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Derriford & North

September 2019

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MILLFIELDS CELEBRATES The Millfields Trust is celebrating 20 years of service to the local community in Stonehouse and beyond - see page 6

Plymouth’s popular Art Weekender event returns to the city in September - See page 12

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Hundreds of people of all ages stepped out for the annual Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk which took place on September 1 in and around Central Park • Story and more photos on page 2 Photo: Andrew Higgins

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WHITLEIGH PLAY PARK GETS A BIG MAKEOVER A Plymouth play park has had a complete overhaul thanks to a partnership with a community group.

Having joined forces with the Whitleigh Community Trust, the council have been able to replace all of the equipment in Milford Lane play area and make significant changes to the neighbouring play park in Norwich Avenue.

A new slide, cradle swing, seesaw and carousel have all been installed alongside seating to create a welcoming, safe area for local children.

The changes have been funded by a £19,000 donation from the Postcode Lottery, successfully bid for by the Trust.

The park was officially opened at an event with over 50 local children last week.

Councillor Pete Smith, Deputy Leader of Plymouth City Council, said: “It is so nice to see children of all ages enjoying the play park.

“Play improvements and encouraging children to go outside is so crucial for their health so I’m delighted to see the Milford Lane facility completed and ready for the summer holidays.”

Barry Meek, Chair of Trustees for the Whitleigh Community Trust, said: “Its lovely to see all these children and residents coming together to make their area a better place to live and play in” As well as the changes at Milford Lane, nearby Norwich Avenue has also seen some changes, with improved access to the play area for older children and a new path installed.

Norwich Avenue and Milford Lane will form the Milford Play Hub. The Trust will run a range of community activities and events including play days, bug hotel building and community picnics within the two parks while the Council will continue to maintain the equipment.

Councillor Smith added: “Thanks so much to our friends at the Whitleigh Community Trust for all their hard work. This is proof that partnership work in the community can really bring about positive change.”

BUSY TIME FOR PLYM VALLEY RAILWAY Plym Valley Railway has a number of events in the coming weeks.

Events during the month include: September 8 and 22 Travel between Marsh Mills and Plym Bridge on a Brake Van pulled by an industrial diesel engine. Footplate and driver taster experiences also available.

September 15 and 29 Enjoy a train ride pulled by steam and diesel engines from Marsh Mills to Plym Bridge. Why not take a walk through the National Trust owned Plym Bridge Woods before returning on a later service. There will also be a miniature train attraction.

Visit www.plymrail.co.uk for all details including ticket prices and running timetable.

Sarah Redford cuts the tape to start the Memory Walk Photos: Andrew Higgins

Hundreds unite against dementia at the Plymouth Memory Walk Around 700 people joined forces to unite against dementia at Plymouth Memory Walk.

68-year-old Sarah Redford, from Saltash, who volunteered at this year’s event and whose grandmother and mother both had dementia, cut the ribbon to start Alzheimer’s Society’s Plymouth Memory Walk.

Teresa Parsons, Alzheimer’s Society services manager for Plymouth, said: “Dementia is now the UK’s biggest killer with someone developing it every three minutes yet dementia research still trails far behind other health conditions, after decades of underfunding.

“I am so glad that hundreds of people from across Plymouth, and the surrounding area, united against dementia to improve the lives of people living with the condition.

“Dementia devastates lives;

it slowly strips people of their memories, relationships and identities. Every pound raised will help Alzheimer’s Society provide information and support, improve care, fund research and create lasting change for people affected

by dementia. Alzheimer’s Society is committed to spending at least £150 million over the next decade on dementia research to improve care for people today and find a cure for tomorrow. I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who

has helped make this year’s Memory Walk such a brilliant success.”

Sarah Redford added: “I took part in Memory Walk two years ago and volunteered last year. Dementia has affected my family quite considerably, so it is a cause close to my heart. My grandmother and mother both had dementia. My aunt, who is 93, has it and my younger sister, who will be 66 in October was diagnosed at the age of 59 and is now in a nursing home.

“The camaraderie on Memory Walks is absolutely amazing as everyone has seen someone affected by this terrible condition.”

Memory Walks are taking place up and down the country or people can organise one of their own. To find out more about the remaining walks and Your Walk, Your Way, go to memorywalk.org.uk

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Livewell goes digital and donates funds to two local worthy causes Two charities have received vital donations after Livewell Southwest ditched paper payslips and went digital this year!

There’s lots of benefits to accessing a payslip online including reduced costs, easy access to historical payslips without having to sort through files, and reducing Livewell’s carbon footprint.

Livewell pledged to donate half of the investment in the scheme to local charities and asked staff for suggestions of worthy beneficiaries.

As a result the Shekinah Mission and the Together for Childhood project each received a cheque for £500.

Shekinah provides opportunities for people in recovery or seeking recovery. This may include recovery from homelessness, drug and alcohol issues, offending behaviours or mental ill health.

Shekinah believes that everyone deserves to be given another chance, and a passionate and dedicated team of staff and volunteers have worked tirelessly over the years ensuring that people in crisis are given a variety of opportunities to reach a secure and contented life.

Steven Elford, future recruitment advisor at Livewell suggested Shekinah and presented Andy Kebby, their events and community manager with a cheque.

Andy said: “A huge thank you to all the Livewell staff who nominated Shekinah to receive these funds. This money will go towards filling our freezer with meat as this is one of the most difficult items to get donated but one of the most essential food items we use.”

The second cause was the Together for Childhood project and suggested by Sara Kirkup, children young people and family services professi,onal lead at Livewell.

Together for Childhood is an innovative, evidence-informed approach bringing local partners and families together to make our communities safer for children. Working collaboratively, agencies will develop and test effective approaches for preventing child abuse, drawing on examples of best practice from around the world.

The project will see children’s charity the NSPCC join forces with Plymouth City Council, Plymouth Safeguarding Children’s Board, safeguarding partner agencies such as police and health, community groups, fellow charities and the voluntary sector, schools and the wider public – with the aim of building a better future for young people by identifying and addressing problems at a local level in a truly integrated way.

Oliver Mackie, strategic service manager, NSPCC said: “Livewell Southwest are a core partner in the

Plymouth’s latest Plan for Homes has received a major funding boost.

Livewell NSPCC cheque presentation with Sara Kirkup

Livewell Shekinah cheque with Steven Elford

Together for Childhood Programme for Plymouth, helping to develop a public health approach to prevent child sexual abuse and support children and their families.

The donation made by Livewell significantly helps us in engaging children, parents, communities and professionals in conversations about the steps and actions needed locally to enable healthy relationships and prevent child sexual abuse and provides a real boost to the

project as we prepare for citywide campaigns.”

For more information about Together for Childhood, including a short video by Cllr Sue McDonald, Children and Young People at Plymouth City Council, visit www.plymouth.gov.uk/schools educationchildcareskillsandemployability/ childrenfamiliesandchildcare/ keepingchildrensafe/togetherchildhood For more information about Shekinah visit www. shekinah.co.uk

Strategic Planning and infrastructure said: “Work is progressing well on relocating utilities and we are now getting the site ready for the start of the main construction work.

“This is one of our biggest ever infrastructure projects but we are doing all we can to minimise

disruption and let people know of any changes that may affect them so that they can plan ahead.”

Full details of the Forder Valley Link Road and improvements around the Forder Valley interchange (Leigham roundabout) can be found at www.plymouth.gov.uk/fordervalley

Gearing up for main construction on Forder Valley Link Road People who use Blunts Lane are being warned it is to close later this month for the duration of the Forder Valley Link Road works.

The narrow route, which runs between Forder Valley Road and Davy Road, is going to be out of action to through traffic from Monday 23 September.

The closure will be in place throughout the project, which will create a much-needed alternative link between the A38 and the north of the city.

It will also enable work to start on a haul road (a temporary road that will be used for transporting material and plant to and from the site compound) at the bottom end of Blunts Lane, near Poole Farm. Balfour Beatty will set up a site office beside Poole Farm at the same time.

People will still be able to access Poole Farm but all other drivers and pedestrians will need to follow a signed diversion route via Novorossiysk Road and Miller Way. Access to properties and allotments on Blunts Lane will be maintained from the north (via this diversion) and residents are being contacted directly.

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£9 million homes boost for Plymouth

Gas repairs in Miller Way for two months

Wales & West Utilities is upgrading gas pipes along Miller Way in Derriford.

The £100,000 investment started in early September and is likely to be completed by the end of October. This work is essential to keep the gas flowing to heat homes and power businesses in the area so that people are safe and warm for generations to come.

To keep the local community, road users and our colleagues safe, Wales & West Utilities has worked closely with Plymouth City Council and it has been agreed that rolling two-way traffic lights will be in place on Miller Way as the work progresses. Motorists are advised to allow extra time for travelling.

Ahead of the work, Wales & West Utilities has been in touch with local businesses and schools in the area to advise them of the planned work.

Wales & West Utilities Roxanne Whittaker is managing the work. She said: “We know that working on roads like this is not ideal, but it really is essential to make sure we keep the gas flowing to homes and businesses in the area, and to make sure the gas network is fit for the future.

“This work will not only keep the gas flowing safely and reliably today, it will also help make sure the gas network is fit for the future and can play its part in delivering reliable and affordable green energy.”

“We’ll be working as safely and as quickly as possible to make sure the work is completed in a timely fashion, while keeping inconvenience to a minimum for local people and road users.”

For information contact freephone 0800 912 2999 or enquiries@wwutilities.co.uk.

Thanks to an executive decision signed today by Council leader Tudor Evans, £9 million will be allocated to the new Housing Investment Fund.

The fund – announced as part of the third Plan for Homes earlier this year – is a pot of money designed to support the housing industry to deliver the needs of the city.

This could include acquiring land, gap funding for specialist homes and truly affordable housing, preparing sites for new homes or providing infrastructure.

For example, the regeneration of North Prospect was the first project to benefit from the fund in March, when £1 million was put towards the construction of new roads and footways, updates to the drainage systems and the installation of services like electric and gas to allow for new homes to be built.

Councillor Evans said: “People need houses, truly affordable houses at that, and I’m delighted that we will be supporting the delivery of the Plan for Homes through this fund.

“The council no longer directly provides new homes, but we can’t leave the market to fend for itself so instead we work with a range of delivery partners to build the homes we need.

“This allows us to intervene to ensure that all residents with all different kinds of needs have the housing that they require.”

The Housing Investment Fund is built on a principle of funds from housing activities going onto provide more new homes.

For example, the £9 million injection includes £7 million from Right to Buy receipts from the sale of former Council houses and is completed by Section 106 contributions specifically to support the provision of affordable housing.

Meanwhile, any future funds resulting from the sale of land for housing will also go back into the fund, making it a sustainable resource for funding future housing throughout Plymouth. Future Right to Buy revenues will also be added to the fund.

The latest version of the Plan for Homes sets out a framework to help support the building of 5,000 new homes over the next five years.

By supporting a variety of new and affordable housing to tackle housing needs and homelessness whilst addressing existing poor housing conditions, the plan sets out a clear vision of the future for housing in the city to support the delivery of the Joint Local Plan.

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Out and About Your guide to events in the local community and beyond

Plymouth Railway Circle Various dates All meetings take place at St Edward’s Church Hall, Home Park Avenue, Peverell starting at 7.30pm.

Admission charge £1 (members), £2 (visitors). Visitors are very welcome.

Chris James will be the speaker on September 9. His subject will be Broad and Metre Gauge Railways in Spain, Portugal and Argentina over the years. Chris reflects on his journeys through slides and digital presentation, featuring modern and steam heritage trains.

On September 23 Amyas Crump continues a tribute to, and celebration of, Peter Gray’s railway memories.

Amyas delves into Peter’s archive to provide a further fascinating recollection of his vast collection of colour photographs taken during the age of steam.

John Gulliver is the speaker on October 7 with the second part of his presentation on The Barnstaple line: yesterday, today and the future. John concludes his analysis and commentary on the branch line from Exeter to Barnstaple with a reflection on its recent and current role in the transport of north Devon.

Lou Watkins and Mervyn Kendall are the speakers on October 21 with their presentation: Switzerland: a tale of two trips. a digital show of two halves. The first half will tell the tale of Lou and Mervyn’s trip in September 2017, travelling from West to East and back again. The second half will tell the tale of their trip in February 2018 to travel on the RhB Snowblower over the Bernina Pass.

Plympton Fuchsia and Geranium Group Sept 10 Meetings take place in the Main Hall at Harewood House in Plympton. They start at 7.30 pm and generally last for a couple of hours. Guests are always made most welcome and there is also a raffle. We also have a refreshment break half way through the meeting.

This month, in addition to our practical session on taking fuchsia cuttings, cutting back older plants in preparation for winter and generally getting ready for the 2020 season, Sheila Hancock will be joining us to talk about the history of Stowford Paper Mill.

Table Top Craft Sale Sept 14 Kings Tamerton Community Centre 12pm until 4pm.

Refreshments available. £5 per table. To book ring 07955 962213.

Coffee Morning Sept 14 Trinity Hall, Torr Lane, Plymouth 10.30am to 12.30pm in aid of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport Conservative Association. Stalls, raffle etc. Entrance £4 to include coffee and biscuits.

Plymouth Broadway Organ & Keyboard Club Sept 18 Mark Thompson will be playing a wide variety of well-known music at Broadway Community Centre, Plymstock. 7.15pm. Admission £5 including tea/coffee.

Free parking. All welcome. Details 01752 706712.

Oct 16 International organist DirkJan Ranzijn from Holland will be playing his superb Bohm organ at Broadway Community Centre, Plymstock. 7.15pm. Admission £5.

Includes tea/coffee. Free parking. All welcome. 01752 706712.

Coffee Morning Sep 28 Plymstock Community Centre 10am too 1pm. All proceeds to the Mustard Tree. Bring and buy, crafts, cakes, raffle, books, cards and more. Entry 20p.

Autumn Fayre Sept 28 St Budeaux Parish Church Community Hall, The Green, Crownhill Road from 12 noon to 3pm. Several tables selling goods, including toys, cards, gifts, handbags, jams, jewellery, beads, bric a brac, etc. Refreshments available. Limited number of tables to hire at £5: to book phone 01752 362161.

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Not to be missed

Elmer’s Big Parade Until Sept 15 For 10 weeks in the summer of 2019, a parade of 40 fabulously colourful and unique elephants will take you on a trail around the beautiful city of Plymouth and surrounding areas. From the hustle and bustle of the city streets to the peace and grandeur of the Hoe, and from the green spaces of Plymouth to the spectacular coastline; Elmer’s Big Parade will navigate you around Britain’s Ocean City and across the river to Mount Edgcumbe. St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth has worked in partnership with Wild in Art and Andersen Press to bring this mass participation, family friendly, art trail to life; featuring the much beloved children’s character of Elmer, by Devon born artist and author David McKee. At the end of the summer each of the beautifully designed Elmers will be auctioned to raise funds for St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth. For more information visit www. elmerplymouth.co.uk Plymouth Seafood Festival Sept 14 and 15 Seafood lovers are in for a treat this September, as Plymouth Seafood Festival returns for its 8th year to the Barbican and Sutton Harbour. This free festival is a vibrant celebration of the incredible sustainably caught fresh fish and seafood on offer in Britain’s Ocean City and with plenty of fun and entertainment throughout the two days, there’s something for everyone. Visitors will be able to watch as some of the region’s top chefs create spectacular dishes in the cookery theatre.

They’ll be taking to the stage from 10am each day of the festival, cooking up delicious seafood dishes. There are also opportunities to watch demonstrations, from cracking crab to the traditional craftsmanship of Lobster ‘Withy’ pot making, using willow. Stalls will line Quay Square and The Parade, selling delicious fresh dishes to enjoy on the day, as well as some special treats to take away – you’ll find everything from street food and shellfish to cheeses, local gins and refreshing ciders. CATERed will also be hosting their hugely popular Kids Kitchen, so children can get hands-on with making some tasty dishes, all for free.

Find out more at visitplymouth.co.uk.

Plymouth Art Weekender Sept 27 to 29 Venues of all shapes and sizes across Britain’s Ocean City will play host to exhibitions, events and community based activities for the 2019 Plymouth Trust who help patients and their relatives to deal with all aspects of coping with cancer.

Bubblicious – A New Flavour of Raver!

Sept 28 The Soapbox Children’s Theatre, Devonport Park Bubblicious returns for the best family friendly dance party in town! With crazy costumes, bubbles, UV, games, face painting, arts area and licenced bar.

