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University to Re-live its Role in Healing WW1 Wounds

Buxton’s Devonshire Dome will relive its part in healing the wounds of the First World War on November 25 when the University of Derby hosts a conference examining changing attitudes to disability. Details...

The Dome – now the University’s Buxton campus – was called up as a hospital to care for British, Canadian and ANZAC soldiers injured in the conflict.

And the BBC has just completed a major film about its most famous nurse – author and feminist Vera Brittain, who trained at the Dome in 1915 when it was the Devonshire Hospital.

As part of National Disability History Month, the University’s Disability Coordinator Olivia Ramsbottom is bringing together organisations who work with disability to look at attitudes from the past and compare them to those of today.

"The centenary of the outbreak of WW1 and the Dome’s role in helping the wounded was an ideal starting point for the day,” said Olivia, who lectures in Business and Management.

Events will include a presentation on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, now recognised as a major issue among veterans, but only beginning to be understood when the Dome was treating soldiers injured at the Front.

Combat Stress, the UK charity which helps military personnel, will open the event, and one of the University’s lecturers will also talk about his work with veterans in the United States. The Grapevine Wellbeing Centre and other local organisations helping people with disabilities are also attending.

The Dome’s patients kept an autograph album during the war, detailing their names, regiments, where they were injured and when they went home. The wounded came from battles including the Somme, Loos and Gallipoli – but one gunner received his injuries in Newcastle-on-Tyne during a Zeppelin raid in 1915. Comments in the book include a rude ditty about Kaiser Wilhelm, jokes - and a poem exhorting patients to "spread a little sunshine.”

Organisations with an interest in helping those with disabilities are being offered the opportunity to demonstrate what they do at the University of Derby’s Disability Month event on November 25 in the Devonshire. The all-day features A WW1 Theme to mark the centenary of the start of the conflict and the Dome’s role as a hospital during the war. There will be speakers and entertainment, but if you would like a free stall on the Dome floor, contact organizer Olivia Ramsbottom on o.ramsbottom@derby.ac.uk

Visit the Houses of Parliament

Andrew Bingham MP has contacted High Peak CVS offering another trip and this time solely for people from voluntary and community groups, on a coach to London and the Houses of Parliament. Details...

University Backs Tablets for Older People

A former senior Derbyshire detective who helped pioneer the UK’s safeguarding system which protects the vulnerable has been given a grant by the University of Derby to help open up the internet to older people. Details...

Russ Baker believes older people who cannot go online can no longer get a fair deal from society and sometimes not even have proper contact with their families or friends – so he was determined to do something about it.

The success of his weekly "Comfortable with Computers” session which is open to all older people across the High Peak is already attracting interest from government and other agencies. They are interested in how this innovative scheme in Buxton is helping the ageing population and whether it could be replicated elsewhere.

The project, hosted by Fairfield Methodist Church, mirrors work to combat the abuse of the elderly Russ and a local social worker did many years ago which they started from his office in Buxton Police Station. This evolved into the national system of safeguarding which brings under one umbrella all the professionals involved in the protection of vulnerable people.

"Now older people who haven’t got access to the internet and don’t know how to use it safely are not able to get the best deals, or even get in touch with their relatives. Some people who come have already reduced their utility bills by large amounts by going online.", says Russ.

The breakthrough for Russ was the realisation that older people want to use the newest technology, computer tablets. Touch-screen technology demystifies computers, and the way the tablets come to life through Skype or Facetime with talking pictures of their children and grandchildren in far-away countries is a window on the world which would win over any waverers.

But tablets are expensive, and the £250 from the University, following support from Fairfield Methodist Church, High Peak councillors Rachael Quinn, Caitlin Bisknell and Fiona Sloman, the Bingham Trust, Mellor and Smith Funeral Directors and the Buxton Hall Bank Trust, has enabled Russ to expand the work.

"Everybody comes in at a different level,” he said. "I try to take them to the level they want to go to. It isn’t a class – there is no agenda. Most who have come have no previous knowledge of computers, but are interested and we start from there.”

For more details, see www.fairfieldmethodistchurch.org.uk/comp.html

Celebrating People Award

In 2009 High Peak CVS introduced an annual award in honour of its second Chairperson, Chris Woodcock, the Celebrating People Award. Details...

Boost Mental Health at Free NHS Taster Session

Mindfulness Workshop on Mon 11 Aug 1.30pm - 4.30pm at Centre for Research and Development, Kingsway Site, Derby DE22 3LZ. Details...

Dementia Action Alliance Survey

To mark the fourth year of the National Dementia Declaration, the Dementia Action Alliance is surveying people affected by dementia and professionals supporting them to find out whether current activity is leading to real changes on the ground. Details...

Voluntary Sector Single Point of Access

A new service aimed at helping older and vulnerable people to stay at home rather than going into hospital has been welcomed by Derbyshire County Council. Details...

Autism Innovation Fund

£1.2 million of funding is now available to improve local autism services and increase awareness. Details...

Marie Curie Cancer Care Community Volunteering Opportunities

Marie Curie Cancer Care are setting up a new fundraising group in the Buxton/Chapel/Whaley Bridge area. Local Fundraising Groups are dedicated to raising awareness and funds by holding collections and events so that Marie Curie can continue to care for people with terminal illnesses in their own homes. Details...

Rural Action Derbyshire Moves to Matlock

Rural Action Derbyshire is moving to new premises and will have a new phone number from Thursday 31 July 2014. Details...

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