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Welcome to the Age Takes Centre ST Stage Festival – an annual event 21 ANNIV ERSARY presented by North Tyneside Council and Age UK North Tyneside.

Our festival returns for its 21st year, with a month-long programme of events and activities exclusively for residents aged 50 and over.

The festival also celebrates the dedication and commitment of volunteers working with our older people in the borough; and our annual Age Takes Centre Stage awards at the end of October give

older people the recognition they deserve for the many ways they help make our communities better places to live. Look out in the

local press for our winners.

We hope that over the following pages you’ll find inspiration to have a go at something new, meet new people and – most importantly – have fun!

Norma Redfearn Alma Caldwell Elected Mayor of North Tyneside Chief Executive, Age UK North Tyneside

Age Takes Centre Stage ST Events and activities are listed in date order 21 over the coming pages. ANNIV ERSARY

Each one includes venue information, along with a note on whether booking in advance is required.

Wideopen Men’s Group Table Tennis Taster First and third Monday monthly, Every Monday, Wednesday 10am-12pm & Friday throughout Wideopen Library October, 1pm and 2pm Social activities for lively, active and Pool independent older men looking for an Looking to try something new? Why not opportunity to try something new, explore bring a friend along and challenge them the local area and keep active. to a game of table tennis. It helps improve First five sessions are FREE, then £2 reflexes, hand-eye coordination and including refreshments. (Additional costs balance. FREE. Booking essential, call may be incurred for outings or activities.) (0191) 643 2025 or email Call (0191) 280 8484 for further [email protected] information. Sheila Atkinson: Life after Swim & Spa Retirement; Cambodia – UK Links Every Tuesday and Thursday Monday 3 October, 2.15pm in October, 11am-12pm Wideopen Library Tynemouth Pool Life after retirement needn't be boring! Enjoy a dip in the pool and relax in the Former university lecturer Sheila Atkinson health suite which features a sauna, is spending her retirement developing a steam room and jacuzzi. FREE entry. charity project. After painting a brief For details call (0191) 643 2025 or email backdrop on her career and life to date, [email protected] hear about the Cambodian charities she is working with and the challenges she has faced so far in her efforts. FREE event, booking essential, call (0191) 643 2071. The Northumberland FREE event. Booking essential, call Cheese Company (0191) 643 2075. Tuesday 4 October, 6.30pm Whitley Bay Customer First Centre Tynemouth and Cullercoats Northumberland Cheese Company has History Tour been producing artisan cheese in Wednesday 5 October, 1pm Northumberland since 1984. Based in a Meet at Tynemouth Metro Station small dairy on the Blagdon Estate, they Presented by Wallsend History Society, hand-make, wrap and sell a full range of this three-mile walk from Tynemouth 17 farmhouse cheeses. Hear their story Metro Station to Cullercoats Metro Station while enjoying some samples of their with author Ken Hutchinson follows a finest selection. Tickets: £5, including route featured in his new book, refreshments. Booking essential, call ‘Tynemouth & Cullercoats History Tour’. (0191) 643 5390. (Please note the walk does include some steep hills. Suitable clothing and Need help with your tech? footwear required.) FREE event. Wednesday 5 October, 10.30-11.30am For further information, email Wednesday 19 October, 10.30-11.30am [email protected] O2 store, The Beacon Shopping Centre, North Shields Whether it’s top tips or advice on the latest apps, the O2 Guru is here to help! Join a complimentary workshop to help you get the most out of your phone or tablet. Booking advisable, call (0191) 296 0147.

