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March 19th2015 ISSUE 5 Edited by Juliet Knight Produced by Select Office Services

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WELCOME TO ISSUE 5!

Welcome everyone, to Issue 5 of The Forum newsletter.

First of all, let me thank everyone who has contributed to this edition. I find it very interesting to read what you are doing and it reminds me what a diverse range of clients we have here at Forum House.

The big news at the moment, which I have written about, is the change of management arrangements from 1 April.

Forum Workspace will no longer exist, Forum House is coming under the management of Lewes Workspace Ltd. Let me take this opportunity to remind you to cancel your Forum Workspace standing order from now!

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E VE R E ST C LI M B I N AI D O F C H E ST NU T T R E E H O U S E At the end of March my son, Rupert Jones-Warner, leaves Chichester to attempt to break a world record as the first British person to summit Mount Everest twice.

This has to be achieved in a very small weather window of opportunity and involves climbing up one side coming down, flying by helicopter to the other side and then doing the same again.

He has raised all the expedition costs by sponsorship and has also raised a considerable amount for the Charity but is aiming to raise a lot more.

Chestnut Tree House is a really worth while cause and his website www.Everest2K15.com gives a lot of information about the charity as well as the expedition itself.

Please send this link to as many people as you are able. This is a massive challenge and the more support he receives the easier it will seem, I am sure!

Jane Jones-Warner (Suites 40E/40D)

ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES Arrivals: CTJTS Ltd - College of Media and Publishing Dell Secure Works

Departures: Allied Healthcare Houserack McEwen & Co (31 March)

KIWI RECRUITMENT At Kiwi Recruitment we have a fresh and friendly approach to business and make extra effort to match candidates and clients.

We have worked hard in the last year to build the business in Chichester. We are in Suite 5.

Pease get in touch with Brendan if you need any further information or if we can help in any way.

Pauline Martin (31 March) Since Issue 4 we have said farewell to care staff agency, Allied Healthcare and property management company, Houserack. Here on the ground floor we are sad to be losing Accountants, McEwen & Co. And last, but not least, I would like to wish Pauline Martin a very happy and relaxing retirement.

Pauline is buying a house in France where she will spend much of her time. She has been practicing at Forum House since April 2006.

TEAM MEDICAL We would like to introduce ourselves here at Team Medical. Ryan Harris the Branch Manager and his staff would like to say it’s been a pleasure moving to Forum House.

We are a Care Agency that provides Domiciliary care in the community alongside staff deployed to Establishments such as NHS, Care Homes and Day/ Night Sits. We are in Suite 5.

If you know of anyone who would benefit from a Person Centred approach or require any of our serves please do not hesitate in contacting us on 01243 782400.

THEA DE MOEL Time speeds by and so it came as a bit of a surprise but also with recognition when Pauline Martin told me that she is retiring from her practice here at Forum House at the end of March. She has worked for many years as a psychoanalyst, supervisor and trainer, making a profound difference to the lives of her patients, her supervisees and her colleagues.

Pauline and I have shared our consulting room for a long time and I will be taking over the rent and try to sublet to other practitioners of the 'talking therapies', such as a counsellor, psychotherapist or other psychoanalyst.

Whilst letting you all know about Pauline's retirement, I also want to rectify what was written in the previous Forum Newsletter in which we, Pauline and I, were mentioned under the section complementary medicine. This is not correct. We are both psychoanalysts focusing on alleviation of mental distress.

We see patients according to their clinical need, once or up to 5 times weekly. We take referrals from private individuals, counsellors, GP's, psychiatrists and organisations who are involved with mental health. We also supervise counsellors and psychotherapists individually or in groups. We have been trained to the highest standard within the world of 'talking therapies' and work to BPC's (British Psychoanalytic Council) Code of Ethics.

I wish Pauline all the best in her retirement. It's well deserved!

Thea de Moel (07833 363894)

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D ATA B A S E S A N D A N G E LS O N T HE ST R E E T S O F C HIC HE ST E R As the financial year comes to its end, charities and those in the voluntary sector are producing reports for funders, management committees and trustees, explaining and demonstrating the impact and difference they have made over the last year. These stories and statistics can affect whether they can continue to provide their services into the next year.

Here at Lamplight we provide a case management and monitoring system to enable charities to pull all the information they need together. For some charities we chat to, distilling what they know and experience day-in-day-out into a meaningful report, is a daunting task.

However, bringing the whole story together of referrals received, work done and outcomes observed is a powerful tool in communicating their impact to their stakeholders.

We've seen some great examples where our customers have been able to achieve this in real-time, in-house and in a variety of ways. It is striking how having the right system can support that reporting and free up time for what really matters; the

service users they're dedicated to.

A local team who use Lamplight and have been able to tell a great story of their 2014 work is the Chichester City Angels.

