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News from your chairman
Yes - it
arrived as expected - the email asking for my contribution to the Spring edition of Grapevine and as ever I
must thank Sue & Ray Chinnery for the continued work in the production of
the Grapevine.
As m...
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Aims and Objectives Jersey Mencap 2007
To produce an annual review of services and business plan by May in time
for the Annual General Meeting.
To investigate fund raising opportunities in 2007 and the organisation
of appropriate high profil...
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Thank you for your Donations
We would like to
thank the following for their recent donations or giving of time
Friends and family
of Marge Harrington
Anton Meyer
Di and Sonny Le
Maistre
Spoor and Fisher
St. C...
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To
celebrate Deutsche Bank being in the island for 35 years, the staff (from both Guernsey and Jersey)
work in shifts over the weekend to carry out a project which has to be finished
in the one weekend. Everyone was invited
to put in a b...
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WHAT DOES JERSEY MENCAP DO?
We thought this would be useful for new readers, and a
good reminder of all the areas in which we are involved.
Jersey Mencap supports adults and children with a learning disability
and their par...
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MEETING
THE GOVERNOR
We have been in the JEP with the Lieut. Governor and are doing the Itex
Governor's walk with him and Sue and Dean who work with us at JET.
We are doing it to raise money for charities and w...
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NATIONAL
MENCAP GET TOGETHER INCLUSION TRAINING
Myself and Hannah Clarke from the Youth Inclusion project worked on
bringing The National Mencap Get Together Inclusion trainers to the island at
the end of January for 3 days. ...
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NEWS
FROM THE SHOP
Well by
the time you read this we will be well into the New Year and wish you all a
happy and fun year ahead with not too many illnesses to cope with.
This season the sale of our cards and gifts in the...
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WILLS
& TRUST INFORMATION EVENING
It seems
like years ago but it was last October and the information didn't make the
Autumn 2006 edition.
It was a very well attended evening and because of this not all people
g...
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SPONSORED
WALK
Sunday 29th April
La Rocque To Corbiere - 14 Miles
Last year we
had some 700 people taking part in our
walk, Mums, Dads, kids and dogs, all raising
a huge sum of money (£33,000) for t...
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SELF ADVOCACY
REPORT
Our names are Paul and Billy and we live in a house in the community
supported by the Special Needs Team.
I'm Paul and I first met Ros a long time ago when I wanted help to sort
o...
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LES AMIS NEWS
Life at Les Amis continues apace for its 71 residents and 110 staff! Yes
110, hard to believe. When I joined in 1993 there were 21 of us!
Much of the reason for growth is to do with opening more houses,
someth...
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MAISON
ALLO
As Maison Allo is now in its fourth year I would like to take this
opportunity of reminding readers of the reason why it came into existence.
Some of you may remember that Maison Allo was set up to...
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MONT A L'ABBE SCHOOL - NEW PROVISION
Hello all Grapevine Readers. You will recall from the October Grapevine
that we are having a new building at Haute
Vallee School
for our Secondary age pupils.... Here is an update on progress....
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LEARNING
DISABILITY PARTNERSHIP BOARD
The Board
has been in existence for over two years and does continue to grow from
strength to strength. It is unique in bringing service user representation and
work professionals together in the sa...
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FAMILY NURSING AND HOME CARE
Community paediatric team
The children's
nursing team is at the present time down to one member only. The Nursing Sister
has left the Island, and one of our staff
nurses is on Maternity leave. We...
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MONT A L'ABBE SPECIAL GYMNASTICS CLUB
Change of Name
When the Club first began it was an after
school club for school pupils. The Club
is no longer an after school club and whilst it continues to benefit from being
all...
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Fund Raising
Since the last news letter:-
The Lions Club of Jersey has funded the
purchase of a new competition uniform. The St Lawrence Charity Horse Show is funding this
year's Club Championships. The Variety Monday Club has purchased ...
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DIARY OF
EVENTS - 2007
DAY/DATE
TIME
EVENT
CONTACT
24 March
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JERSEY EMPLOYMENT
TRUST (JET)
Opening
of the new Oakfield
Building
We had an exciting start to the year with
the Lt-Governor Andrew Ridgway opening the new Oakfield building. About 150 people were there to see the plaque
bei...