Baby Rave 1pm to 3pm; Family Rave 4pm to 6pm More information at www.soapboxtheatre.org.uk

Race for Life - Pretty Muddy KIDS Sep 29 Race for Life Pretty Muddy Kids is a brilliant muddy obstacle course just for the little ones. They can take on the obstacles, crawl through the mud pit and have fun with friends, all the while helping raise valuable funds for life-saving research. Please note, all children taking part must be at least 1.2m tall on day of event. Entry £10 for children, accompanying adult free. For more information visit www.raceforlife. cancerresearchuk.org An Evening With Aggers Oct 4 Since the home Ashes series in 2013, the Evenings with Aggers shows have been delighting audiences and

Plymouth Seafood Festival returns on September 14 and 15

Art Weekender. Founded in 2015 by Visual Arts Plymouth CIC (VAP), after the British Art Show 7 in 2011 saw a growing appetite for ambitious artistic activity in the city.

This year’s Community Engagement Commission sees the Weekender partner with Nudge Community Builders, a community benefit society that owns, creates and runs activity in disused, underused or unusual urban spaces to lead to lasting positive change and community-led regeneration.

As part of a unique city set up, new contemporary art production agency, Flock South West is coordinating and managing the Weekender in 2019 and 2020. This year’s Art Weekender takes place between September 27 and 29 with opening celebrations taking place at Plymouth’s largest independent, artist-led contemporary art venue KARST on the Friday evening. For more details visit www.plymouthartweekender.com.

Plymouth 10k and 5k Oct 6 Experienced runners and newer runners can have the best of both worlds with the addition of a 5k race to complement the popular Plymouth 10k.

Plymouth 10k holds an undulating course, suitable for runners of all abilities. Starting in the City Centre, runners head out towards Marsh Mills along the embankment and back whilst taking advantage of closed roads and great scenery. The 5k race is new for this year, offering newer and younger runners the chance to take part in a closed road race. There will also be a famous mascot race, where selling out theatres all over England. Join Aggers in his solo show as he takes us on a trip down memory lane, recounting tales from a wonderful and entertaining career on the field and in the box, with film footage, audio clips and photographs on the big screen. At the Red House Theatre in Millbay. Tickets from www. laughablecomedy.com Saints and Sinners Oct 12 A musical revue at Devonport Playhouse, Fore Street, Devonport presented by Sounds Musical Theatre Company. Performances at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Music, dance and drama chosen from popular films, stage musicals and plays Tickets can be booked online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/sounds or 01752 343472.

Tamar Choir Oct 12 Concert at St Edward’s Church, Eggbuckland at 7.30pm.

Tickets £5, light refreshments available.

Creepie Crawlies Oct 12 to 24 The Soapbox Children’s Theatre, Devonport Park Walter loses his imaginary friend, Jess. Join Walter as he ventures into the world of imaginary friends where he meets all sorts of characters on his search for Jess. www.soapboxtheatre.org.uk

characters will take each other on to entertain the watching crowds.

Tour de Moor Oct 13 Hundreds of riders of all ages will tackle the popular St Luke’s Hospice Tour De Moor. It’s the region’s boldest charity cycle challenge - an adrenalin fuelled event over a hill-filled 52 km mixed terrain course. It’s mud. It’s sweat. It’s gears.

Or take it down a gear and keep your foot to the pedal with a family friendly shorter tour of the moor. Donations and sponsorship help pay for St Luke’s invaluable work. Details from www.stlukeshospice.org.uk/fundraising/ Bonfire Night Nov 5 Remember, remember the fifth of November!

Plymouth Hoe will be lit up with a Bonfire and Fireworks display. Key landmarks across the Hoe, including Smeaton’s Tower, the Royal Citadel, and the Plymouth Naval Memorial will be spectacularly illuminated throughout the evening.

Christmas Lights Switch-On Nov 14 Plymouth Loves Christmas Lights! The Christmas holiday calendar officially kicks off with the switch-on of the fantastic Christmas lights and marks the start of late-night shopping in Plymouth City Centre.

The Addams Family young@part Oct 18 and 19 DJR School of Performing Arts present the Plymouth Premiere of ‘The Addams Family’ (young@part) at the Devonport Playhouse. This new musical comedy features a wonderful musical score and a fabulous set built and designed by Andy Martin. This production is based on the 1960’s television classic series and the 1990’s film version. The cast of around 30 young performers includes the Addams family characters.

Performances 7.30pm and Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. With the theme being close to Halloween, the audience are invited to attend in Halloween costumes.

Tickets £11 for adults, £9 for children and seniors, £35 for a family of four available now on 07999 639888.

Quiz Night Fundraiser Oct 31 In aid of Provide Devon, a Plymouth charity which provides food for people in crisis. To be held in the Bidfood Marquee at Plymouth Albion RFC. Teams of eight £40 per team. Bar open from 7pm with pasties and sausage rolls available to purchase. Raffle with fantastic prizes. Booking and payment by October 4: contact Ayshea at providedevon@outlook.com. Plus Santander will match fund up to £2,500 raised on the night.

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Plymouth is shortlisted for Future High Street Fund

Plymouth has made the shortlist of the Future High Streets Fund, which could unlock more funding to help the city centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regeneration.

The City Council submitted its initial bid in March which focused on Plymouth City Centre and seeks funding to help deliver an ambitious regeneration agenda.

It has now been confirmed that the expression of interest for Plymouth City Centre is one of 50 additional places nationally to be shortlisted for phase 2.

The timing for the phase 2 bidding process is yet to be confirmed, but means that the city could be in line for up to ÂŁ150,000 initially to work up project business cases. Final funding awards could be up to ÂŁ25m per place.

Councillor Mark Lowry, Cabinet member for Finance and city centre champion said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have been working hard to regenerate the city centre and to revitalise it, make it come to life after hours and to provide homes as well as jobs. Getting through to the second round of the Future High Street Fund is a significant step in the right direction.â&#x20AC;?

The Expression of Interest was prepared earlier in the year by a team at Plymouth City Council, working closely with the Plymouth City Centre Company.

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This news follows the recent designation of the City Centre as a Conservation Area. An expression of interest has also been submitted to the Heritage High Streets Action Zone programme, which is part of the Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now ÂŁ1 billion Future High Streets Fund.

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JOB SHOP Millfields Trust celebrates 20 years of service Advertise your vacancy FREE in Job Shop

All local businesses, voluntary groups, and individuals organisations and groups are invited to post their job vacancies in our Community Job Shop feature.

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RECEPTIONIST Plymouth Natural Health & Healing Centre are looking for volunteer receptionist, training will be give travelling expenses will be paid, for more information please contact Robert Parkins on 01752210279 SCHEME CO-ORDINATOR The Newnham Solar Community Fund is looking for a new Scheme Co-ordinator to support the Directors’ decision making process and enable the fund to benefit the local community. 10 hours per month mainly working from home, salary negotiable depending on skill set. Email admin@newnhamsolarfund.com for more information.

VOLUNTEER GARDENERS Manor Street and Green Ark Children’s Centres in Stonehouse and Devonport are looking for volunteer gardeners. Light gardening duties will include pruning, tidying and planting seasonal fruit, herbs, salads, vegetables and flowers. You will need to have a friendly and approachable manor with a keen interest in gardening.

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HOSPITAL RADIO PLYMOUTH VOLUNTEERS Hospital Radio Plymouth, the award winning station, celebrates 50 years of broadcasting this year to hospitals around the Plymouth area. We are looking to expand our live coverage of programmes both during the day and evenings. We are looking for additional volunteers to help our charity. If you have what it takes to get involved, then give Robert Goodall a call on 07733 055519.

ENGAGEMENT VOLUNTEER Healthwatch Plymouth is a local service to give the people of Plymouth a voice with regard to their experiences of health and social care services. We are looking for people to talk to other people about their experiences. We operate from various locations across the city. We provide training, expenses (out of pocket and travel), transport and you will be with a positive and supportive team. No experience necessary just the ability to listen to people and hear what they are saying. You will meet new people, have fun, build your confidence, build on your CV and gain new skills. Contact details are volunteering@ healthwatchplymouth.co.uk or 08009230039.

DISTRIBUTORS Cornerstone Vision, publishers of the Plymouth Chronicle, are looking for distributors, to help deliver leaflets across the city and surrounding area.

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The work of the Millfields Trust, which is a social enterprise, is summed up in four words: Business where community profits. Its beating heart is the empowerment and improvement of quality of life for all in Stonehouse.

The Trust recently celebrated its 20th Anniversary, and guests including Board Members and tenants past and present, stakeholders and friends of the Trust were treated to an evening of fine food and great entertainment, at Stonehouse Barracks.

Roger Pipe, chief executive and Mandy Toze, business development manager have been with the Trust from day one and were presented with gifts from the Board to say thank you for their long service.

“We aim to make a difference in Stonehouse, supporting people and uplifting the neighbourhood itself,” said Roger. Over 20 years, they have certainly done that.

To generate income to sustain its work, the Trust offers high quality affordable business space for rental on flexible terms, in premises designed to support emerging, small and medium sized enterprises across all sectors.

Profits from rental income have enabled Millfields Trust to invest £1.6 million back into Stonehouse and to start and more importantly sustain other projects designed to benefit the local community.

Speaking of the Millfields Trust’s business activities, Rev Sam Philpott, Chair of the Board who has been with the Trust for 20 years, said: “When groups start up, their work often stops after two or three years, because people expect them to be self-sufficient and they stop the funding. So Millfields creates its own income.” That strategy has played a big part in its successful and steady growth.

Regeneration of buildings and community spaces; creation of business spaces so that new ventures and small enterprises can start up and thrive in a supported environment; inspiring children in the seven local primary schools to believe in themselves - these are just some of the successful, long term Millfields projects that have contributed to Stonehouse becoming a significantly different place to live and work over the last twenty years.

Since 1978 Sam has worked against a backdrop of low expectations within and outside the Stonehouse community. He, and others, have relentlessly encouraged residents and those in positions of power in the city to say ‘yes’ to the possibility of change, for the good.

“This was a hurting community that felt it was overlooked, ignored and left out,” said Sam. “They were told by some that things couldn’t change and they believed it. But I’ve found that there have always been people in the community and the city willing to change things,” said Sam. Over the last twenty years of Millfields Trust and more, Sam says that: “The community is now taken much more seriously by the council and businesses too. But the cornerstone is the residents, who believe this is a good place to live and it can be a better place to live. Millfields Trust helps them to engage and make this happen.

“People outside the area used to think it couldn’t change either but now they are seeing and acting

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differently. There are some who champion what we do, like council leader Tudor Evans who believes in social enterprise and always encourages and aims to say yes to explore what we’re doing. There are Councillors from all parties like that.”

Sam is quick to give credit to Millfields CEO Roger Pipe: “He has gathered a brilliant team of exceptional people and helped them to gel, got their buy in and they all deliver.” It’s testimony to the quality of the team that some have been with the Trust for many years.

Millfields Trust is designed to have the Stonehouse community fully involved. The Board has a majority of eight local community directors, alongside a business director, two city councillors (appointed by the council), a tenant director and can co-opt three more (like Sam, who now lives outside Stonehouse after many years serving as vicar of St Peter’s church).

“Anybody in the Stonehouse community can become a member, and they can stand for election to the board if they want to make a positive contribution to its aims,” said Sam. “Those aims are to raise people’s sights, bring them together to see others getting on in life and say ‘I can do that’. We have to become a society that says ‘yes’ and explores ideas to make things better.”

Plymouth, like any other city, has its problems but it has its champions who are seeking to improve things.

Sam Philpott, Roger Pipe and the Millfields Trust team are one expression of that kind of positive work.

Over the coming months, the Plymouth Chronicle will feature the work of groups that are engaged particularly with issues of child poverty and encouraging young people especially to have hope that they can make better futures for themselves, their families and their community.

Millfields 20 years snapshot The first buildings rented to tenants in 2000 were at Mary Seacole Road and Creykes Court in the Millfields (the former RN hospital in Stonehouse). The Trust has added more properties including the purpose built Genesis building and HQ (formerly the Jaeger factory), both on Union street. They provide flexible co-working in shared offices to help new businesses make the move from home to office; up to 1,500 sq ft spaces, including office and light industrial depending on the location.

In 2008 The Widening Horizons programme was launched, supporting and enabling students from the seven Stonehouse primary schools to explore new and challenging learning experiences with visits to a number of different workplace venues.

In 2013 Millfields Inspired was established as a charity supported by the Millfields Trust. Its objectives are to work with young people and their families from the Stonehouse area, to provide a pathway from school to a future career. It seeks to create sustainable change by extending and developing the Widening Horizons programme.

In 2017 Grow Stonehouse was launched, a community gardening project, led by Millfields Inspired and funded by The People’s Health Trust. The project helps residents of Stonehouse to find ways to meet, socialise and spend time outdoors in shared green spaces.

In 2018 the Trust established innovative, viable textile manufacturing at Makers HQ. This Community Interest Company is a unique collaboration between Plymouth College of Art, Millfields Trust and the local Stonehouse community to reignite fashion and textiles manufacturing in the city.

It is fitting that it is located in the former Jaeger factory, which once employed 250 people.

The Zone needs your vote in bid for prize The Zone in Plymouth is on the shortlist to win a share of Persimmon Homes’ Building Futures £1 million pot supporting under-18s nationwide, but first they need online votes to win.

Persimmon Homes Southwest is backing The Zone to be a prize winner at a gala dinner in October, where cash awards of £100,000, £50,000 or £20,000 will be made to those winning the most online votes.

Lucy Green (Project Lead) representing The Zone, said: “It is a huge achievement to have been selected as a regional finalist, but now we really need people to get behind us and get voting, so that we are in the strongest possible position to earn one of the top three awards on the night, so that we will be in an even better position to help more young people into the future. The young people that we work with face multiple health inequalities. Up to 60% of young people aged 13-18 years that we work with will be at increased risk of smoking, increased risk of being obese, and at increased risk of poor sexual health.

“Many will be dealing with family and relationship breakdown and will have been exposed to domiciliary abuse. Many will have parents with drug or alcohol issues and will in turn themselves be at significant risk of poor mental health.

“The team of specialist volunteers that we intend to train, if we win one of the major awards, will be in a better position to deliver early interventions with young people in partnership with colleagues from the NHS, and in partnership with local schools and community settings. This is a real opportunity to make a lasting difference in young people’s lives. Next year is the Zone’s 30th anniversary, and hopefully with the support of Persimmon, we can make it a year to remember’’.

Lucy added: “Voting could not be simpler. Just log on to www.persimmonhomes.com/building-futures/ and select ‘Finalists’ and then vote for ‘The Zone’. We would really appreciate everyone’s support.”

Building Futures is being delivered through the

Persimmon Charitable Foundation, which last year donated £620,000 to support children’s sport.

Through Building Futures, a total of 128 grants of £1,000 have been awarded to groups supporting sport, education & arts and health across Persimmon’s 31 regional businesses and its head office.

Persimmon Homes is an official partner of Team GB and the Persimmon Charitable Commission enlisted the help of medallists Kat Copeland and Callum Skinner to help determine the three regional finalists for each business division.

One initiative from each category will go on to win £100,000 each through a national award scheme to be decided by a public vote.

As well as the £100,000 first prize, there will be a £50,000 second prize and a £20,000 third prize in each sector, while a further 87 shortlisted projects will each receive £5,000.

Online voting will close at midnight on September 27. To support ‘The Zone’ please visit: www. persimmonhomes.com/building-futures

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Big boost for grassroots music in city

Grassroots music venues across Plymouth have joined forces to create a fortnight long festival of music called Fightback Plymouth.

There will be more than 100 shows at over 20 venues between September 13 and 28.

Fightback Plymouth has been coordinated by the Music Venue Trust in a joint initiative with Plymouth City Council to promote the city’s independent music scene.

Venues taking part include Plymouth Pavilions, B-Bar, Barbican Theatre, Annabel’s Cabaret and Discotheque, The Treasury, The Underground, Fortescue Arms, The Junction and UPSU Bar and Main Hall.

Fightback Plymouth is a new campaign that will encourage audiences to visit their local grassroots music venues and promote Plymouth’s emerging and existing musical talent.

There will be live music every day throughout the festival at a whole range of venues right across Plymouth. Many venue bars will be further participating in the Music Venue Trust’s fund-raising campaign by stocking Fightback Lager, a craft beer developed from within the grassroots music community. A donation from every pint and can sold gives financial support to the charity.

Fightback’s Gary Prosser said: “These venues are the backbone of the live music scene in Plymouth, providing spaces where artists can take their first steps, develop and grow.

Fightback Plymouth provides an opportunity to showcase the fantastic range of artists and venues that Plymouth enjoys, celebrate the history of our music scene and support its future.”

MVT chief executive Mark Davyd said: “We are delighted to be working with Plymouth City Council on this public facing event which also provides the opportunity to research and survey the city’s music venues and music scene.

“We will be working with local promoters, musicians and venue managers to understand the potential in Plymouth’s grassroots music venues and unlock the opportunity to build a world class music scene.”

Councillor Tudor Evans, Leader of Plymouth City Council said: “It’s fantastic to be working with the Music Venue Trust on Fightback Plymouth, which is going to give vital support to the local grassroots venues and musicians at the heart of our live music scene.

