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Julias House – www.juliashouse.org

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:56:07 +0000

At Julia’s House we rely upon the generosity of the people of Dorset to continue offering respite, fun, therapies and, ultimately, end-of-life care to seriously ill children and their families across the whole county.
We recieve only 3 per cent of our funding from the government. In 2011, we will need to raise nearly £2.8m, so you can see how vital your donations are. View our website for full details and upcoming events: www.juliashouse.org

Pride in Bournemouth

admin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:50:56 +0000

Pride in Bournemouth is an exciting public art event to be staged through the summer of 2011. It will bring together residents, visitors, schools, artists and businesses in a fun way!
Artists will decorate life-size lions, sponsored by local businesses which will then be placed around the town, encouraging exploration of Bournemouth and raise money for Julia’s House and the Born Free Foundation.
Visit the website for full details: http://prideinbournemouth.com/lions.php

Poppets Christmas Party – Sat 11th Dec

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:40:26 +0000

Poppets Christmas Party

Saturday 11th December
Tops Day Nursery, Royal Bournemouth Hospital – from 10am till 12noon.

Parents can leave their children to enjoy Christmas craft activities such as decoration making and gingerbread man decorating while they finish their Christmas shopping or they are welcome to stay for tea, coffee and mince pies – the more the merrier!

For more details
Tel: 01202 431 952
Email: poppets@live.co.uk

More info on East Dorset Mencap – click here

Poppets Saturday Morning Respite Club

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:23:18 +0000

Poppets Saturday Morning Respite Club

Poppets is a Saturday Club hosted by East Dorset Mencap for children with a range of special needs.

Poppets is held at Tops Nursery at Royal Bournemouth Hospital and runs from 10am-12noon alternate Saturdays. Club entry costs just £1.00

For more details
Tel: 01202 431 952
Mobile: 07878 849 169
Email: poppets@live.co.uk

More info on East Dorset Mencap – click here

Bournemouth Forget Me Not Walk – 26th September

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:08:51 +0000

Sunday, 26 September 2010

The Bournemouth Forget Me Not Walk is a 5km sponsored walk in the vibrant town of Bournemouth and is open to people of all ages.

On the day, walkers will start at Royal Bath Hotel and walk down the cliff side and through the gardens in the centre of town and through the promenade to the seafront. Returning to Royal Bath Hotel entrants will celebrate their achievement with some light refreshments and collect a well-earned medal.

Walk with us to beat blood cancers.

Click here to go the website for more details

Or for or more information about the route or for general queries please contact the Forget Me Not Walks Coordinator on 020 7269 9006 or walk@beatbloodcancers.org

Animal Windfest 10th-12th September 2010

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:45:46 +0000

As the sun sets and the swell subsides, join us at the Animal Windfest Ball in the Party Marquee on Sandbanks beach…

Raising money for – The Richie Keefe Life and Soul Trust – www.richiekeefelifeandsoultrust.org.uk

Full details visit www.animalwindfest.co.uk or view the poster PDF here: Windfest Ball

CELEBRITY FOOTBALL MATCH – AFCB LEGENDS VS THE CELEBRITIES

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:23:30 +0000

Expected to draw a sell-out crowd, the event will take place on Sunday 18th July, at 11.30 am with the kick off at 3pm. A significant allocation of funds raised by the match will be donated to Julia’s House, Poole’s Hospice for Children and the Youth Cancer Trust. The match will not only celebrate the club’s promotion to npower League 1 but will continue the bond between club and community by supporting crucial projects that benefit local, sick and disadvantaged children.

Click here to go to the AFCB website for full details and tickets

FUNDRAISING EVENTS FOR LEWIS-MANNING HOSPICE

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:09:52 +0000

“Bring the House Down” – A Roaring 20s Flapper Party

Saturday 12th June, 7pm

Lewis-Manning Hospice

Contact fundraising on 01202 701000 for more information

Dance-A-Thon

Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th June

The Dolphin Shopping Centre

Entry Fee: £2 per dancer (suggested Minimum Sponsorship £15 per dancer)

It’s A Knockout…

Saturday 3rd July.