“The Angels have seen a 79% drop in violence against people on Friday nights and 82% reduction on Saturday nights in Chichester ”

The Angels have seen a 79% drop in violence against people on Friday nights and 82% reduction on Saturday nights in Chichester when they're out on the streets providing hot chocolate, flip-flops and a friendly word as revellers head home after the pubs have shut. Being able to pull their statistics out quickly and easily and combine them with local crime figures means they have been able to show the real difference they are making keeping the streets of Chichester safer.

E M M A N U E L I N T E R N AT IO N A L : S UM M E R My name is Linda Fitzmaurice. I work for Emmanuel International (Suite 37) and I am going to Tanzania in the summer. Not to go on safari, or to lay on its unspoilt Indian Ocean beaches, but to visit a remote village near Iringa, where there is no electricity and no running water.

This village is inhabited by people who live a life of subsistence. You could be forgiven for thinking I am going to Tanzania to go and share some of my knowledge. I have been working with Emmanuel International for nearly 10 years now. Over this time, I have heard of teams going on short term mission trips and read their stories upon their return.

Almost everyone was surprised about how much they learned - and that is why I am going: to learn unexpected lessons about myself, my team mates and another culture.

We are going to help a local village to build a much needed facility, most likely a school classroom, doing physical building work in the mornings. The local villagers make the bricks, supply the building materials that can

You can find out more about the Chichester City Angels on their website (www.cityangels.org.uk).

Clare Parker of Lamplight is based on the ground floor in Room 6. www.lamplightdb.co.uk

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be sourced locally and provide the skilled labour. We are raising funds towards the cost of building materials, and will work alongside the villagers carrying bricks and mixing cement. Apart from providing some funding towards the building costs, we hope our presence there will be an encouragement to the villagers. In the afternoons we'll be doing a holiday club with the local children. We are going to play games and sing songs with children of all ages.

I have to raise £1,139 towards this trip and to help do this I created a recipe book with Tanzanian and local favourite recipes, with lots of photographs of life in Tanzania - for only £10 (more than half goes towards our fundraising). Please buy one. Or two - they make excellent gifts! Or you could sponsor me ; I am doing a combination of walking and treadmill walking of 350 miles, with each of my team mate doing the same. We are aiming for the 5000 miles from Chichester to Iringa!

If you would like to find out more do contact me in Suite 37 or telephone

931094.

“ I am going to Tanzania in the summer…. to visit a remote village where there is no running water or electricity”

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W E L LB E IN G : K IM P R I C H AR D , O ST E O PAT H In the last newsletter we introduced Ghislaine Vaughan who told you a bit about Bowen Therapy, this time we’re introducing Kim Prichard – our Osteopath at the Therapy Space.

Stress and Osteopathy: Having the pleasure of treating thousands of people in the last 21 years has given me great insight into the impact stress has on our mind and body. Influencing and causing problems ranging from postural dysfunction, headaches, digestive disorders, anxiety, neck and back pain to name a few. Stress is the underlying cause of many inflammatory disorders. Osteopathy helps to identify where stress is being held in the nervous system and tissues, releasing them or giving advice where something else is needed.

Osteopathy I’m a registered Osteopath with the GOsC and have a busy practice spanning across West Sussex. I’ve worked at Forum House for five years now and have been practising the art of Osteopathy for 21 years.

Osteopathy has been established for almost 150 years which is as long as conventional medicine and both have their place and can be used in combination. It recognises the body as a self-healing, self-regulating organism and strives to find the link or dysfunction that is physically or emotionally preventing this process.

With Osteopathic treatment we are looking to re-ignite the self-healing mechanism.

New Developments in My Practice: Treating sports injuries/repetitive strain patterns resulting from biomechanical problems is always challenging. I have recently trained to use The Performance Matrix which is an accurate screening tool to identify the ‘weak link ‘in movement patterns which can then be retrained using simple exercises tailored to the individual. The Performance Matrix can be used for the elite athlete, triathlete or keen sportsperson through to postural problems at work.

Who Benefits: We see women in pregnancy and individuals at any time of life from new-borns through to people in their winter years.

I have also immersed myself in the world of Mindfulness and completed a course which I am finding immensely beneficial for both myself and within the practice. I’m using it to help people look at ways to cope better with everyday stress and longer term patterns of holding tension.

Should you have any more questions or wish to book an appointment you can contact Kim on:

How Do Osteopaths Treat?

We use very gentle cranial techniques through to manipulative /soft tissue articulation and massage.

Each treatment is tailored to the individual. The art is to read the story in the person’s tissues through touch and gently start a new chapter! I continue to find wonderment and magic in this process and our ability to re-balance.

07877 774879 kimac33@hotmail.com www.kimprichard.co.uk