“Most importantly, this is our chance to prove how passionate Plymouth is about live music.

I want to encourage everyone to show their support by getting out and enjoying the events on offer, visiting the brilliant range of venues and watching our talented local bands and musicians.”

Fightback Plymouth is keen to interact with local Plymouth businesses to create a truly unique festival that unifies the Plymouth grassroots community. Contact gary@ musicvenuetrust.com if you are interested in getting involved with the event.

For details of the events and venues visit www.mvtfightback.com/plymouth

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NSPCC survey helps to identify needs of families in Ernesettle The community of Ernesettle is leading the NSPCC’s flagship Together for Childhood programme with organisations across Plymouth working with local residents to develop and test ways to best protect children. The Together for Childhood team provide the latest monthly update on its work to keep children safe from sexual abuse.

Since we announced Ernesettle as our pilot site area, people from the community have been telling us what they think about abuse prevention and what they already do to keep children safe.

We need to hear from as many people as possible, whether they are a parent or not, so that we have a better understanding of what is important to people in the community.

We are keen to know what the community want and need from Together for Childhood, so to help achieve this, we’re using a community survey which we have shared at local events we’ve been at and through local groups and clubs.

Recently the survey was hand delivered to 400 homes in the neighbourhood and we would urge the households who have received the survey to complete it and return it in the pre-paid envelope as soon as possible to ensure they have their say.

It’s clear already that people in Ernesettle are very

positive about Together for Childhood and passionate about preventing abuse. The suggestions and reflections shared with us by residents, workers and community groups have been refreshing and insightful, and will help shape this important partnership work as we continue to move forward with it.

What we find out from the survey can help ensure we don’t duplicate work that is already happening, but instead focus on developing resources that help people identify and respond to abuse by giving them the information and support they need to continue their great work.

Anyone who has not received a survey, but would like to be involved, can email claire.white@nspcc.org.uk or call 01752 422755 to be provided with a paper or online version to complete.

You can find out more about Together for Childhood, and how to get involved, on Facebook by searching Together for Childhood Plymouth (Ernesettle), on Twitter @TFCPlymouth, or on the NSPCC website at www.NSPCC. org.uk or by calling 01752 422577.

Adults with a concern about the welfare of a child can contact the NSPCC’s helpline for advice and support on 0808 800 5000 or help@nspcc.org.uk. Children can contact Childline on 0800 1111 or childline.org.uk 24/7, 365 days a year.

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NSPCC workers in Plymouth are acutely aware of the impact sexual abuse can have on childhoods, through the therapeutic work they offer at the children’s charity’s service centre in the city.

Its Letting the Future In service supports children and young people to rebuild their lives, having experienced sexual abuse.

Now the NSPCC has joined forces with communities and organisations across the city in a partnership programme aimed at preventing abuse from happening in the first place.

Together for Childhood Plymouth is formed of NSPCC, Plymouth City Council, Devon and Cornwall Police, Livewell South West, Barnardos, community groups, children and families, the voluntary sector, and schools.

The team preparing to take on the Plymouth 10k know that 1 in 20 children suffer sexual abuse and all of them are passionate about prevention and making sure abuse doesn’t happen in the first place.

It’s why they are pounding the streets of Plymouth, during training sessions for the 10k challenge, which they will attempt on October 6.

Children’s Service practitioner Sam Wolf said: “I have decided to run in the Plymouth 10k, my first ever 10k, to raise money and spread the word about Together for Childhood.

“The 10k is something that I will find a challenge, but for a worthwhile cause – sexual abuse prevention!

“I couldn’t do it without the support of the team who all feel the same drive to get the message into the Plymouth community.”

The money the team raises will be used to work with children and their families to explore the best ways to protect them. What works well in the pilot site area of Ernesettle will be rolled out in other areas of the city.

The NSPCC’s Strategic Service Centre manager in Plymouth, Ollie Mackie said: “We will listen to communities, share what we know, what we find out, and work alongside children, young people, families and professionals to

build confidence in communities, taking positive action to keep children safe.

“I have decided to take on the Plymouth 10k challenge because it is the chance to do something as a team and to spread the word about Together for Childhood; showing our commitment to prevent child sexual abuse goes well beyond our day to day jobs, it is something we all feel incredibly passionate about and the funds raised we hope will inspire others to step up.”

The Plymouth PANTS campaign fronted by mascot Pantosaurus, forms one element of the Together for Childhood partnership that has seen organisations across the city unite, working together to prevent child sexual abuse.

The programme is already providing help and support for families at a community level, to protect children from harm.

For more information about Together for Childhood or to support the team visit their fundraising page, the NSPCC website, @TFCPlymouth on Twitter, or Facebook group - Together for Childhood Plymouth (Ernesettle).

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Appeal tops £14,000 for Derriford’s new Paediatric Emergency Department An appeal to raise funds for the new Paediatric Emergency Department at Derriford Hospital has reached its target of £14,000.

The SplashED Appeal has had many generous supporters who have given up their time and come up with innovative ideas to raise money.

Widewell Primary School held a pre-loved book fayre, a Christmas market and held school discos throughout the year, raising a total of £250.

Consultant in paediatric anaesthesia, Dr Michelle Chopra, completed a sponsored one kilometre swim dressed in a unicorn onesie and raised nearly £300 for the appeal.

Thanks to generous donations including £3,000 from TSB banking, £1,500 from Plymouth Area Builders and Spreaders and creative fundraising efforts from Widewell Primary School, Dr Michelle Chopra, Drake Circus and Bandvulc Tyres, the appeal has now come to a close.

The money will be used to purchase fun activities and items for children, to help keep them calm and distract them while they wait

in the children’s Emergency Department.

Among these items, the League of Friends has purchased a ‘Magic Carpet’ which works by projecting interactive games onto a flat surface. Hundreds of different visual stimuli can be programmed into the projector, providing a fun activity for children, whilst keeping the floor space clear.

“We would like to thank so many people for donating to this appeal in such a short period of time,” said Plymouth Hospitals charity development manager, Corinne Bailey.

“Coming into hospital can be a very scary experience for many children so to be able to buy toys and resources that can distract children from their worries and tears is brilliant for everyone involved.

“We will continue to fundraise for the Emergency Department as it is so busy and equipment will need replacing.

“If you would be interested in fundraising, you can call us on 01752 430332 to find out more. The SplashED appeal and everyone’s support has made a big difference in cheering up the clinical area. Thank you again.”

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Biker Stu’s incredible £84,000 fundraising efforts Plymouth biker Stuart Morrissey (AKA ‘Madrider1961’ when he is online) has been raising money for charities since 2004, riding his Honda CG125 motorcycle all over the UK.

In total, £84,000 has been raised from rides on behalf of charities including the RNLI, the Poppy Appeal, Army Benevolent Fund, DEBRA and the latest, and perhaps his final, a tour of the castles of Cumbria for Macmillan Cancer Support.

During that time he has gone through two or three bikes, always relatively small 125s, and his oldest bike is now in the Moretonhampstead Motorcycle Museum. “We raised £55,000 on that bike, starting off with the round England ride for the RNLI in 2005,” said Stuart.

Stu began his charity work when he was going through a tough time himself. “I was working as a chef at the Holiday Inn, and my marriage was falling apart. My head chef said ‘You need to get something to focus on’ because I was so down. They did some regular charity work at the hotel for DEBRA, raising about £400 a year, and that first year we got it up to £1,500.”

Apart from a break in 2010/11 when spinal surgery prevented Stu from riding, he has completed charity rides every year. His ‘never say never’ approach meant that when Mike Grainger of GT Motorcycles told him not to take a recently fixed (but not 100% ready) bike on a ride, Stuart decided to go ahead and limit himself to 30-40mph.

It was a round trip to Bolton in Lancashire.

True to form, Stu completed the ride, albeit over a long time.

“I enjoy the ride,” says Stu, “and so do the bikers I ride with.” However, he suffers pain

Stu Morrisey (third from left) with biker colleagues

from his back and hips, which is why he decided to make his latest challenge the last one.

For this July’s Macmillan trip to Cumbria, Stu was accompanied by ‘Rocket’ Ron Quin on his 650cc Kawasaki and Dan ‘the Man’ Whittaker riding a Suzuki 600 Bandit. “Riding safe is important,” says Stu, “so we had a

support team in the van, making six of us on the road for six days.”

The team set off from GT Motorcycles on Billacombe Road on July 1, taking A and B roads all the way to Cumbria, camping overnight at various stops. They toured the castles, ‘bagging’ 22 in total. “That included some medieval halls which are castles really.

Two of the official castles had jousting going on so we couldn’t get into them, one was on an island which we couldn’t get to, and one big one we couldn’t find at all somehow!”

They all returned safe and sound to GT Motorcycles on July 6, tired but happy.

“There was just one thing that made us a little sad,” said Stu, “we didn’t get as much publicity or fundraising for Macmillan as we wanted to. It’s no-one’s fault really, but we’d like to see the money go to at least £1,000.”

Jo-Anne Rigby, from Macmillan said: “I would like to thank Stuart Morrissey and the Challenge Cumbria team for taking up this amazing challenge to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.

“The money that the team have raised is truly incredible and will really make a difference to people living with Cancer in Devon.

“Every year over 1000 people from the county call the Macmillan Freephone helpline number for help with questions about cancer.

Thanks to amazing fundraisers like Stuart, the line is now open seven days a week, 8am till 8pm with the ambition of making it a 24/7 service.

“Thank you Stuart and the team for your support so that Macmillan can help people with cancer in Devon live life as fully as they can.”

The Just Giving page is still open. If you would like to donate to this appeal for Macmillan Cancer Support, which is Stu’s last big fundraising ride, please visit www. justgiving.com/fundraising/bikersunite, or go to the Just Giving website and type bikersunite into the search bar.

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Every little helps - Tesco supports fund raising for Help for Heroes

A band of volunteers from Help for Heroes manned the collection buckets at the Tesco Transit Way store to raise just under £500 in vital funds during its Tesco National Collection Weekend for the charity.

The team was delighted by the support of Tesco shoppers who gave generously across the weekend, despite the terrible weather, including donations from a number of veterans who have benefited from support from Help for Heroes for their PTSD. One of the volunteer team, Derek Heape, was also a retired Royal Marine who came wearing his Green Beret and took part in the collection despite having to come to the store on his mobility scooter.

Alec Brown, head of Local Community at Tesco, comments: “We’re incredibly proud to be able to support Help for Heroes with collections at Tesco stores across the country. It was great to see so many fundraisers in stores and we want to thank customers and colleagues for giving so generously to this worthwhile cause.”

Karen Philips who was volunteer team leader for the collection with Help for Heroes, added: “The support of Tesco’s staff and customers, Retired Royal Marine not to mention our own volunteers, at the Derek Heape pictured at Plymouth store over the weekend was fantastic.

Tesco in Transit Way The money raised is essential to make sure we can keep giving veterans and their families the help that they need to live their lives to the full.

“Although there is no active conflict at the moment, the need for us to help them is greater than ever – seven people are medically discharged from the Armed Services every day, and many veterans are now coming OCTOBE to us for help with mental health issues that have taken years to be diagnosed.”

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Heritage Open Contract to be awarded for second phase of Oceansgate Days at Ford Park Cemetery in September Oceansgate, the new home of marine enterprise in Plymouth and a key player in the city’s role as a maritime powerhouse, is taking another step forward with work on Phase 2 of the development starting shortly.

Ford Park Cemetery’s exhibition focusing on youth organisations in Plymouth, including Scouts, Guides and similar groups continues until September 15.

The exhibition is open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10.30am to 3.30pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 12.30pm to 3.30pm.

The Heritage Team at Ford Park will be hosting walks in conjunction with National Heritage Open Days on September 14 and 15. Walks around the cemetery will start from 2pm and last between 60 and 90 minutes.

Go along and find out more about one of Plymouth’s oldest cemeteries and the fascinating stories of some of it’s residents. The cafe will be open for refreshments and there is on site free parking.

Commander Charles Crichton will be giving a talk on September 18 entitled ‘Support to the Fleet at Plymouth,’ tracing the city’s maritime history from Edward First to the days when Devonport became one of the world’s greatest naval bases.

A must for anyone interested in Naval history.

The talk takes place in the Victorian Chapel, starting at 7pm.

Tickets priced at £3 can be obtained in advance from the Cemetery office( Plymouth 665442) or on the door.

Refreshments will be available both before and after the talk.

Also on September 18, Ford Park’s craft club will be holding their Meet and Natter coffee morning, in the Northey Rooms,from 10.30am to 12.30pm. Join them for a cuppa and a chat and here will also be the opportunity to purchase items made by the crafters.

Ford Park’s next exhibition to be held in the Visitor Centre is entitled ‘Devonport’s Heritage People and Places.’

It starts on September 28 and continues until November 17, and is open for public viewing Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10.30am to 3.30pm, Saturdays and Sundays 12.30pm to 3.30pm A walk in conjunction with this exhibition, featuring some of Devonport’s notable residents led by our heritage team will take place on Sunday October 6.

Meet at the visitor centre at 2pm.

Opportunity to discover about amazing gifts Various gifts were made available to the church at great cost - and you could find out more about them over a seven week period in September and October at Mount Gould Methodist Church.

The gifts vary in kind from healing to administration, from mercy to speaking in tongues. There are around 21 mentioned, and each week three of them will be talked about.

Just turn up, or ring 01752 262 600 to find out more. It is open to all and takes place at Mount Gould Methodist Church on a Wednesday evening starting on Wednesday September 4 from 10.30am to 11.30am or a Monday morning starting on September 9 from 10.30am to 11.30am.

The church is situated at 126 Mount Gould Road, PL4 7PY, and is on the 23/24 bus route, near Mount Gould Hospital. Retired Methodist Minister, Terry Higgins, will lead.

The contract for the construction of Oceansgate’s second phase is set to be awarded to Kier, following a delegated decision being signed off today by Plymouth City Council.

Oceansgate has transformed disused MOD land in South Yard, Devonport, into a marine Enterprise Zone and thriving business development.

Council Leader Tudor Evans, said: “Oceansgate is a fantastic development, and one we’re really proud of. It’s bringing more jobs and more investment to Plymouth and cementing our status as a leading location for marine industry in the UK. “It’s a unique offering for businesses, with such close proximity to Princess Yachts, the Dockyard and Babcock, as well as to the in- and on-water testing opportunities offered out by Smart Sound Plymouth, a new proving ground for developing cutting edge technologies.”

Phase 2 will see the creation of a new three storey office building and a further 15 light industrial units, which has the potential to create an additional 130 jobs. The buildings have been designed to be flexible, allowing for a range of sizes of industrial and office

An architect’s impression of Phase 2 of Oceansgate

space, depending on businesses’ needs.

The development’s first phase was completed in April 2018 and is now a base for eight businesses, including the new Marine Business Technology Centre, as well as Lang & Potter Marine, international marine consultants MECAL and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

Like Phase 1, the plans for Phase 2 include the use of natural building materials such as

stone to ensure the development fits within its historic surroundings at South Yard.

The contract for constructing Phase 2 is worth £7.6 million. This second phase of Oceansgate has been funded by a £2.25 million grant from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and a council loan.

For more information about Oceansgate, visit the website at www. oceansgateplymouth.com.

and early 2000s, showcasing how, in spite of their labelling as ‘self-centered’ and ‘fragile’ they are finding new avenues to continue networking, exhibiting, and asking questions regardless of location or financial situation.

Elsewhere, Liveanimals Theatre Company’s ‘Fish in Blender’ – a comment on the current state of politics – is a thought provoking performance centred on accountability,

empathy, and just how bad society is willing to let things get before taking action. ‘Fish in Blender’ will be popping up in city centre locations across the three days.

Flock South West’s Lucy Stella Rollins said: “We’re delighted to make our first set of Weekender announcements with further news to come shortly.

“We have a plethora of exciting and ambitious artists showcasing their work this year with listings ranging from exhibitions, workshops and other dynamic activity to take place across the city. “ Expect everything from subtle interventions to performative spectacles in this year’s showcase of the city’s creative talent.”

Over the years, the Weekender has been made possible with generous support from sponsors, Plymouth City Council, partner art organisations in the city, project grant funding from Arts Council England; and more recently, Plymouth Culture’s ‘Horizon’, a twoyear visual arts programme from Arts Council England’s ‘Ambition for Excellence’ funding programme for Plymouth in 2017-2018.

This year, individuals and organisations across Plymouth and beyond have rallied together to raise funds for the festival through an ambitious Crowdfunding effort.

An impressive £5,737 has been raised through Crowdfunder as match funding to support Visual Arts Plymouth’s successful Arts Council bid, exemplifying a strong artistic network in the South West.

For more details and information about the various events visit www. plymouthartweekender.com.

The Weekender will have a market stall in the Pannier Market on the Friday and Saturday, which will serve as a focal point and central information hub across the weekend.

