Swaffham Newsletter

Downham Grange
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We provide meaningful person-centred exceptional care for those in
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Swaffham Rotary presents...
Swaffham Visual Arts Festival 2018
Having had a successful Golf Day I was delighted to
hand over a cheque for £2000 to SSAFA (The Armed
Forces Charity) and the same amount to Big C Cancer
Charity.In addition the Club decided to support
my own President’s Charity The Samaritans by
donating £500 to their funds. Their offices in Queen
Street, King’s Lynn are long overdue for a major
Rebecca Louise Law
need of residential, respite, nursing or dementia care.
Swaffham Rotary International Installation Artist, Saturday 6th October refurbishment so our contribution will greatly assist
present 2018 at the West Acre Theatre, West Acre, 7.00 for Swaffham with the Rotary purchase of a new lap-top computer and TV,
Swaffham Visual Arts Festival 7:30pm. 2018 “...unlike anything experienced at Kew present both to be used in the future training of Volunteers.
before.” Maria Devaney, Kew Galleries and Exhibitions Swaffham Visual On the Arts 10th Festival September 2018
members of the Club
Leader, Autumn 2017. Tickets with canapés & wine: met and had a super 3 course meal in the friendly,
REBECCA LOUISE LAW
£15 per person
welcoming rural surroundings of The ESCAPE Project
International Installation Artist ---------------------------------------------------------------------
REBECCA at Tumbler LOUISE Hill. LAW We are very happy to continue to
support this wonderful local Charity.
Saturday 6 The fEAST Theatre Company
th October 2018 at the West Acre Theatre, West Acre
International Installation Artist
Present “Into Thin Air”, Tuesday 16th October 2018
7.00 for 7:30pm at The Nicolas Hamond Academy, Saturday Swaffham, 6 th October 7.00 2018 at the West Acre Theatre, West Acre
for 7:30pm. Tickets: £12 adult; £8 Concessions; £4
“…unlike anything experienced at Kew before.”
Maria Devaney, Kew Galleries and Exhibitions Student Leader, & pupils. Autumn 2017
7.00 for 7:30pm
Tickets with canapés & wine: £15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
per person
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Jane Hodgson Artist
“…unlike anything experienced at Kew before.”
Talk and display, Saturday Maria 20th October Devaney, 2018 Kew The Galleries and Exhibitions Leader, Autumn 2017
The fEAST Theatre Company
Pedlar’s Suite, George Hotel, Swaffham, Tickets 7.00 for with canapés & wine: £15 per person
Present 7:30pm. Tickets: £6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
per person.
“Into Thin Air” ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Film Night 2018 - ‘Breathe’
The fEAST Theatre Company
Tuesday 16 th October dining We 2018 really want at to The make a Nicolas difference Hammonds Friday Academy, 28 September Swaffham 2018
7.00 for 7:30pm.
Present
It was set up with strong
to the lives of the people we care for.
With this in mind we have built the At the Swaffham Community Centre, Campingland,
“Bringing Original a nd Vibrant Theatre t o Our Region”
“Into Thin Air”
local support and in
home to the highest specifications,
Swaffham, 7.00 for 7:30pm £9 per person with a
recognition of the high
giving particular consideration
dementia to making the design and layout
Tickets: £12 adult; £8 Concessions; £4 buffet Student supper & pupils. prior to film.
levels of rural isolation,
suitable for people living with a
Tuesday 16
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th October 2018 at The Nicolas Hammonds Academy, Swaffham
dementia.
deprivation and lack of
Festival Annual Art Exhibition & Preview Evening
7.00 for 7:30pm.
help for mental health
This new home will enable us to
Venue: The Assembly Rooms, Market
“Bringing
Place, Swaffham
Original a nd Vibrant Theatre t o Our Region”
continue to provide high-quality
issues in the area and is
surroundings Jane and Hodgson environment. It Artist
Preview Evening: Friday 26th October at 7.00 for
linked to Family Action.
will ensure our staff deliver quality
of service and improve the quality of
Tickets: £12 adult; £8 Concessions; £4 Student It’s & pupils. aim is to support
life of our residents
TALK
every
AND
day.
DISPLAY 7:30pm.
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and improve life
Exhibition: Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 at 10:00am to
Saturday 20th October 2018 at The Pedlar’s Suite, The George Hotel,
opportunities of people
16:00pm
The staff at Downham Swaffham
Grange go
in the community with mental health issues, low
that extra mile to make the home Preview Evening: Tickets with canapes & wine: £6 per
Jane Hodgson physical Artist activity, isolation or emotional well being.
feel comfortable and relaxed. We
like Downham Grange 7.00 to for feel like 7:30pm person. Saturday & Sunday: £2 per person.
