender Gift Set
- Bottle of Hand cream
- Bottle of Red Wine
- 2 x Bottles of Wine
- Large Christmas Teddy
- Hand Made Bird Box Gift Set
- Large Box of Chocolates
- Tin of Roses chocolates
- Marks & Spencer chocolates
- Photo Album gift set
- Artistic Nail Polish voucher
- Jewellery Gift Set
- Tin Biscuits
- Small Christmas Teddy
- Jigsaw
All prizes kindly donated by friends of the Community Care Association and local businesses.
Visit of Medical Student
We recently had a request from a 3rd year medical student to visit us to see what we do. Of course we invited her along and she visited the Community Care Craft Club, Chairaerobics and the Lunch Club.
Her brief was to identify the link in the community to both Primary and Secondary Health Care. As a lot of our clients are referred to us by the local G.P.’s and one of our main services is to transport people to hospital and doctors appointments, she felt that we were the ideal charity to visit.
We have copied the summary of her report below for your interest.
While visiting CCA I was struck by the importance of providing social interaction for isolated individuals in the community. I also learned about the ways in which the independence of individuals can be maintained. This is important as it allows people to live in their own homes and assists any carers. Therefore the burden on the residential care system is reduced, as well as increasing the qualify of life for the clients. The range of services provided catered for many groups of people in the community. The organisation was fairly fluid and so could adapt to fulfil the needs of the community. Many of the volunteers have been helping the organisation for a number of years. This was of benefit to themselves as well as to the clients. For example, most of the volunteers at the lunch club were over seventy years old. They enjoyed helping at the club and had become friends with the other volunteers. They appreciated feeling that they were useful to the community. This demonstrated how voluntary organisations can have a range of benefits to the clients as well as the volunteers.
CSV Make a Difference Campaign
We did make a difference to the poorest children across the world this year by taking part in the annual CSV Make A Difference Day Campaign.
We called on all our volunteers, the Community Care Craft Club and Stokesley Day Centre clients to get knitting!!
Between us all we knitted 60 teddy hand puppets and 6 purses to be included in Christmas Shoeboxes which are sent across the world to the neediest children at Christmas time.
WELL DONE EVERYONE THAT TOOK PART & THANKYOU!
Chairaerobics and Circle Dancing
We are looking for volunteers to help us run our exercise classes:
• Chairaerobics – a very popular session for people with limited mobility, runs each Thursday in Stokesley Town Hall.
• Circle Dancing – this is a new venture, we are looking for volunteers to get this up and running, we offer full training and support.
If you are interested or would like to find out more call 01642 710085 or email volunteercentre@stokesleycca.org.uk.