Plymouth Art Weekender returns in September

Venues of all shapes and sizes across Britain’s Ocean City will play host to exhibitions, events and community based activities for the 2019 Plymouth Art Weekender.

Founded in 2015 by Visual Arts Plymouth CIC (VAP), after the British Art Show 7 in 2011 saw a growing appetite for ambitious artistic activity in the city.

The Plymouth Art Weekender started off as a grassroots experiment to bring together emerging and existing artists in a ‘fringe-like’ fashion.

The collaborative event has grown in magnitude and last year, the Weekender partnered with The Atlantic Project, a pilot for a biennial for Plymouth to bring a set of renowned international artists and a programme of commissions across the city on the same weekend.

This year’s Community Engagement Commission sees the Weekender partner with Nudge Community Builders, a community benefit society that owns, creates and runs activity in disused, underused or unusual urban spaces to lead to lasting positive change and community-led regeneration.

As part of a unique city set up, new contemporary art production agency, Flock South West is coordinating and managing the Weekender in 2019 and 2020.

This year’s Art Weekender takes place between September 27 and 29 with opening celebrations taking place at Plymouth’s largest independent, artist-led contemporary art venue KARST on the Friday evening.

Other happenings over the course of the weekend include group show ‘Notopia’, from emerging artists, d0gMilk, examining the experiences of being a Millennial/Gen Z in contemporary society.

This exhibition will present a survey of work from artists born between the 1990s

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European funding boost for Plymouth’s parks Parks and green spaces in Plymouth have had yet another funding boost.

The city has just secured just under €4 million thanks to a successful funding bid

by Plymouth City Council and its partners.

The money, which comes from the European Commission, will go towards the Green Minds project which will re-wild urban parks, gardens and verges, introduce a new system of working with partners and crucially, encourage more people from all walks to life, to enjoy the health benefits that our green spaces provide This funding announcement follows hoton-the-heels and compliments the Future Parks Accelerator; secured from the National Trust and the Heritage Lottery Fund earlier this year.

Councillor Sue Dann, Cabinet member for Street Scene and the Environment, said: “This is a really exciting time for our green spaces with so many national bodies keen to invest in making them the very best that they can be.

“This project will dovetail perfectly with our work on our Future Parks initiative and will in time lead to us running sustainable parks, nature reserves and woodland areas fit for several generations to come.

“I’m looking forward to working with all the partners and communities to see the benefits of this project.”

This funding has been bid for in conjunction with the University of Plymouth, the National Trust at Saltram House, Devon Wildlife Trust, RIO, The Data Place and Plymouth College of Art. The University, through its School of Art, Design and Architecture and School of Biological and Marine Sciences, will use scientific and digital tools to make nature in the city more visible and exciting.

Associate Professor Dr Katharine Willis said: “This is about imagining the future

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of parks in Plymouth, and we will use innovative ways to reveal and value nature in the city.

“Our world-leading expertise, in fields from marine research to smart cities, will help the wider partnership achieve that.

“The Green Minds project is a truly city-wide collaboration that builds on our existing work on the Future Parks Accelerator project and the development of the first National Marine Park. It will put us nationally at the forefront of innovation when it comes to rethinking nature and how the public engage with it.”

Ed Whitelaw, from the Real Ideas Organisation, who will help the project by creating a 360° nature documentary film for the immersive dome at the forthcoming new Market Hall, said: “This is a great opportunity to bring together and showcase two of Plymouth’s finest assets, our natural environment and our creative digital industries.”

A key part of this project will look at ensuring that Plymouth has a wider range of natural plants and flower by changing the way they are managed.

Currently, the council keep most verges and green spaces tidy and manicured. In a lot of places, like parks or next to road junctions, this is entirely appropriate.

But in other places, this affects biodiversity and has a detrimental effect on the city’s overall green lung. Money from this scheme will go towards setting up a community-led forum to help properly manage and maintain these assets.

Another aim of the scheme is to introduce a city-wide culture change towards attitudes and behaviours to nature and the benefits it can bring to health and wellbeing. It will follow on from the successful Active Neighbourhoods Project in encouraging residents from some of Plymouth’s more urban areas to step outside and explore the place around.

The National Trust at Saltram House will help to add their expertise to create a community orchard, while Devon Wildlife Trust will establish a Ranger service to support public engagement with the project.

Finally, Plymouth College of Art students will benefit from using green spaces in Plymouth as real life case studies for their development of skills and practices. They will be working on permanent art installations, digital arts and urban design, all themed around ‘revealing urban nature’.

Get set to master the moors and make a difference for work of St Luke’s Hospice Cyclists of all ages are getting set for one of Devon’s boldest and most popular charity challenges this autumn, the Tour de Moor in aid of wellloved charity St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth.

The annual event – now in its tenth year – takes place on Sunday October 13, raising funds to help St Luke’s continue its specialist end of life care for terminally ill people, helping them to live well to the end.

Sponsored by Print Copy Scan, a local supplier of printers and copiers, the challenge in the rugged wilds of Dartmoor offers cyclists the opportunity of an adrenalin-packed adventure: the hill-filled 52km mixed terrain route of mud, sweat and gears.

Cycling at its fiercest for those aged 12 and above!

Alternatively, participants aged nine and above can take it down a gear and saddle up for 23km of tough riding over hills and through woods, and there’s also

the ‘mini moor’, a gentle 11km ride along the tarmac paths of Drake’s Trail that’s suitable for all the family.

As well as Tour de Moor providing for every level of cycling ability, the money it raises means the highly skilled St Luke’s team can give not just expert medical care but also emotional, practical and spiritual support to families at the most vulnerable of times, whether their loved one is being cared for at home, in hospital or at its specialist unit at Turnchapel.

Head of fundraising at St Luke’s, Penny Hannah, said: “Tour de Moor is always a terrific day.

It’s fitness and muddy fun, and with three routes to choose from, it’s ideal for both families as well as more experienced cyclists who really want to push themselves.

“Taking on the challenge is a great opportunity to get on your bike and help us provide vital care and support to patients and their families across the local

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New Read Easy group is off to a flying start in Plymouth Readers may remember the recent article in the Plymouth Chronicle about the newly-formed Read Easy Plymouth group.

In the article, the people behind Read Easy Plymouth called for volunteers to train as one-to-one coaches to help local adults who want to learn to read. The response was absolutely fantastic and Read Easy Plymouth would like to thank everyone for their interest!

The first coach training day ran successfully in July and Read Easy now have a waiting list of people ready to attend the next one.

But the really exciting news is that they have now begun to do what they set out to do all along – teach local adults to learn to read. Their first readers are taking the first steps on a journey which will probably change their lives.

If you didn’t see the earlier article, you may not know that some 2.4 million adults in the

UK either can’t read at all, or struggle with this most basic requirement of everyday life.

There are all sorts of reasons why people don’t learn to read as children. Read Easy reading coaches minimise the possible stress and embarrassment involved in learning to read as an adult by providing confidential, one-to-one tuition at flexible times and in discreet and convenient places. People learn in privacy, at their own pace, and with the understanding support of their own dedicated reading coach.

Can you help?

Read Easy Plymouth is affiliated to Read Easy UK, a registered charity covering many areas of the country. There are vacancies on the enthusiastic, committed management team for other like-minded volunteers who have some time to spare and who can appreciate the importance of Read Easy’s work in the local community. Might that be you?

Read Easy is tremendously cost effective: as little as £3,000 a year will fund a Read Easy group. The administration and one-to-one coaching is all done by volunteers. So when they ask for support from local businesses, they’re not asking for a lot.

And they’d be as happy to accept the offer of a free meeting room for regular team meetings, or a quiet space for a coach and reader pair to meet twice a week, as they would financial donations.

The difference Read Easy makes is genuinely ‘life-changing’ – it’s a phrase that new readers use over and over again. It helps them in so many ways: • getting jobs or promotion, or attending training courses • becoming independent shoppers – of medicines, food and clothing – life’s essentials • voting in general and local elections for

the first time in their lives • reading books, newspapers and accessing the Internet /social media – completing online forms too.

• campaigning with confidence for change in their local communities • having the confidence to go to the doctors or opticians for a check up • increased confidence and self-esteem, and improved mental health • supporting their children and grandchildren with reading and homework If you are a local business and would like to support Read Easy Plymouth in any way, please do get in touch!

This is a truly great initiative, changing the lives of people living and working in the local community. What could be more worthwhile?

Contact plymouth@readeasy.org.uk or call Sue Trousdale on 07831 284354

Fresh look at services for city’s young people Plymouth City Council is taking a fresh look at how it works with families with children and young people in the city aged up to 19.

Families, professionals and young people are now being asked to feed back on plans to roll out a new string of Family Hubs and help shape the future of early help services in Plymouth.

Plans are focused on creating an offer that allows families access to the support they need,

when they need it and without having to repeat their story to different people, so that families are empowered to be able to solve their problems in the future.

The project considers how best to bring together the services already in Plymouth, including Children’s Centres and community based help, to deliver a seamless support offer to families, whatever the age of their children

It will build on successful family initiatives like SureStart, and try and pair them with services for older children, allowing individuals and families who may need extra support to get it at an earlier stage before problems get worse.

Councillor Jemima Laing, Cabinet member for Children and Young People, said: “This is an ambitious project but one that aims to improve the lives of the many people who access our

BEST ADVICE FOR ALL PARENTS AND BABIES Children’s centres in Plymouth have been awarded a Certificate of Commitment from Unicef UK, in recognition of the steps they are taking to improve care and increase the city’s breastfeeding rates.

The children’s centres, run by Barnardo’s, Action for Children and Lark, have joined forces and changed the way they support Plymouth’s parents. The changes ensure that no matter which organisation runs the centre, where in the city it is, or who parents speak to they will receive the same level of support.

Centres now offer organised, systematic support for parents about infant feeding. All support and advice is based on best practice and evidence,

ensuring there is no confusion about how best to support your baby in those important first days, months and years.

Ruth Harrell, Director of Public Health at Plymouth City Council said: “Whatever their choice of feeding method, we want to ensure that all parents and babies are supported to form a strong, loving relationship: this is the best start for every baby.

“We do encourage breastfeeding as it protects babies against a wide range of serious illnesses in infancy, against cardiovascular disease, asthma and diabetes later in life and reduces the mother’s risk of some cancers. For those that can breastfeed it’s also easier, cheaper and less hassle than bottle feeding.”

The Baby Friendly Initiative, set up by Unicef

and the World Health Organisation, is a global programme which provides a practical and effective way for health services to improve the care provided for all mothers and babies. In the UK, the initiative works with health professionals to ensure that mothers and babies receive high-quality support to enable successful breastfeeding.

The Certificate of Commitment recognises that a facility is dedicated to implementing recognised best practice standards.

Sue Ashmore, Baby Friendly Initiative Programme Director, said: “We are delighted that Plymouth Children’s Centres have received this award. Surveys show us that most mothers want to breastfeed but don’t always get the support they need.”

services each year.

“We know that children’s centres are very important to communities and parents of younger children, but we want to make sure that we can also serve parents of older children and also teenagers, who can experience particular challenges as they grow up.”

While this project is firmly aimed at improving the quality of services in the city, there is also a savings target of £1 million, to be made over the next five years by bringing services together and working in a more effective way Councillor Laing added: “This is about doing things smarter. Some children’s centres are only used in the daytime. Some youth centres are only used at night. How can we make the best of the facilities we’ve got?

“We’re really looking forward to the feedback from all of the stakeholders and basing the future of the service around them.”

A series of co-design events will be run in the Lower Guildhall. Running from 10am until 2pm on Monday September 16, Tuesday September 24 and Tuesday October 8, the sessions will allow residents and professionals to have their say and get involved.

Places can be booked by e-mail at commissioningteam@plymouth.gov.uk

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Help needed to build the Mayflower Forest Leading members of Plymouth’s construction industry have launched a fundraising campaign to build the ‘Mayflower Forest’ as part of their community engagement efforts towards a lasting legacy for Mayflower 400.

donations from local people who wish to show their civic pride by investing in this project as well as the business community, so that we can deliver our vision for the Mayflower Forest. Everyone can make a difference – my Mum has raised £300 by rallying support from the residents of Skylark The Road to Mayflower team plan to Rise at Woolwell!” deliver a new landscape design to revitalise Stuart Elford, chief executive of the Devon Marsh Mills Roundabout as a green & Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, said: “As gateway transforming the visitors’ arrival the Greek proverb said ‘A society grows great experience as well as delivering significant when people plant trees in whose shade they environmental benefits. know they shall never sit’.

The volunteering design team, led by “The Chamber is delighted to endorse AECOM, AWW and YGS Landscapes, plan to this volunteering legacy project and we are plant over 1,000 trees creating the Mayflower proud to kick-start this fundraising campaign Forest of silver birch trees and using local by donating the first £100. We urge our stone to create an artistic dry riverbed. local business community and the people Emma Hewitt, skills co-ordinator at of Plymouth to get involved and help us to Building Plymouth, leading in partnership build our Mayflower Forest, which will be a The Road to Mayflower project, spoke about fabulous welcome to our great city.” the campaign: “As a team of committed Adam King, associate director of AECOM volunteers, we now urgently need the and leading Landscape Architect, said: “Our local community to help us raise £40K by vision is to retain the best elements of the September 18 – it’s all or nothing so the existing green infrastructure and enhance pressure is on. them, to provide an elegant sophisticated “Every pound counts and we welcome green gateway to the city. As a global construction consultancy working very closely with the city on major infrastructure projects, we are delighted to offer our CSR, design and other volunteering time to reinforce our continued commitment to the regeneration of the city.

This fabulous legacy project further demonstrates our Artist’s impression of the Mayflower Forest at Marsh Mills sense of civic pride and community spirit.”

Launching the Mayflower Forest Campaign (from left) David Bayliss Stride Treglown, Karl Friedrich Hoare Lea, Ian Sanders AWW, Rachel Dyer AWW, Stuart Elford Devon & Plymouth Chamber, Steve Whiteway 110 Club, Steve Warren-Brown YGS Landscapes and Emma Hewitt Building Plymouth

Steve Warren-Brown, managing director of YGS Landscapes, said: “As a proud Plymothian I am thrilled for my company to be involved in delivering this fantastic project and given the heightened profile of environmental issues this is a timely investment for more trees to be planted which will significantly help to reduce pollution. We hope the local business community will get on board and help us make this legacy project a reality.”

Ian Sanders, director of AWW’s Plymouth office, said: “We recognise the opportunity that Marsh Mills offers us to create a green gateway to the city but we can’t deliver

our exciting designs without a successful fundraising effort now.

“Through creating the Mayflower Forest, our design nods to the Native Americans using birch to make canoes and shelters which is an interesting link to the wider Mayflower400 commemorations.”

To find out more about the Road to Mayflower project, including how to get involved in the project, visit www. buildingplymouth.co.uk/road-to-mayflower Please pledge your support on the Crowdfunder before September 18 by going to www.crowdfunder.co.uk/mayflower-forest

THE UK’S ULTIMATE MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE STAR IS HEADING TO PLYMOUTH Five chances to win a pair of tickets!

Michael Jackson fans are set to be wowed when the UK’s ultimate tribute to the King of Pop heads to Plymouth in 2019.

In the year marking 10 years since the death of Michael Jackson, Ben Bowman is embarking on a UK tour with more than 40 dates celebrating the life and work of arguably one of the most popular and

influential entertainers in the world.

Ben, who not only looks and sounds like Michael Jackson, but has honed his routine so impeccably that audiences believe they are watching their hero, is bringing his incredible live show Michael Starring Ben to Plymouth Pavilions on Saturday October 5.

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It’s important to just say ‘yes’ sometimes THE

By Ian Pilkington, Trustee of Cross Rhythms Plymouth

Experience This piece is about how having a big enough ‘yes’ frees us up to take on challenges and voice our concerns at the same time.

But first, some background: At the time of writing, we’re enjoying the last few weeks of summer, the kids are still off school, the Ashes against the old adversaries are in full swing and the early mornings and evenings are still light enough to enjoy.

So, in keeping with the season we now have Christmas shopping on the various TV shopping channels, countdowns to Christmas are appearing in our Facebook timelines and society in general seems to have lost the plot when it comes to appropriate timing.

I used to get grumpy about the increasingly early Christmas mentions.

It was pointless, nobody listened and certainly no one stopped the madness. So, this year I decided to get on board and go one better, reading the story of the birth of

Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, in August.

Out of ‘season’ I read it from a fresh perspective; I suspended my ingrained expectations of what the Christmas story is about, and looked at how people responded.

In a nutshell, the angel Gabriel (not fluffy with wings and harp, but awesome enough to cause trembling fear in the people who saw him so that he had to tell them not to be afraid) tells both Zechariah (husband of childless Elizabeth) and Mary (not yet married to Joseph) that they’re going to have children.

