Perton and Pattingham Pages Nov 16 by Kay Garrison

NOVEMBER 2016

Perton & Pattingham Pages MONTHLY BUSINESS DIRECTORY: INC: EVENTS ▪ GROUPS ▪ CLASSES ▪ NEWS ››› Find & Search Local Businesses ››› Learning Ladder Update ››› 10% off at We Got Beef ››› Perton Christmas Fair

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Perton & Pattingham Business Index Home & Garde n Ala rm s /CCTV/Hom e Se c urity Ba throoms Blinds & Curta ins Builde r Ca rpe ntry Ca rpe t & Inte riors Cle a ning Se rvic es De cking & Fe nc ing Dome s tic Appli a nce s & Re pa ir Drive wa ys Ele ctricia ns Exte rna l Cle a ni ng Ga rde n Ce ntre Ga rde ning & La nds ca ping Gutte r Cle a ning Kitche ns Lighting Locks mith Oven Cle a ning Pa inte r & De c ora tor Pla s te rer Plumbing & He a ting Prope rty Ma intena nce Roofing Tre e Surge on Windows, Doors & Conserv atories Window Cleaning

IT, Financ e & Prope rty Compute rs & Re pa ir Fina nci a l Advi s e r Prope rty Sa le s & Le tti ngs Classe s, Groups & Eve nts Childre n's Cla s s e s Da nce Cla s s e s Eve nts Fitne s s & Sport Slimming The a tre & Pe rform ing Arts Tuiti on

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Are you in Pole Position or at the back of the grid? Are you at the back of the grid? Are you stuck behind everyone else, reacting to what they all do or are you driving forward your own financial decisions? Perhaps that’s enough of the cliché’s but I guess you get the point I’m trying to make. The Banks and Building Societies may have looked after us in the past and in some cases this may have been to our benefit financially. Times are now a little more uncertain than they have been for some time and what does ‘Brexit means Brexit’ actually mean? We as consumers, customers or clients are far more financially aware than we have ever been and have a greater deal of choice to do what we want with our savings and investments. Should you do your own thing, trust the Banks and Building Societies, trust a Financial Adviser or try a combination of all three? The truth is, its your money and its your choice to do what you want. All I would ask is, please make an informed choice. The question to consider is do you have enough information, knowledge, experience and time to do it all yourself? Most of us regularly go to the dentist, the doctors and the hairdresser even if its only every six months. Would you however remove one of your own teeth, perform a minor medical procedure on yourself or cut your own hair? Perhaps the last one, but even that’s unlikely for most of us. If you then decide to get professional advice your choice in simple terms is trust the Bank or trust a Financial Adviser. Scary possibly, should it be so, I would say no. We as Financial Advisers are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We are all qualified with a Diploma in Financial Advice and some of us are Chartered Financial Advisers. Our advice is covered by a variety of Government schemes and insurances, as well as our own professional indemnity insurance, which protects you as our client. If you’ve never spoken to a Financial Adviser before about your savings and investments then ask yourself why not? Ask for a FREE consultation at their Offices or your home and see if they can help you. Whether it be savings, investments, pensions, equity release or life assurance ask yourself this simple question - Are you in Pole Position or are you at the back of the grid? Robin Place DipFA, MIFS Independent Financial Advisor, FSC Investment Services Limited. The purpose of this article is to provide technical and generic guidance and should not be interpreted as a personal recommendation or advice. You are not certain to make money - you may suffer a loss. FSC Investment Services Limited is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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LOCAL CLASSES & GROUPS: PERTON & PATTINGHAM CHOIR SINGING: If you are interested in joining the popular choir, singing light and popular music with the occasional challenging piece, why not come along to one of their weekly rehearsals held in Pattingham Village Hall on Wednesdays at 7.30pm, or for more information, contact Gena Richards on 01902 700188 or Alan Hickman on 01902 744653. SLIMMING: Slimming World on a Thursday at Perton Civic Centre 3pm, 5pm and 7pm and run by Sheena who can be contacted on 07962075980 WILDLIFE WALKING GROUP: Monthly wildlife walks, leave Perton Library at 2pm every first Saturday of every month. For further information contact Keith Elder on 01902 754245 or keith.elder@hotmail.co.uk. FITNESS CLASS: Mondays at 6pm at Perton First School fitness class suitable for all the family. Booking is advisable text Liz on 07913168343 FIT 2 Box: Exercise classes held on Tuesdays at Perton First School, Juniors 6-6.30pm and adults 6.30-7.30pm. There is also an adult class on a Friday at Perton Civic Centre 7-8pm and a Fit2Box 30 class at Perton Civic Centre on Wednesdays 6.15-6.45 also Thursdays 9.30-10am. Call Simon on 07470221041 ADVICE: South Staffs Work Club, Perton Library 2.15pm - 4pm every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the Month. The Work Club offers advice and support to local people in preparation for the introduction of Universal Credit. The services are completely free and offer advice on Benefits, Debt, Career Coaching, CV development, Volunteering and much more. CYCLING GROUP: The SSCS promotes cycling as a fun and safe way to stay active and healthy by providing guided inclusive community based cycle rides ( from Perton ) in order to increase physical participation and improve well being across a range of age and ability. For details please see www.connectpages.co.uk KNITTING CLASS (KNIT & PURL): The classes are open to anyone who is interested in knitting. Experienced knitters are quite happy to teach anyone who does not know how to knit, adults or children, children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Meet in the New Room, Civic Centre, Perton on the second Thursday of the month from 7pm to 9pm. The classes are informal, lots of chat and refreshments. Everyone knits their own thing; some knit for charity, some for family and friends. Contact details are 07946 861057 or pedged@supanet.com ( ÂŁ2 a class ) PRE SCHOOL DANCE CLASSES: Every ThursdayPerton Diddi Dance hold a Funky Pre School Dance Class for boys and girls. Classes are held at The Church at Perton from 2.00pm - 2.45pm. Call Svenja on 07846 337910 for more details. DANCING: Classes for all ages in Ballet, Tap, Acrobatics, Disco and Musical Comedy held at Holy Cross Church Hall, Bilbrook. Annual Shows at the Grand Theatre Wolverhampton and exams with MASD. Contact Carol on 01902 398710 or email carol@suttieschoolofdance.co.uk. DANCING: Classes for all ages in Ballet,Tap, Acrobatics, Disco and Contemporary held at the United Reformed Church hall, Tettenhall Wood and at the Bradmore Centre Birches Barn Rd. W-ton. Shows and Examinations. Contact the Fusco Academy of Dance established 1972. On 07713126218 or e mail annafusco22@aol.com or hazel.fusco@yahoo.co.uk. New term begins Saturday 10th September. New ballet class at 10am.

