Category Archives: Special event

Your help urgently needed with the Christmas raffle

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raffle ticket-w500-h500This is one of our major fund raising events for the year.  At the moment we are short of raffle prizes.  We urgently need your help to collect some more donations.  If you know of a local business, or maybe your employer an help, then do speak to them in the next few days.  You can then pass on details of the prize to a Committee Member at the monthly meeting next week, Wednesday 23rd November or email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com

We are going to print very soon and need to have as many details as possible on the tickets.  Thinking caps on, who do you know who can help us make this another successful event?

Denman success

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‘Lovely birthday pressie from my sis, Marie Kennedy!’, says Evanda Greenwood, one of our committee members. ‘She won the raffle at the Christmas meeting!’

Both had a tiring but fantastic day at WI’s Denman College. Learnt to make macarons and red velvet cupcakes! Super tutor and lovely lunch! Enjoyed it soo much!

 

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Evanda Greenwood at Denman College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Marie Kennedy enjoying her treat from last Christmas’ raffle – Denman College

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Evanda Greenwood at Denman College

Evanda Greenwood at Denman College

 

Ladies! Let’s bake (before 2.30 pm today)!?

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cherry-cake-w500-h500If you can make some cakes or cookies, or maybe have a pot of homemade jam to hand, then please drop them off to Clare (our President) and Isabel (our Secretary) who will be outside Market Harborough market from 2.30 pm today.  They are being interviewed by Radio Leicester at 3 pm.  Radio Leicester has been touring the county promoting their jam-w500-h500WI week and today is our turn.  Your baking with help with MHWI’s cake and jam give out.  So, ladies – let’s bake!  This morning!

Your help with local survey on loneliness

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This survey is for completion by people of all ages and will help Voluntary Action South Leicestershire bid for 5 years’ further funding for an already successful project to which we have donated funds:

VASL ( Voluntary Action South Leicestershire) are carrying out a survey about Loneliness in the Harborough District.

Please could you ask your members if they would like to respond, or put this on your website? We would welcome as many local views as possible.

see http://vasl.org.uk/community- champions-survey

If easier I could send you paper forms

The survey closes on 28 September.

I can be contacted on MH 439262

Thank you

Rohini Corfield

Your help – reasonable adjustments in hospitals project

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The University of Bristol  is currently doing some research about how hospitals in England make changes, or ‘reasonable adjustments’, to their services so that disabled people are not disadvantaged when accessing healthcare. Examples of reasonable adjustments include: providing a ramp entrance, a loop hearing system, or longer appointment times, as well as sending letters in easy-read format or large print.


The University is currently looking for people who would like to be interviewed about their experiences to share how hospital services have provided reasonable adjustments to meet your needs, as well as learning about what has worked well, and what could have been better.


The interview will take about an hour, and a researcher will either come and talk with you in person or talk to you over the telephone. All disabled people who take part in this interview will be offered a £20 gift voucher. To be able to take part, you must self-identify as a disabled person, be aged 18 or over, and have attended, or been admitted to any hospital in England in the last two years.

If you are interested in taking part in the project, or would like more information, please contact either Dr Stuart Read: stuart.read@bristol.ac. uk, 0117 331 0471; or Victoria Mason: victoria.mason@bristol. ac.uk, by Friday 30th September 2016. Stuart or Victoria will get back to you by Friday 7th October 2016 to let you know whether you will be interviewed. The interviews will be conducted between October-December 2016.

 

Kind Regards

Tracey

 

Tracey Allan-Jones

Office Manager

 

Healthwatch Rutland

c/o Voluntary Action Rutland

Lands’ End Way

Oakham

LE15 6RB

 

01572 720381

http://www.healthwatchrutland. co.uk/

 

HW_Rutland

Help needed – jam swap and cakes!?

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jam-w500-h500Our president, Clare Farquhar, will be attending this event on cherry-cake-w500-h500the 22nd September  on behalf of MHWI.  If you would like to go with her or can help with donating homemade jam or a cake, then please contact us urgently: email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com

Details (as much as we have) below:

We have been contacted by Radio Leicester for help from the WI with their outside broadcasting event for 19-23 September.

The afternoon show at 3pm with Ben Jackson would like to hold a ‘jam swap’.  

Hinckley Canalside (19 Sept), Hugglescote & Coalville (20 Sept), Wigston Magna (21 Sept), Market Harborough (22 Sept) and Uppingham WI (23 Sept) are also be bringing cakes to the event during the week.