Mary and Zechariah both say, in effect, ‘no way, how can that happen!’ and we can’t blame them. Mary was a virgin, which is a pretty big obstacle.

Ian Pilkington Zac and Liz (excuse me) are an old man and woman and have never been able to have children.

Archangel Gabriel, messenger of God (he’s a really big deal as far as angels go) rebukes Zechariah and renders him speechless until the birth of his son John; in contrast

he explains some more to Mary about the miracle that will take place in her womb.

Why treat them differently? Why so harsh with the old man?

The clue is in Mary’s later words: ‘I am the servant of the Lord, let it be to me as you have said.’ Getting back to my opening paragraph, she had already said a huge ‘yes’ to God, way before Gabriel showed up with his news.

“As His servant, I accept whatever He has for me” is how The Passion translation of the Bible puts it.

She’s already made a decision that she’s ‘in’, whatever happens.

Mary was a young woman whose heart was set on serving God; Zechariah was an old man, a priest who was ‘doing his job’ serving God. Maybe his heart wasn’t in it?

Certainly he wanted some proof to persuade him of what Gabriel said. It reads like he’s saying: “convince me and I’ll believe you,”

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compared to Mary saying: “I’m already in, but how on earth are we going to do this?”

We can be like either of them; at different times I’ve been like both of them and I know which one works best (it’s not the one where I protect myself with cynicism and hesitancy.)

Whether it’s in marriage and other committed relationships; or in a team situation where my part is needed for the success of everyone, it’s always better when I’ve made a strong yes to our goal upfront and decided not to go back on it.

When the difficulties come it can be hard either way and sometimes in our humanity we get it wrong for all kinds of reasons, but there’s a much better chance of ultimate success when our hearts have said ‘yes’ to a purpose bigger than ourselves.

The best place to put that ‘yes’ is in the hands of perfect love, which the Bible tells us is God Himself, who understands our weaknesses and wants the best for us.

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Call for halt to cuts in number of firefighters Firefighter numbers in Devon and Somerset have fallen by more than 500 since 2010, according to the Fire Brigades Union.

The Union is calling on the Government to fund firefighter recruitment and reverse a decade of severe cuts to fire and rescue services.

Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union said: “We cannot allow firefighters’ life-saving work to go unrecognised.

The Chancellor must fund firefighter recruitment and end the years of real-term pay cuts for firefighters. Our communities need more firefighters - and the government needs to reflect the work they do in their paycheques.”

The warning comes at a time when the Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service is consulting the public on proposed significant changes to the way the service operates.

The consultation period runs until September 22 and an online consultation survey is now live on the Service’s website at www.dsfire.gov.uk.

Assistant Chief Fire Officer Pete Bond said: “We really want to hear what the public have to say about the proposed service options, so please use this opportunity to engage with us and have your voice heard.”

Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service is considering closing or removing a number of low risk/low activity fire stations and fire engines, and reinvesting the savings into prevention work in the community.

The FBU figures show that the number of firefighters dropped by 25 per cent between 2010 and 2019, with a reduction of 23 in the last 12 months.

Matt Wrack added: “If this government is serious about tackling the climate emergency, it needs to invest in our frontline defences - and it is firefighters who are tackling wildfires and rescuing people stranded in flooding. Whaley Bridge will not be the last extreme weather event to stretch fire and rescue resources.”

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Your guide to community events in your area Crownhill Library Rhymetime Tuesdays, 10.30am - 11am and 2.15pm - 2.45pm Songs and nursery rhymes for babies and toddlers.

Libraries also run regular story times for under 5s.

Chatterbooks Tuesdays, 4pm - 4.45pm Chatterbooks are reading groups for children aged between 8 and 12.

Book Group Second Thursday of the month, 2.15pm - 3.15pm Meet up to talk about what you’ve been reading. Each month there will be a different book to read and discuss.

Memory Café Tuesdays 10am -11.30am. Drop in for reminiscence, arts and crafts, singing or to see a friendly face and have a cuppa.

IT for beginners Tuesdays 11am-12noon. Aimed at beginners, find out what you can do online by signing up to “Learn My Way”. Our staff will be on hand to help.

Family games session Saturdays 10am-3pm. Join other families for a variety of games every Saturday.

Lego Club Saturdays 2pm-4pm. Do you have a big imagination and like making things? Why not join our Lego group for families?We provide the Lego, you provide the building skills!

Craft group Mondays 10am-12noon. For anyone who enjoys sewing, knitting, embroidery, crochet or any other crafts. Bring along what you’re working on or drop in for a chat. Share your skills or learn something new in a friendly and fun setting.

Times Tables Club Weds (every 2 weeks) 4pm-5pm. Join us every other Wednesday to make and play games to help you learn your tables!

Feel Better with a Book Mondays 2.15pm-4pm. Enjoy the power of great novels, stories and poems read aloud in a small friendly group.

Estover Library Knit and Natter Second and last Monday of the month, 10.30am 11.30am For anyone who enjoys sewing, knitting, embroidery, crochet or any other crafts. Bring along what you’re working on or drop in for a chat.

Reading Café Last Saturday of the month 10.30am-11.30am. Meet up last Saturday of the month to have a cuppa and talk about what you’ve been reading.

Family History Help Saturdays 10.30am-12 noon. Drop in for help and advice on tracing your family history.

Rhymetime Tuesdays 10.15am-10.45am. Songs and nursery rhymes for babies and toddlers.

Southway Library Work Club Mondays, 9.30am - 11.30am Get help with searching for jobs, CVs, basic IT skills, interviews and more.

Feel Better with a Book Tuesdays, 10am - 11.30am Enjoy the power of great novels, stories and poems read aloud in a small, friendly group.

Book Group First Tuesday of the month, 2pm - 3pm First Wednesday of the month, 4.45pm - 5.45pm Meet up to talk about what you’ve been reading. Each month there will be a different book to read and discuss.

Rhymetime Wednesdays and Fridays, 10am - 10.30am Songs and nursery rhymes for babies and toddlers.

Libraries also run regular story times for the under 5s.

Memory Café Thursdays, 10am - 12pm Drop in for a reminiscence, arts and crafts, singing or to see a friendly face and have a cuppa.

Lego Club Thursdays, 4pm - 5pm The Lego is supplied, you supply the imagination and building skills.

Writers Group On the second and last Thursday of the month, 6pm - 7.30pm For anyone with an interest in writing stories or plays.

Drop in.

Family History Group Fridays, 2pm - 4pm Get help and advice on tracing your family history.

Knit and Natter Wednesdays 2pm-3.30pm. Do you enjoy knitting?

Come along to our weekly group and meet new people who enjoy a chat.

IT for beginners Mondays 2.30pm-3.30pm. Aimed at beginners, find out what you can do online by signing up to “Learn My Way”. Our staff will be on hand to help.

Code Club Tuesdays (term time only) 4.30pm-5.30pm. Code Club is a national network of volunteer-led after school coding clubs for children. Children follow modules of projects to learn about and develop coding skills using Scratch, HTML & CSS and Python.

Chatterbooks Fridays 4pm-5pm. Chatterbooks are reading groups for children aged between 8 and 12.

West Park Library IT for Beginners Tuesdays, 3pm - 4pm Aimed at beginners, find out what you can do online by signing up to ‘Learn My Way’. Or bring along your own device, staff will be on hand to help.

Lego Club Saturdays 2pm - 3.30pm The Lego is supplied, you supply the imagination and building skills.

Book Group Second Thursday of the month, 2pm - 3pm Meet up to talk about what you’ve been reading. Each month there will be a different book to read and discuss.

Work Club Fridays 9am-11am. Get help with searching for jobs, CVs, basic IT skills, interviews and more.

Hello World Coding and Making Fridays 3.30pm-5pm. After school club for anyone interested in coding and digital making. For 8 to 13 year olds.

Rhymetime Saturdays 10.30am-11am. Songs and nursery rhymes for babies and toddlers. Libraries also run regular storytimes for the under 5s.

Lego and Board Games Saturdays 2pm-4pm. Family lego and board games – all ages welcome.

Events at Mainstone Community Centre Beginners line dance class 6.15 pm -7.15 pm Thursday evening. Cost £4; Bingo every Wednesday night,cost £6; healthy activities hour, Monday 11 am to 12 noon.

Free to all ages, all abilities.

Plymouth Musical Activities Club Thursdays Youth music group for nine to 18 year olds. Meet at Courtlands School Eggbuckland (term time).

Staffed by volunteers who teach guitars, keyboards, drums, singing and flutes and clarinets. We support local events and twice a year hold concerts in the

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Honour for Edmond

Popular Plymouth restaurateur and businessman Edmond Davari has received the top honour in the BAME Business Awards.

Distinguished business people and dignitaries from Plymouth and the rest of the South West attended the BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) awards event at the New Continental Hotel.

The evening was organised by Jabo Butera of the Diversity Business Incubator, whose mission is to bring together comprehensive and sustainable business support for the black, Asian and minority ethnic groups living in the region. This is being achieved by creating bespoke networking hubs and programmes designed to support new business and employment opportunities.

The top award on the evening went to Edmond Davari as the ‘individual or group characterised by strength and resilience, with missions beyond themselves.’

Edmond said: “I feel humbled and honoured to be receiving this prestigious award from an organisation that stands for the promotion of diversity and enterprise among the ethnic community all over the world.”

Devonport Playhouse. The children are only charged £1 per week. www.plymouthmac.co.uk Dancing Duo Fortnightly Saturdays With Henry and Jeannie at Elm Community Centre in Estover (near Asda) for ballroom, Latin and sequence, old time and more. Time 7.45pm to 10.45pm free parking. Entry £6. Bring your own drinks and and snacks. For more information call Jeannie Clark on 01803 325905 or visit the website at www.dancingduo. co.uk Coffee Morning and Book Stall Thursdays Crownhill Methodist Church hall from 10am to 11.30am. Join us for a cup of tea or coffee, biscuit and a chat. All welcome.

Plymouth Dog Training Club Meets at St Edward’s Church Hall, Eggbuckland on Wednesday evenings. For details call 01752 350788.

Plymouth Marjon Hockey Club Hockey for all ages and abilities from age 5 through to 60+ with weekly coaching and regular matches based at the University of St Mark & St John. Tuesdays & Thursdays 5-6pm age 7-11 boys and girls. Girls age 10+ and senior ladies Tuesday evening. Men’s Club training Wednesday 7.15-9pm. Boys age 10+ and senior men Thursday evening. Sunday mornings boys and girls aged 5 to 14 years. For details visit www.pmhc.co.uk Parents, Babies and Toddler Group Tuesdays and Fridays Come and join us, meet new friends during term time at Crownhill Methodist Church Hall, 10am-11.30am.

Booking recommended as places are limited. Call Anne 07791332503.

Plymouth Striders Running Club Twice weekly Meet at Widewell School, Lulworth Drive, Widewell (behind The George at Roborough). Mondays and Thursdays 6.30pm. Over 16 years and all abilities welcome. For info contact widewellstriders@yahoo. com or check out our website www.widewellstriders. co.uk Off Key Singing Group Mondays For people who love to sing in the shower! Mondays 5.50pm to 6.50pm at Derriford Health & Leisure Centre, function room. Girl Guide Hut in Plympton 10.30am to 11.30am. Call 07770 683 314 for more info.

Coffee Afternoon Thursdays Mainstone Community Centre hold a weekly coffee afternoon every Thursday at 2pm

Lets Work It Out! Mondays Weekly drop-in at the Efford Youth and Community Centre (Blandford Road PL3 6HU). Friendly help and support for all ages and abilities in a relaxed environment Mondays 2-5pm. Basic computer skills, job searching and CV/application writing, voluntary/ work placements and training courses, benefits advice and free tea and coffee! Starting March 14.

To find out more call Becky on 07933916513 or email letsworkitout@mail.com Bumps & Babes Group Fridays Make new friends with other parents and parents-tobe. A weekly group welcoming all parents, parentsto-be and carers held in Crownhill. Organised by NCT Plymouth and West Devon branch. Refreshments, chat and toys. £1 donation to the NCT Charity. More information Sally Hall 07702 738757 The Filling Station, Yelverton Every fourth Thursday Top up spiritually: we are not a church but an informal way of expressing the Christian faith at monthly meetings. Everybody is welcome. Meet at Clearbook Village Hall at 7.30pm. For details visit www.thefillingstation.org.uk or contact Les and Di Wood 01822 854877.

Singing 4 Fun Thursdays We welcome new members. St Pauls Church, Torridge Way, Efford from 2pm to 3.30pm. For details call Janette 07854 850830.

Moors Edge U3A Second Thursday of the month New members welcome. Meets at the Woolwell Centre PL6 7TR. Guest speakers and a variety of social events. Growing number of interest groups including bridge for beginners, wine tasting, weekenders, jazz, Spanish, art appreciation and still more to start.

Socially, we will be enjoying ‘High Tea’ at Yelverton Golf Club and our date for Xmas Lunch has been set for December 15. Details of our Groups etc can be found on the Moors Edge website, Facebook and reminders are now put on Streetlife.

Whitleigh: Tea, Toast and Timebanking Wednesdays 10-12.

Four Greens Community Trust Hub, 15 The Green, Whitleigh. Share a cuppa and a chat with local people. Everyone welcome. 01752 875916 Whitleigh: Mini Allotment Group.

Alternate Wednesdays 12-1pm. Four Greens Community Trust Hub, 15 The Green, Whitleigh. Come and potter in our little garden. No experience necessary. 01752 875916

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Bingo at Leigham Community Hall Wednesday night bingo eyes down 7pm; Barnardo’s Children’s Centre, Whitleigh Monday: Parenting Groups. Call 875933 for more information; Garden Time - come and play outside 11.30am to 12.30pm Tuesday: Sensational Babies sensory experience for pre-walkers 9.30am to 10.45am; Bump Buddies - for pregnant ladies and partners 1pm to 2.30pm. Booking essential.

Wednesday: Garden Time - come and play outside 11am to 12 noon; Thursday: Midwife clinic appointments only 9.30am 4pm; Latch-On group 10am to 11.30am; Step by Step for children with additional needs 1pm to 2.15pm; Friday: Community cafe 9.30am to 11am. For more information call 01752 875933.

Regular Events at William Sutton Village Hall, Crownhill Mondays: New Age Kurling for over 50s 12.30pm to 2pm; ACT Community Theatre group 7pm to 9pm; Tuesdays: Knit & Natter 1.30pm to 3.30pm; Wednesdays: Lace making 7pm to 9pm (except summer holidays); Fridays: Yoga 10am to 12pm (except school holidays); Saturdays: Bingo 2pm to 4pm; Katie Su School of Dance Mondays 10am to 11am and 4pm to 6.30pm; Wednesdays 4pm to 6.30pm and Saturdays 9am to 1pm. Every second Sunday 11am to 1pm Plymouth O Gauge model railway group.

Derriford Townswomen’s Guild Second Tuesday of the month at 2pm (except August) We meet at Derriford Church Hall, Powisland Drive Drive, Derriford, Plymouth. Visitors are very welcome to come to our meeting to see if they are interested in joining our Guild. We usually have a speaker and if you decide to join our guild we also have a gardening club, craft group and social studies group. A coffee morning is held each month and there is also a scrabble group and bridge club. For further information you can contact our Secretary Jenny Homeyard on 01752 781291.

Sensational Babies Tuesdays and Wednesdays A baby group with some sensory experiences for prewalkers. Tuesdays at Whitleigh Children’s Centre 9am to 10.45am; Wednesdays at Southernway Children’s Centre 9.30am to 10.45am.

Car Boot Sale Every Sunday George Park & Ride PL67HB Sellers 7am Buyers 7.30am. Cars £7 Vans £10-£15.

Refreshments and toilets on site. All funds raised go to Colebrook Community Centre which is a totally self funding charity. For further details please contact Kay 01752 200046.

Plymouth Miniature Steam Plymouth Miniature Steam is a group of like minded enthusiasts who have an interest in steam engines, model engineering , or any interesting engineering artefact or machine, the club runs a miniature railway in Pendeen Crescent, Southway. for the benefit of members and the local community, Pictures of our activities can be seen on our website (www. plymouthminiaturesteam.co.uk). Some members are able to build their own miniature railway engines and traction engines as well as a wide range of other large scale models, these are often seen in use at the railway, the club caters for both junior and senior members of all abilities and can train new members in engine management and construction. We run an apprenticeship scheme for junior members under 18, and welcome new members of all ages that want to get involved and learn new skills. Contact Rob Hitchcock on 01822 852479 for further details.

Flamenco Beginners Lessons Thursdays Friendly and social group with a passion for Flamenco and Spanish culture. Lessons are for beginners but more experienced dancers are welcome as we use a range of levels where students can develop their technique through hand and arm movements and foot tapping. Flamenco is a fun way to exercise whilst learning this fiery and emotional dance. Meet at Plymouth School of Creative Arts (dance studio) 6-7pm Sevillanas Rumbas & Castanets 7-8pm Compas of 12 & Rumbas. For details call Mercedes on 07848836630 or FB Mercedes Romero Flamenco Salsa and more.

