Swaffham Newsletter

Age Concern
Swaffham Support Services was
established to offer support for the
elderly in Swaffham and surrounding
villages, with volunteers kindly offering their time.
Befriending is a great service offering weekly
telephone calls and face-to-face weekly visits, which
are much needed for some of our elderly clients,
many of whom don't get to see anyone else. These
visits allow clients to sit in the comfort of their own
homes and have a chat and a cuppa with much
needed human interaction.
Hospital Buddies runs alongside the befriending
service and offers transport to health related
appointments with a friendly service and support
throughout.
Both of these services are run from our office, where
we offer information on how to access them and
where we encourage all our volunteers and elderly
clients to pop in and see us.
Swaffham Support Services are greatly valued and
offer support to so many around the Swaffham area.
Without our service, some of our clients would be
completely lost and the expense to get to and from
the hospital would be an immense struggle. We are
asking for more volunteers, no experience is needed,
except a friendly outlook. Please consider helping to
support us to keep this unique and important running.
For details of how you can help Please Contact Brad
on 07412 775574 or Donna on 07393 981290.
Swaffham Support Services
Age Concern Swaffham & District
Royal British Legion
At last we have been able to resume
our monthly meetings. It was very
encouraging that so many members turned up for
the meeting, held at the Con Club, and we actually
welcomed one new member. During lockdown we
lost a long serving member, John McBain, who for
many years had been a very capable Poppy Appeal
Organiser. He will be greatly missed by all who knew
him. We also lost a former Branch President, Wing
Commander John Ralph ('Tom') Tucker. For those of
us who hold those posts now, we have a great deal
to live up to.
If you would like to join us, our meetings are on the
3rd Tuesday of the month at the Conservative Club
at 8pm. November's meeting will be the AGM.
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Swaffham Jazz Club
For our September session we welcomed the return
of Bays River Jazz Quintet to the club, a year on from
their earlier booking thwarted by Covid.
Two of the band had fallen ill and had to pull out at
the last moment. The line-up therefore was band
members Mark Jolly - electric violin, John Temple –
sax and clarinet, and Ian Hireson – bass guitar. Sitting
in were Mick Betts on guitar and Craig Hipperson on
drums. I would like to thank both of them for sitting
in at the last moment. The guest vocalist Diana Hare
opened by welcoming the return of live music and
wishing the Jazz Club every success for the future.
The mix of instrumental pieces and vocal numbers
produced an evening of uplifting nostalgic music
featuring many well-known tunes, such as Moon
River and What a Wonderful World, which have welloutlived
the long-forgotten films that launched them.
She sang beautifully and spoke in an interesting and
entertaining way.
It is so rare to have
a violinist in a Jazz
Band that I took the
opportunity to find
out how Mark got
involved in playing
jazz. He told me he
grew up surrounded by
live music. His father
played the ‘fiddle’
and his mother the
accordion in folk bands.
His mother had been
playing at a ceilidh the night before he was born.
When he was eight his father gave him his violin to
‘have a go’. He could immediately play the instrument
by ear. He has always earned his living by playing the
violin in clubs, ceilidhs and folk events. He got into
jazz when he moved from Northampton - where he
was born and brought up - to Wymondham where
he now lives. He was playing in a folk band when he
was approached by Ian, who was so impressed by his
playing that he asked him to join the band.
His main jazz influence is Stephane Grappelli, the
famous jazz violinist who played with the guitarist
Django Reinhardt. His favourite type of music is ‘Blue
Grass’ and favourite band ‘Dire Straits’.
Unfortunately, he no longer plays his Dad’s violin as
it was blown away by a strong wind when he was
playing outdoors at a Country Dance and it was
smashed to pieces.
Next up: Tuesday 12 October at 7.30 ‘The Art of the
Trio’ from Norwich Jazz Club. Swaffham Conservative
Club. £10 (cash) on the door
Geoff 01366 328730 & Norman 01760 722384
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carers, we’re friends – and sometimes our friends
need a little help. That’s why we personalise
each day to meet the individual needs of our
residents and their families.
And hearing their laughter is music to our ears.
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CALL 01760 722920 TO ARRANGE YOUR VISIT
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