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There are 3 prizes of up to £5,000 worth of kitchen equipment to be won.  G52 is the only group from Derbyshire selected, and is competing with other deserving groups across the country from Hampshire to Belfast.

A prize would mean a lot to G52 – ‘Gamesley Working 52 Weeks a Year’ – and help them to set up a Community Hub providing services and work experience for local people, and to expand their excellent catering service. The group has already provided training for local people, set up and run ‘Bellies Not Bins’ which distributes surplus food, and put on fun events such as ‘the Beach comes to Gamesley’ which offered all the fun of the beach including donkey rides and candy floss.

G52 needs your support now – to win the kitchen equipment they need you to vote!

Yes, Stoves is asking the nation to choose which community groups will receive their prizes so please vote for G52 at wshe.es/gaVOOxeV

They are also actively recruiting players returning to banding after a break.Perhaps you have taken a sabbatical due to work or family commitments. Or maybe you learnt at school but haven’t played since. If you are considering a return to playing brass then Whaley Bridge Band could be just what you are looking for.

The band have all the standard brass band instruments available – including percussion – and will provide support to get you blowing again. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly you get back on track, and it’s never too late however long you've been away.Several players have done just that, returning after breaks of over thirty years, and are now stalwarts of the band.

For more information see our website www.whaleybridgeband.co.uk

Email: whaleybridgeband@gmail.com
Phone Jane Walker Cull 01663 719712

They need volunteers to help with this and have volunteer surveyor opportunities in  High Peak, North East Derbyshire  and  Amber Valley.

You will receive training on how to do the surveys and you can claim travel expenses.

To get involved contact Steve Cresswell on  01629 539660 or email steve.cresswell@derbyshire.gov uk

Veterans make up 10% of our communities.  1 in 4 people experiences a mental health problem in any year and that includes former and current members of the Armed Forces.  

This two-day course will help people who support the general public as part of their role to understand some of the issues faced by people with mental health problems and to know how to respond in an emergency situation and also longer term.  

The course costs £198 per person.  To find out more or book visit www.derbyshiremind.org.uk/training-2/

The new two-year pilot, run in collaboration with existing  health care professionals has been launched  in response to the call for greater patient choice; for some people their last and greatest wish is to die at home in familiar surroundings.

The service startedon 11 April and will support patients and their families and carers with sitters day and night.  Overnight sits will offer carers the chance to have a good night’s sleep, while a few hours during the day gives carers a break to go shopping or have time for themselves.  

To access Hospice at Home contact 01298 813007 or email hospiceathome@blythehouse.co.uk  

To find out about other  services offered by Blythe House Hospice, contact 01298 815388.

High blood pressure (BP) is the biggest risk factor for stroke. Visit The Devonshire Dome on Friday 22 April 2016 between 10 am and 1 pm or The Springs Shopping Centre on Saturday 23 April 2016 between 9 am and noon for your free blood pressure check; it only takes a few minutes.

It could save your life as about 152,000 strokes occur in the UK each year – that’s one every three to four minutes! At last year’s BP measurements in Buxton, of 197 people screened, four were advised to seek urgent help and 63 advised to contact their own doctor routinely because of higher than normal readings.

Previously, victims calling Derbyshire Domestic Abuse Helpline could be passed onto other agencies depending on their assessed level of risk and men would be referred to another number.

Now all services have been brought together under the existing helpline meaning victims only have to make one call whatever their circumstances or gender.

Last year Derbyshire police received more than 12,300 reports of domestic abuse and nationally one in four women and one in six men will experience abuse at some point in their lives. Meanwhile, around 130,000 children live in households with a high-risk of domestic abuse.

Derbyshire Domestic Abuse Helpline 0800 0198 668.

The county's first Super Kitchen opened in Holmgate Church, Clay Cross, in November 2015 with a branch in Cotmanhay set to open this month (April 2016) with another in New Mills following in May 2016.

The system uses surplus food that would have been thrown away by supermarkets to provide residents with a hot nutritious, low-cost hot meal cooked by volunteers.

Both venues have organised welcome events to give anyone interested in setting up a Super Kitchen such as youth clubs, food banks and charities the chance to have a look around, meet staff and enjoy a free social eating meal.

The New Mills branch will be open in St George's Parish Hall, Church Lane, on Friday 6 May 2016 between 5pm and 7pm.

More details on DCC website

A stall is a great way to share your message with members of the public. This year the OWF are inviting charities, campaign groups, other non-commercial organisations, and representatives from the local business community. There will also be a 'Conversation Tent' and you are invited to book a slot if you want to give a short talk or demonstration to a small group of people.

As the festival is free to the public and funded entirely by fund raising& activities, grants and donations, all stall holders are asked to make a contribution, collected on the day, towards the One World Festival's costs. Organisations run entirely by volunteers usually contribute at least £5 and those with paid staff upwards of £10.

It would be good if you could think of an activity for your stall, perhaps linked to the UN Global Goals, that would engage with festival goers. One idea is for a scavenger hunt involving people finding links to different goals on different stalls, if you would like to be involved in this please let us know.

If you have any queries contact Barbara Walmsley:
barbarawalmsley81@yahoo.com 01663 746106 / 07908186852

www.oneworldfestival.org

DCC website link