Volunteers are always welcome - call Sue Rider on 01454 857754. For more information, please call in at the Age Concern Office, 34 St Mary Street, Thornbury, email us using the link below or phone 01454 858750.
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We are a friendly open group who have all had experience of these problems and will make new members feel very welcome.
For more information please contact our Chairman Jenny West, 3 Chipping Close, Symn Lane, Wotton-Under-Edge, Glos. GL12 7BB, 01454 843497 (home) or 07919 620498.
For publicity, please contact Jenny Fumpson, Tanglewood, 4B Highfield Drive, Redcliffe Bay, Portishead, N. Somerset, BS20 8JG, 01275 847286.
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Oriel House, 8 Castle Street, Thornbury, BS35 1HB
Tel: 01454 414 355
Whilst the Men's Breakfasts have a Christian element to them they are open to all irrespective of their beliefs. For more information contact the Thornbury Baptist Church office on 01454 419118.
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The charity funds research to prevent meningitis and septicaemia, and to improve survival rates and outcomes. The Foundation promotes education and awareness to reduce death and disability, and gives support to people affected.
For more information, click below or call 01454 281 811.
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To book an antenatal course, please call 0844 243 7000. For more information about our branch, please click below.
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The LINk will be a network of local people, organisations and groups that want to make health and social care services better.
The LINk’s membership is small at the moment and urgently needs people from the local community who feel strongly about local health and social care services.
For more information, please click below.
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For further information please contact Isobel Burnham on 01454 415161 or John Forss on 01454 613644.
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For more information, call Thornbury 413038 or 884115.
The League is very involved in plans for the future of the hospital and totally committed to the continued provision of 20 in-patient beds.
For more information, contact Shirley Holloway on 885161.
The groups meet every Tuesday of the South Glos school terms in The Buckingham Room at The Chantry, and new members are always very welcome.
Badgers (5-10 years) meet 6-7pm
Cadets (10-18 years) meet 7-8.30pm
Adults (18+) meet 8.30-9.30pm
For more information, click below to email Sarah Bryant, Divisional Superintendent and Badger Sett Leader, write to Thornbury Quadrilateral Division/Thornbury Badger Sett, c/o The Chantry, 52 Castle Street, Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, BS35 1HB or call 07717 289858.
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If you are pregnant with twins please come along, buy unwanted nursery items from other mums, talk to mums who have been in the same situation and experienced the same anxieties, get advice, hints and tips etc.
Once you've had your children come along and stay in a very safe secure room with lots of toys for all ages, we have an area for babies and a drink and biscuit (for mums and babies) and there is always a willing hand to help. We can accommodate most double buggies without a problem.
We send out regular newsletters on events, nights out for mums and hold two Nearly New Sales a year.
We have a library of books and videos on pregnancy, birth and life after twins and are affiliated to TAMBA. Every month one of our health visitors comes to weigh and give advice on whatever you need.
Please contact either Clare on 01454 855774, or by email below or Ann-Marie on 01454 854059, email dagless@blueyonder.co.uk
We are based in Yate, but arrange appointments for people in different locations, including Thornbury. Please call our 7 day a week helpline for confidential support: 01454 324080, or click below to visit our website.
4pm, St Mary's Church, Thornbury
Do join the Continuing Care Group, who will be viewing a DVD on Dementia, Spirituality and Worship, followed by an open discussion. For more information contact Margaret Woodford 885744.
The group meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm at the Academic Centre (adjacent to the Post Graduate Centre) at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol.
The meeting will start with our AGM and will then be followed by "A Patient’s story". There will be plenty of time for discussion and questions.
The Bristol Pituitary Support Group is available for people who are suffering from any form of pituitary illness together with their families, carers and friends living in Bristol, South Gloucs, North Somerset and surrounding areas.
We particularly welcome newly diagnosed patients. We are a friendly open group who have all had experience of these problems and will make new members very welcome.
Further details are always available from Jenny West on 01453 843497 or Jenny Fumpson on 01275 847286.
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7—9pm, Methodist Church Hall, Alveston
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The group provides help and support to sufferers of Fibromyalgia and their families in South Gloucestershire. Group meetings are on the fourth Tuesday of every month. For more details, contact Elaine on 01454 415374.
www.southglosfibro.btik.com
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7.30pm, Cossham Hall, Thornbury.
Trevor T. Smith has worked as an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company, for the Theatre Workshop at Stratford East (over a dozen productions), at the Old Vic and in many of London's West End theatres as well as in films.
He has also appeared in many television series including Rumpole of the Bailey, The Bill, Allo, Allo, The House of Elliot, London's Burning, Softly, Softly, etc.
Trevor's play is called "An Evening with Dementia" and deals with issues of loss, disempowerment and old age, and deconstructs the experience of an identity cut loose from the rest of the world by the loss of memory.
It is a delightful, often humorous performance which gives a poignant account of the world seen through the eyes of a dementia sufferer.
