News & Developments

Swim for half-an-hour and raise money for your cause or charity and ours!

FREE Team Entry (4 members). You keep half the sponsorship you raise for your cause/charity, the other half goes to the Rotary Club Charitable Trust Fund to help build Sand Dams in South-east Kenya to provide clean water and other local benefits.

Entry, sponsorship, and parent consent forms (for those under 18 on 10 March) can be downloaded via the link below, where there is more information, or obtained by contacting organiser Rotarian David Hopkins (t: 01298 23359; djhvet@aol.com) or by collecting them from Buxton Podiatry Practice, 1 A Hall Bank, Buxton. Entry and parent consent forms need to be with David Hopkins by 3 March. If your cause is not a charity, still use the sponsorship form and encourage your sponsors to Gift Aid as the Rotary Club can claim Gift Aid on our half-share.

www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=684138&ClubID=272

Information on:

• Mental Health Together website launch
• STOP! I have a learning disability campaign
• Action Taken to Improve Care for Patients with Substance Misuse Needs
• Helping Shape the Future of Recovery and Wellbeing Services

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There will be a number of speakers and demonstrations covering topics such as food fortification, the new texture modified food descriptors, finger foods etc.  It will be open to all - Managers, catering staff, volunteers and carers.  

Free event to learn more about the plans the Self-Care Alliance has for the coming months and how you can be involved to improve the health outcomes for the people of Tameside and Glossop.  Refreshments provided.

For more information contact Rachel Lord/Dawn Acton on Tel: 0161 339 2345, Email: rachel.lord@actiontogether.org.uk / dawn.acton@actiontogether.org.uk

The training session is designed to equip staff and volunteers working in local third sector organisations to access, understand and apply a range of freely available public data sources to support business development activities. The session will reveal how organisations can freely access a range of data sources that illustrate health and wellbeing trends affecting communities across England.

Derby on 7 March 2018

The main aims of the support is to help people to:

§  Maintain their independence

§  Develop daily living skills and life skills

§  Manage personal finances

§  Improve mental health and wellbeing

§  Reduce isolation

They will be holding launch events across Derbyshire in April and you are invited!  

In the meantime, they are happy to attend team meetings to discuss with your staff how this service can be of benefit to your clients.

If you would like to know more about this service contact jane.bellamy@pcharity.org or jen.thornton@p3charity.org

Have you suffered a recent bereavement or found it hard to come to terms with the loss of a loved one from years ago?  

In a safe, confidential and supportive meeting, we would like to hear your views on what local community support or service would help, what’s missing at the moment and what solutions could we come up with together?

Maybe you have some support that’s working and you could share your experience, or perhaps you feel unsupported right now and want to come together to see what might work for you. If you feel you have coped with your bereavement, perhaps you are in a position to share with others how you managed.

Please note this first meeting is not a support group (as yet anyway) but this is certainly one of the possibilities we would like to talk about. 

Professional providers of related or useful services are welcome to contact Liz at High Peak CVS for news on the progress on this initiative, but please note this initial meeting is for potential service users.

You can just turn up to the meeting if you prefer and feel free to bring somebody along if that’s helpful too.    

For more information contact Liz 01663 736426.

Do your front line staff and volunteers know how to recognise and deal with a Carbon Monoxide (CO) incident in the home of a vulnerable person they are supporting?  Does your organisation include CO awareness as part of its duty of care to your staff and volunteers?

The Gas Safe Charity is running a free, interactive half day workshop (10am - 1.00pm with lunch) to help organisations in your area become more aware of the sources, signs and symptoms of Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning, understand what to do if you suspect CO may be present and learn of resources that can help you raise awareness.

The closest areas the workshops are running are Chesterfield on the 28 February and Birmingham on the 7 March.

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As usual the whole of the town centre will be filled with stalls, music and dancing, entertainment and activities of all kinds.

A new group of people has stepped forward who will work with Buxton Town Team to organise this year's Spring Fair and set up a new Buxton Spring Fair organisation to run the event in the long term.

Applications for stall space and performance times will open in mid February. If you want to contact the organising team email buxtonspringfair2@gmail.com or call Jane on 07976 006822.