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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Domestic Abuse Charity forced to CLOSE ITS DOORS Behind Closed Doors is preparing to enter Exit Strategy on 1st December 2009, with a view to cease operating on 28th February 2010. This will leave West and North West Leeds without a comprehensive outreach service and recovery programme for women. Despite relentless efforts to secure funds to sustain and further develop service delivery, the current economic climate appears to be taking its toll. Government efforts to support Third Sector organisations through financial hardship have been made available to small charities with a relatively low income or large charities with a much higher income. Behind Closed Doors is a medium-sized charity and therefore it falls through the net and cannot access any of this funding. Safer Leeds has provided Behind Closed Doors with small amounts of funding from under spend in the past. Whilst this money has bought the organisation time to secure additional funds in times of crisis and has therefore been invaluable, it has never been either a regular or guaranteed source of income. There has never been a continuous commitment to supporting the service and without this it has been difficult to ensure sustainability for the organisation. Behind Closed Doors recognises the need for sustainability of the organisation. As such, Behind Closed Doors is in the process of establishing a social enterprise, recycling and distributing furniture for the benefit of the wider community. The profit from this would be gift aided into the Behind Closed Doors Charity to support service delivery. This would support BCD to be more independent in that it would be less reliant on trust and public sector funding. A commitment of even short term funding would support continuation of the service until the trading arm has been successfully established. Behind Closed Doors has provided outreach support to 500 women over the past year and is concerned about the gap in service provision that will be created by the loss of its service delivery. We need your support! Please contact Louise Tyne or Orlaith Mooney on 0845 673 0008 PO Box 275 LS19 9BN ❅❅❅❅❅❅❅❅❅❅❅❅❅❅❅❅ 24 th Otley Victorian Fayre I take great pleasure in inviting you to the 24th Otley Victorian Fayre which will be held on Friday the 11th December 2009. It has been my job, this year, to chair the committee of 8 dedicated people who work tirelessly to organise an event that has become such an integral part of Otley’s Christmas celebrations. I would like to officially thank all my fellow committee members for their commitment and hard work. I am pleased to report that the recent newspaper articles have been successful and have brought 6 new members into the group. Last year we were hit by dreadful weather but it did not stop the thousands of people, young and not so young, who took part in this wonderful event. As in previous years, during the day, the 2009 Fayre will feature local school children singing carols at various venues throughout the town. The exact locations can be found in our programme which will be on sale at a number of outlets in the town. Many of our shops and businesses will join in with the festivities by dressing themselves and their windows using a Victorian theme. This year’s charity will be at the Buttercross throughout the day and evening. Henshaws is a society for blind people and is based in Harrogate although it covers the whole of Yorkshire. They run a variety of services offering advice, support, housing and education to families affected by visual impairment. The Fayre, which runs from 6 – 9pm will include over 80 stalls offering a variety of lovely things to buy, win or eat; street entertainment including ,donkey rides, steam engines, Morris dancers, stilt walkers, a ride on train, traditional fair ground rides, Santa’s grotto and much more. Come and join us …. I guarantee you will have a great time ! Steph Lee – Chair Otley Victorian Fayre 2009 Wharfedale Hospital Missed Appointments You may recall from previous articles about Wharfedale Hospital that the hospital treats about 11,000 patients every month. However, a little published fact related to this is the number of missed appointments that occur. These are referred to as DNAs – Did Not Attend. Careful analysis of these missed appointments is undertaken to try to ascertain the cause. Obviously it is appreciated that circumstances arise which prevent a patient from attending their appointment, however it is very disappointing to note that many patients do not advise the hospital when this happens. • The rate of DNAs at our hospital is about 7% in outpatient clinics that is approximately 260 patients per month who fail to attend for their appointment. Just consider the time associated with the booking of an appointment, the administration, paperwork and the nursing and medical staff; there is probably at least 1 1 /2 hours taken up with each appointment. This means over 390 hours of lost clinical time per month. This equates to 10 full time staff. • Not only this but the appointment slot is then unavailable for another patient. • There is also the duplication of all the work associated with a replacement appointment. Of more importance to you or me though is that this resource is denied to other patients who may be desperately waiting for medical attention. Sadly there are patients who are “repeat offenders”. These patients are referred back to their GP’s and in the worst cases, no further appointments will be made for them until there has been an explanation of why this keeps happening. When a notional figure of an average £100 is used to cost these lost appointments, you can quickly see that in the case of our hospital, over £312,000 is lost per year from missed appointments. Having said this Wharfedale has a better record than other parts of the Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust but it is still a problem. DNAs are always going to occur with any service provider & it is frustrating when professional teams & other patients are affected. It is important to identify any particular cause that can be corrected to relieve the problem. In the case of Wharfedale the average DNAs have been reasonably stable at about 6% although recently this has started to push up to over 7%. Wharfedale Hospital also experiences about 35 cancellations per month on the day of appointment. This is not seen to be such a major issue as in most cases it is the patient’s condition or emergencies that give rise to a cancellation. The trend of DNAs at our hospital however is increasing. Looking at average consolidated figures could mask the very high incidence that occurs in certain clinics. This situation is monitored carefully so that any remedial work can be done in these specific areas to help correct the adverse trend. So if you can’t make a hospital appointment, please advise the hospital as early as possible to give the opportunity for another patient to fill the slot. I am sure none of us wants to be known as a “persistent offender.” Laurence Wood/Pat Clark
