Wigtown School - Healthy Lifestyle Consultation

Building Healthy Communities Machars were asked to carry out a Healthy Lifestyles consultation by Wigtown Primary School as part of the Curriculum’s Health & Wellbeing subject.

The consultation took place in late February and early March, with 81 pupils involved.

The analysis report is available to view by clicking here

Heartstart - April 2016

What a fantastic month David and Ann Hirst have had training community members in Heartstart. This Month so far, they have trained 97 members of the community including 68 teachers from Stranraer Academy, (David was only expecting 12), in how to use a defibrillator.

Next month appears as busy, but, if you or any group are interested in a FREE 2 hour certificated Heartstart course, then please contact the office.

Jills in the Community - Garden Project

In an attempt to tidy up and make secure a garden in Whithorn, the Jills were today on Fencing Duty!!

Posts were fitted and fencing stretched to replace a rotten wooden fence. The finished product looked much tidier and far more secure!

 This fencing project will continue for a few more sessions, weather permitting. 

Transforming Lives Through Partnerships - Douglas Ewart High School

On Monday, Douglas Ewart High School held an event to show all the partnership working that happens in the School. This was in recognition of  being short-listed for the "Transforming Lives Through Partnership Working" awards, supported by Education Scotland.

The judges for the award talked to partners and pupils about the impact of being involved with the School and how this affects the lives of the children and the wider community.









The event was very well supported and we were well looked after with some great cakes!!

Well done everyone!!

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Boccia & New Age Curling

Today's session of Boccia & New Age Curling was good fun with the men (blues) winning the Curling 8 to 4.
The ladies tried to take victory in the Boccia with no success, as the men were too strong today winning the Boccia 7 to 2.  Well done Blues.

There will be no Boccia & New Age Curling on 25th April, 2nd & 16th May due to holidays.

Monday Club

On Monday 11th April, David Coe came along and firstly gave us a demonstration on how to use water colours and then we gave it a go ourselves.  Great laugh and some good results to take home and hang up.

Thanks David,looking forward to seeing you in October.

Capability Scotland Newsletter - April 2016

The latest newsletter for Capability Scotland is now available. To read the latest information for Dumfries and Galloway, please click here.

Spring, after the Garden project _ Jills in the Community

The garden that was developed at the end of last year, has survived the winter and now needs refreshing to start the new season. Mary is starting, removing all the weeds from the flower borders before the fencing can be repaired. The Jills intend to do this in the next couple of weeks.

If there is anyone interested in joining the Jills in the Community project to assist people with simple DIY jobs around the home, then please contact the office.

Alzheimer Scotland local groups - Active Minds & Knit and Natter

To view details of the Knit and Natter group, please click here

  

To view details of the Active Minds monthly meeting, please click here

Isle of Whithorn Youth Group - New Age Curling.

Samantha went along to the Isle of Whithorn youth group last night where they had a few games of New Age Curling. The games were very competitive with the Blues winning 6-4. Well done girls.

"Fun, but some of us didn't stick to the rules!

  

"Really good and very competitive"

Boccia & New Age Curling

Today's session of Boccia & New Age Curling saw the Reds win the curling 15-3.  The Blues came back to thrash the Reds 11-2 in the Boccia. The whole session was very competitive and a lot of fun! Thanks to Esme for keeping the scores.

There will be no Boccia & New Age Curling until 4th April due to the Easter holiday. 

Monday Club – Keep Well

On Monday, the members were given a short talk by Julie Gorman about the benefits of the Keep Well Programme. 

This is open to anyone over the age of 40, is completely confidential and is like having an M.O.T. test on yourself. Any findings that may be have an adverse affect on your health would be passed on to the G.P. to keep an eye on you!! Keep Well is an NHS project as part of proactive Public Health.

One of the benefits of Keep Well is that you could be given access to Health Coaching to help you improve your health in a variety of ways. Be it weight loss, exercise, diet etc.

This was extremely informative and Keep Well can be contacted on 01387 272718

The session finished with another exuberant performance by Pam as she led the group in Gentle Exercise to Music.

Due to Easter hols etc, the next meeting is now on April 11^th where David Coe is providing material for an Art workshop. Look forward to seeing you all there.

Reminder - Wigtownshire Cancer Gathering - 19th March 2016

Reminder  

Macmillan Cancer Support, NHS Dumfries & Galloway and DG Health and Wellbeing are holding the first Wigtownshire Cancer Gathering on 19th March 2016 at the Stranraer College.  For further information please click here.

Stranraer Rotary Mull of Galloway Marathon

Take a look at the event below and if interested, contact the people mentioned:

safeTALK Training - May 2016

safeTALK trains people in recognising thoughts of suicide and connects them to suicide intervention skills.

If you are interested in this training, please click here to view full details. This training is FREE!!