Recent performances in Stroud have been sold out and audience members have declared, "Anyone who cares for a dementia sufferer should certainly see this play!"
Tickets £7 (concs £5). Click below for more information.
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28th March – 31st July 2010
You are invited to enter our 2010 Photography Competition. The aim is to produce a Berkeley Town Calendar for 2011. Proceeds will be split between Cotswold Care Hospice and Berkeley Castle.
The categories for the competition are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, capturing the characteristics that make Berkeley and the surrounding area what it is today.
For more information, please call 01453 810332 or click below.
www.berkeley-castle.com
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11am–5.30pm, 28th & 31st March, 7th & 14th April 2010, Berkeley Castle
Bring along your camera to Berkeley Castle for inspirational tips and advice from local Photographers.
You are invited to enter our 2010 Photography Competition. The aim is to produce a Berkeley Town Calendar for 2011. Proceeds will be split between Cotswold Care Hospice and Berkeley Castle.
The categories for the competition are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, capturing the characteristics that make Berkeley and the surrounding area what it is today.
For more information, please call 01453 810332 or click below.
www.berkeley-castle.com
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11am–5.30pm, 28th & 31st March, 7th & 14th April 2010, Berkeley Castle
Bring along your camera to Berkeley Castle for inspirational tips and advice from local Photographers.
You are invited to enter our 2010 Photography Competition. The aim is to produce a Berkeley Town Calendar for 2011. Proceeds will be split between Cotswold Care Hospice and Berkeley Castle.
The categories for the competition are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, capturing the characteristics that make Berkeley and the surrounding area what it is today.
For more information, please call 01453 810332 or click below.
www.berkeley-castle.com
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Full details will be on the website from April 1st. These will include where the entry forms can be collected from, the opportunity to download a form or entry on line using PayPal.
It is hoped that everyone who enters the Fun Run will collect at least £5 sponsorship money for CLIC Sargent. To make things easier for everyone to collect sponsorship, a site has been set up with Virgin Money Giving and a link to it will be available from the Fun Run website.
This year for the first time we are organising a new class within the Fun Run. There will be a prize for the first three winning teams. Teams will consist of a minimum of 6 people (mixed sexes allowed). Each team when registering must commit to raise a minimum of £150 sponsorship money for CLIC Sargent. Teams that collect over £500 sponsorship will also be entered into a draw to receive a substantial prize which will be presented at the AGM in October.
Teams can enter in one or the other of the two runs. Either the Red race (for adults, U18s and U15s) or the Blue race (for U13s and accompanying adult, walkers and adults who just want a gentle jog). The winners will be the team that has the lowest total of the first six positions across the line.
Once again this year we are offering prizes to the individual that collects the most sponsorship for CLIC Sargent and for those that collect at least £150.
This event has raised many £000s for CLIC Sargent – over £7,000 last year alone. At the end of last year there were 48 children under treatment in Gloucestershire – each one needing all the care and help the charity can provide. That is why the money raised from the Oldbury Fun Run is so important in helping the charity to provide appropriate assistance to all children and young people who are diagnosed with cancer throughout the county.
www.oldburyfunrun.co.uk
Friday 2nd – Monday 5th April, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley GL13 9BQ
Berkeley Castle opens for Easter providing a fun filled weekend for all the family. Explore the beautiful gardens in Spring whilst the children embark upon our annual Easter Egg Hunt.
The Great Hall hosts a delicious cake stall, and a sumptuous tombola, there are crafts and face painting and colouring in for everyone to enjoy. All included within the global ticket price.
Proceeds from the weekend will go towards the Castle’s chosen charity for 2010, Cotswold Care Hospice.
www.berkeley-castle.com
11am–5.30pm, 28th & 31st March, 7th & 14th April 2010, Berkeley Castle
Bring along your camera to Berkeley Castle for inspirational tips and advice from local Photographers.
You are invited to enter our 2010 Photography Competition. The aim is to produce a Berkeley Town Calendar for 2011. Proceeds will be split between Cotswold Care Hospice and Berkeley Castle.
The categories for the competition are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, capturing the characteristics that make Berkeley and the surrounding area what it is today.
For more information, please call 01453 810332 or click below.
www.berkeley-castle.com
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10.30am–12noon, Alveston Methodist Church Hall
White Elephant, Good as New, Books, Cakes and Raffle. If you have anything at all for us to sell, please bring it along to our meeting.
For more details, contact Elaine on 01454 415374.
www.southglosfibro.btik.com
10th – 23rd April
10am–12noon, Thornbury Methodist Church Hall
If you are looking for it, we have it, clothes, accessories, bric a brac, books, jigsaws, records, magazines, china, toys, a real Jumble Sale. No reasonable offer refused for any item.
Teas and raffle available, all proceeds to St Peters Hospice, your local Hospice. Please come along and have a rummage, you never know what you might find!
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