Branksome Recreation Ground

Registration Fee: £250 per team (6-10 players)

Minimum sponsorship: £750 per team

Open Art Exibition & Sale

Monday 5th to Sunday 11th July

Hallmark Hotel, Bournemouth

For more information contact Fundraising on 01202 701000

Luscombe Valley Steam Railway Gala Weekend

Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th July

Entry by Donation – All proceeds to Lewis-Manning Hospice

River Boat Trip to Wareham

Friday 20th August

Poole Quay to Wareham and back

Tickets £20 each (includes Fish & Chip Supper)

Charity Golf Tournament at Remedy Oak

Tuesday 19th October

£450 per team (Includes 18 holes Stableford competition, coffee and bacon bap on arrival, three course meal and prizes)

Snow Ball at The Italian Villa, Compton Acres

Friday 10th December

Join us for the most glamorous event of the season. Magic, music, auction and more…

Lewis-Manning Hospice is a voluntary hospice providing palliative care to over 650 local people each year living with cancer and life-threatening illnesses.

All of our services are free, For further information on any of these events or to book tickets, please contact the Fundraising Team on 01202 701000, or visit: www.lewis-manning.co.uk/events

Bournemouth Council to Demolish the BCCA

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:34:29 +0000

Come along to the next public meeting:

Tuesday 18th May and Tuesday 25th May at 7.30pm in The Green Room, Portman Hotel, Ashley Road, Boscombe

Bournemouth Council have submitted plans to demolish the Boscombe Centre for Community and Arts (BCCA). We are holding 2 public meetings and have invited Council Leaders, Ward Councillors, residents, traders, community groups and local professionals to attend.

The Council’s plans are for an “integrated services hub” built with £2.3 million they received from the Dept. for Children, Schools and Families (DFCS). Will this mean more services for drug addicts and alcoholics and those on probation or not? We simply don’t know because of B’mth Council’s conflicting reports on their own documents, which are in the public realm. Certainly, we don’t want it – and recovering addicts tell us they don’t want it either.

We put forward a business plan to reopen the BCCA with programmes for all the community aimed at curbing anti-social behaviour, increasing health and wellbeing, increasing educational attainment and social inclusion and aiding economic regeneration. Substantial money has been spent on the seafront – we advocate money needs to be invested in Central Boscombe where it is most desperately needed providing something meaningful for the majority of the community.

Our business plan was praised by Bournemouth Council – and it did not rely on any Council funding. Once B’mth Council obtained the £2.3 million and made the unilateral decision to change sites from the one noted on their application form to the BCCA, however, things changed.

We do believe that “safe services” sited at the BCCA together with our programmes could provide the most exciting, positive thing that Boscombe has received for very many years and there is space at the BCCA for both.

Attend our meetings to find out how to object to B’mth Council’s planning application effectively!

Taken from the BCCA website – click here

Milford on Sea Food Week a Success!

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:53:30 +0000

Milford on Sea Food Week drew to a close on Sunday with over 5000 people visiting the Sunday Food Market on the village green & in the High Street. Many stalls sold out of their local produce, and the local restaurants, cafes and pubs happily fed the visitors not only in their premises, but also at the food stalls they had set up in the market. Milford on Sea certainly took full advantage of its opportunity to show off what a great place it is to visit for great food & dining.

The Food Week was packed with over 100 events with a party atmosphere throughout the village all week. The week started on the seafront on Monday with revellers enjoying the hog roast and the girl saxophone band ‘Saxuality’ in The Marine, just along the seafront a Recipe Book Swap and BBQ, with burgers & sausages from the village butchers, were in full swing outside of the Needles Eye Cafe. At the same time The Smugglers Inn enjoyed a calypso with their own steel band in the afternoon sun.

