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The Christmas Crafts group will make cards, festive decorations for home and small gift boxes to help learners save money.

Bright Side courses are free and open to local people with mild to moderate mental health issues, who are experiencing low mood, emotional difficulties, anxiety or who are socially isolated.

Contact the Amber Trust, Buxton on 01298 214 379 or email Stephanie on Stephanie.chant@ambertrust.co.uk - only a few spaces left!

At a Death Cafe people, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. The objective is to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives. 

A Death Cafe is a small group discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes.  It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.

Free event +18 for more information and to book your place go to deathcafe.com

Questions about the event: jane.butler@ageukdd.org.uk Mobile 07421 227078

HPCVS Annual Report 2018 - Supporting Social Action

A Parlour Concert with Mister Keith & His Orchestra at Chapel Town Hall on Sat 3 Nov 2018.

Enjoy a wonderful evening of music and fun with the ultra-cool Mister Keith and his mini-orchestra of multi-instrumentalists. Experience gently quirky, expertly crafted quintessentially English songs and stories of life, love faith and hope songs by the self-professed originator of 'Victorian Pop'.

With song styles varying from jaunty showground to slow lament, all carried forward by lilting melodies and warm vocals, expect to find Mister Keith singing amongst the audience, conducting you as a choir or writing impromptu songs on the spot!

Advance Tickets: Adults £9; 16 and under £7.50 from: Chapel-en-le-Frith Town Hall Office Mon - Fri 9.00am-12.30pm; or online from Ticket Source; or phone 03336663366

On the Door: Adults £10; 16 and under £8.50

Doors Open: 7.00 pm

Cash bar before performance and during the interval.

Home-Start High Peak provides a unique service for families – recruiting and training volunteers to support parents with young children at home.

Home Start High Peak are looking for a couple of Trustees to join their existing dedicated trustees.  They have also have secured some funding to train additional home visiting volunteers. They hope to run a volunteer preparation course before Christmas, so they are ready to volunteer from January.

Trustees Needed

www.homestarthighpeak.org.uk/how-you-can-help/trustees-needed/

Volunteers Needed

www.homestarthighpeak.org.uk/how-you-can-help/volunteers-needed/

The report contains the findings, recommendations and pledged responses from commissioners.

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 Sat 6 April, 2019 7.30pm  £15

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The aim of the fund is to improve the mental wellbeing of people living in Derbyshire by providing community based activities and services that help people to access the "Five Ways to Wellbeing” - a set of national evidence-based actions which promote people’s wellbeing.  They are Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give.

• Grants are up to £1000
• Applications are invited from voluntary, community or faith groups active in High Peak.
• Closing Date 30 November 2018
• We are particularly looking to fund new projects or activities that take an asset-based approach. This means building on or developing the skills, knowledge and capabilities of local residents within your project.

For more information and an application form email nigel@highpeakcvs.org.uk

Help by buying a 908g (2 lb), serves eight, Christmas Pudding, price still £10; it is fully cooked and just needs reheating. Post/deliver your order, along with a cheque payable to ‘Rotary Club of Buxton’, to be with Rotarian Andy Collier, 93 Green Lane, Buxton, SK17 9DJ, by 30 Nov latest (date we place our bulk order). Include your telephone number and email and postal addresses, which will be held securely.

Instructions on how to order and pay by BACS and a downloadable order form if you have a printer, are on the website link below. Orders from Buxton addresses will be delivered by early December; customers outside Buxton will be asked to collect their puddings by arrangement.

Pudding Appeal contact details are: e: rotarypuds@gmail.com, t: 01298 23161.

Puddings may contain mustard and fragments of nutshell, kernel or small stones. Main allergens are egg, wheat (gluten), nuts, sulphites, sulphur dioxide, but do check via our website or at rotaryxmaspuddings.co.uk, where a unit case of 12 puddings can be bought online for £120 including free delivery. Rotary Club of Buxton have been supporting Cwmbran Vale Rotary's Christmas Pudding Appeal since 2007, selling 1,776 puddings to date.

www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=725817&ClubID=272

You can apply for a grant of between £300 and £2,000 for activities to mark the centenary in your community. Small Grants are available for grassroots projects to run small-scale events and activities to celebrate the centenary of women gaining the vote. There have previously been two bidding rounds in 2018, this is now the third and final bidding round. 

www.womensvotecentenaryfund.co.uk