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BOPF Newsletter Dates for your diary Number 44 Summer 2014 Campaign meetings Open Forum meetings 9th October Malcolm X C.C. 14:00 -16:00 14th August Baptist Church 10:30 - 13:30 th BOPF Newsletter 8th January Baptist Church 10:30 -13:30 11 September Baptist Church 10:30 - 13:30 The voice of Bristol's over 55s 9th April Baptist Church 10:30 -13:30 13th November Baptist Church 10:30 - 13:30 Non party-political 11th December Baptist Church 10:30 - 13:30 Malcolm X Community Centre, City Road, BOPF membership now numbers 2753 Bristolians! St.Paul's, Bristol BS2 8YH 0117 955 4497 12th February Baptist Church 10:30 - 13:30 [email protected] 12th March Easton C.C. 14:00 - 16:00 27th September to 12th October NOTE: Except for dates marked meetings NOTE: Except for dates marked meetings th M Shed, Princes' Wharf, will be held at Broadmead Baptist Church 14 May AGM Baptist Church 10:30 - 13:30 M Shed, Princes' Wharf, will be held at Broadmead Baptist Church Bristol's Floating Harbour. UnionUnion Street, Street, BS1 BS1 3HY 3HY 0117 0117 929 929 138 138 Easton Community Centre, Kilburn St., [email protected] [email protected] A celebration of the value and http://www.broadmeadbaptist.org.uk/ Easton, Bristol BS5 6AW 0117 954 1409 http://www.broadmeadbaptist.org.uk/ [email protected] everyday achievements of people over 55, in Bristol. Christmas Party 2014. We are looking for a free, accessible venue to Stalls, Workshops, host our Christmas Party lunch for our less mobile members. If you know of performances, fêtes and anywhere that would have us, please contact the office on 0117 927 9222. exhibitions all over the City. Angela Auset, BOPF MC Member and Christmas Party organiser Launch 27th September Help Us Keep Our Mailing List Up-to-Date @ M Shed If you have received this newsletter through the post, your name is on our mailing list. Our newsletter is free of charge, but we do need older people to complete our occasional survey http://celebratingage.org.uk questionnaires in return, to help us feed back to the Council and other Agencies how Bristol's over 55 population feel about a broad range of issues. If you know of an older person in Bristol who would like to receive our newsletter, or if you would like your name removed from our mailing list, please complete the form below and return it to us at Thank you Judith! Hello Julie! By Toni Massari the Forum office (address below), or ring us on 0117 927 9222. th Please add/remove this name to/from the Forum mailing list (delete as appropriate): At the AGM of 15 May our Chair for the past few years, Judith Brown, stood down from office, to concentrate on her other roles, as Vice-chair of Bristol Name Ageing Better, member of Bedminster Older People's Forum, BOPF Address Representative on Bristol City Council's Health and Social Care Scrutiny Commission as well as on the Bristol Older People's Partnership Board and Postcode signed: deputy Chair of Celebrating Age Festival. Taking the staff of office from her is Julie Boston, veteran campaigner against BristolBristol Older Older People's People's Forum, Forum, c/o c/o Age Age UK UK Bristol, Bristol, Canningford Canningford House, House, Bristol Bristol BS1 BS1 6BY 6BY library closures, founding member of the Bus Pass Poets and of the Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways group. 01170117 927 927 9222 9222 [email protected] [email protected] www.bopf.btck.co.uk www.bopf.btck.co.uk The Forum is delighted that Judith has elected to continue as Management Disclaimer: BOPF welcomes contributions from members. We will always make Committee member and welcomes Julie to her new role. every effort to include your views. Some of the opinions in our publications are Other MC members are: Angela Auset, David Elson, David Rigby, Di Parkin, those of individual contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of BOPF. Elaine Hutton, Gillian Seward, Gloria Morris, John Taylor (Vice-Chair), Phyllis Watkins, Ruth Bailey, Stephanie Batterbury (Treasurer), Val Jenkins and Zia BOPF would like to thank Bristol City Council for its financial support and also Age UK and Age UK Bristol for their professional help. Haque. Thank you all for standing, and in particular to returning members! BOPF is affiliated to the National Pensioners' Convention. BOPF Newsletter Editorial Team: Judith Brown, Val Jenkins, Ruth Bailey and Toni Massari Community Health Changing Places in Bristol. - the Workhouse, “the clinic “ and now Adult Community Services I have been campaigning hard for many years to get accessible changing places for people Are you going to get Community Health Services you need when current contracts in Bristol, I am a parent carer of a 29 year old daughter who needs to use one. end in October 2016? To let you know that we do have some in Bristol, Cabot Circus, South Bristol Community Local people are apparently being asked for their views about future services. But Hospital, South Bristol Leisure Centre are amongst them – see below. “Bristol CCG has asked The Care Forum to support them to gather the views of patients There are some that do not have all facilities to be a changing places, but are nearly there and carers who use these community health services via the voluntary and community @Bristol, Mshed, The Zoo, Adventure Playgrounds all put in for larger children, but can be sector organisations that support them.