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Visiting Foot Care Service NOW available in this area Nails Trimmed Corns Removed Painful Toenails Verruca Treatment Fungal Conditions Cracked Heels Hard Skin/Callus Reduction

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Words of Wisdom from Rev Julia Cody.... It’s nearly THAT time of year again… perhaps it already is in your household… THAT time of year when life seems to become consumed with to-do lists as we prepare for Christmas. I wonder if you have an advent calendar? I sense that for most, advent calendars become simply a visible count-down to Christmas. For children, the days probably can’t pass quickly enough, as they get ever more excited. For adults, the days probably pass far too quickly, as each window opened means one less day to get everything ticked off the todo list. Surely there’s meant to be more to advent than this pressured countdown to Christmas? Advent is about preparing, and so it is a countdown to Christmas, but it’s not primarily about getting through the list of tasks. Primarily these weeks of advent are about getting ourselves ready for the celebration at the heart of Christmas - the birth of Jesus, and what that might mean to each of us. Instead of an advent calendar, where each day passing seems to load more pressure on our already busy lives… how about marking the days with an advent candle. Advent candles have numbered lines indicating how much to burn - most last about 20 minutes each day. I wonder how much better prepared we’d be for Christmas - for our celebrations, and the birth of Jesus - if we took 20 minutes each day, as the candle burns, to pause, and have a little time to reflect and pray…

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Tips From Your Local PGA Pro at Perton Park..... Take Your Medicine!

