WASP AGM

(Wheels at St. Peter's)

The Annual General Meeting is being held in Trinity Hall on November 11^th at 7.30 pm.

All are welcome to attend and hear about our local charity.

 If you can’t attend and would like a copy of our

Find out how Thornbury Volunteer Centre can help you!

With the long dark winter nights stretching before us, now is a good time to get out and about in your local community and help others less fortunate than yourselves. By finding ways in which to occupy your time, which are both enjoyable and worthwhile, can instantly make you feel that you are making a valuable contribution to your community. During the previous year you may have seen major life changes such as retirement, unemployment, bereavement or moving house. You may now have more time on your hands due to children starting school or moving away to University and you are finding it difficult to find ways in which to fill this time. Or you may simply have decided that you want to make new friends and meet more people. In which case, Thornbury Volunteer Centre may be able to help you.

      We are able to provide information on volunteering opportunities in the local area, nationally and internationally. We can offer support and information on opportunities which may best suit your needs, experience and time available, whilst making sure that you find volunteering an enjoyable and worthwhile experience.

     We are contacted regularly by groups and organisations that are seeking to recruit volunteers from all walks of life, with a variety of different skills to offer and time available. We can offer clerical work, working with the disabled or vulnerable adults in the community, fundraising and marketing, counselling and emotional support, shop work, driving, working in local schools and much more. The majority of these organisations would be unable to survive, and valuable community services would be lost, if volunteers were not to be found.

     Age, gender or disability is not a barrier to volunteering. Anyone who is able to spare some time, from an hour a week to once a month, or just on a one-off basis, would be warmly welcomed by someone in the community.

     If you would like to find out more about the volunteering opportunities available to you in your area, please contact Thornbury Volunteer Centre on 01454 413392 or email us on mail@volunteer-thornbury.co.uk or visit our website on www.volunteer-thornbury.co.uk We operate an Outreach session in Severn Beach Post Office on the second Wednesday of each month, this month Wednesday November 10^th. We look forward to meeting you.

VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED

Tesco are supporting the charity CLIC Sargent this year and we need volunteers to help with the Christmas collection which takes place on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th December at your local Thornbury store.  If you have an hour or more to spare on either of these dates between 9.00 am and 6.30 pm then please call Jo on 07926 536720 after 5.00 pm. Thank you.

Thank You

A big thank you to Ray and Debbie Edwards who have had to give up the magazine drop to those who deliver it in, and around,  Pilning. 

Your input has been greatly appreciated.

 The job has been taken over by another volunteer, former postman Richard Hodge.  Welcome to the team.

St Peter’s Hospice Severnside Support Group November Events

Coffee Morning

A coffee morning will be held in the Methodist Hall, Alveston on Wednesday 3^rd November between 10.00am and 12.00noon.  Entrance to include tea/coffee £1.00 – Stalls and raffle.

Gift Fayre

A Gift Fayre in support of St Peter’s Hospice and Friends of Olveston School will be held in The Wike Hall, Olveston School on Saturday 6^th November, 10.00am to 3.00pm.  Refreshments available.  Shop early for Christmas and help to support two worthy causes.

Bazaar

The Annual Bazaar for St Peter’s Hospice will take place in the Armstrong Hall on Saturday 20^th November between 10.00am and 12.00noon.  Variety of Stalls including Cards and Diaries, Gifts, Crafts, Homemade Preserves, Cakes and puddings, plus many more.

Thank you for supporting St Peter’s – your local hospice

November walks with the Severnside Ramblers

We all need exercise, and most of us are not doing enough. Come and join your local Ramblers group on a walk and you will find that exercise is not a chore. Choose a walk to suit your fitness level and to suit the time you have available. You will get not only exercise but also friendly company and views of our beautiful countryside.  

     We have planned short and long walks this month and have also included a bike ride.

     Non-members are always welcome.

For more information, log on to www.severnside-ramblers.org.uk, or pick up a programme at your local library.

Scouts update

The Autumn term has arrived and our youngsters are really getting back into Scouting following their summer holidays.  Recently two Beaver Scouts, Kirah Dark and William Balls have been presented their Chief Scouts Bronze Awards and will be moving on to the Cub Pack soon.  Mya Jay Smyth, Matthew Cooper and Ryan Dark have been presented their Chief Scouts Gold Awards by the Scout Troop shortly before they move on to the Explorer Scout Unit.  It’s always great to see youngsters earn badges and awards.  The progressive training scheme is one of the things that make the Scout Movement different from other youth organisations.  At a recent meeting the 1^st Severn Beach Scout Group was designated a ‘Super-Group’ by the District Commissioner, measured by our National Headquarters as having youth membership consistently over 100 for the previous 12 months, something that generates a great feeling of pride amongst our youth and adult members.

      Our youngsters will be taking part in the annual Remembrance Sunday Parade in Pilning on Sunday 14 November and on the Remembrance theme will be running meetings based around this topic.  There will be a coffee morning on Saturday 13 November at Mafeking Hall from 10-12 with proceeds going to the Poppy Appeal. 

     The summer trip to the International Scout Centre at Kandersteg in Switzerland has just been launched and all youngsters aged 10 and over in the Scout Group will have the opportunity to go.  Fundraising towards this trip has begun and there will be many events over the coming months so please support us if you can.  The Group will be holding its annual dinner on Saturday 20 November, three courses for £10, bring your own drinks, entertainment provided.  For tickets or more information please phone Pete on 01454 632531.  There is a family Line Dance being held on Friday 17 December at St Peters School, tickets £5 includes a ploughman’s supper, for tickets or more information please phone Becky on 01454 631360.  And on Saturday 4 December from 10-12 there will be a Christmas Fayre at Mafeking Hall, the kitchen will be serving breakfast rolls and Christmas Trees will be on sale too all at competitive prices, the tree sales will continue on the 5, 11 and 12 December.  Car washing will continue on the first Saturday of the month at the Cross Hands and youngsters and their leaders will be packing bags at supermarkets to make sure that this trip follows our ethos of ‘affordable to all’.

     For more information on the Scout Group please contact Matt Hooper on 01454 416328.