It needs everyone’s support. They work closely with
a ‘home from home’. We encourage
Available from Ceres Bookshop or on the door
people to take
TALK local AND services DISPLAY - GPS , Schools and mental health
Tickets:
part in the daily
£6
living
per person
activities as well as other ongoing Saturday & Sunday only. All tickets available from services who refer vulnerable individuals to them for
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activities that take place throughout
the day.
Ceres Bookshop, London Street, Saturday Swaffham. 20th October 2018 specialist at The Pedlar’s support. If Suite, you can The or George wish to help Hotel, phone
Swaffham
Karen Bek or Katy Fullilove on 07884 311604.
“It took me just a few
Recently two of us in the Club have been able to
days to feel at home
Swaffham Spiritual Awareness Group
7.00 add for to 7:30pm the excellent work and contributions given
because the staff are
Meets in the Community Centre,
to Sophie, Jo Burke and Family in the past by The
so welcoming and
Beech Close, Campingland, Swaffham
Tickets: Lions £6 per by producing person
caring”
working drawings and submitting
at 6.30pm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Planning and Building Regulation applications for the
Downham Grange Care Home
necessary extension to their Bungalow in Swaffham.
Clackclose Road, Downham Market, 14 th October, David Schiesser, Huntingdon.
We will now be obtaining prices and helping them
Norfolk PE38 9PA
28 th October, Barbara Price, March.
Tel 01366 387054 Fax 01366 385861
by overseeing the actual building work that is so
downham.manager@kingsleyhealthcare.co.uk We offer healing from 5.30pm prior to our Sunday services
www.kingsleyhealthcare.co.uk
necessary for Sophie and her Family’s well being -
Our trained healers can help with various types of pain and tension from
stress. This service is free although donations are gratefully received part of our Vocational Service.
Boasting 62 en-suite bedrooms, the home has
been finished to the most luxurious standards,
with extra-wide corridors, a variety of large
spacious and comfortable lounges and
rooms with kitchenette areas that help to promote
independence and social inclusion.
The home has been designed to meet the needs
of people who require nursing and
care. This exciting new development meets our
Kingsley care ethos, responding to individual
needs and providing the highest standards of care.
Like all Kingsley Healthcare Homes, our care is
focused around each person’s individual needs and
wishes. We value and respect how each person
chooses to spend their day.
Our strong ethos of person-centred care runs
through everything we do. Our staff are all highly
experienced and receive on-going training to make
sure that we deliver only the very best quality care.
Swaffham
President’s Corner
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Last month I attended a Garden Party at Whissonsett
with the Club’s Community and Vocational Officer
Amanda Foulkes held to promote LEEWAY - the
specialist domestic abuse Charity. LEEWAY supports
adults, children and young people who have or who
still are experiencing domestic abuse. It works in
Norfolk and Suffolk and has safe houses in Breckland
and West Norfolk. For further information, help,or
advice phone 0300 5610077 Whilst at the event our
Town Mayor. Colin Houghton told me of the Town
Council’s Project for remembering and marking
the 100th Anniversary of the end of WW1 - The
Swaffham Poppy Display. We hope that many people,
organisations and districts will embrace this idea and
make this year’s important Anniversary that more
special. Recently Councillor Ann Thorp asked the
Club to help with the sale of an evocative watercolour
painting by John Bailey showing Ghost figures of the
war surrounded by a beam of light and poppies - the
proceeds going to The British Legion Appeal.The Club
will carry out a Silent Auction at our forthcoming Art
Exhibition on 26th, 27th and 28th October, which
is the culminating part of our Visual Arts Festival.
Prior to that the painting will be displayed in the
shop window of Club Member Claire Dunne’s Ceres
Bookshop, part of her own contribution to the
Mayor’s Town Poppy scheme.
The plot for our play at Hamonds on the 16th
October has local interest - It’s 1982, The Falklands
War is on the Telly, Dexy’s Midnight Runners haunt
the airwaves and a 15 year old Norfolk Schoolgirl is
going off the rails - and vanishes ‘Into Thin Air’.
You will see more details of this month’s Visual Arts
Festival that I referred to in last month’s Column.
The film “Breathe”, Rebecca Louise Law, fEAST play,
Jane Hodgson’s talk on Art and the Art Exhibition. We
hope as many of you as possible will visit and enjoy
these Charity functions.
Malcolm Whittley