Bath Half Marathon and Fun Run On Sunday 2 nd March a team of 24 wonderful individuals ran the Bath Half Marathon raising money for SWALLOW. The team included veteran Team SWALLOW member, Rhian Denton, who has completed the race every year for the last 3 years raising over £500 in total! Our fastest runner, Cameron Kavanagh, completed the 13.1 miles in just 1 hour 33 minutes whilst our top fundraiser this year is Jim Rutherford who has raised a fantastic £580! Total sponsorship from this year’s Bath Half Marathon looks set to be just under £5,000. Thank you to the whole of Team SWALLOW! Two SWALLOW members also participated in the Bath Family Fun Run. Mark Filer and Daniel Bates (pictured below) were the keen runners and completed the 1.5 miles in just over 8 minutes. Mark has so far raised the brilliant sum of £537 and will be running the Bristol 10k later this year! Page 2 Supported Housing Courses Page 3 Courses continued Sports Fun Day Page 4 - 5 Work Skills Page 6 Evaluation Day Page 7 Christmas Raffle Page 8 Fundraising Base House Dates for your Diary Youth Club Newsletter April 2014
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Bath Half Marathon and Fun Run On Sunday 2nd March a team
of 24 wonderful individuals ran
the Bath Half Marathon raising
money for SWALLOW.
The team included veteran Team
SWALLOW member, Rhian Denton,
who has completed the race every
year for the last 3 years raising over
£500 in total! Our fastest runner,
Cameron Kavanagh, completed the
13.1 miles in just 1 hour 33 minutes
whilst our top fundraiser this year is
Jim Rutherford who has raised a fantastic £580! Total sponsorship from this year’s Bath Half
Marathon looks set to be just under £5,000. Thank you to the whole of Team SWALLOW!
Two SWALLOW members also participated in the
Bath Family Fun Run. Mark Filer and Daniel
Bates (pictured below) were the keen runners
and completed the 1.5 miles in just over 8
minutes. Mark has so far raised the brilliant
sum of £537 and will be running the Bristol 10k
later this year!
Page 2 Supported Housing
Courses
Page 3 Courses continued
Sports Fun Day
Page 4 - 5 Work Skills
Page 6 Evaluation Day
Page 7 Christmas Raffle
Page 8 Fundraising
Base House
Dates for your Diary
Youth Club
Newsletter April 2014
Hawthorns
Supported Housing
Redfield Road Garden Makeover Thanks to the latest kind donation from Raia’s
parents, the mosaic work to decorate the new
pond at Redfield Road is now underway.
Tenants are creating
the design which will
be installed on the
wall surrounding the
pond.
Songbirds Songbirds celebrated its 1
st Anniversary at the beginning of April. The group started
thanks to Roger volunteering his time and
has gone from strength to strength. We
now run two sessions per week. To join
Songbirds please contact Judy on 01761
414034. Keynsham
‘The Keynsham groups had a visit from
the Chairman of B&NES Council, Neil
Butters, on the 18th March. He was very
impressed with what we are doing
at Keynsham and asked lots of
questions about SWALLOW.
Also pictured is Lucy with some
Easter bunnies that she made.’
Caroline Thatcher
Courses Development Manager
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Courses
“I have been living at the Hawthorns for
nearly 4 years. I have attended Boogie
Nights and regularly go to the gym with
Jess D. I also go swimming on a regular
basis and do a lot of lengths with
supports from Jess H. Andrew has
helped me to save towards my holiday to
Spain in May. I am going with my family.”
Sarah (pictured on her birthday)
Ladies’ Night The last two Ladies’ Nights in March and February have seen members
trying their hand at creating sugar craft flowers and having a pamper
evening!
Courses continued
Boogie Nights Jane wanted to share some pictures from Boogie Nights and is
delighted that members are keen to put on another show in the
summer.
If you would like to
join Boogie Nights on
Thursdays between
7pm and 9pm, please
contact Judy on
01761 414034 for
more information and
to book your place!
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Sports Fun Day - 14th June We are very excited to be planning a Sports Fun Day on Saturday 14
th June at Fosse Way
School between 12 noon and 3pm. Everyone is invited to come and have fun whilst giving
different sports a go. We have Bath Rugby, Somerset Football Association and the Mendip
Golf Club already signed up to give taster sessions and will have plenty more activities on
the day.