What a great demonstration by one of our clients above. It's our job to come up with swing tips like this to help improve your game and make it more enjoyable and improve your scoring, so if you are struggling in any area stay tuned! Or even better get in touch and book a Christmas Lesson Package jeremy@pertongolfclub.co.uk

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VILLAGE BLINDS

NEW SHOWROOM AT 1 FINCHFIELD ROAD WEST 3 vertical blinds supplied for £75 up to 5' width.

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Fitting service offered Free home visits with pattern books. ________________________________

All blinds are made to measure. We supply and fit roller blinds, aluminium venetian, wooden venetian, roman blinds etc.

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Wild About Perton in November..... What better on a sunny spring morning to witness a bright yellow, brimstone butterfly determinedly flying up the garden searching out its favourite food, the unruly thorny shrub, blackthorn. But 2016 has been a poor year for butterflies with numbers noticeably down on previous years. Butterfly Conservation (http://butterflyconservation.org/), one of the largest insect conservation organisations in the world, which monitors butterfly numbers through their Big Butterfly Count, found a dramatic decrease this year in the numbers of many of Perton’s favourite, meadow-loving, faster flyers; the gatekeeper, comma and small tortoiseshell. The peacock butterfly, an early arrival after a winter’s hibernation, has declined by a staggering 42%. The reason for these dramatic declines remain a mystery because this summer was warmer than normal and should have provided all the right conditions for this attractive flying insect. Many butterflies overwinter in gaps in walls or in piles of wood. Others may get into open sheds, outbuildings or greenhouses where they will tuck themselves into gaps and go to sleep. If a butterfly wakes up from hibernation, it will need to eat something if it is to survive till spring. If you find a sleeping butterfly in your house, and it wakes up, give it some sugar water and then put it carefully in an unheated, sheltered place so it can continue to hibernate. Planting nectar rich plants in your garden will help because nectar is the major part of a butterfly diet. There are lots of colourful nectar-rich plants to choose from, which will not only sustain butterflies, but also please the human eye. These include the purple flowered butterfly bush, buddleia, or the pink clustered, red valerian, or those with open daisy type flowered plants such as asters, heleniums and rudbeckia, or lavender, or primulas, or sedums. Finally, if you have space, leave a patch of nettles as many butterflies like to bask on the leaves on summer mornings. Wild About Perton organises a wildlife walk, throughout the winter, leaving Perton library at 2PM on the first Saturday of the month.

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Supashine A Word From Gavin Williamson............... One of the unspoken privileges of attending events as a Member of Parliament, especially in South Staffordshire, though not always that good for my waistline, is that I get to sample the best homemade baked goods. So when the opportunity arises it’s always nice to be able to give something back to our community whilst still enjoying the best that our bakers have to offer. From carrot cake to crispy cakes, residents across Perton recently took inspiration from the Great British Bake Off and sold their wonderful homemade creations in aid of an extremely important annual charity event, Macmillan’s Coffee Morning. Events were held right across the constituency and one of the coffee mornings that I had the pleasure of attending was hosted by the 1st Perton Guides which I was fortunate to visit for the third time. The Guides always provides such a wonderful array of homemade cakes on sale and I was so delighted to see local residents come out in force to support the event, who were so enthusiastic about doing something to raise money for such a good cause. It is brilliant to see how the support for the charity has grown since its inception. All money raised from the Coffee Mornings will go a long way to support patients and their families support people going through these terrible life changing circumstances. I cannot imagine the struggle that those fighting cancer have to go through and are faced with the worst of times. It always so heartening to see our younger residents in our community of Perton go that extra mile to help people that are much less fortunate than themselves. I am delighted that there are so many residents of all ages across the Perton and South Staffordshire who are able to support Macmillan and I would like to thank all those involved for hosting their own coffee mornings. In additional news, last month I was honoured to be asked to join pupils, parents and teachers of Perton Primary Academy in celebrating their recent conversion into an academy. I took part in their balloon launch which looked truly fantastic, as we let go the yellow and blue balloons of the school’s colours into the air. I have always really enjoyed visiting this wonderful school and meeting pupils and teachers and I am looking forward to hearing about their success over this school year and the years to come.

To contact Gavin Williamson call 01902 846616 or 0207 219 7150

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