Kirkinner Monkeys - Fruit Pizza

Last Tuesday, the youth group held at Kirkinner School were given the opportunity to make a Fruit Pizza to their own design.

Using a slice of watermelon as a base, the young people then added a thin layer of cream (to allow fruit to stick) and then a choice of up to 8 different fruits.

Great session and some great results. Well done monkeys!!!

Sport Relief Grant

The Machars Area Partnership for Building Healthy Communities is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant from Sport Relief of £1000. This money is split between the Isle of Whithorn Dancercise class and the Isle of Whithorn Art Group.  This is to help cover hall rents, etc, for both groups and will ensure the continuity and sustainability of both groups into the future.

David Hirst, Treasurer of the Partnership said: "We have also received grants from Newton Stewart Round Table, Machars Lions and Royal Bank of Scotland which are being used to support our initiatives. A further 16 grant applications have been submitted and more will be added to this in the coming weeks. The object is to obtain the funding to set up new initiatives and extend the existing ones.  Any suggestions for new activities would be seriously considered."

Heartstart

Following a 3 year joint scheme by the Scottish Ambulance Service and British Heart Foundation, 34 schools across Dumfries and Galloway have each received between £1000 and £4000 of equipment and training for the teachers to deliver the course. The scheme has now ended and the responsibility of training within schools has been taken up by the British Heart Foundation’s Heartstart (Newton Stewart and The Machars) who have, of course, been affiliated to Building Healthy Communities for over 10 years and would not have achieved their success without BHC’s help.

Heartstart (NS) are now responsible for the training of over 4300 people per year in Emergency Life Support. This means that many more lives will be saved in Dumfries and Galloway. The average rate of survival in this country is less than 10%, and in some areas less than 2%. In Denmark, where this is on the curriculum of every school and in towns and cities, you are never more than 50 metres from someone who has been trained, and their survival rate is over 40% and rising.

A simple, free, 2 hour “hands on” course available to groups of 6 to 30 is now available through BHC. Participants have varied from Brownie groups up to GP’s (we currently train at 9 local practices).

The course covers what to do with someone who:

Is unconscious

Has stopped breathing

Is choking

Is bleeding

The course also includes how to recognise when someone is having a heart attack or failure and how to use a Defibrillator

For more details, contact the BHC office on 01988 501111 or David Hirst 01988 700637,       e-mail davidhirsthome@gmail.com

Finding Your Way Around Your I-Pad/Tablets

Yesterday saw the second week of our Finding Your Way Around Your I-Pad/Tablets. Topics included copying and pasting on Facebook, taking pictures, being able to turn the camera to outward facing and clearing internet history. All were solved successfully.

Thank you to Esme for her hospitality and Rosemary for being chauffeur.

Everyone Active - Let's Motivate

Take a look at the "Everyone Active" leaflet where there is an opportunity to get some training!

To view the leaflet, click here.

Healthy Eating for Older People - Kirkcowan Autumn Club

Yesterday, Dave from Building Healthy Communities visited the Autumn Club in Kirkcowan to present a short talk on Healthy Eating - What is good and what is not as good for you!

This was followed by a short talk about "Love Food Hate Waste" giving hints on how to save money by using all food that is purchased.

The afternoon continued with a quick cooking demonstration, following the guidelines for a healthy meal.  People were surprised how quickly a tasty meal could be cooked!

Cups of tea and chats rounded off an excellent afternoon.

To view the powerpoint of the Healthy Eating talk, please click here.

Monday Club

On Monday Veronica Love, Solicitor from McCormick & Nicholson in Newton Stewart, came along to give us an informative talk on how we could go about setting up our wills and power of attorneys later in life. The talk was very insightful and helpful.  This led to some very interesting discussions!!

Veronica gave handouts for us to have a read at home. Thank you to Veronica for coming along.

On Monday 20th June, We have PC Nicola McFadzean giving us a talk on personal and internet safety and gentle exercise with Pam.

Newton Stewart Youth Clubs - Junior and Senior - Healthy Cooking

Over the past 5 weeks, 40 young people have had an experience of preparing and cooking a healthy snack for themselves.

The senior group cooked an Asian Stir-fry, whilst the juniors made their own Chicken fajita Wraps.


All the young people thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and were really pleased with the outcome.

For some, this was their first experience of cooking and they should be applauded for their efforts.

Find Your Way Around Your I-Pads/Tablets

This week has seen the start of our four week block on how to become more confident in using our I-pads/tablets for service users and befrienders in partnership with Food Train, We had a range of problems from connecting to the internet, attaching photos to an email and downloading games etc. All which was solved successfully.

Thank you to Esme for her hospitality!  

Creetown Youth Club - Healthy Cooking

The youth club Healthy Eating and cooking experience was at Creetown this last week where the young people had a chance to make their own Chicken Fajita Wraps.

There were some in the group that had never cooked before, therefore a very positive experience was had. Well done to all!!

Carers Newsletter

To view the Newsletter from the Dumfries and Galloway Carers Centre, please click here

Jills in the Community

The Jills have this week been making new bits of fencing for the garden in Whithorn. This involved  cutting pieces of wood to length and shape using the appropriate power tools.

These Bits of fencing will be used to fill the gap and complete the task.

Well done to all Jills. 

Newton Stewart Senior Youth Club - Healthy Cooking.

Over the past two sessions, the senior youth group have been given an opportunity to take part in a Healthy Cooking session.

The recipe cooked was Asian fried Chicken with Lime....... Yummy!!

Both groups did really well and although the dish was not to some tastes, (bit spicy), all enjoyed their evening. Well done to both groups.

Swallow Theatre Events 27-29 May

Please take a look at the poster for upcoming events at The Swallow Theatre. Click here to view.

Royal Voluntary Service - Transport Service in Wigtownshire

The Royal Voluntary Service offer a car and companionship to help you attend appointments and get out and about.  In Wigtownshire, the service is currently available in Newton Stewart, Glentrool, Kirkinner, Stranraer and its surrounding areas.

To find out more about the service, please click here

To find out how to volunteer with the Royal Voluntary Service, please click here