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FAMILY FUN Whether you're staycationing or heading off to sunny climes Summer is a time for family fun. For a chance to win a family pass to your local cinema try our sunny summer word search. Send your completed entry to Christine Ashfield at – Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Name: .......................................................................................................................................... Address… .................................................................................................................................. ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... Congratulations to the winners of the film word search competitions in the last edition … Leon Boswell and Jack Hogg! We hope you enjoy your prizes! D B G N I M M I W S W S Z N F L T J N R U B N U S S A J D V X W I N R N J L X S S W I M M I N G P O O L L D E J I P T L V K B D M A E D Y X A A A N E F A S U D A K E S C T E R E S U G A H H S A E R E R E J N H P S E T K T C C V U Y C I S S I C M K E A N X S R N W O U L L C W E T U E E G N B A E I T S U G U A A S C P S S U N M M E V O M AUGUST BUCKET FRECKLES HEAT ICECREAM JUNE LAUGHING PALMTREE SAND SEA SHADE SPADE SUN SUNBURN SUNCREAM SUNGLASSES SWIMMING SWIMMINGPOOL VACATIONS WAVES 22 | Clanmil Housing Group
Knowing me, KNOWING YOU... Say hello to Philip Whyte, one of Clanmil’s new Community Cohesion Officers. He recently joined us to help with our work in supporting the communities where we have homes. Philip may be fairly new to Clanmil but he has more than 20 years experience working within communities, not just here in Northern Ireland but all over the world! Read on for an insight into this well travelled man who started out at 16 as an Ormo bread boy and who likes nothing more in his spare time than a spot of lawn bowls. What made you decide to work in social housing? I’ve worked in the voluntary sector for over 20 years delivering various community projects including work on promoting cohesion within neighbourhood settings. What attracted me to the post at Clanmil was the opportunity to be involved in the creation of Shared Future housing. I see this as essential for us to move forward in Northern Ireland toward a more peaceful society. What do you like most about your job? I’m really excited about the chance to be involved directly in Shared Future initiatives. Part of my role will be to promote housing developments that give people the choice to live in a shared community if they wish. I’ve been involved in peace and reconciliation work throughout my career and believe that if we are really to have a shared future together we need to learn to be good neighbours and live side by side. What has been your worst job ever? When I was 16 I took part in a Youth Training Programme – most people called them YTPs – and worked as a bread boy in the Ormo Bakery. I had to get up at 4am every day (including Saturday) and deliver bread to shops all over Northern Ireland. Even worse than the early start was the fact that I was only paid £29.50 a week! What is your greatest achievement to date? Back in the late 90s I got involved with a Japanese Peace organisation called Peaceboat - basically a cruise ship that sails round the world like a floating university. My greatest achievement is bringing the ship to Belfast on three occasions with over 1000 passengers on board. I was also lucky enough to be invited back on board as a guest speaker a few times over the years which has given me the opportunity to see much of the world. What is your favourite film and why? I still love the cult film The Warriors. It’s set in gangland New York and I grew up watching it pretty much on a daily basis in the early 80s. I could almost tell you every line. When you’re not in the office what do you like to do in your spare time? Like most people I enjoy socialising with friends and family after a hard week at work. I also play lawn bowls for my local team over the summer and I just recently stepped down, after 15 years, as manager of my local senior football team. What is your guiltiest pleasure? I’m a bit embarrassed to admit this but I enjoy listening to a bit of One Direction. Which super hero power would help you do your job better? Omnilingualism – the power to speak and understand every language in the world. We live in such a multi cultural society now and this superpower would prove very useful indeed. CONTACTLESS CARD PAYMENTS Gone are the days where paying by card in a shop or restaurant took so long! Now with the introduction of contactless card payments we can literally pay for things within seconds. Read on to find out just how easy contactless payments can be… Making your payments contactless 1. If your card has this little symbol …. you will be able to make payments of small amounts quickly and easily in shops and restaurants which offer contactless payment facilities. 2. Your contactless card holds a chip which holds all of your account information which is surrounded by a loop of copper wire that picks up power from a signal sent out by specialised card readers. 3. These card terminals emit an electromagnetic field, meaning when a card chip enters this field it is powered ‘on’. 4. The reader then introduces itself to the card. 5. Only when the card recognises the reader will it ‘reply’ with a payment. 6. The card terminal will then confirm that payment has been accepted usually within seconds. For more information on contactless card payments and for details on which shops and restaurant offer these facilities simply click onto www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/ individual/what-is-contactless.asp Clanmil Housing Group | 23
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