During the week Indian Elvis had everyone rocking over their curry, the fine diners were entertained by Spanish Guitarists at Westover Hall, Italian Opera was the order of the night at Piccolo Mondo & Thai dancers enthralled diners in the Britannia Thai. The Church Hall saw adult cookery demonstrations & educational food talks, alongside a Food Day featuring local food producers, and the girls from the WI with their cakes. The children were kept entertained all week with an egg painting competition, children’s cookery courses, treasure hunt, fun days & pottery making. Other venues put on a variety of events including vegetable carving demonstrations, fish cookery courses, wine tastings, pudding afternoons, vegetable garden open days, best breakfast competitions, and special offer lunches, to name but a few. In fact, there was something happening in the village for everyone.

The village bed & breakfast guest houses also had some unexpected bookings from people that visited Milford on Sea for the first time because of Food Week, some of which have already booked to return later this year.

This charming little seaside village certainly eats well & knows how to throw a party, perhaps Rick Stein and Padstow should keep one eye on this vibrant community, they are certainly looking to become the holiday destination for fine food!

Background:

Milford on Sea Food Week is a community event celebrating all that is great about food. The village will be alive with a wide variety of activities for everyone in the family. The website contains a full programme of daily events with a main family attraction being the Sunday Food Market. The Milford on Sea Food Market is an exciting event which spans the length of the High Street, & also covers the village green. The event runs from 10am to 3pm on Sunday 11^th April 2010, and is the finale to the 100+ events & activities that will be taking place on a daily basis throughout Milford on Sea Food Week. The Food Market has around thirty five different stalls, & is a great celebration of all that is great about local food. The stalls feature a tremendous variety of local produce, including chutneys & cooking sauces made in the village, jams, English cheeses, New Forest goats cheese, venison, smoked fish, pies, pasties, savoury treats, olives, and English wine. For the sweet toothed there are handmade chocolates from New Milton, double baked biscuits from Lymington, bags of sweets, candy floss, handmade fudge, exotic desserts & delicious cakes from Yum of Milford on Sea. No one visiting will go hungry, as the market offers hot snacks like chicken tikka, paella, hog roast, and sweet or savoury hot crepes. The market even has a Children’s Pottery Experience, food related ceramic pottery, & contemporary local paintings.

For the ‘green visitors’, The New Forest Transition Group have a seedling exchange, and the New Forest Park Authority will have a stand discussing Food Miles & the New Forest Marque. There will also be presentations for the local schools ‘Kids Egg Painting Competition’, the village ‘Best Breakfast Competition’ & the prize winner’s draw for the ‘Scrummy Food Raffle’. To keep everyone entertained there is also a Recipe Book Swap for everyone to join in with, and The Plonkers Agricultural Orchestra will be providing live music in their unique ‘agricultural’ style.

We will also have lots of our village shops opening especially for the day, providing fresh fruit & vegetables, fresh flowers, delicatessen counter, a Food in Art Exhibition, gifts for the home, local art and beauty treatments, you can even go back to your childhood in the Milford Models Shop! Plus of course, the village’s tea shops & pubs offer full English breakfasts, Sunday roast dinners, snacks, Danish pastries, cakes, afternoon teas and continental coffee’s. With so much happening this really is a day not to miss!

Milford on Sea Food Week itself runs from the Bank Holiday Monday 5^th April until Sunday 11^th April 2010 and has daily dining offers & themed events in all restaurants & cafes, cookery experiences & demonstrations, educational events & talks, children’s fun cooking competitions, & the chance to buy local produce at our very own Food Market on the closing Sunday. Over 100 individual events are already planned throughout the week which runs every day from Easter Bank Holiday Monday through to the following Sunday every year.

David Long one of the organising team said “Milford on Sea is a great place for eating & a fun place to visit, so we wanted to celebrate this with a series of varied food related events around the village for all locals & visitors to enjoy & learn. Why not come & join in the fun!”

Milford on Sea Food Week is organised by the Milford on Sea Community Tourism Group and all profits will be donated to Milford on Sea Community Centre.

Please visit the Milford on Sea Food Week website to find out more: www.milfordonseafoodweek.org