Events

Living With and Beyond Cancer Community Event

Living With and Beyond Cancer Community Event

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The Living With and Beyond Cancer team are organising a health and wellbeing event at East Bedlington Community Centre. This is open to anyone who has had a cancer diagnosis (current or previous) and lives in the Northumberland area. You can also book an additional place for a friend, family member or carer. Your guest can attend sessions or enjoy a break in the on-site coffee shop.

The day will include the opportunity to find out what’s on in your local area, including groups, services and activities as well as the chance to try some of our fun, practical sessions for happiness and health.

Practical sessions (lasting 30 minutes to an hour) at the event include:

Men’s Sheds and Outdoor Projects – your chance to learn more about woodland walking, outdoor adventuring, wood carving using a shave horse, allotment projects and the local Men’s Sheds projects.

Talking Matters Northumberland – need a little help on how to get a good night’s sleep? Would you like to learn how to feel calmer or lift your mood? This session is packed full of top tips from the experts. A session guaranteed to get you feeling good.

FACT (Fighting All Cancers Together) – FACT is a North East based charity which has new bases in Bedlington and Whitley Bay. The heart of the work they do is to strengthen the network of support available in the area, and to make it easier to access support at a time when people least feel like looking for help. FACT offer direct support to those diagnosed with cancer, their family, carers and friends.  They offer regular help, support and social opportunities for people going through the cancer journey.

Health Trainer Service – Bursting with nutritional goodness, this session is perfect for you if you’d like to learn more about making healthy lifestyle changes in a fun way. This session will talk you through how to make small changes that will improve your health and wellbeing and link you in with local activities. Our very own healthy lifestyle team will be ready to serve you up the very best knowledge on how to make healthy changes using tried and tested methods.

There will also be an opportunity to wander around our stalls and chat to organisations such as The Northumbria Cancer Patient and Carer Group, Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group, Support Planners, Family Gateway, Active Northumberland, Age UK Northumberland and many more. There will also be a number of Cancer Nurses Specialists’ available to chat to on the day.

Free parking is available and refreshments will be available during the day, including a lunchtime buffet.

Places can be booked via the following ways:

Demand is expected to be high and will be allocated on a first-come-first served basis.

For more detailed information, please contact The Northumberland Living With and Beyond Team 01670 623863 or email LivingWithAndBeyondCancer@nhct.nhs.uk

 

 

Elderberries Vintage Summer Party

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Elderberries runs a range of activities for older people, from keeping active sessions such as pilates and a walking group, to tea dances and footcare. It offers monthly clinic café sessions in partnership with NHS that offer a range of informative talks and ad hoc opportunities for arts and culture sessions including music performances, silk painting sessions and memory sessions.

There is also the Elderberries Drop In, offered three times per week for over 55s to come and relax, chat and enjoy tea and cake and make new friends. This provides a valuable local facility for older people.

This vintage summer party will feature professional singing trio ‘Darling Dollies’ who specialise in 1940s close harmony singing, with a vintage vibe. The Riff Raff Ukelele Band will also perform.

Tickets are £7.50 and available from the garden reception. Please call 01665 511350 for more information.

Let’s Talk Event

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A second chance to talk to organisations about what is happening locally – this event has been arranged after the success of the first, so that working people can attend.

Information stands include Healthwatch Northumberland, Barnados, Sure Start Children’s Centres, Victims First, Ageing Well in Northumberland and Northumbria Police, all offering a wealth of advice, support and information.

Refreshments will be available.

Let’s Talk Event

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A chance to talk to organisations about what is happening locally.  Information stands include Healthwatch Northumberland, Barnados, Sure Start Children’s Centres, Victims First, Ageing Well in Northumberland and Northumbria Police, all offering a wealth of advice, support and information.

Refreshments will be available.

Stepping into Spring – Prudhoe

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This event is from Ageing Well in Northumberland is a chance to meet local communities and charities for older people. The aim is to help older people in the area find out more about staying active, involved and well, plus activities and volunteering opportunities in the area. Local organisations, including Healthwatch Northumberland, will be there with information stands, brimming with useful advice for local residents. MP Guy Opperman will be there to answer any questions and there will be complimentary tea and cake on offer.

This event is rescheduled from March.

For more information please email: karenquinn.guyopperman@gmail.com.

Stepping into Spring – Morpeth

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The Stepping into Spring events from Ageing Well in Northumberland are a chance to have a cuppa and a chat and find out more
about staying active, involved and well in older age. You can also find out about local activities and volunteering opportunities that are happening near you.

For more information please email: alison.byard@morpeth-tc.gov.uk

 

 

Volunteer and Wellbeing Fair – Hexham

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If you’re looking for something new in 2018 then this fair is for you. Come along and find out how you can get more involved with your community and improve your overall health. Try a taster session of energy healing, pick up information leaflets and have a chat about volunteering opportunities.

The event is brought to you by Northumberland CVA and as well as Healthwatch Northumberland, there’ll be all sorts of local organisations there including:  Northumberland Cancer Support Group, Alzheimers UK, Josies Dragonfly Trust,  Hexham Community Partnership, Chrysalis,  Citizens Advice Bureau and more besides.

For more information contact Northumberland CVA on: 01670 858688 or email: michelle.cadby@northumberlandcva.org.uk.

Volunteer and Wellbeing Fair – Berwick upon Tweed

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If you’ve ever thought about doing some volunteering or just want to feel a bit better in 2018, then come along to find out more about opportunities for you to get involved in things happening near to you. The event is brought to you by Northumberland CVA and as well as Healthwatch Northumberland, there’ll be all sorts of local organisations there including: Tyneside & Northumberland Mind, Northumbria Cancer Patient and Carer Group, Cygnus Support, Northumbria Police, Berwick Animal Rescue, Northumberland County Blind Association, Citizens Advice Bureau and many more.

For more information contact Northumberland CVA on: 01670 858688 or email: michelle.cadby@northumberlandcva.org.uk.