News@Vida's

The Vida Walsh has a new project worker, Me Erica Tate.I am employed by Age Concern Lambeth and have some new ideas for activities for the over 55's. From 13th July. something will be happening each and every day at the Vida Walsh Activity Centre, 2b Saltoun Road, SW2 1EP (near Effra Road, facing Windrush Square)

The Vida will be the spot for the over 55’s to:-Have fun and enjoy life ,

meet more people and make new friends

Relax, combat stress and anxiety

Learn more about a healthier life style

We hope to have a great welcome for you where you can feel happy and relaxed

“We don't stop laughing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop laughing" -

Yoga

Very few people retain their strength and vitality in later years. However yoga can help to rejuvenate the body and revitalize the mind .Join this well establishes group every Monday morning

Eat @ Vida

This is our Healthy Eating Club and will be held twice a week. and serve a balance of Health, Happiness and Eating with Friends

Vida's home made treats~healthy and filling food will give you ideas of how to make your culturally diverse meal more healthy, so join us on Tuesdays and Fridays for a Two course meal £3.50

Our cooks are from all over the world, so the menu will be different on any given day but our meals will always be well balanced and healthy. Each cook brings their own style and background to Vida's.

Information and Advice

Like all Age Concerns, Age Concern Lambeth, provides information, advice and support for people in the Lambeth area who are over 55 (or who care for someone who is over 55). Surgeries are held at Vida’s Mondays and Thursdays

Art@Vida’s

This will be a two hour session on Tuesday afternoon exploring art through reducing waste and recycling.

Goldies

The Goldies coffee morning are open to any lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender person who is over 50. this group meets every Tuesday 10-11.30am

Breakfast@Vida

Pop In and have a cuppa, some toast and a chat with friends every Friday morning from 9.30am

Out and About

Every Friday meet for friendly informal days out. With your Freedom Pass and a packed lunch this day will be free.

Meet@Vida’s

This bustling afternoon will have a variety of activities that you can dip in and out off from poetry writing, learning how to text your friends on the mobile. Hopefully a writers group will share poetry, novels, short-stories or prose. Get together and talk about their writing over a cup of tea, inspire each other to write. There will be a

“Show and Learn” Area where you can learn a new game from a friend, play board or card games. We have plans to have some young people in to help you use your mobile phones or do Internet searches. Of course there will be a flow of tea and coffee..

“bookSWAP”

At each event we will have a bookSWAP shelf. The books here are provided for you to take away and read, either here @ Vida's or during your own time,

If you have any spare books at home that you’ve enjoyed but no longer need, please donate them to the shelf too.

Weekly Events Weekly Events Weekly Events

Monday
Yoga £4.00 10-11.30am
Information and Advice (Free) 1-4pm

Tuesday
Goldies 10-11.30am(50p)
Eat@Vida’s Starts (July 13th 2010) 12-2pm Two Course Meal £3.50
Art@Vida’s (July 13th 2010) £1.50 2.30-4.30pm

Wednesday
Meet@Vida’s (July 14th 2010) £1.50 1.30-4.30pm

Thursday
Information and Advice (Free) 10am-1pm

Friday

Breakfast@Vida’s (Light Breakfast £1.00) 9.30-11.30am
Out and About Club (July 2nd 2010) Meets at 9.30am
Eat@Vida’s Starts (July 16th 2010) Two Course Meal £3.50 12-2pm
Fit as a Fiddle 2.30-3.30pm

The Big Lunch

Upper Tulse Hill Street Party

Mark Jay DJ

If you came with us to Cambridge last year or attended our Easter Bank Holiday Party you would have meet Mark Jackson
Mark is not a resident of Clapham Park. He comes from East London and is a good friend of mine
Five years ago while working as a DJ in Malia, Crete Mark became ill and had kidney failure.
Mark has been on a Kidney machine for 5 years having treatment 3 times a week at 5 hours each time.
Week Enders would like to thank Mark for coming down to Clapham Park and D Jaying for us on 13th April 2009
Mark would like to do a fund raising and awareness events for a the British Kidney association in the Clapham Park area.
It will be an evening of smooth old skool tunes to dance the night away to.
We hope that Week Enders attendees will join Mark at his kicking event.
Time and date for the events will be on a poster in the area soon
Good Luck Mark

Week Enders Meets Eastenders

Angela Wytner who played “Yolande Trueman,” in the BBC Soap Eastenders paid Clapham Park Estate a visit on bank holiday Monday 4th May. She came to the ‘Week Enders’ Film and “Old Skool Music Day”.