Elliott Kerrigan Wednesday 5 October, 2pm Wallsend Customer First Centre Elliott is the creator/script writer of ‘Boy National Poetry Day Meets Girl’, a BBC romantic comedy set Thursday 6 October, in Tyneside which was discovered via the 10.30am-1pm Trans Comedy Award. Elliott won New Northumberland Park, North Shields Writing North’s ‘Northern Promise Award’ Bring your favourite poems to be read in 2005 and his award was to support him out and discussed and we’ll have a go at to develop his first collection of poetry. writing some poetry too. Meet in the While at Surrey Institute of Art and community room (next to the Glasshouse Design, Elliott wrote and directed a short Tea Room) in the park. FREE event, no film which featured Sir Ian McKellen. booking required. Ten Pin Bowling Challenge Reminiscence Group Thursday 6 October, 11am Friday 7 October, 2pm-3.30pm Star Bowling, Royal Quays Howdon Library All levels are most welcome, including What’s your fondest memory from when absolute beginners. Tickets: £3.50. you were a child? Where was your For more details, contact Robin on favourite place to go when you were (0191) 252 4967 or email younger? Share memories from the past, [email protected] whilst perusing old newspaper articles and photographs, re-living happy times Dance Social Event with a friendly bunch. FREE session. Thursday 6 October, 1pm-4pm Refreshments provided. For details, call Lindisfarne Social Club, (0191) 643 2070 or email West Street, Wallsend [email protected] A well-supported dance event, provided by Wallsend Pensioners’ Association, Poetry & Coffee including sequence and modern dance. Friday 7 October, 10.30am-12pm Tickets: £3.50. For details, call Cullercoats Library (0191) 287 3066. Join poets Josephine Scott, Sheila Wakefield, Pauline Plummer and Mike Pratt for readings and discussion over coffee. FREE event. Booking essential, call (0191) 643 2073. Carpet Bowls community midwife in Newcastle. Friday 7 October, 2pm-4pm FREE event, booking essential. Wallsend Customer First Centre Call (0191) 643 2040. A great way to have fun, exercise and release that competitive spirit! FREE Tea Dance drop-in event. For further information call Tuesday 11 October, 1pm-3pm (0191) 643 2075 or email Wallsend Customer First Centre [email protected] FREE event. Booking required, call (0191) 643 2075 or email Internet Family Tree [email protected] Session Monday 10 October, ‘Story behind the object’ 10am-11.30am Thursday 13 October, 3pm-4pm Wallsend Customer First Centre Battle Hill Library With Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Bring a personal or significant object to FREE event. Booking required, call our storytelling session. Use your (0191) 643 2075 or email imagination to make up a story inspired [email protected] by an object you’ve never seen before and then share the real story of your ATCS Memory Café personal object with others. A great – Age UK opportunity to meet new people in a Tuesday 11 October, 10am-11.30am friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Age UK North Tyneside, Bradbury FREE event. For details, or to book, Street, North Shields call (0191) 643 2255 or email For people with dementia, their families, [email protected] carers and the general public. Meet the Dementia Support team, find out more Poetry with Friends – about dementia and see how you could Happy Planet Creative Arts CIC support those living with the condition in Thursday 13 October, 11am-1pm North Tyneside. FREE event. Booking Thursday 27 October, 11am-1pm required, call (0191) 280 8484. Whitley Bay Customer First Centre We come together as a friendly, mixed Meet the author – Marion Walker: group to enjoy poetry, company and ‘You can’t take the child out conversation. Bring yourself and some of Africa’ poems, it matters not if you have written Tuesday 11 October, 2.30pm them or not! If you don’t want to read your White Swan Customer First Centre choice aloud, we can do that for you. Marion recounts her life as a nurse in Tickets: £4.50, including refreshments. Zimbabwe and then spending nine years To book, contact Gail Curry on working as midwife in hospitals in the 07752 356 880 or email North East, before becoming a [email protected] Finding your Words – Safe & Healthy Homes The Next Page Thursday 20 October, Saturday 15 October, 1.30pm-4.30pm 9.30am–3.30pm North Shields Customer First Centre Oxford Centre, Longbenton A chance to discover (or rediscover) your Age UK North Tyneside, in partnership literary creativity! Come along and have a with North Tyneside Council’s Safe & go at some creative writing exercises with Healthy Homes Team, WarmZones and Jennifer Wilson, or sign up on the day for a the Fire & Rescue Service, will be here to mini-mentoring session with Elaine Cusack. discuss ways to ensure your home is a Jennifer and Elaine form ‘The Next Page’, safe, secure and healthy environment. a new North Tyneside arts organisation, Drop in anytime during the session. running workshops, readings and mentoring across the area. FREE event. Comfy Cuppa Club – For details call (0191) 643 5270 or email The North Tyneside Social [email protected] Prescribing Service Friday 21 October, 1pm-3pm Bob Mitchelson: The History North Shields Customer First Centre of Earsdon This special meeting of the Club is for over Tuesday 18 October, 6.30pm 50s only and is an informal and relaxed Shiremoor Library event where people who would like to Join local historian Bob Mitchelson as he improve their wellbeing can meet for a takes a journey through the history of cuppa and a chat; and find out more about Earsdon. FREE event. Booking essential, the benefits of health and/or social activity call (0191) 643 2036. and the Social Prescribing Service. There will be free refreshments and Collage, printmaking optional activities, and we are starting our and tile glazing pen pal club at this session – so anyone Thursday 27 October, 10.30am-1pm who is interested will receive a free Northumberland Park, North Shields writing kit, can choose a pen pal from North Tyneside Art Studio will be guiding out of the area and receive support to participants through the art of collage, write and post their letter. For more printmaking and tile glazing. Meet in details, contact Sam Adamson on the Community Room (next to the (0191) 280 8484 or email Glasshouse Tea Room) in the park. [email protected] FREE event, no booking required.