RAF Association (Plymouth Branch) Dates of branch meetings for 2019 are as follows: Aug 28, Sept 25, Oct 23 and Nov 27. Meetings are held at held at Raffles Club, Ermington Terrace, Mutley, Plymouth and start at 10.30am. Other dates for future events include: Sunday Sept 15 at 11am for ‘Battle of Britain’ Service at St Andrew’s Minster, Royal Parade (all welcome); Saturday December 14 at 12 noon, annual Christmas lunch at Raffles Club. We look forward to meeting members old and new. Please try to come along to these meetings and show support to

Everyone Active to raise funds for cancer support

A local leisure operator is supporting a national charity to achieve its ambition of being ‘right there with everyone affected by cancer.’

Everyone Active has started a new twoyear partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support. It has pledged to raise £140,000 for the charity during this time, which would be enough to fund two Macmillan professionals for the whole year, enabling them to provide support to more than 500 patients.

The partnership officially launched in August and to mark the occasion, Everyone Active’s five leisure facilities in Plymouth swapped their traditional red, white and black brand colours in favour of Macmillan’s green to raise funds and awareness for the charity.

Colleagues at the Plymouth Life Centre, Brickfields Sports Centre, Plympton Swimming Pool, Tinside Lido and Mount Wise Swimming Pool, which are all managed on behalf of Plymouth City Council, donned green clothes, wigs and face paint in honour of Macmillan. Players from Plymouth Argyle also visited the Life Centre to donate home game tickets and signed merchandise for customers to win as part of a charity competition.

Everyone Active aims to support the causes that impact its colleagues and customers, which is why it has chosen to

your Branch and the committee and help to keep the branch alive!

RASC/RCT/RLC Association (Plymouth Branch) Will members please note that the bimonthly meetings have changed to Wednesday evenings at 7pm: Sept 11 and Nov 13, still held at the Army Reserve Centre, Derriford. The AGM will now be held on Wednesday January 15 2020 at 7pm at the same venue and the Corps Annual Dinner will again be held at the Boringdon Golf Club, Plympton on a Friday towards the end of January 2020. Further details to follow. Please try to attend these functions to show support to your Branch and the Commitee and help keep your Branch alive!

team up with Macmillan Cancer Support.

Macmillan estimates that out of Plymouth’s 270,000 population, over 9,000 are people currently living with cancer, with an average of 968 people sadly dying from the disease every year. The charity currently funds eight Macmillan professionals across the city anyone with a lung condition, their carers or anyone interested in supporting the group, meets regularly at Tothill Community Centre at 1.30 pm on the first Tuesday of each month. Entry is free and there is tea and coffee with biscuits, then usually a speaker. All are welcome. For more details phone Anne on 01752 402310 or Christine on 01752 220919

Adult Children of Alcoholics Meetings Tuesdays 6pm – 7.15pm. St Barnabas Church, The Lounge (enter by separate entrance to left of surgery), St Barnabas Terrace, Pennycomequick, Plymouth PL1 5NN. Visit the website at www.adultchildrenofalcoholics.co.uk.

National Phone 01590 610 936.

Clog dancing Thursdays A fun way to exercise! The Plymouth Maids clog dancers are a small, friendly group of women who welcome new members. From the beginning of October to the end of April we practice at St Bartholomew’s Church Hall, opposite the Life Centre, on Thursdays 8 - 9.45pm. During the summer we dance out on Thursday evenings at various pubs and other venues in and around Plymouth. We also dance at occasional folk festivals and days of dance. No previous dance experience is needed, just a sense of rhythm. Come along and give it a try. For details contact Jacqui on 07814 355844.

Badminton Club Fridays Non league club meets on Friday evenings at Whiteford Road, Plymouth to play casual badminton.

All adults welcome including over fifties. For further details contact rcbeasley@btinternet.com

Club Focus Camera Club Mondays Meets at the Future Inn, William Prance Road, Plymouth. Meets first and third Monday of the month from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. For details see www. clubfocusplymouth.co.uk

Book Stall, Social Call Second Saturday of month Join in the games and fun at Plymouth Unitarian Church, Notte Street. Books, tea, coffee and cake for sale. 2pm to 4pm. Proceeds to support the local Samaritans and the Smile train, an overseasd medical charity, repairing hair lips and cleft palates.

Breathe Easy Plymouth First Tuesday of the month Breathe Easy Plymouth, a local support group for

CSPA Second Tuesday of the month The Civil Service Pensioners Alliance meet at the Raffles Club, 5 Ermington Terrace, Mutley from 10.30am to 12 noon. All members of the Plymouth and District branch are welcome to attend. For more information call 01752 946896.

Dartmoor Gliding Friendly Flying on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays,

and last year it supported 150 callers from Plymouth through its Macmillan Service Support Line.

Everyone Active’s centres in Plymouth will be hosting a number of fundraising activities over the next two years to ensure they reach the fundraising goal. weather permitting. Call 07873 483001 for details or Google Dartmoor Flying.

Devon Army Cadet Force Voluntary uniformed youth organisation which allows young people aged from 12 to 18 to gain a wide variety of skills and experiences. There is no commitment to join the military, you don’t even need an interest in the military. Parade two nights a week at eight different locations in the Plymouth and surrounding areas. For details of local detachment and further info call 01752261525. The telephone line is not manned 24 hours so please feel free to leave a message.

Eddystone Model Flying Club Provide help and free instruction for flying radio control fixed wing. Members fly 24/7 weather permitting. New members are welcome as well as experienced fliers. For details visit www.eddystonemfc.net or phone Dave on 07941 040633 or Mike on 01752 403124.

Families Need Fathers (FNF) Second Wednesday of every month Monthly support meeting 7.30pm to 10pm at the RAOB Club, 41 North Hill, Plymouth, PL4 8EZ. If you are separating or divorcing and are worried about not seeing your children, please come to our monthly meeting for support, information and advice. Talk to people in a similar situation or who have been through similar experiences and understand the family court process. FNF is a registered charity founded in 1974 that helps thousands of parents every year. We believe that each parent has a unique contribution to make to their children’s development and that children have a right to enjoy a loving relationship with both parents after separation.

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20 September 2019 COMMUNITY DIRECTORY • COMMUNITY DIRECTORY • COMMUNITY DIRECTORY • COMMUNITY DIRECTORY • continued from page 19 family members and friends who would like to attend with or on behalf of a parent. For more information, please call Andrew Bull (general secretary) on 01752 793 325, e-mail us at info@plymouth.fnf.org.uk, or visit the website at plymouth.fnf.org.uk Buddhist meditation classes Weekday lunchtime meditations 12.15pm - 12.45pm, Wednesday evenings - Introduction to meditation class - 7.30pm - 8.30pm, Thursday evenings - 7.30pm - 9.30pm Meditation - The Art Of Positive Thinking, Sunday mornings 11.30am - 12.30pm Find Inner Peace, Sunday mornings - Children’s classes - 10.30am 11.15am. Held at Ashoka Kadampa Buddhist Centre, 33 Sutherland Road, Plymouth. Tel 01752 224137 www. meditationinplymouth.org

Soroptimists enjoy fun and games while fundraising!

Kreative Kidz Tuesdays Crafts, Science and cookery- age 6 months - preschool 12.30pm to 2pm. £5 or £4 if booked in four week blocks. To book email: info:wkuk.org Unit 34 Scott Business Park, Beacon Park Road, Plymouth.

Krafty Kidz Tuesdays Childrens activity workshops from ages 5 to 16. Cooker, crafts and STEM activities. £5 per session includes materials. 5.30pm to 7pm.To book email: info@wkuk. org. Unit 34 Scott Business Park, Beacon Park Road, Plymouth.

Wk’d Wednesdays Adults activity workshops - activities range from crafts, cooking, woodworking, furniture up cycling, sewing. £10 per session includes materials. Accompanied children welcome. To book email: info@wkuk.org. Every Wednesday 6pm to 8pm Unit 34 Scott Business Park, Beacon Park Road, Plymouth.

Community Dance Classes Exim have weekly Toddle Together dance classes on Mondays at Plymouth School of Creative Arts on Mondays from 9am to 9.45am. Parent/carer toddler sessions open to all ages crawling to four years. £3.50. Children’s contemporary dance (6-10 years) Thursdays in term time at Plymouth School of Creative Arts 4.30pm to 5.30pm. £4.50 per class. Adult just for fun contemporary dance at the same venue 6pm to 7pm Thursdays. £4.50 per class. Also Spaceshot dance classes every Wednesday at St Aidan’s Church, Ernesettle every Wednesday from 6pm to 8pm. A mixture of street dance, fitness and contemporary.

Free. Details e-mail Kerrie at kerrie@eximdance.org.uk Mayflower Offshore Rowing Club Various dates We meet on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 5.30pm and Sunday mornings at 9.30am at Richmond Walk Devonport. We row out to sea, in The Sound and up the Tamar & Plym rivers. Ages from 14 and all abilities welcome. We run learn to row sessions. Contact secretarymorc@hotmail.co.uk or Jeff Keast 07865 228800.

07983605639, Facebook Plymouth Handball Club, email plymouthhandballclub@hotmail.com Plymouth Musical Activities Club Thursdays A music group for young people aged 9-18 supported by volunteer staff members. At Pmac we teach flute, clarinet, drums, keyboards, singing and guitar. Meet every Thursday at Courtlands School in Eggbuckland from 7.15pm to 9.15pm. The charge is just £1 a week and people of all abilities are welcome. The group plays at lots of different venues and events throughout the year such as Devonport Playhouse, Lord Mayor’s day, Eden Project and many more. If you are interested in joining please call our treasurer Angela fuller on 01752 773482 or check out the Pmac website www. plymouthmac.co.uk Plymouth Numismatic Society Third Tuesday each month 7:30pm Coin collection and study can be an absorbing and rewarding pastime. New members are welcomed to informal meetings to share interest and knowledge of coins, providing the opportunity to give talks and presentations on any aspect of numismatics. This can range from studies of coins in historical, cultural or artistic context, to acquisitions, valuations and investment. Or members can just listen, learn and enjoy the company. Contact Bryan on 01752 480394 for more details and current location of meetings.

GraceNotes Acapella Group Mondays, Burraton Community Centre, Saltash.

7.30pm to 10pm. GraceNotes Acapella is a ladies close harmony acapella chorus who sing a wide and varied repertoire from traditional barbershop songs, through to modern Disney classics! Competing both locally and nationally, as well as performing at many singouts throughout the year, new members are always welcome! Rock up to a rehearsal and see what we do!

Email gracenotessaltash@gmail.com or find them on social media for more information.

Harbour Centre Recovery Café Fridays Female-focused social group for those in recovery from drugs and alcohol. Tea, coffee, regular activities promoting independence, empowerment and positive social/support networks in recovery. Child-friendly.

11am-2pm at Unit 2, 1st Floor, Hyde Park House, Mutley Plain. For more information and support to attend please contact Lynn McKenzie (Harbour Drug and Alcohol Services) on 01752 434299 or email lynn. mckenzie1@nhs.net

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Games in the garden, Pimms and mock Sangria and a delicious lunch proved to be a successful fundraising formula for a group of Plymouth Soroptimists.

The group gathered at a member’s home for the event and raised over £400 for local women’s charities. Members enjoyed croquet, table tennis, table football and boules during the afternoon.

Plymouth Soroptimist President Mrs Jenny Jarvis said: “We all had a great time and were delighted to combine a lovely relaxing afternoon with raising money for the local women’s charities that we support. We were delighted that our oldest member, now aged 97, and a visiting Soroptimist from Flagstaff, USA, was with us to join in the fun and fund raising.”

Pensioners & Fifty Plus Action Group If you are more than 50 years old and live in the Plymouth area we invite you to come to our regular meetings and meet some new friends. On the second Friday of each month we have free meetings and invite MPs, local councillors, local businesses, anyone able to speak on issues that affect older people, to come and talk to us. These meetings are held in the Wolseley Trust Community Building (next to Sheila’s Café) in Wolseley Road, Plymouth, PL2 3BY behind the Co-operative Superstore, just down from Milehouse traffic lights going towards St Budeaux.

These meetings start at 10.30am and end at 1pm, on the second Friday of the month many buses stop outside the Co-op and if you come by car, parking is usually available. We also have regular social events held on alternative Fridays which are held at the Oak Villa Sports & Social Club in Ferndale Road, Plymouth just down the road from Weston Mill Cemetery. There is a bus which stops quite near it, and there is a large car park virtually next door to the hall. These meetings are from 2pm to 4pm and we supply a very good buffet and as with all of our meetings we do have a raffle. Members of our group have free access but non-members will be asked to pay £2. Anyone intending to come regularly to these meetings would find it more economical to pay the £12 single/£20 double annual membership fee, and would also be eligible to take advantage of our subsidised taxi scheme (£2 each way). Members are also able to enjoy our regular meetings when we have short mat bowls, darts and other activities, and come to the two meals out every year. So anyone looking for good company and interesting meetings and would like more information please contact the secretary Mrs Margaret Williams 01752 350498/ mail tomag42@ hotmail.co.uk Performance Training (5-25s) Barbican Theatre’s dance and theatre workshops enable young people to build their confidence and learn new skills and techniques alongside professionals. Visit www.barbicantheatre.co.uk or call 01752 267131.

Moors Edge U3A Second Thursday of the month New members welcome. Meets at the Woolwell Centre PL6 7TR. Guest speakers and a variety of social events.

Growing number of interest groups including bridge for beginners, wine tasting, weekenders, jazz, Spanish, art appreciation and still more to start. Details of groups etc can be found on the Moors Edge website, Facebook and reminders are now put on Streetlife.

The Playwriters Organisation Fridays At The Noah’s Ark, Courtney St, Plymouth from 10am to 1pm.Free help with creative writing, poetry, play-writing, screen-writing, and all forms of Theatre production and dramatic performance. Our membership and help is free. More details at www. playwriters.org or phone 01752 786777.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Phobias Support Group Meets on Mondays at the Estover Elm Centre at 6.30pm. For details contact Daniel on 07500 837703

Plymouth Play CIC and scrapstore is open to everyone. We collect ‘stuff’ destined for landfill from businesses, factories, shops and individuals.

This ‘loveliness’ is ideal for art, craft and play. It

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may be fabric, paper, paint, wood or even plastic, but one thing is for sure it will be interesting! The scrap lovliness is then sold on at £3 (for members) or £6 (non members) for a carrier bag full. We also hire out play resources such as soft play and giant games, and often run creative workshops. Why not pop along and have a look .. we are based on Union St between Aldi and the grass wall of the HQ Building, open Tues and Weds 10-2 , Thursdays 10-7 and the first and last Saturday each month 10-2. More info at www.. facebook.com/plymouthplay/ Plymouth Archers Tuesday and Friday Archers who are registered with Archery GB are very welcome to come along. We run taster and beginner’s sessions throughout the year and have very good indoor and outdoor facilities at Stoke Damerel Community College. For more information visit www.plymoutharchers.co.uk or contact the chairman on 01752 784051 mobile 07443432375.

The club is open to anyone over the age of 10 and the school has very good disability access. We also arrange social activities throughout the year.

Sessions take place between 7pm and 9pm.

Plymouth Petanque Club A friendly club and a great way to be active for people of any age and ability. We meet for social games every Sunday and Wednesday afternoons throughout the year. Average attendance is about 25 -30 players.

These sessions are suitable for new players as we play to basic rules with the emphasis on fun, and we always stop halfway through for tea and biscuits (or cake for celebrations!) and a chat. We play at Brickfields Sports Centre and further information can be found on our newly updated website. www. plymouthpetanque.org.uk

Plymouth Lymphoma Support Group Second Thursday of the month The Plymouth Lymphoma Support Group aims to offer friendship and support to anyone who is affected

by Lymphoma (Hodgkins or Non Hodgkins Disease), whether patient (past or present), carer, family member or friend, and meets on the second Thursday of each month at the Derriford Health and Wellbeing Centre from 3pm to 4.30 pm. For information, please call Pam on 01752 785094 or Scott on 01752 661035 Plymouth Proprietary Library Weekdays except Friday The Library has moved into new premises in the former doctor’s surgery in St Barnabas Terrace in Stoke. The library is now open and continuing to run its usual activities which range from reading and poetry groups to monthly lunchtime talks and coffee mornings. Suggestions as to new groups and ways which the library can reach out to the wider community are always welcome. Open every week day except Friday from 11am-3pm. So why not take advantage of the free parking and call in for a coffee and a look round?

Plymouth Shakespeare Society Meets twice a month from September to May at the Burgess Hall (behind the Unitarian Church) Notte Street, Plymouth from 2.30 - 4.30 p.m. Everyone welcome. Further details call 257764.

