Volunteer Awareness and Recruitment Day 2017

Wigtownshire Health & Wellbeing Team  are pleased to announce that they will be holding a Volunteers awareness and recruitment day  in July 2017


The aim of the day to enable  members of the community to come along and find out what a community volunteer is all about ? 
You will get the opportunity to hear from a range of community volunteers about their Journey ,why they became a volunteers , the skills  they came with and the new skills they have gained, their personal achievements and how their contribution has  supported the quality of lives of others in the community




There’s a huge range of volunteering opportunities available. Volunteers do all sorts of things, from befriending someone who is isolated to teaching a dance class.
Volunteering is also something anyone can do. People of all ages and ethnic and social backgrounds volunteer across Scotland  every year. Some volunteer full-time, others for a few hours a week or even just a one-off project.

Some organisations are looking for volunteers with certain skills, but most offer full training and are just looking for someone with enthusiasm. Whatever your skills are, whatever you enjoy doing, whatever spare time you have, there will be a voluntary opportunity to suit you.


Benefits of Volunteering

There is a wide body of research demonstrating the range of health and well being benefits that can come from volunteering.

73% of formal volunteers state that personal enjoyment was a very important benefit of volunteering.

74% of formal volunteers get satisfaction from seeing the results of their voluntary activity.

69% of 50+ yr old respondents state that getting involved in volunteering has increased their social interaction with people from different age groups (Making the Connection 2, 2010)

69% of young people said volunteering has increased their ability to get paid work and 66% said volunteering has increased their ability to get a place on a university or college course (Millennium Volunteers Survey 2012).

    KEEP A LOOK OUT FOR OUR EVENT POSTER IN THE FORTH COMMING WEEK ! 

BHC (WW) provides Tai Chi for Health To towns Day Centre Activitiies Schedule

BHC Volunteer Tai chi Facilitators with some of the members in the group 

Over the last few weeks Building Healthy Communities  Volunteers have been delivering Tai Chi for Healthy to the members of Thorneycroft Day Centre . It has proved to be such a success that it has now become a regular feature in the centres activity Schedule
Building Healthy communities operates across Dumfries & Galloway ,with the focus on improving health and Wellbeing of Individuals, Families and communities , delivering a range of activities for all ages , Margaret McCurdy, Team Leader, Said " The Team have been Fantastic and are playing an integral part in supporting the centre to empower and enable our members in achieving Healthy outcomes and improving their quality of life "

Stranraer Celerbrates 400 years as a Royal Burgh

Stranraer 400 Committee are planning a great range of events through out the year to celebrate the 400 years of being a Royal Burgh ,Events planned will highlight our Culture, through its History ,Sport ,Music, Arts and many more achievements as a royal burgh and to highlight and showcase our community both locally and to tourism

Stranraer 400 committee welcome all community groups or organisations who wish to participate in this years events or who may themselves have events planned, which they would like to highlight on our Stranraer 400 Web Page, where all events taking place in and around Stranraer  will be highlighted   

Wigtownshire Celebrate World Tai Chi & Qigong day

Building Healthy Communities ( West Wigtownshire ) Tai Chi for Health  Initiative groups got together on Sat 29th April  to celebrate World Tai chi & Qigong day  in Stranraer , this celebrated annual event , sees over 10 million people across the world coming together at 10am  and practice Tai Chi & Qigong

BHC Tai Chi for Health Facilitators & Volunteers

 the day was concluded with a coffee morning and home baking provided by the service users who shared their talented baking skills, and the enjoyment of the tasting that was warmly welcomed by all attending this years event

Great Weather For Move More Path walks Group

We have been enjoying early summer weather at present, and this has been very enjoyable for our MacMillan Walking groups ,our walk leaders have developed a range of walking routes ,which as a group, when we meet at the Cancer Drop in centre in Stranraer,  we agree which route we all decide to take based on the abilities of those who come along for the day

Taking in the views 

Path walk through the Forrest

The project initiative is free for those effected by Cancer, the group meet every Friday at 1pm  at the Stranraer Cancer Drop in Centre  at the Galloway Hospital  Stranraer  ,and the walks are facilitated by Trained Macmillan Cancer Path walk facilitators

For further information or if you are interested in coming along and join the group for a Friday afternoon Walk  please get in touch with Gary Small, Move More Development Officer ,Tel 01776700632 or 01776 707778 - Email: garysmall@nhs.net  

West Wigtownshire Bushcraft Summer programme Planning

Building Healthy Communities ( West Wigtownshire )  &  Children ,Young  People and life long Learning Services are pleased to announce our third year  John Muir Awards Bush Craft  Summer  Programme


We have updated this years programme which commences on the 30th May, as a planning event with the young people ,to discuss the opportunities and how they will develop this years events

Summer programme :

•           Gardening Development and BBQ at Galloway Hospital     Community Gardens  
•           Cooking skills at Agnew Park
•           Nature Walk and Environmental Awareness  - Galloway Forrest
•           Wild Camping Weekend  Trip  

         




                                                                                             

 
            For those interested in finding out more or attending this years programme please contact Laura Middleton Youth Worker .who will provide Families with Registration forms for their children to attend , please be aware their is limited spaces on this programme

   Laura.Middleton@dumgal.gcsx.gov.uk

Bosom Buddies Stranraer

We will have another morning get together of the Bosom Buddies Group next Tuesday (16th May - 11am ) at Brambles.  It would be great to see you all there.  We will do our best to limit the meeting to around one hour to avoid interfering with other commitments you all may have.

Following on from our last get together, we can further discuss our proposed sponsored walk (Moonwalk?) for local charity. St. John's Ambulance was mentioned as an organisation you were all keen to help.

Also, we can touch on:-

• premises for our meetings (we have a few ideas we can discuss)
• cancer awareness training (offered by Alan Gow from Macmillan Cancer Support)
• local services for cancer survivors/patients
• current events with Move More and T.C.A.T. programme and
• future activities
  

I will also see if I can get someone involved in local cancer services provision to come along and join us for a chat (I will keep you updated about that).

We can also enjoy coffee and a general chat.

If you have access to Facebook it would be helpful if you link with the new Wigtownshire Health and Social Care Integration Team Facebook page. I will post information about Bosom Buddies and other Move More/T.C.A.T. initiatives on there.  Angela will also continue to develop the existing Bosom Buddies pages.

Building Healthy Communities ( West Wigtownshire ) Elected Members committee meeting

We have organised our first meeting for our newly established Area Partnership elected members   committee for the  Thurs 18thMay ,at 11am - 1pm at the locality offices Victoria Place Stranraer
Committee agenda`s will be forwarded later this week ,Thank you  to those who have agreed to be part of the committee and we look forward to seeing you all