Boccia

A new group has been started in Glenluce with consists of Boccia and New Age Curling each Thursday from 10.30 until 12noon.

All of our groups and initiatives will be stopping for the Christmas break, resuming in January.

May we take this opportunity to wish you all a

Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

SHAWL – ART

The Group are presently been supported by James Galloway (Access Art) who has delivered a taster workshop on 17/09/2013 to assess the groups interests, knowledge and experience.  The group will be structured around a series of expressive and observational exercises with the aim of developing the Artists’ own self confidence and understanding of their work

Aberlour Management are presently redeveloping their premises and have offered the Arts Group to display their work in a theme of portraying Stranraer in a positive way and their artistic impression of the immediate environment and will form part of an exhibition area at Aberlour. 

BHC Action Planning Day

BHC Area Partnership have requested that west Wigtownshire Tambourelli offer adult groups some taster sessions in this years Action plan and to look at intergenerational activity.  The group are also looking next summer to take its young coaches outside the region promoting this alternative sport to schools as part of the last week of school prior to the summer holiday, their Aims 

Promote the young people of D&G in other regions

Develop community spirit
Promote the uptake of Tambourelli in schools and communities

West Wigtownshire Tambourelli Committee

Recent Meeting 17^th October 2013 

Have elected three new young coaches into the committee that will represent as advocates for young people in the Tambourelli group. 

Tambourelli

The group continue to meet at the Ryan Centre during School Term 6.45 - 8.30 pm providing fun physical health activities for young people aged 10-18 yrs of age. 

Boccia Taster workshop

Boccia  Taster workshop 

Bowling Club

Glenluce

21^st November 2013

11am – 12noon  

     

Building Healthy Communities (BHC)  West Wigtownshire in Partnership with D&G leisure and Sport will be holding a taster session on Boccia ,the workshop is been delivered as part of the BHC Self Help Management for Older People , Long Term Conditions and Carers  programme                                  

Boccia is an inclusive sport that can be tailored to suit children and adults of all abilities. The game is played from a seated position and is played with small leather balls. A game consists of two teams of 3 players who each receive two red or blue Boccia balls to play each end. Boccia has some similarities with indoor bowls, the aim of the game is for each team to propel and land their Boccia balls closer to the white jack than their opposing team. Boccia is a great way of getting people active,

 So why not come along and have some fun! 

                  Limited spaces Book Early !           

 For Further information

Contact : Suzanne McGhie Tel 01776700632

Email : suzannemcghie@nhs.net

• Word meaning ball. It was played by the ancient Greeks and today it is a part of the Paralympic Games
• Boccia was first introduced to the Paralympic Games at Stoke Mandeville in 1984
• In the 2008 Beijing Games the Great Britain team won a gold medal
• In the London 2012 Games the Boccia will take place at the ExCeL

Boccia is a target sport; players need to their ball as close to the target or jack as possible.

You always play Boccia inside on a pitch about the same size as a badminton court.

Players can be in wheelchairs and can also not be in a wheelchair, but it is a sitting down game. You can roll or throw the ball, and some people can use a special ramp to roll the ball.

Mixed teams can play Boccia, it's not just all boys or all girls. Players are either in the red or blue team, using red or blue balls to throw at the jack

AGM SHAWL

The Group are due to hold their AGM on the 29^th October at the Aberlour Centre Stranraer  to reconfirm their Committee and annual  report

Indian Head Massage .4 volunteers have confirmed they are up taking Training to enable to Facilitate with their service users attending SHAWL.

Intergenerational work

BHC area Action Plan Day identified a need for the partnership to be involved in promoting intergenerational work.  A working sub group has been identified and an initial meeting has taken place involving:

BHC West Wigtownshire

Community Learning and Development

Aberlour

Stranraer Drama Society

Access Arts

Write Connections

Due to Capacity  issues, SHAWL (holistic Group) have been looking at new premises to deliver their services and have been offered new premises at Park Children’s Service Centre. The Group were invited to have a look and they then agreed to move there and will commence their services on the  29^th October 2013. 

"SHAWL Group enjoy their Summer Break Outings"

SHAWL organised a range of outing opportunities for their service users during the summer Break ,these included a trip to the Botanic Gardens and a trip to  the town of Kirkcudbright, this provided opportunities for both the Holistic and Art Group members to socialise and have a fun day together .

SHAWL Members enjoying the summer Weather and promoting the Self Management Banners 

Botanic Gardens 

BHC Volunteers  with their “Supporting Self Management Banners “

This month Shawl have delivered a taster session on Indian Head Massage and are looking to develop new Volunteers to uptake Indian Head Massage training to support facilitation of their groups Services in the community  

Cherish Group

The Cherish Group are a newly formed, mutual support group in Wigtownshire for Carers. The Aim of the group is to provide a social setting for fellow Carers to meet up to provide information and awareness, skills training opportunities and a warm environment to enjoy some recreational activities .

The Group are holding an Open Day Event on Friday 6th September at the Aberlour Centre, Stranraer 2pm - 4pm and welcome along any Carers who may be interested in finding out about their group and to discuss opportunities to support one another

PARKFEST Agnew Park Stranraer

A good turnout was seen at this years' “Parkfest” at Agnew Park with plenty of entertainment for the young and elderly in the community.  Building Healthy Communities, in Partnership with Community Learning and Development  Stranraer, shared a community tent providing information to the public on our projects and initiatives being delivered in West Wigtownshire.

BHC Volunteers ,Kirsten Barr, Peter Ross and Phil Heron carried out some Participatory appraisal (PA) on behalf of the Stranraer ARC, consulting with the public on their views with regard to a proposed Garden Skill Centre for disabled and vulnerable people in the community.

A good day was had with new identified service users registering their interests in attending BHC Tai Chi for Health and other projects.