Plymouth Skywatch Meet at St Budeaux Parish Church Hall every third Friday of the month at 7.30pm. The meeting usually consists of highlights of the night sky for the following month followed by a talk on an astronomy-related subject.

There is a break in between with tea and coffee available.

Plymouth Visually Impaired Bowls Club We play in the Plymouth Life Centre at the bowls hall on Tuesday morning from 10.30am to 1.30 pm and Friday morning from 12 noon to 2 30pm. In the summer we play on Tuesdays and Fridays on The Hoe from 10 30am to 1.30pm .If you require any more information please contact Colin Harris on 01752 222184.

Plymouth and District Advanced Motorists Group Monthly meetings on the third Monday of each month at the United Reformed Church Hall, Powisland Drive, Derriford. The meeting begins at 7.30p.m. with doors opening at seven. Guest speaker each month. Details 01752 405926

Plymouth Karate Academy Various dates Based in Faraday Mill Cattedown the club is managed

by Sensei Stuart Hick (4thDan), Sensei Jon Eaton (3rdDan) and Senpai Luke Irving (2ndDan). With more than 45 years combined experience all of the instructors are DBS checked, and teach Shotokan karate. Tuesday /Thursday Kids only Karate class 6.15- 7pm; Tuesday/Thursday Adult Beginners Intermediate - Advanced from 7pm onwards ; Saturday Morning class Kids Karate class 10am onwards. For more info: Stuart Hick 07970379268 or stuart.hick@ plymouthkarateacademy.co.uk

Plymouth Bridge Club We meet for sessions on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 7pm, or Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 1pm. It is thought that learning a foreign language or playing bridge is conducive to maintaining a healthy brain. The former is difficult whilst the latter is much easier. We also offer teaching for beginners and intermediates either Monday mornings at 10.15am or Thursday evenings at 7pm. Why don’t you call Steven Lacey on 07990 521570 or email admin@plymouthbridge.co.uk and come along and join our friendly and conveniently situated members owned club, just off Mutley Plain.

Plymouth Handball Club Thursdays Between 6pm and 7pm at Plymouth Life Centre.

Come and play an Olympic sport. A fun/recreational session for adults 18+. All levels and abilities welcome. Session is £3 (1st session free) Contact Dave

Plymouth Magic Circle Every second Thursday We meet the second Thursday of every month at The Walrus, Athenaeum Street, from 7pm to 9pm. If you would like to join us, come along to a meeting. A list of current events is at www.plymouthmagiccircle.co.uk

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Plymouth Children’s Theatre Workshop Saturdays A theatre company for children and young people aged 6 to 18. Try your hand at performing, set design and construction, costumes and props, stage make up and much more. St Bartholomew’s Church Saturdays 1 till 4. Tots 3 - 5 years 12 till 1. www.plymouthchildrenstheatreworkshop.co.uk or 07760467857 or see our Facebook page Plymouth Philatelic Society First Wednesday of every month St. Edwards Hall, Home Park Avenue, Peverell from 7pm to 9pm. For details contact David on 01752 402981.

Plymouth Radio Club Second Tuesday of every month.

The Plymouth Radio Club meets second Tuesday of every month at the Weston Mill Oak Villa social Club, Situated in Ferndale Road, Weston Mill, Plymouth.

Commencing 7.30 pm. For all licenced Radio Amateurs and anyone interested in amateur radio. For those wishing to obtain a licence, email pippa117@hotmail. co.uk or telephone 07815542477.

Plymouth West Country Embroiderers Various dates Started in 1972. A friendly group of enthusiastic needleworkers who enjoy sharing their knowledge and expertise with others. Trainees (age 8-15) meet first Saturday each month from 11am to 3pm. Adults meet on second Thursday and fourth Saturday each month from 10.30am. We welcome experts and beginners of all ages. Contact Mary 01752 200047 for details.

Plymouth Woodturners Third Friday of the month Meet at Pilgrim Church, St Levan Road at 7pm. Also demonstrate and sell at Otter Nurseries, Brixton, the first weekend of every month. New members always welcome, just turn up on the night. More information at plymouthwoodturners.org.uk Plymouth Meet Up Group First Tuesday of the month A social group for people with disabilities. Meets at Igrow Workspace 25 Phoenix Street from 4pm to 7pm for a chat and games and a short walk to the nearby Mount Pleasant pub for a meal. £2 for members and £3 for non-members. For more information call David on 017523 268777.

Plymouth U3A Second Monday of the month If you are retired, no longer in full time employment looking for new interests and to make new friends, then come along to the next monthly meeting of the Plymouth U3A and listen to our speaker. We meet at The Crowne Plaza from 10am to 12pm. Coffee available on arrival. U3A (University of the 3rd Age) is organised and run by volunteers, there are over 70 groups to find out about and maybe join, creating opportunities for continuation of learning. A non member can attend as a visitor, further information can be obtained via the welcome and promotions desk on the day, or in advance by telephoning 01752 563551, joining on the day is also an option. We look forward to meeting you.

Plymouth Fishkeepers Society First and Second Wednesday of the Month. 8pm at the Hyde Park Social Club. If you are interested in the hobby of keeping tropical fish and want to learn more, then why not come along to one of our meetings. Interests among members are diverse, and there is without doubt someone in the society who can answer questions covering most aspects of the hobby. The society caters for newcomers to people who have been in the hobby for a long time. Just bought your first fish tank? Then Plymouth Fishkeepers Society is the place for you.

Plymouth & District Egyptology Society First Saturday of the month We are a society of some 50 members whose passion is all things related to Ancient Egypt. Between the months of September of one year to May of the next, we meet on the first Saturday of each of those months, including Day Schools, and long weekend visits to UK and European cities to view Museum Egyptology Exhibitions, enjoying the local sights etc.

The Society meets at the The Quaker House on Mutley Plain. Timings 2 pm until 4.30 pm for a normal lecture.

Contact Details: janis.naylor@aol.co.uk Pray Plymouth Every Wednesday morning Organised by Churches Together in Plymouth from 7am to 8am at Open Doors Language School, 14-15, Woodland Terrace Lane, Greenbank, Plymouth.

Breakfast from 8am to 9am. Details 01752 249187.

Plymouth Community Choir Monday Evenings Meet at Salvation Army Congress Hall, Armada Way, Plymouth from 7pm to 9pm. New members are

Law firm takes action against rare disorder

Action Duchenne, a national charity that researches into Duchenne muscular dystrophy, has received a cheque for £2,300 from the staff of Plymouth law firm, GA Solicitors.

Action Duchenne was named the firm’s charity of the year after being voted in by 74 employees.

Over the last 12 months, it has benefitted from a wide variety of fundraising efforts by the team such as dress down days, bake sales, quiz nights and sporting activities.

The charity supports research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a mutation in the dystrophin gene that over time causes muscles to weaken and waste away.

Since 2001, Action Duchenne has supported families affected by Duchenne, researched and improved life expectancy for patients and campaigned and educated the public on the disease.

The money raised by GA Solicitors’ team will be put towards developing effective treatments, building a community by uniting families, raising awareness and helping create a more inclusive society. GA Solicitors has a strong track record of supporting charities having last year fundraised £3,300 for local bereavement charity Little Things & Co. Stephen Ramsden, managing partner at GA Solicitors, said: “Action Duchenne is a deserving small charity that is not only looking to improve the lives of those living with Duchenne, but also

supports their families and creates a sense of community.

“The team has worked hard to raise such a large amount of money that no doubt will make a real difference to the charity and the amount of work it can undertake” Samantha Turner, community fundraiser at Action Duchenne, added: “We have been overwhelmed by the support from the team at GA Solicitors. They’ve raised an incredible amount which is a testament to their dedication to our cause. The money raised will make a huge

difference to the lives of all those living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and on behalf of our entire community I would like to thank them for their life changing support.”

GA Solicitors’ nominated charity for 2019/20 is Plymouth Hospitals Charity’s Keep Me Close appeal. Run by Derriford Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Keep Me Close aims to support the parents of newborn babies that need to stay in ICU for a long time by providing accommodation in the hospital, close to their babies, at a very difficult time.

welcome, just come along for a free taster session at the beginning of the term, or contact the choir leader.

Terms are 12 weeks long and we sing a variety of music such as gospel, contemporary, sacred, world folk, pop, funky bass lines etc. No previous experience is necessary and you don’t need to be able to read music as we learn ‘by ear’ and repetition. Come and give us a try and see what you think! Our choir leader is Sarah Pennington and she can be contacted on 01392 437792 or by email plymouthcommunitychoir@ gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you!

Plymouth Inter Varsity Club We are looking for lively, interesting people who want variety in their social lives and would like to mix with others in a friendly, local social group run by its members, for its members. We enjoy a wide range of activities eg meals out, cycling, themed party nights, walking, canoeing, theatre, reading group and weekends away. Want to know more? You can go to our website www.plymouthivc.org , look at what we do and complete an enquiry or contact 01752 550492 or 07810065982.

on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month from 10am to 12 noon at the Plymstock Community Centre (except in the summer holidays).

Plymouth Cycling Touring Club Meet Sundays for a leisure cycle ride. For our latest rides list and meet time/place see www.plymouthctc. co.uk or contact Graham Black 01752 606650 or Andy Prideaux 01752 345170 for more information.

Boys’ Brigade Various dates and Venues For more information visit www.boys-brigade.org.uk or Facebook, Boy’s Brigade Plymouth. 1st Plymouth - Salisbury Road Baptist Church (Fridays); 2nd Plymouth - Ridgeway Methodist Church (Mondays); 4th Plymouth - St Judes Church (Wednesdays); 5th Plymouth - Mount Gould Methodist Church (Fridays); 7th Plymouth - Pennycross Methodist Church (Fridays); 8th Plymouth - Ford Baptist Church (Wednesdays).

New members very welcome. Age groups: Anchors (5-8); Juniors (8-11) and Company/Seniors (11-18). The Boys’ Brigade can help your church in its mission to children and young people.

Plymouth Die-Cast Model Collectors Club First Wednesday of the month A club for anyone interested in or a collector of old toys, Dinky, Corgi, Tinplate etc. Meetings are quite informal, any club business is discussed along with a good gossip over a cup of tea or coffee. The meetings are held at the Jan Cutting Centre, Beacon Park Road, Plymouth from 7pm - 9pm. New members are always made very welcome with no charge for a first visit.

For further details or information please contact Paul Simmons, telephone 01752 846250, or check out the Club web site www.plymouthdiecastclub.com.

Plymouth & District Koi Keepers Society First Wednesday of the month If you are interested in koi keeping, or thinking of building a pond and want to learn more, then why not come along to one of our meetings. We have guest speakers, presentations, visits to club member’s ponds before finishing the evening back at the clubhouse. At the weekends trips are arranged to visit other koi club’s ponds and koi shows and these are excellent days out. Meet at 7.30 pm in the lounge of the Tamar View Community Centre, Miers Close, Barne Barton, Plymouth. New members always welcome.

For more details of club activities please visit www. plymouthanddistrictkoikeeperssociety.org or ring Sandra Crocker on 01752 210118.

Plymouth Pisces Swimming Club for all Disabilities Sundays 11.15am to 1.15pm at Plymouth Life Centre.

Adults £2.50 per session, children £2 per session.

Under 5s free. Annual membership £5.

Plym Ramblers First and third Sunday in the month A well estab lished walking organisation offering regular walks by experienced leaders all within 20 miles of Plymouth. The group meets every first and third Sunday in the month and also hold interesting social events. For details contact the secretary on 344048 or the chairman on 519452. Plym Ramblers have now published their walking book “On the beaten track 4” the fourth book in a popular series of local walks.

5th Plymouth Company Boys’ Brigade and Girls Association We meet at Mount Gould Methodist Church, term time, and are looking to recruit both boys and girls aged 5-8yrs (6.30pm-7.45pm), 8-11yrs (6.30-8pm) and 11-18yrs (6.30-9pm). Our programme is very varied and includes craftwork, cookery, games, computer work, interactive challenges, sports competitions, sponsored fundraising and much more plus the year ending event - summer camp (8yrs+). Many of the skills learnt here can help prepare them for adult life. Interested - then come along to the church on Friday or contact Hugh Porter, 01752 667513, or email porterbb@blueyonder.co.uk 7th Plymouth Company Boys’ Brigade and Girls’ Association Fridays We meet at Pennycross Methodist Church in term time, Anchors (5-8 years) between 6.15pm and 7.15pm; Juniors (8-11 years) from 6.30pm to 8.30pm and Seniors (12-18 years) between 7pm and 9.45pm. There is a full programme of activities including crafts, games, drama, music, cookery, interactive challenges, national sport competitions and much more. The year culminates in a week-long summer camp. Our programme enables youngsters to learn many various skills and prepares them for adult life. Simply go along on Fridays to find out more or visit 7plymouth. boys-brigade.org.uk Plymouth Writers Circle Tuesdays Do you have a problem with plotting or characterisation. The Plymouth Writers Circle meets

Plymouth School of Aikido Non-profit well-respected community based Martial Arts club founded over 35 years ago. Classes at Woodview Learning Campus (off Lancaster Gardens, Whitleigh) on Mondays and Coombe Dean School, Elburton, Plymstock on Fridays. Times: 7- 8pm Juniors, 7-9pm Adults. Aikido is a Japanese Martial Art suitable for both Men and Women learning and working together. Enjoyable, interesting, useful, physical, family-friendly activity with Child Safeguarded/DBS Nationally qualified Instructors leading to recognised gradings appropriate for students of all ages 7yrs to 70yrs. Fees with concessions; excellent value. Quality equipment including clothing available for purchase at non-profit prices. Checkout www.plymouthaikido. co.uk or Facebook Page. Contact Tre or David Worsley 403325, or Phil Smith 219355 for more information.

Port of Plymouth Canoe Association Mondays , Thursdays and Saturdays May until September. Offering various introductory, taster and child ( 8-11 ) sessions throughout the spring and summer. For more information please contact Tracy Jones 01752 510653 email intro@ppca-club.org.uk or visit www.ppca-canoe-club.org.uk Road to Recovery Group of Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting every Friday at St Matthias Church Hall, North Hill. Doors open 6.30pm. Meeting 7pm- 9pm. If you think you have a problem with alcohol, you are welcome to attend. Family, friends, health professionals etc also welcome. Contact: Matt 07766 006 153 or Jo 07918 141715. AA Helpline: 0800 9177 650.

Snack ‘N’ Chat Tuesdays Friendship group for the bereaved and those who live alone. From 10.30am to 12.30pm in the Coffee Corner in the Minster Church of St Andrew in the city centre. A community project run by two trained Counsellors and two trained listeners. Come and enjoy coffee, tea and home made cake and talk through how things are for you. Only 50p per session.

Plymouth Hockey Club Sundays Plymouth Hockey Club is the oldest junior club in the city and has recently achieved the highest award for organisation and safeguarding. The club is operated by parents for all children and young people. The club trains every Sunday between 10am - 1pm at Bull Point ATP. The club cater for young people from 4-16 years and no previous experience is required. The first 6 weeks are free to new members and everyone who trains gets to play. For more information, please see the website at www.plymouthhockeyclub.org.uk or contact Rob on 07861 250682.

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Illuminate Light Festival heralds the start of Mayflower 400 celebrations

Solaris Yoga Enjoy vital relaxation, strengthening and toning muscles. Pregnancy yoga, mum and baby yoga and adult yoga held at Plymouth Swallows, St Andrew’s Cross, Church of the Holy Spirit Southway, Crownhill Fort and Jump. Please call Shilpa on 0771 1899 530 for times of classes.

Soundhouse Brass and Soundhouse Youth Brass Academy Thursdays Want to play with one of the finest Brass Bands in Devon then why not come along and give us a try.

We also have a thriving Youth Band for younger players which is supported by Plymouth Youth Music Service. Both groups practice at The Soundhouse, Torbridge High School, Estover on Thursday evenings (Juniors 6p.m. to 7.30p.m. and Seniors 7.30-9.45p.m) Come along any evening, visit our website www. soundhousebrass.co.uk or ring Alan 01752844108 (Senior Band) or Garry 0744618977 (Youth Band).

