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Calendar Girls (and boys) DERBYSHIRE
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ervice users at the Hayfield Pavilion Club in Derbyshire were treated to personalised calendars earlier this year, after volunteers started an art and photography project. Leader of the project, Rita Bowden, 77, from High Peak, has been a volunteer for 10 years. She took photographs of everyone at the club while others helped compile the pictures and mark on birthdays. “I think this is a great idea, combining a creative and fun activity that both the service users and volunteers can engage in,” says Service Delivery Manager Anne Ledbetter. “When I first saw the calendar I thought it was really fantastic.”
Silver Jubilee greetings T
he WRVS Meet and Greet service at Northampton General Hospital has recently celebrated its Silver Jubilee. For 25 years it’s been supporting patients attending the medical outpatient department.
The service is managed by founder Freda Rimmington. Freda has organised and recruited well over 100 WRVS volunteers since the service was set up in 1986. “There’s much talk today about a Big Society, about how
we want to involve people more in their communities, but here’s a great example – set up all of 25 years ago,” says the Mayor of Northampton, Marianne Taylor. “I’d like to say thank you to all the volunteers on behalf of the people of Northampton.”
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