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AutVuolummen 2 2Iss0ue1 16 0 DRAYTON & FARLINGTON COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER www.draytonandfarlington.com Pompey Pluckers This well-loved local group of ukukele players and singers will get you in the mood for Christmas, which Community Coffee Mornings seems to start earlier every year! Tea or Coffee, Christmas Cake and Mince Pie are served & Friendship Centres at the interval, with a raffle. Saturday 15th October, 2.30 - 4.30pm All are welcome to join us for a coffee (or tea) and a Church of the Resurrection, Large Hall chat in a friendly atmosphere at the Coffee Morn - Brecon Avenue, PO6 2AW ings and Friendship Centres which meet: Tickets: £6 Monday at the Manor House, Court Lane between from Olwen Tel: 9238 2002 or Anona Tel: 92386032 10.00 and 11.30am Wednesday at the Drayton United Church between South Downs 10.30am and 12.00noon Lunch Thursday at the Friendship Centre, Drayton United Our popular annual three course meal Church between 9.30 and 11.30am Drink on arrival and coffee Friday at Drayton United Church between 10am Wednesday 23rd November, 12 noon and 12.00noon South Downs College College Road, Waterlooville, PO7 8AA And the first Wednesday each month at the Friend - Tickets: £15.75 ship Club, St Colmans Church, between 2 and 4pm available from the Information Centre. Tel. 9238 0000 Page 2 Action Group Keeping Up To Date TWO things you will have noticed with this year’s Your Say. Firstly, it contains our new logo and secondly it was delivered by students from Springfield School. Our new logo – Supporting the Community – is some - thing we have been trying to do for 14 years. We pas - sionately believe in our community which is why we took on the role formerly performed by the Neighbour - hood Forum when it was suspended last year. All members of the community can now raise with us – As more people now own computers, we have had through the staff in the Information Centre - problems an increasing demand to give people help using com - they feel need to be addressed by the Police or the puters, laptops and iPads. This will possibly increase City Council. We can present problems on your behalf even more when people discover Microsoft has in - and feed back responses. We have had some good stalled Windows 10 without their knowledge. Feel free results so far including improvements to our roads and to bring along your laptop or iPad, preferably on a Fri - the resolution of parking issues. Please take advan - day, if you need help. If you have a desktop PC prob - tage of this avenue to voice your concerns. We are lem we can probably help on one of our machines. happy to champion worthwhile causes. The ability for people to find information on line may We continue to provide our very popular services – account for the decreasing number of callers into the Drop N Shop, Foot Care, Coffee Mornings, What’s On Information Centre despite the wealth of information and our free Solicitor Consultation Service, all of which we hold and keep up to date. Does everyone Google are organised through the Information Centre. If you these days? are running an event that you would like us to publicise We continue to collect, on behalf of other charities, in What’s On please let us know by the middle of the milk bottle tops, foil, stamps, phones and print car - preceding month. tridges for recycling. We do not get any financial benefit ourselves as we are unable to collect the volumes recycling companies need. Instead we have to rely upon donations and our own Fund Station Road Raising Team to cover our running costs. Over the past year we held three successful South - down College lunches a beetle drive and a skit - tles afternoon. We would like to thank all those who attended and made these events a suc - Drayton United cess. We are dependent upon you for our sur - Church vival. The Action Group was set up in response to a demand to provide services for the older genera - d s l a l tion although we are conscious that we also n i a o a H R h have schools, shops and businesses that form C h t y c n y s r i our community. With that in mind we are helping r a a u e v D h g a the students from Springfield School to gain Proj - C n r o u H t d S y e ect Planning knowledge and experience by giv - a t r n i D o n t ing them the opportunity to organise themselves U y a r to deliver this year’s Your Say. The exercise will D provide them with some sponsorship towards Drayton & Farlington Information Centre the cost of next year’s trip to Kenya but more 282 Havant