South West Chamber Choir Wednesdays Marjon Chapel 7.30 to 9.30 pm. We are a friendly auditioned choir of 25 to 30 singers specialising in unaccompanied singing, with a programme of madrigals, partsongs and sacred works. We give four concerts annually as well as a weekend of sung services at a cathedral each July. A reasonable standard of sight-reading is needed to join. We welcome enquiries. www.swcchoir.org.uk Shotokan Karate Club Shotokan Karate club in Devonport High School for Girls on Monday and Friday evenings for all ages and grades starting at 6pm. This is an authentic Japanese art, taught in the same disciplined manner instilling personal responsibility for actions, promoting confidence and self esteem. Karate taught in this environment is deemed to be beneficial for all ages and genders. All Instructors DBS checked, safeguarding and first aid trained.Contact club secretary Steve on 07518471142 or Colin on 07968061887. Shotokan Karate Club in Eggbuckland Community college Drama studio on Wednesday evenings from 7.00 to 8.30 for all ages and grades. An authentic Japanese art, all Instructors DBS checked, safeguarding and first aid trained. Contact Georgina on 07807184279. Children’s Shotokan Karate Class in St Budeaux parish church hall, specifically for ages 7 to 12 years old, parents can train alongside their children in a relaxed and friendly environment. All Instructors DBS checked, safeguarding and first aid trained. Saturday mornings 10am to 11am Contact Georgina on 07807184279 Tea Morning Wednesdays Plymouth Unitarian Cafe 10am - 12 noon. Why not drop in for a bit of relaxation, a cuppa, knitting, a game, some reading or colouring? Or just have a sit down and rest. Dementia friendly. Tea/coffee and a biscuit 60p. All money taken goes to our charities for the year, Plymouth Samaritans and the Smile Train The Specials Wednesday Club For adults with learning disabilities. YMCA Plymouth, Honicknowle Lane from 6pm to 8pm £3 per week.

Further information www.sopd.org.uk The Arts Society South Devon We are part of The Arts Society, the National Association, and have about 250 members. We hold monthly evening lectures on a wide range of Arts topics, occasional morning lectures, Study Days, Tours, Visits and Concert visits. We would be pleased to welcome new members and introductory guest visits are available. See website for programme information and other details (www.theartssocietysouthdevon. org.uk) or contact Jim Stevens, Membership Secretary (jst74@hotmail.co.uk).

Tai Chi Beginners Classes Various dates Established in Plymouth since 1995. A friendly group covering all aspects of Tai Chi training for health and well being. Tai Chi is a gentle way to exercise and build strength. For those more keen, it is a complete form of body and mind martial arts system from ancient China suitable for all ages 5 to 95! To get more information, please drop into the class held every Tuesday 6.45pm at Mount Street Primary School, Greenbank, or any other class advertised on www.wutan-plymouth.co.uk.

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Mayflower 400 is the four hundred year commemoration of the voyage of this historic ship, passengers and crew, to America in 1620.

Starting with the Illuminate Light Festival between November 28 and December 1, a year of Mayflower 400 activities will The Pythagorean Society First Friday of the month held at Plymouth Natural Health & Healing Centre, Outland Road, PL2 3PY. 7 pm – 9 pm. We have a different topic each month with a guest speaker, covering a wide range of esoteric subjects. Please see our website for details www.pythagoreansociety.wordpress.net or email mail@pythagoreansociety.net The Plymouth Regional Head & Neck Cancer Support Group Our group is specifically aimed at head and neck patients, their partners and/or carers. Our support group will also welcome anyone who wishes to join us for whatever reason. You don’t have to be a cancer patient to join us but those cancer patients without a support group of theirPlay Association own will be made especially welcome. Due to the nature of this particular disease, most of our members are from the older age group. We meet up once a month and take a trip out somewhere away from the clinical environment. We might also be able to help with transport if necessary. Please contact: Geoff READ by texting 07734 517682. Geoff is unable to answer verbally! Alternatively, you can email Geoff at: Secretary.PlymouthHNC@gmail.com Plymouth and District Parkinson’s Group Gentle exercise led by a fully trained physiotherapist every week at four locations. Tuesdays 10.30-12 noon at St Bartholomew’s Church Hall Milehouse contact 556651; Tuesdays 10.15-11.45 at Plymstock United Church Plymstock Road: contact 402340; Wednesdays 10.30-12 noon at Mount Gould Methodist Church Hall: contact 560289; Wednesdays 1.15pm-2.45pm at Emmanuel Church Hall Mannamead: contact 768890.

A monthly meeting is held on the second Tuesday of every month at Emmanuel Church Hall; Monthly Drop In with Dance Session: Contact 55665; Carers coffee meet first Monday of the month: contact 704075.

Other activities include lunches, outings, and an annual holiday.

Dartmoor Rambling Club The Dartmoor Rambling Club is a long established Rambling Club based in Plymouth. We have a regular programme of walks on alternate Wednesdays and at some weekends. The Wednesday walks generally use public transport from Plymouth City Centre to the start of the walk. Wednesday walks are usually about 8 to 10 miles on Dartmoor or on the coast and are taken at a pace to suit the participants. The weekend walks may use cars for transport and may go a little further afield. We are a small group looking to welcome new members. Our annual subscription is just £5. We can email you our programme if you email

include everything from community events through to major exhibitions, performances and plays with the majority being free for people to attend and enjoy.

September 16, 2020 will see a major public commemoration event as part of Mayflower Muster week and the year will finish with Illuminate 2020. Full details in the October editions of the Plymouth Chronicle.

johnskinner@tinyworld.co.uk or more details can be obtained by phoning John (chairman) on 01752 782454, John (treasurer) on 01752 218476 or Ron (member) on 01752 674230.

Plymouth City Roller Derby Roller Derby is in your city and recruiting now! The only Roller Derby club in the West Devon - East Cornwall region, Plymouth City Roller Derby has been an active bouting club since 2010, achieving a clean sweep of wins for our female travel team at all our 2018 British Championship bouts. We are a skater owned and operated CIC and accepting new starters. Roller Derby is a full contact sport, participants must be 18+. sessions Wednesdays 8-10pm at YMCA John Kitto for all new recruits, 1st taster session free, £5 per session thereafter. 2nd session 2 participants for the price of one if bringing a friend. No skating experience required to begin. See www.plymouthcityrollerderby.co.uk/joinus for more details.

Watercolour Art Sessions for Adults Thursdays Beginner and experienced artists welcome.

Chaddlewood Farm Community Centre Thursdays 10am to 12 noon. The Burrator Inn, Dousland, nr Yelverton Tuesdays 10am to 12 noon. Easy car parking at both venues. For more information call Janet on 07742 983311.

Devon Family History Society Fourth Tuesday of month Come along to our meetings and hear interesting and varied talks. Occasionally, we hold members evening where people can give a resume on their family history.

If anyone is hitting a brick wall, members will offer advice on how to resolve it. Meetings take place at Sturgeon Hall, Mutley Plain, (parking is free),starting at 7.30pm. Light refreshments are available. Any queries on membership or meetings please contact markparkman@icloud.com My Health, My Way Various dates Free four week courses running throughout 2019/20.

Helps participants develop knowledge, skills and confidence to self-manage the challenges of living with a health condition. Workshops are delivered by volunteers who are also living with a long-term health condition themselves. For more details contact Lorraine Grave at Improving Lives Plymouth on 01752 201892 or visit www.improvinglivesplymouth.org.uk Discovery Writing Group First Friday of the month A small community of writers who meet to write and discuss writing, and to encourage one another

to maintain our creative momentum. Prose, poems, scripts, whatever. All welcome. Writing games and exercises, opportunities to share work and publishing possibilities. Latest info on Plymouth cultural activities over free beverages. Donations welcome. Meet at The Clipper on Union Street 10am to 12 noon. Details James Bridgwater 07506716546 bridgwaterjg@gmail.com National Trust Plymouth Centre St Peter’s Lutheran Church, 19 Larkham Lane, Plympton.

Meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month at 2pm. Entrance is £3 for members and £4 for nonmembers, which includes light refreshments. For more information regarding membership please contact Judy Unitt on 01752 290437 or email judy.ntt@gmail.com Devon and Cornwall Carving Club Tuesday (term time) 7 pm – 9 pm At Sir John Hunt Community Sports College, Lancaster Gardens, Whitleigh, Plymouth. Cost of membership is £22 per person, per term. All new members welcome.

Please call Neil Smith for more details on 01752 82121.

Plymouth Area Osteoporosis Support Group Meets four times a year The Abbey, St Andrew’s Church, Plymouth 2pm to 4pm; Jul 16: Speaker oral surgeon Kamran Ali; Nov 19: Podiatrist Emma Cowley from Plymouth University.

Carers Support Group Last Monday of the month Are you a carer? Would you like somewhere to go for advice & info, to relax & unwind with other Carers?

Come to our drop in session at St Budeaux Community Centre 10am- 12 noon on the last Monday of the month.

Beit Ezra Saturdays A Messianic Fellowship, meets on a Saturday (Shabbat) at Engage, St Levan Road, Milehouse, Plymouth PL2 3BG from 4pm to 6pm. Contact: 01752 922014 Make A Difference, Plymouth Fridays in term time Support group for parents or carers in Plymouth of children with disabilities or special additional needs either diagnosed or still going through the process.

From 10am at Tamar View Community Resource Centre Barne Barton. Open to any parent or carer who can get to us. For further information please visit Make a Difference Plymouth on Facebook or call Kerry on 07599996389.

Phoenix Chorale Mondays Small, friendly choir who enjoy singing a wide range of music under the direction of Marcus Alleyne. We perform two concerts a year which usually feature

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Harley breaks through into the world of car mechanics

College Student Becomes Region’s First Female Technician at Mercedes-Benz

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When Harley Mortlock, from Tamerton Foliot, spotted a vacancy at Mercedes Benz in Plymouth, she applied - but assumed the job would go to a man: “The fact that I got the job shows that times are changing,” she says.

Harley successfully became the first female Technician for the South West division of Mercedes-Benz after swapping fixing hair for fixing cars, and completing full-time level 1 and level 2 diplomas in light vehicle maintenance at City College Plymouth.

Harley always wanted to be a mechanic and growing up loved helping her dad to fix motorbikes, but being female thought she’d never be able to get a job in a garage, so became a qualified hairdresser instead.

She said: “I love the technical side of mechanics and am so

a whole work plus a programme of songs around a theme, combining contemporary and traditional music. We often work with professional soloists and musicians and also try to provide opportunities for young people to perform with us. New members are always welcome, so why not come along and join us for a rehearsal? 7.30pm – 9.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Wyndham Square, PL1 5EG. For more information visit www.plymouthphoenixchorale.org University of Plymouth Choral Society Every Tuesday between September and May Based in the University, but open to all, we are a non-audition and well-established choir. We give three concerts a year in St Andrew’s Minster Church, in December, March and May. Rehearsals, under the direction of Alice Dennis BEM, are from 7.30-9.30 in the Sherwell Centre on North Hill. You will find an inspirational and friendly atmosphere and experience some wonderful music. Details from Membership Secretary Pennie Burne at pennieB54@aol.com.

Plymouth Juggling and Circus Skills Club Tuesdays (term time) A club for people who juggle or do circus skills to meet up and practice. Juggling and club passing, unicycling, hula hoops, diabolo, etc etc. All skill levels welcome.

Newbies and absolute beginners too, all jugglers are happy to teach new people! Primarily for adults, (although enthusiastic under 18s are welcome if accompanied by an adult). Stoke Damerel Parish Centre 7.30pm-9.30pm £5 (£3 unwaged) to cover the cost of the hall.

pleased that I heard about studying at the College as it was a great decision for me. City College gave me the knowledge I needed to get my job as a Technician, and I hope from this solid grounding I will continue to progress within my dealership to become a Maintenance Technician, Systems Technician or Diagnostic Technician.”

Harley added: “If you’re thinking about studying at City College, go for it! I learnt a lot during my time there and it helped to shape my career.”

If you are interested in starting a career in the automotive industry, explore the range of courses and apprenticeships that City College Plymouth has on offer call 01752 305300 or visit www.cityplym.ac.uk.

Ocean City Sound, Men’s Close Harmony Singers Tuesdays All Saints Church of England Academy, Honicknowle Lane, PL5 2DN. Friendly group singing popular songs from 50s through to the present, including songs from the shows and have around 25 performances a year. We sing for private parties, at corporate and civic events, for the Services and for charities. With no audition on joining and ongoing learning using CDs, new members find it easy to fit in and are helped at every step. Check out the website at oceancitysound. org or ring Roger on 01752 500500.

Playwriters Organisation Meets every Friday morning 10am-1pm at The Noah’s Ark, Courtney St,Plymouth. The group provides free help with creative writing, poetry, play-writing, screen-writing, and all forms of theatre production and dramatic performance. Membership and help is free.

For more details visit www.playwriters.org or phone 01752 786777.

Regular Events at Oasis Café Coffee and Chat: Tuesdays and Fridays 10am to 12 noon. Learn basic computer and internet skills: Mondays 1.30pm - 3.30pm, Tuesdays 10am - 12 noon, Wednesdays 1pm - 3pm. Go at your own pace, friendly and relaxed - come to the Oasis Project - You can come to one session a week or all three. Oasis Café, 28 Manor Street, Stonehouse.

Yoga and Pilates with Tracy Wilmot Monday 10am-11am Hatha yoga at Manadon Hub Monday 6pm-7pm Pilates at Widey School Thursday 9.30am-10.30am Pilates at Clearbrook Hall

Friday 6pm-7 pm Hatha yoga at Widey School Bookings phone 07401 090025.

City of Plymouth Model Boat Club First Wednesday of month Meets at Harewood House every month (excluding January) at 7.30pm. We operate sail, steam and battery operated models on the Mirror pond in the City Centre on most Sunday mornings. We also travel further afield to our other sailing water at Millbrook Lake. The Club attends many shows throughout the region in addition to the Open days held by other clubs. Full details can be found at www.plymouthmodelboatclub.webeden. co.uk. Please check the calendar for where we are!

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Wednesdays Plymouth Unitarian Café from 10am to 12 noon. Why not drop in for some convivial company, relaxation, a cuppa, knitting, some reading, colouring, a game or just have a sit down and a rest. Dementia friendly. Fair Trade tea, coffee with a biscuit only 60p. All proceeds go to this year’s charities including Plymouth & District MIND. Yankee Yoga Various days All abilities yoga classes set to sweet tunes.

Tuesdays 5pm @ The Art of Dance (Mutley Plain) 8pm @ Coombe Dean School; Plymstock/Elburton; Wednesdays 6pm @ Merlin Fitness (Crownhill); Fridays 7.30pm Special Class - Yoga for Athletes @ Taurus Gym (Mutley Plain); Saturdays 10am Special Class: Yoga Sculpt @ Merlin Fitness (Crownhill).

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Plymouth rehab centre transforms 350 lives Nearly 350 Royal Marines and Sailors have been helped by a unique rehabilitation centre in Plymouth during its first ten years.

Set up in September 2009 principally to help commandos permanently scarred by battle recover from their wounds – or re-adjust their lives – Hasler Naval Service Recovery Centre now helps men and women from across the Forces with long-term conditions, injuries and illnesses.

Most injured or naval personnel are nursed and supported back to full fitness while still serving with their units, but more serious cases require longer term treatment and care away from their units and ships so they can concentrate solely on rehabilitation.

Originally established as Hasler Company – named after Cockleshell Hero and disability rights campaigner Major ‘Blondie’ Hasler – the recovery centre has moved on from mostly treating marines to supporting as many Royal Navy sailors and the occasional soldier or airman.

Those recuperating receive expert medical help, physiotherapy, moral support and career guidance to prepare them physically, mentally and professionally as well as possible for resuming their careers or starting a new life in the civilian world.

“Each day starts in the gym, most of the marines have physical injuries which require rehab and individual therapy,” explained Captain Mark Woosey, the Royal Marine in charge of the centre.

“We have an amazing team of physiotherapists and exercise/rehabilitation instructors who lead a programme including therapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, yoga and tai chi.”

Afternoons are devoted to what the 20-strong team at Hasler call a ‘rolling recovery programme’: activities which can provide a welcome distraction from the hard work of rehab and treatment.

“Getting back to fitness after a major injury or illness can be a long, hard and sometimes

The impressive facilities at Hasler in Plymouth - which have helped scores of service personnel in the last 10 years

dull process,” Captain Woosey added.

“They can be of direct help in an individual’s transition or recovery – they can even help show exactly what they are capable of, reminding them they can still be the person they may fear has been lost through the injury or illness.

“You only need to see the face of a chronically-ill service person competing in a triathlon, playing sitting volley ball or surfing to realise the great value they have to morale and rehabilitation.”

Hasler ranks take part in atheletics at the USMC Wounded Warrior Trials

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In addition, there’s the chance to compete with the US Marine Corps in its Wounded Warrior Games trials, take historical tours of the commandos’ spiritual home around Achnacarry or organise a music festival – all designed to raise morale, improve team spirit, motivate and encourage people.

Although the Hasler team is based in HMS Drake in Plymouth, support is provided to personnel – whose conditions range from combat wounds through chronic illnesses, mental health issues to terminal cases – at the new Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre at Stanford Hall, near Loughborough, and as far afield as Scotland and the East Coast.

The goal is to help personnel resume their military careers. Where that proves impossible, staff focus on developing a person’s skills and preparing them for life outside the military.

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“The atmosphere is very much a ‘Band of Brothers and Sisters’. Though we all have slight differences with our personal conditions, Hasler allows us to help and support each other – vital in everyone’s recovery, which not only includes us, but all

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