3504 SHA Your Voice 15 - Spectrum Housing Group

An overjoyed Signpostresident, Mr Lynch ofShaftesbury, North Dorset waspresented with a £250 cheque. MrLynch was one of the thousandsof you who entered Signpost’sresident profile competition bycompleting and returning yourresident profile form.Mr Lynch, a resident at IndependentLiving Scheme, The Pavilions, said “Itwas a great surprise to hear I’d won.The timing couldn’t be better as my TVis broken and needs replacing.”Signpost will use the information gatheredthrough the profile forms to furtherimprove their services and to ensure thatthe work they do in the future meets thespecific need of all of their residents.Members of the Customer ServicesTeam will continue to telephone thoseof you who have not completed yourprofile forms and Housing Officers willbe making doorstep visits to gatherprofile information when they go out todeliver your new Guide to your Home.If you do not wish to complete a profileform, please contact the CustomerServices Team on 01258 484800 andthey will remove you from their list.Mike Cawte, Support Liaison Officer at Signpost and resident profile winner Mr Timothy LynchPicture competitionTake part in our Picture competition andyou will have the chance to win a prizeand also get your picture included in the2010 Signpost calendar.The theme for this edition is SPRING. The rulesare very simple: send in a picture that you haveproduced yourself. Your picture can be apainting, drawing, collage – whatever you likeprovided you can post it. The picture must be ona spring theme, for example spring flowers orwildlife – anything that reminds you of spring.There is no age limit, this competition is open toresidents of any age. Please put your name,address, age and telephone number on the backof your picture. Unfortunately, we won’t be ableto return any pictures sent in, but the best willbe included in next year’s calender.We will be repeating the competition in the nexttwo editions of Your Voice when the themes willbe SUMMER and AUTUMN.Many thanks to Emily Read of Stratton, Dorsetand Natalie Butt of Stourpaine for their lovelywinter pictures which will be included in the2010 Signpost calendar.6Poet’s cornerA SmileThis world is full of darknessIt’s also very sad,There’s sometimes lots of goodnessAnd sometimes lots of bad.Money cannot buy you friendsBut it can buy a lot,So few of us have cash to spareA smile is all we’ve got.We all have got our troublesBut stop and think awhileAnd next time that you meet someoneThen give them your best smile.If everybody did thisOn every single dayThe world would be a better placeAnd darkness go away.Mary Gregory, North Dorset