Road | Drayton | PO6 1PA money is needed. Why not get some publicity for Tel: 02392 380 000 your business by providing sponsorship too. Open Monday - Friday 09:30 - 13:00 As we said at the start we support the whole & 2nd Saturday in Month community so could we do more to support the [email protected] business community too? Please let us know. Your Say Adverts Page 3 Feet TLC Do you feel like walking on air? Do your feet need some tender loving care? Footcare sessions are held in the Drayton Centre on Thursday and Friday mornings. If you are inter - ested in attending, please phone the Information Centre on 023 9238 0000 and we will do our best to fit you in. We are grateful to the Drayton Centre for its help and support, and thank you, too, to our volun - teer receptionists and the Infor - mation Centre volunteers. Heather Rogers and Vivien Walters Footcare Service Now Open in Waterlooville 129 Havant Road 7 St Georges Walk Drayton Waterlooville Hants Hants PO6 2AA PO7 7TU 02392 355777 02392 355888 Page 4 Action Group Your Say Christmas Day Dinner 2015 LAST year “The Christmas Friends” held another The dinner was attended by twenty four people, Christmas Day Dinner and entertainment for peo - twice the number of people who attended the ple living in Drayton and Farlington who would previous year’s dinner, along with ten volunteer otherwise spend Christmas Day on their own. helpers. Entertainment was provided by Shuri The dinner was supported by our sponsors, the Morgan Rudford who sang a variety of popular Drayton Centre, who kindly offered their halls for songs; Ali Mohamed who showed card tricks; the occasion, and the Drayton and Farlington Ac - and Olwen Brewster who entertained with a num - tion Group; the Drayton United Church, who pro - ber of sit down games. All enjoyed the dinner vided a venue for the volunteer meetings over the and entertainment, and the presents handed out year; Mohamed at the Community Chemists, at the event. It was a very joyful occasion and all whose idea this was; and local businesses. The wished to come again this year. response from the local businesses to our appeal for donations of items and money was again If you, or someone you know, would like to know overwhelming. It was great to see such commu - more about this year’s dinner please contact nity spirit. 92377644 or 92382002. Syrian Refugees Clothing Appeal WE have held two collections of delivered to refugees in the look out for our advertising of clothing for Syrian Refugees at Lebanon and Jordan and to them by local posters; in the Drayton United Church (282 displaced persons in Syria and “What’s On” monthly one off Havant Road). The first was last Iraq. events sheet; and on the Your autumn for good quality winter We will be holding a further Say website (www.draytonand - clothing and the second was in collection of good quality winter farlington.com). You can also the Spring when we collected clothes on Saturday 24th of ask to have a leaflet from us good quality summer clothing. September just when this edi - near the time of an event. You We thank all who brought in tion of Your Say is delivered. We can contact us by phone clothing. The clothes go to the will be holding the events whilst (92377644) or by email (brianal - Samara Appeal who get them the need remains, so please [email protected]). D. A. H. WINDOWS DOUBLE GLAZING SPECIALIST Station Road Drayton Doors, Windows, Locks, Handles, Repairs 0777 4924 674 02392 375406 Our services also includes replacement doors and windows, conservatories, bi-fold doors and all aspects of repairs to UPVC products. • Replacement double glazed sealed units • Replacement locks, handles and hinges • Replacement door mechanisms • Fascias, soffits and cladding www.dahwindows.co.uk • Any aspect of repairs to UPVC products [email protected] Your Say Community News Page 5 We still need your stamps Recycling of HAVE you ever wondered what may only help to pay for a very Unwanted Items happens to your used stamps? small cog, someone some - The surrounding paper is pa - where will be very grateful for If you have any of the following tiently trimmed down to a nar - your part in the fight against items you don’t want, then why not row margin by one of our preventable blindness. pass them on to those who can volunteers in the Information make use of them? Centre. Bundles of stamps are passed on for sale by Orbis, Tools , other than electrical or gar - an international charity which dening, are accepted by the Tools has a flying eye hospital, now for Self Reliance charity in the New in a new aircraft.