The Sensational 70s Fun Quiz Frighteningly Spooky Friday 21 October, 2.30pm-4pm Tea Party Monkseaton Library Friday 28 October, 2pm FREE event. For details or to book, John Willie Sams Centre, call (0191) 643 2072 or email Dudley [email protected] An afternoon of entertainment, including a spooky quiz, scary bingo and creepy Tyne Idols Tour picture round – Halloween fancy dress Tuesday 23 October, optional! Tickets: £1.50, including 1pm refreshments. Booking essential, call Leaving from The Gibraltar Rock, (0191) 643 2030 or email Tynemouth [email protected] The ever-popular TV, Music and Movie Tour, which lasts approximately three hours, celebrates all local actors and musicians who have made it onto the world stage. The host for this tour is local music hero Ray Laidlaw, who will guide you around Tyneside with his fascinating stories. It’s a great fun tour and will incorporate a stop off in a lovely venue where Ant & Dec did their first ever gig! Tickets: £7.50, to book call Julie Clay on (0191) 253 1618. (Please note this is a vintage bus with limited access.) Activities at Blue Flames Sporting Club, Whitley Road, Benton

For further information or to book for any of these sessions, contact Tom Scarry on (0191) 270 0885 or email [email protected]

Essential Badminton Course Bowling Starting 23 September, Mondays and Wednesdays, 1pm 10.30am-11.30am Saturdays, 10am Six-week refresher/beginners course. New members welcome for informal, FREE (normally £40). Racket hire friendly games. Spare bowls available available. to get you started. Please call for details and pricing. Walking Football Tuesdays, 12.30pm Enjoy the beautiful game once more! Cost: £3 for 90 minutes. Just turn up with a pair of trainers. Pension Wise sessions Mondays to Fridays throughout October Citizens Advice Bureau, 1 Roxburgh Terrace, Whitley Bay FREE service, appointment required. Last year, the Government made changes to pensions, giving you more freedom and choice. It also set up Pension Wise, a free and impartial service to help you understand your options. To book an appointment or for further details, call (0191) 643 270 4485 or email [email protected]

Simply Activ Family History Taster Sessions Throughout October Mondays, 2.30pm-3.30pm 27 Claremont Crescent, Whitley Lodge Howdon Library Shopping Parade, Whitley Bay Interested in learning how to trace A low-intensity, 36-minute workout that’s your family tree and would like a little easy, fun and friendly. FREE sessions, guidance? Come along to our FREE booking required. Call (0191) 340 3180 or one-on-one Family History taster session. email [email protected] Booking required, call (0191) 643 2070 or email ‘Pushing the Possibilities’ [email protected] Please ask for dates Wayout in (WinG) The Courtyard, off Durham Road, Low Fell, NE9 5AW A FREE three-and-a-half day outdoor activity programme for ages 55 or over to experience outdoor activities, such as hill walking, map reading, canoeing, rock climbing, mountain biking and kayaking. All are designed for moderate fitness levels. A great chance to meet new people and learn new skills. This course is repeated during the year. For detail, call (0191) 487 9356 or email [email protected] P Enjoy the view at a park café Freshly baked scones Hearty soup of the day Lunchtime specials *Fish and Chip Fridays

Bacon or sausage hot breakfast bap or a full English breakfast**

Rising Sun Country Park Café

Open 9am – 2.30pm Monday to Friday, 3.30pm until 31 October 9am - 3.30pm Saturdays 10.30am - 3.30pm Sundays Northumberland Park Glasshouse Tea Room Open 10am – 2.30pm Monday to Friday, 3.30pm until 31 October 10am – 3.30pm weekends Verandah Café Richardson Dees Park

10.30am – 2.30pm Monday to Friday, (Closed from November to February)

*only at Rising Sun Country Park **not available at the Verandah Café Please note opening times may vary due to the weather. Call 0191 643 2242 to confirm opening.