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National Volunteer’s Week Celebrations at John Eastwood Hospice

Despite the downpour, volunteers of John Eastwood Hospice thoroughly enjoyed their street party on 1st June to celebrate, not only the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, but also National Volunteer’s Week.

Staff at John Eastwood Hospice like to recognise the work of the volunteers annually and what better time to acknowledge the support received. Volunteer’s Week takes place 1-7 June every year. It's a chance to thank volunteers for the fantastic contribution they make to our community.

Provided with an afternoon tea, fun, games and music during the afternoon, the volunteers were able to meet as a whole team at the Hospice for the first time since COVID 19 struck two years ago.

Long Service Awards were presented to those volunteers who have assisted with our services for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years. Seven volunteers were presented with certificates and badges for a commitment of 35 years despite the Hospice officially opening in 1992. These volunteers started their voluntary positions within Support Groups throughout the community, these were originally set up to raise funds in order to build the hospice. Today just two of these support groups remain in Edwinstowe and Warsop and they continue to fundraise solely for the Hospice.

Approximately 170 voluntary staff work in several different areas in the hospice, their duties include tea bar, reception, gardening, transporting patients from home to our Living Well Centre, supporting day services and providing clerical support to the nursing staff and Hospice Trust staff. We also have teams at our two charity shops in Mansfield and Sutton in Ashfield.

The voluntary staff are an integral part of the hospice team. We are very proud of them, and thank them for their wonderful commitment.

John Eastwood Hospice Trust, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 4HJ

Web: www.johneastwoodhospice.org.uk email: contact@johneastwoodhospice.org.uk tel: 01623 622626

Emojis - love ‘em, loathe ‘em, use them or not; I would imagine that most of us know what they are by now. Do you know how long they’ve been around for though? It’s perhaps longer than you may think…

Not unsurprisingly, emojis first surfaced in Japan. Japanese has a pictorial based written language (like Chinese) and the word “emoji” itself actually derives from three Japanese characters (or kanji). (“e,” picture, 文 (“mo,” write) and 字 (“ji,” character). The first set of emojis were developed in Japan in 1997 for a mobile phone named the SkyWalker DP-211SW. There were 90 designs, including ones we would recognise today, “thumbs up”, for example, but they were basic. 1999 saw the development of symbols that were more pictorial for use on another Japanese mobile phone service. This set of 176 emojis kickstarted the widespread use of emojis. Their creator Shigetaka Kurita had only 144 pixels in which to design the emojis, meaning they look clunky and awkward when compared with the ones we see today. MSN messenger, the online computer based messaging program (anyone remember that?) created 30 “emoticons” for use on the platform in 2003. But emoji use on phones was mainly confined to Japan until 2010, when emojis were incorporated into Unicode (an international encoding system which gives every letter, digit or symbol a unique numeric value across different programs and platforms - basically, it means that just about every language can be assigned and identified using the system). 722 emojis for both iPhones and Android phones were released that year. There are now close to 3,000 emojis listed in the official Unicode list and even an online Emojipedia (created in 2013). The creator of this reference website also established World Emoji Day, held on July 17th each year

(www.worldemojiday.com).

The choice of date apparently references the date shown on an iPhone calendar emoji (I don’t have an iPhone, so I can’t check this!). Today people use emojis constantly; in fact, you could (if you were so inclined) probably create an entire sentence using the images. There’s even a TV show which features a game where emojis are used to describe TV shows, films and books; contestants have to guess the answer based on a set of emojis created by one of the other players. The accuracy of the emoji use varies tremendously though - it seems one person’s translation can be very different to another’s! It’s funny, isn’t it? The world’s first written languages were highly pictorial - think Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Archaic Chinese, Linear B (Mycenaean Greek), Linear A (Minoan Crete) and the Cuneiform scripts of the Sumerians; it appears we are coming full circle!

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