I had invited Angela through a mutual friend. I was so pleased that Angela could take the time to come and meet the Week Enders members. I really was not expecting her to be able to make it, but she did and now we can say ‘Week Enders met Eastenders. Angela spoke to the 20 Week Enders Members about her progression as a black actress in the UK saying “I would not mind playing a baddy in a film but the work I am involved in must be balanced and not be detrimental to mine or any other community”

Easter With Week Enders

Week Enders held it first Bank Holiday Event for 2009

We had 35 people attend.

All age groups and abilities where represented.

Children loved the chocolate fountain.

Mark was the DJ for the day, could have played his sweet music longer if only he did not have to rush of for his dialysis treatment.

Our next event will be May 4th Bank Holiday which we hope to have the Clapham Park premiere of the 1981 film "Burning An Illusion"

It has been a year since or last event but we really hope to have at least 6 events this year and to launch new events and groups with in Week Enders

Weekenders Decembers Event for Clapham Park

I am very happy to give you the list of events that we will be doing in December.

As some of you will know Our Mind Body and Soul Event was cancelled in November due to Homan House not having any Gas or Electricity. We will be now repeating the event on 8^th Dec
I hope you will be able to let you client base, staff, friends and family know about Weekenders events
I have enclosed a Word document that can be printed out and displayed

December Events

Weekenders social group is for South London especially the Clapham Park area. We plan events and activities for all adults over 16 year olds. This month includes Quiz night, Cambridge Market Day and Pamper Day.

To join us at one of our events please contact the project managers

Erica and Maxine
www.weekenders.moonfruit.com
cpweekenders@yahoo.co.uk
07950637695

Saturday 8th December
Prepare 4 Christmas
Mind Body & Soul+
Sat 8th Dec
1pm-4.30pm
1-4 Brixton Hill Place
(off Brixton Hill). SW2 1HJ
Weekenders understand that with Christmas coming we all need to prepare ourselves to minimize the stress that this time of the year can bring.
We will be bringing to you some experts to help with
Money Saving Tips
De-Stressing
De-Toxing
Be Stronger
Christmas Market
Workshops

December 16th Sunday
Cambridge Market Trip
Set in the heart of Cambridge City Centre, Close to Kings College and Great St Mary’s Church. This colourful and friendly market is open every Sunday. Here you can find an interesting mix of Arts, Crafts, Antiques,Specialty Stalls and Food Producers, And find something a little different.The Cambridge Sunday Market is open from 10am- 4pm and is situated near the Tourist information officeThe coach will leave from New Park Road Baptist Church at 8-45amCost for Trip £3 in advance First come first served.Please let us know if you can attend by 7th December 2007

December 29th Saturday
Quiz and Dance Night

December 29th Saturday
Running our own quiz will be great fun,
We will have a great international Dance night too.
Our questions will be as multicultural as will our music with the theme of Christmas running through it
Join us for this great night on Clapham park Estate
5pm – Midnight
Venue to be confirmed

Launch party 2days to go

Two days to go until the launch party. Yes that time has finally come! the grant is now in and the cheque has cleared. Weekenders will have it launch party on 7^th October Sunday from 2pm. We are nerves. All eyes will be on us. Have we ordered too much or too little food? Is the entertainment appropriate? We have planned this without the usual Clapham Party Staff members and all the rules are unfamiliar to us, but you know what we will try our best to do our best.

We hope the LAUNCH PARTY will be an area where the Clapham Park Residents can meet new people and where Weekenders and forge strong partnerships

Weekenders Saturday and Sunday Social Group hope to recruit new members at our LAUNCH PARTY and enjoy a huge choice of fantastic things to do… Parties, Dinner Dances, BBQ’s, Nightlife, Live Entertainment, Theatre, Concerts, Cinema, Themed Evenings, Quiz Evenings, Games, Treasure Hunts, Quiz Cross, Bowling, Skittles, Boat Trips, Football, Golf, Skiing, Canoeing, Quad Biking, Caving, Paintball, Riding, Walks, Cruise & Tour Weekends in France, & much more...

As the WEEKENDERS is run entirely by volunteers we hope to make it a constituted group and apply for future grants; thus enabling costs to be kept to a minimum.

Well wish us luck and I will sign I after Sundays event