5 minute read
Heart Hero’s Host Family Fun Day
HEART HEROES HOSTS FAMILY FUN DAY
Local charity Heart Heroes held a family fun day recently where its ‘Heart Families’ came together to share similar experiences of living with heart conditions.
Advertisement
The charity, set up by local woman Kelly Cornish, supports children aged 0-16 with heart disease and helps affected families meet others in similar situations.
The event was held at Bristol Memorial Woodlands, near Alveston, where guests enjoyed arts and crafts, refreshments and games all in the grounds of the 100-acre woodlands and reception rooms. Kelly Cornish said: “We were delighted with the outcome of our latest Heart Families fun day which was attended by lots of local children and their families.
“The whole aim of our charity is to create links between people going through the same experiences. Dealing with a child with a serious illness can be very lonely, isolating and daunting so sharing thoughts and feelings with others in the same position is incredibly helpful for many. “We provide services and socialising opportunities to facilitate these relationships and it also gives the children some fantastic experiences to enjoy with their peers. “We’d like to extend a big thank you to the team at Bristol Memorial Woodlands for providing the use of their beautiful grounds, it was a very special location to hold this event and our families enjoyed exploring the ancient dew pond, woodlands and vast outdoor space to run around in.” One family said: “Lovely event! It was our first one with Heart Heroes and our little ones loved it. Nice to meet local families that get it.”
Heart Heroes was founded by Kelly in 2018 after she lost a family member to congenital heart disease at the age of 10 months. The charity works closely with Bristol Children’s Hospital with the lead ward sister for the cardiac Dolphin ward acting as Patron. Bristol Memorial Woodlands is a 100-acre woodland site primarily offering environmentally-friendly woodland burials where trees and wild flowers are planted around plots to create a nature reserve for future generations.
Also encompassing a chapel and reception rooms, the site, the land and grounds are all managed by a charitable trust and it provides families with a location for unhurried, bespoke funerals for loved ones.
If you would like to hold a charity event at the venue please get in touch by calling the office on 01454 414999 or emailing admin@memorialwoodlands.com For more information about the charity visit www.heartheroes.co.uk
Dedicated to providing value
18 High Street Westbury-on-Trym BS9 3DU 0117 950 4100 www.mwfuneraldirectors.com
Banana and oat cookies
Ingredients
100g porridge oats 40g dates, finely chopped 70g ground almonds 80g desiccated coconut ½ tsp baking powder 2 large ripe banana Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C/ Fan 160C. Line two baking tray with baking paper.
2. Mash the bananas and melted butter together.
3. Tip the oats, dates, almonds, coconut and baking powder in a bowl and mix
4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients together.
5. Scoop up dessert spoons of the mixture in your hands, roll into a ball then flatten out into biscuits about 4cm diameter.
6. Ask an adult to help place the trays in the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes until golden.
7. Leave to cool for a few minutes then transfer to a cooling rack.
8. Can be frozen in an airtight container for up to one month.
Tomato and feta tarts
Ingredients
1 pack ready rolled all butter puff pastry 2 tbsp Sundried tomato paste/ pesto Couple of handfuls of cherry tomatoes ¼ tsp dried oregano/ basil 200g feta, crumbled Egg wash
Method
Preheat oven to 220C/ fan200C.
Divide the pastry into 6 even pieces.
Place the pastry on a lined baking tray. Make an incision 1/2 cm from the edge of the pastry. Spoon 1 tsp of the paste/ pesto onto each of the tarts and smooth out over the pastry. Slice the tomatoes in half across the equator and place seed side up on the pastry Divide the feta on the pastry and sprinkle with the herbs.
Brush the edges of the pastry with egg wash. Bake for around 20 minutes in the top third of the oven until pastry is golden and puffed up at the edges.
OUT EVERY THURSDAY!!
SUBSCRIBE TODAY!
TO BRISTOL’S ONLY WEEKLY DIGITAL INTERACTIVE MAGAZINE
JOIN THE REVOLUTION..
Want all the latest news rst, straight to your inbox? Then visit hit the button subscribe below! Want the latest lifestyle news, whats on and local news straight to your inbox every week? Just scan the QR code below to subscribe.
SUBSCRIBE OUT EVERY OUT EVERY THURSDAY!! THURSDAY!!SUBSCRIBE TODAY!
TO BRISTOL’S ONLY WEEKLY DIGITAL INTERACTIVE MAGAZINE
T RAINING l SERVICE l SALES l HIRE
Bristol's Largest Independent Construction Health & Safety Training Centre CITB Health & Safety Awareness CITB SSSTS and Refreshers CITB SMSTS and Refreshers First Aid Face Fit Testing
www.barberontrym007.co.ukTO BRISTOL’S ONLY WEEKLY DIGITAL INTERACTIVE MAGAZINE Want all the latest news rst, straight to your inbox?
JOIN THE REVOLUTION.. Then visit hit the button subscribe below! Want all the latest news rst, straight to your inbox? Then visit hit the button subscribe below! SUBSCRIBE
IPAF PASMA Forklift Manual Handling Asbestos Awareness Abrasive Wheels Working at Height Sca old Inspection Ladder & Steps and more... 10 Carlton Court, Westbury On Trym, Bristol, BS9 3DF SUBSCRIBE
Email: barberontrym@yahoo.co.uk
0117 967 0811