Otley Film Society Presents a three day celebration of films MADE IN YORKSHIRE Otley Film Society has been showing films successfully for the past 10 years, following the closing of Beech Hill Cinema, and keeping alive the tradition of 'film going' in Otley. For 2010 we have decided to attempt our first mini-festival to celebrate films made in Yorkshire – 'In God's Own County' this will happen from Friday 2nd April until Sunday 4th April 2010, (Easter weekend). The first Otley Film Festival is to be based at The Courthouse in Otley. David Lascelles a BAFT awarding winning Film Director has kindly agreed to open the Festival at a gala reception on the Friday night and we are hoping that the journalist and Artistic Director of Bradford International Film Festival Tony Earnshaw, will be talking about his new book 'Made in Yorkshire' The scheduled programme of 6 features includes; 'Private Function', a comedy written by Alan Bennett, about postwar meat rationing and missing pigs! Filmed in Ilkley, Ben Rhydding, Bradford, Bolton Abbey, West and North Yorkshire in May 1984, starring Michael Palin, Maggie Smith and a host of other famous British actors. 'The Damned United', based on Brian Clough's short, but stormy time with Leeds United, starring Michael Sheen and filmed at Elland Road. 'Fairytale: A True Story', with Peter O'Toole (who spent 20yrs of his childhood in Leeds) filmed at Cottingley, Ramsgill, Kilnsey, Keighley Railway station and North Yorkshire. The famous story of the Cottingley fairies which caused a sensation in 1917. OTLEY IN BLOOM Bought Watering Cans for Businesses To support the local businesses in Otley, OiB has been donating watering cans to businesses during the last few months to help them in their effort to keep Otley in bloom. Whilst Yorkshire in Bloom judges went around towns in Yorkshire recently to judge the various gardening efforts in pots and planters at business and schools, a few members of OiB went around to local businesses with council planters outside their premises and donated watering cans. As the group is aware cash is tight for any non-core business activity at this moment in time, this is only a small gesture that will hopefully go a long way and help ‘keeping the greens green’ at the front of people’s minds. OiB are hoping to continue the ongoing partnerships between Leeds City Council Parks Department and the local businesses ensuring the town stays as floral as possible. We can all do our little bit to help giving the hard working plants and shrubs enough care to continue to do well next year, giving them a longer life. Below are some tips for autumn: • Plant seeds and spring bulbs for next year, which is cheaper in both the short and long term than buying mature plants • Give wildlife a hand in October and November for example by making birdfeeders • Move tender plants and flowers indoors Visit OiB’s website for more ideas on what to tackle next in your garden www.otley.co.uk/oib. If you would like to lend a hand once in a while, call 0845 009 7642 and we’ll let you know when we are out and about. 'A Boy a Girl and a Bike', with Diana Dors. A joyous harking back to an era when courtesy and politeness went hand-in-hand with true love filmed in 1948, just three years after the 2nd World War at Elland, Hebden Bridge, Ilkley, Skipton and Grassington. 'Blow Dry', with Alan Rickman and the late Natasha Richardson, conceived by Yorkshireman Simon Beaufoy, who wrote 'The Full Monty' as well as the screenplay for 'Slumdog Millionaire. An hilarious comedy set in Keithley, about a small Yorkshire town hosting the finals of the National Hairdressing Championships. 'Like Minds', starring Toni Collette from 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Muriel's Wedding' - a thriller filmed at Bradford Grammer School, Giggleswick School and Haworth. There will also be historical travelogues of Yorkshire and other archive films shown during the festival and we are hoping to complement the films with an exhibition, guest speakers, and amateur 8mm film. We are also trying to track down episodes, of Heartbeat which were filmed in the the old Otley Courthouse, and Emmerdale Farm which were filmed in Otley. Food will be available at the Courthouse throughout the festival. Not everyone knows, but cinema was born in Yorkshire, invented by a Frenchman, Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince, who worked intermittently in Leeds in a workshop on Woodhouse Lane. Only a few seconds of film footage on a rudimentary moving picture camera still remain, of a view of horses, people, trams and traffic on Leeds Bridge, in 1888. The first film to be shown in Otley took place on 27th March 1897 in the Mechanics' Institute Hall, (which coincidentally was where Otley Film Society was launched in 1999) which included not only films which were met with “elicited loud and outbursts of applause” but a number of turns including Walter Hindel, a lady impersonator and humorist and Bentley and Rigg, a comedy duo who later obtained their own Bioscope, touring the district giving shows. The prices for admission were 3d and 6d with reserved seats at 1/-. Book tickets early as this is going to be a sell out! Tickets for Otley Film Festival will be on sale after Christmas at Otley Courthouse. For further information contact Otley Film Society at OtleyFilmSociety@fsmail.net, or see the OFS website at www.otleyfilmsociety.org.uk. This programme will be sponsored by local business, Yorkshire Regional Group of the British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) Staff from The Cutting House with Katie Burnett, secretary of Otley in Bloom. Carrots, Cash and a New Web Site for Local Riding for the Disabled Group!! Otley and District Group RDA had something to celebrate over the Summer as they received offers of help from three different sources. The group which provides therapeutic riding for local disabled adults and children received five hundred pounds from The Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank Foundation to go towards funding the cost of hiring the facilities and horses and ponies from the equestrian centres. Also a new web site has been launched after a friend of the group agreed to work on a new site free of charge. A lot of time was spent on the new site, which can be found at www.otleyrda.org.uk. Please do go and have a look. Local supermarket Sainsbury’s has also offered to provide the horses and ponies that are used by the group with the carrots which are left over. The group is very grateful for the help and support it receives from local individuals, charities and companies but it is always looking for new sources of funding. If you can help please get in touch at enquiry@otleyrda.org.uk. Thank you
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