“ used by adults, also other leisure centres have or are working towards them. Is this the best way to actually reach the widest number of local people? Anyway the There are also some planned for the future BRI new entrance, New Southmead hospital views of the organisations will be fed into the recommissioning process and we look and City Hall. forward to a report of how this was done. I have done this from memory and may not have covered all, but you could contact BPAC - Have you had a chance to give your views? Whether yes or no, read to the end for Bristol Physical Access Chain who are now also campaigning for them and hold a list. details of events and contacts. According to a survey by the Royal College of Nurses Mandie Lewis, BOPF Member Community nurse numbers have fallen by 47 per cent in the last decade at current rates Other locations with adult changing facilities in Bristol: the system will collapse by 2025 so we’d better get our voices heard quickly. ● Cabot Circus Shopping Centre, Cabot Circus, Glass House, Bristol, BS1 3BX I attended an event on 17 June for “Bristol Voluntary sector organisations and Tel: 0117 9529360 community groups that support older people with an equalities perspective (e.g. ● South Bristol NHS Community Hospital, Hengrove Promenade, Witchurch Lane, black and minority ethnic, LGBT or disabled older people)” This was run by the Care Witchurch, Bristol, BS14 0DE Tel: 0117 923 0000 or 0117 342 9737 Forum on behalf of Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group. The aim is to ask the views of ● Kingswood Civic Centre, One Stop Shop, High Street Kingswood South local people - but look sharp for your own chance to give a view, this is not always easy especially if you are not a computer user or contacted by your supporting group on this Gloucestershire, BS15 9TR Tel: 01454 863101 topic. ● Keynsham Leisure Centre, Temple Street Keynsham, BS31 1HE Tel: 01225 395164 My personal concerns: ● Patchway Hub, Rodway Road, Patchway, South Gloucestershire, BS34 5DQ Tel: ● Services should be delivered by people who set out to provide care not by 01454 868008 organisations that calculate what must be charged per visit etc. in order to make a surplus. ● Hft Head Office, 5/6 Brook Office Park, Folly Brook Road, Emersons Green, Bristol, BS16 7FL Tel: 0117 906 1700 ● Services should be based in one-stop clinics which are easy to locate and which can advise how to get help with all social and medical problems a person may have. For all email enquiries in England, Wales and Northern Ireland contact: [email protected] ● Clinics should include Social Workers who can look at all circumstances around a person’s life. http://changing-places.org/Findatoilet/Locationmap/tabid/70/Default.aspx ● All grades of staff to be supported and on proper pay and conditions e.g. Living wage For a location map of adult changing and proper recognition of additional or unsocial hours. toilets in Bristol, either visit the ● Effective procedures for public complaints, for monitoring quality and with proper website or ring: 020 7696 6019 provision for staff to voice concerns without victimisation. Contacts: Bristol CCG, South Plaza, Marlborough Street, Bristol, BS1 3NX Tel: 0117 976 6600 Speakers at our next meetings, Broadmead Baptist Church, 10:30-12:30 The Care Forum The Vassall Centre, Gill Ave, Bristol BS16 2QQ 0117 965 4444 On 14th August we will welcome Tim Lloyds-Yates, from Alive! Activities, a Charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for older people in care by enabling their Events participation in meaningful activity. Tim will tell us about their programmes for 2014-15. If you happen to be a computer user look at www.surveymonkey.com/s/NQR25GY or https://www.bristolccg.nhs.uk/get-involved/how-you-can-get-involved/adult-community-heal Our second speaker will be Senior Specialist Dietitian Rachel Liston and colleagues, th-services from the Eat Well, Live Well project, at the BRI, who will bring displays and resources on because it's local people they want to talk to and personally I didn’t feel well equipped to eating well on a budget and food for health.
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