Home-Start volunteers
Mrs Janice Guest
… ready to offer support
Families in the Royston area are set to receive support from some newly trained Home-Start volunteers. Home-Start which works with families in the area by offering guidance, practical help and support has approved a new intake of volunteers following the successful completion of a preparation course. Barbara Blower, Scheme Manager for Home-Start Royston and South Cambridgeshire said ‘We have 7 new volunteers who have undertaken a 10 session course to become volunteers for Home-Start. This will enable them to offer home visiting support to families in Royston and the surrounding villages. Thanks go to Andy Powney, the Welfare Officer at ATR Bassingbourn Barracks, who kindly gave Home-Start the use of a training room for the duration of the course and also to The Brian Leslie Racher Trust who contributed towards the cost of this training course. The following are quotes from some of the volunteers who took part in the course: “A really helpful, informative, thought provoking and reassuring course with a great team of volunteers who know all about fun and who are all very much looking forward to meeting and supporting their Home-Start families”. “I feel really happy with the way the course went, it was very enlightening and I enjoyed all of it - it was great fun”. “It was nice to spend time with other people who want to help as much as I do”. “It was well run and you make some lovely friends and now feel ready to support a family” “I so enjoyed the course and learnt so much. I’m now looking forward to helping other families” If you would like to find out more about the work of Home-Start in your area or are interested in volunteering, then please call the Home-Start office on 01763 262262 or email us on admin@hsrsc.co.uk. The new volunteers are joined in the photograph by Home-Start staff Barbara Blower and Co-ordinators Katie Kolind and Sarah Mascall andAndy Powney, the Welfare Officer at ATR Bassingbourn Barracks.
As you are all aware, Mum passed away peacefully on Sunday 21st November 2010 at Respiratory Support and Sleep Clinic (RSSC), Papworth Hospital. Like any family who loses anyone close to them, it is a very difficult time. We would like to thank everyone who visited Mum in hospital and at home and for sending messages of sympathy and support, they were very much appreciated. We had an overwhelming amount of friends who came to Mum’s ‘Celebration of Life’service at Melbourn Parish Church and thanks to everyone’s generosity we were able to donate £2200 to the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA). Throughout Mum’s illness both the RSSC and MNDAwere a great support to Mum and us as a family, without them Mum would never have been able to return home. To enable the MNDA to continue with vital research into this currently incurable disease we have been fundraising in several ways. Last year, Erica along with her friends Claire Bates, Melanie Jones, Vicky McMorran, Sian Biddlecombe and Alison Peers completed the 10 kilometre road race in London, they raised an amazing £5500. Oliver (Janice’s eldest grandson) hosted a darts competition with his friends and raised £30. Jeremy (Janice’s son in law) cycled the 60 mile London to Cambridge bike ride in three and a half hours and collected £400 in sponsorship.This year we have Edward Dodson running in the London Marathon for us in Mum’s memory, so far his sponsorship has nearly reached £4000. If you wish to sponsor Ed you can do so at www.justgiving.com/ edward-mnda. On Friday 15th July, we are hosting a Charity Summer Ball at the Sheene Mill, Melbourn. Tickets are £55 per person and include drinks on arrival, a three course dinner with two glasses of wine, a live band and a donation to the MNDA. Why not come along with a group of friends and have an evening out? With the long summer evenings upon us this should be a very enjoyable occasion at a lovely venue. Tickets are available from myselfHelen Ashworth. Telephone 01763 230831 or 07815 911839 or email: jeremy.ashworth@ntlworld.com Once again, thank you for all your support over the past year and we look forward to seeing you at the Summer Ball. Helen Ashworth and family.
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