Please make a note in your diaries of the date and come with your friends for a fun
afternoon!
...STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...
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SWALLOW Community Cafe
Work Skills Enterprise Scheme
We are thrilled to announce that the WSES has a new
venture - the SWALLOW Community Cafe. The Cafe is
based at the Church Rooms on Church Road, Radstock and
we will be open for snacks and drinks every Wednesday and
Friday between 11am and 3pm.
The Cafe gives WSES participants the opportunity to gain
hands on work experience either in the kitchen preparing
food, or front of house waiting on customers. This is a very exciting development and we
hope that the Cafe will become a central part of the local community.
Horticulture WSES The long awaited, and longed for, greenhouse has now been erected in the Base House
garden (thanks to Midsomer Norton Town Council and The Sperring Trust) and is an
amazing addition to the Horticulture group.
Lazy Days Landscaping did a fantastic job
laying the foundations and the group are
looking forward to starting work on the spring
hanging baskets and planting new season
flowers and vegetables. Here they are
pictured on their first visit to the greenhouse.
The group are also continuing to nurture the
raised beds, pond and wildlife garden
installed by Avon Wildlife Trust.
Craft - Forget me Not Throughout the Spring and Summer months the WSES will see a packed diary of craft
stalls and fairs where the Forget me Not products will be sold. A full list of dates and
venues is on display in the SWALLOW office.
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Evaluation Day 2014 Our annual Evaluation Day was held at The Church Rooms, Radstock on Thursday 27
th
February. As always it is a great opportunity for SWALLOW members, staff and families
to get together and review events from the past year and plan activities for the next 12
months. We had a great day and enjoyed a wonderful lunch at The Radstock Hotel.
Thank you to everyone for your help and work, this year is set to be our busiest yet! The
Work Skills participants made the following comments about the day...
It was a brilliant lunch!
I liked finding out what was going on in other groups. Now
I know what goes on at Chilcompton on a Wednesday, I want
to join that group and do some drama, cookery and zumba.
I was pleased to share what I had
been doing in SWALLOW with Mum.
I enjoyed taking part in the
singing and dancing.
Meri and Helen really helped us express
our ideas.
It was good to spend the day with
people we know and are happy
with. I have made more friends
at SWALLOW.
Helping to give feedback to everyone at Evaluation
day, made me feel confident and proud.
Dear All
As promised I have attached photo's of the Agusta Westland Helicopter
trip I was lucky enough to win in your prize draw at the latter end of last
year.
Three of my friends and I had the trip on the 2nd April and we were
fortunate to have our flight extended on the day as they needed to pick
up a test pilot from Brize Norton so it meant the flight lasted well over an
hour.
On the trip to Brize I was able to sit in the co-pilot seat which I found
amazing, with great views and the chatter through my headphones allowed
me to listen to all the air to ground interchanges.
May I take this opportunity of thanking you and your team for this
wonderful prize.
Kind regards
Iain McLaren
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Christmas Raffle - Prize Winner
SWALLOW The Old Engine House Old Pit Road Midsomer Norton BA34BD 01761414034 [email protected] www.swallowcharity.org Reg Charity No: 1045893 Company No: 3034328
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Youth Club After the Easter Holidays the Youth Club group will move from Fosse Way School to the Radstock Church Centre. The purpose of this move is to enable the children to experience a more "Youth Group" feel to the club.
Lily - Youth Leader
Fundraising & Marketing
Little Green Sprouts - Suttons Seeds For the keen gardeners among you, we are
continuing our partnership with Suttons Seeds
and have signed up to their ‘Little Green
Sprouts’ fundraising initiative. If you need
gardening supplies to get your outdoor space
into shape this spring please log onto:
www.littlegreensprouts.co.uk/swallow sign up to the scheme and for every purchase you
make we will accumulate sprouts which we will be able to cash in for gardening supplies
for the WSES Horticulture group or Redfield Road gardening group.
Dates for your Diary...
From 9th April SWALLOW Community Cafe
open every Wednesday and Friday
23rd April Fun Club Pub Meal
25th April Men’s Night, Bingo
14th June Sports Fun Day
New Arrivals Welcome to our new staff and volunteers:
