COPE Issue 3 APR 2014 NEWSLETTER

Movie Magic FREE@ New acupuncture Carer’s well-being COPE group starting soon workshop.

Wednesday 16th April 12.30pm Register interest with Kathleen on 944 The Hunger Games- 5490. Catching Fire.

If you want anything else added contact Hilda on hilda@cope-.org or leave word with Kathleen Visit an Art Gallery or Museum We are fortunate in we

Have so many things for FREE

The People’s Palace Glasgow Green

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum Argyle Street

Gallery of Modern Art Royal Exchange Square Horoscopes just for fun Family Friendly Weekends Glasgow Museums Resource Centre Leo July 23rd to August 22nd most perfectionist signs of the zodiac this is South Industrial Estate good as it’s important to have pride in what You can be very self-confi dent, proud and you do and self-respect, however, it’s also The Riverside Museum strong with great leadership skills; you important to have fun so this month make Pointhouse Place can also be generous, creative and very sure your need for perfection doesn’t have honest. Sometimes though you can get you miss out on some fun. For more information visit really angry about things and this month http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/ you decide to learn to be more relaxed if Libra September 23rd to October 22nd museums/Pages/home.aspx things don’t go as planned, it’s not worth fi ghting over Ah, but, what if, should I, these are all things Or, drop into your local Library the Libran can consider as often in trying to andthey can tell you more about Virgo August 23rd to September 22nd achieve balance you way up both sides of a Glasgow Life services and decision so often you end up exhausted and Resources or phone 287 4350 Virgo can be a mass of contradictions, on haven’t moved yet. You are also very sociable, the one hand very shy, on the other can’t so this month why not relax, have fun, use The Hunterian Museum pass a mirror without admiring yourself, that charm which Librans are known for to Glasgow University looking good. One thing all Virgo’s have in get others around you to be of more support Many events are FREE common though is their desire for things around helping make the big decisions. The including Lunch time talks, to be neat and clean. You are one of the fi nal choice is still yours to make. admission to The Art Gallery and Museum. Tips for a Mindful Life For more information visit http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/ Peanut visit/admissioncharges/ or phone 330 4221 suggests fi nd some time just to lie back and relax Free Stuff New acupuncture group Head massage starting soon

Register interest with Kathleen on 944 5490 or e-mail

[email protected]

Head massage workshop See next edition how cope is supporting the legacy of the Thursday 10th April 10am-12noon At COPE commonwealth.

Piri Piri Chicken

Ingredients Method

• about 4 skin-on chicken thighs and 1. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 4 drumsticks- buy a mixed pack 6. Cut a groove into each piece of chicken 3 times, so the marinade can • 6 tbsp piri-piri marinade (you can really flavour the meat. buy mild, medium or hot) Pour over the sauce and leave in the • 1 tbsp sunflower oil fridge to marinate, if you have time. If not, mix well and arrange, skin-side Use a high heat and scrape any that sticks • 2 peppers, any colour, deseeded and up, in a roasting tin. off the bottom so you get some soft and finely chopped some crispy parts. Cook for 30 mins, then increase heat • ½ bunch spring onions, sliced, to 220C/200C fan/gas 7 and cook for Heat until piping hot. Scatter the green white and green parts separated about 15 mins more until the skin is parts of the spring onion on top and serve crispy and golden. with the chicken, and some vegetables or • 4 tbsp tomato purée salad, if you like. 2. When the chicken is almost ready, • 1 tbsp sweet smoked paprika heat the oil in a frying pan.

• 250g cooked rice Cook the peppers and white parts of the spring onions for 5 mins. • vegetables or salad, to serve (optional) Tip in the purée and paprika, stir, Around then add the rice, breaking up with a wooden spoon so all the grains are £1.00 coated well. per portion Space to talk @COPE Dream Machine@ cope Space to talk to someone on a one to one basis or relax and Tuesday 1.30pm-4pm, this is a unwind is available at COPE and research and development group free, phone 944 5490 for more working on a new creative arts information or visit project, for more information www.cope-scotland.org speak to Kathleen or e-mail Hilda [email protected]

Carers You Care We Care Support Time For You

Carers Pamper day 28th Caring for your well- Focus Group Making a

March, craft café, massage, being when you’re a Movie for Carers by Carers

stand-up comedy, movies, Carer workshop Tuesday 13th May [email protected]

lunch, raffl e and prizes, 3 Dates FREE Tea and Cakes discussion group starts at 10am. everyone who came said Session 1 Friday 11th April 2014 How well do you look after you through how much they enjoyed it your eating habits and tips for being kinder to you which was great. Session 2 Friday 16th May 2014 How well do you look after you through We are looking at creating a your sleeping habits and tips for improving well being regular calm space for Carers Session 3 Friday 20th June 2014 to talk and relax follow is on What dreams and images do you fi ll your mind with and tips to help your COPE is closed for Easter Friday @COPEScotland for details self talk the 19th and Monday the 21st or register for updates by Each workshop runs from 9.30am- 12pm then lunch FREE Tea and Cakes April of April also Friday the phoning 944 5490 and ask for workshop starts at 10am 25th of April for a team meeting Kathleen Venue: COPE (Behind Oliver’s Function Suite) 20 Rd Glasgow G15 There is a focus meeting for anyone 6QE, involved with COPE planned for Thursday 24th of April 11am-1pm then sandwich These workshops are free, to register lunch to share information on COPE’s phone 944 5490 or e-mail Kathleen@ action plan for 2014-15 all welcome, for cope-scotland.org , catering please let Kathleen know you are coming

APR Carer’s well-being AUG MAY workshop ASIST Applied Suicide Focus Group Making a 11 21 Intervention Skills 13 Movie for Carers Quilting group @cope Movie Magic FREE@ Cope

Tuesday 11am-1.00pm Wednesday 16th April 12.30pm then lunch appreciated The Hunger Games- Blether from 1-2pm Catching Fire donations of material welcome

Things in the Alistair Malloy pipeline

Sadly Alistair Malloy from the people who offer their time for free Volunteer Centre Glasgow passed to support agencies and the efforts of Safe and active away suddenly on Tuesday the 18th special individuals like Ally who bring of March. agencies and volunteers together. family connections

Alistair had worked in partnership with Ally we will miss you, but you will event COPE for many years supporting us always have a place in the story of with our volunteer developments and COPE. Our thoughts are with your Work is progressing nicely for the next he will be sadly missed. friends and family. Family Connections event planned for May 2014. So far ideas include: The last thing COPE worked with Ally Everyone at COPE. on was a volunteer survey, which Community Selfi e competition showed that in Drumchapel and agencies Addressing issues of dog poo between them have 521 volunteers What to do about cyber bullying offering an average of 4,476 hours a Space to talk to the Police month, which is WITH REGRET equivalent to 32 Space to talk about domestic abuse full time posts. Advice on keeping safe in the home This is a testament to the hard work of local 5 Self-defence demonstrations

Ideas on how to stay fi t and active for Drum Deep Clean parents and children

Clean up crews are coordinating a week long deep clean of Drumchapel in These suggestions have come from local partnership with GCSS, targeting fl y tipping, bulk uplift and general litter picking. parents, if you would like to add anything

We are requesting that local projects and organisations get involved and do a few please e-mail hours within the week in an area that is relevant to them and to get their members [email protected] or involved also. Clean up crew can provide all the necessary equipment, litter phone 944 5490 pickers bags, high viz vests and gloves. and leave your ideas for the attention of Hilda If you would like to get involved in ridding our community or the rubbish on our streets then please contact Peter@ the G 15 youth project on 0141 944 8868 With your help and support we can truly make a difference to the image of Drumchapel and in the process make it a more beautiful and a safer place to live and work.

Carer’s well-being APR AUG ASIST Applied Suicide APR Movie Magic workshop 11 21 Intervention Skills 16 FREE@cope Money Saving TIPS Volunteer meetings Tuesday 8th April 14 at 11 am- 12pm Consider going on a slightly bit more vegetarian life style. Meat Thursday 10th April 14 at 11am- is usually more expensive then 12pm vegetables.

Friends and Up and coming Family head Quilting Carers massage group pamper day workshop

Following a stakeholder discussion There will be a carers pamper day on Thursday 10th April 2014 on 1st April the craft café is moving Friday the 2nd of May,. to becoming a textile group with an 9.30am-12pm FREE Tea and Cakes emphasis on quilting. there was a demand for more workshop starts at 10am. treatments, we decided then to make it To launch the new group on Tuesday a whole 3 hours of pampering through COPE (Behind Oliver’s Function Suite) 8th April at 12.30pm we are stress relief workshops followed 20 Drumchapel Rd Glasgow G15 6QE, showing the fi lm ‘How to by lunch and a blether, make an American Quilt’ please phone 944 5490 Learn a new skill, have a head massage, with Winona Ryder to reserve a place or have fun and a tea and a blether and Anne Bancroft. e-mail kathleen@ cope-scotland.org. It would be great to have someone A feel good movie around all the time to give your head and about a young QUILTING shoulders a wee massage when you are woman who is GROUP Timeline stressed or tired but this would cost a lot getting ready to of money. marry and meeting up with friends of her 9.30am tea and coffee The Friends and family head massage Gran’s at their sewing 5 workshops are an informal, fun learning circle where they share 10am visualisation for environment to acquire a new skill, bring stories of love and loss and life relaxation with Helen a friend or let us know if you are with a and laughs. group as this maybe something new you 10.45am tea break and blether would like to learn and share with them

Then from the 11am essential oils and aromatherapy Learn head massage for friends and family: for relaxation with Fiona useful skill to learn and share with people 15th of April close to you. 11.45am comfort break the café will run with quilting and This workshop is free, to register phone textiles from 11am-1pm and then 12 pm relaxation exercises for 944 5490 or lunch and a blether from 1pm-2pm all managing stress with Rhona e-mail welcome. [email protected] 12.45pm sandwich lunch This is an informal relaxed group.

APR Carer’s well-being AUG APR workshop ASIST Applied Suicide Movie Magic 11 21 Intervention Skills 16 FREE@cope Jordanhill Sixth Year Pupils Volunteer meetings

Aid For COPE Scotland Dates for meetings are as follows you only need attend one

Tuesday 8th April 14 at 11 am-12pm

Thursday 10th April 14 at 11am-12pm

The meeting is to enable volunteers to :

To raise awareness of the young people refl ect extremely well Understand and know what is expected of commitment and enthusiasm of the on them and their families as well as them as a volunteer for COPE pupils of whose the school’s view of the importance fund raising efforts on COPE’s behalf of community involvement, and, in To let volunteers know what the future is making the Dream Machine room particular, recognises the work that holds for COPE and where we are headed a reality, Kathleen wrote to Mr Bill COPE Scotland provides in the North with new developments Kidd MSP. West of Glasgow and throughout Scotland. To update volunteers on training planned He kindly raised a motion in the for new systems for the relaxation room Scottish Parliament which we would COPE Scotland is very grateful to like to share: the pupils for all their hard work on our behalf and we will explore how New Website S4M-09346: Jordanhill Sixth Year we can share the Dream Machine Pupils Aid For COPE Scotland. Developments at COPE through our COPE’s website is visited by a considerable website which covers the whole of number of people from all over Scotland That the Parliament applauds what Scotland and beyond in terms of and the rest of the world, Things change it sees as the philanthropic advice, information, and and services change and the website spirit of the Sixth Year materials to download. should refl ect that. Pupils at Jordanhill school in Glasgow, For more about We want our new site to be even more who have Jordanhill School helpful than our current one and are generously planned visit www. looking to our stakeholders to ask what a fundraising jordanhill. they would like to see. A number of dance in aid of JORDENHILL glasgow.sch.uk. consultation exercises are planned for the mental health SCHOOL spring and the new site will be launched in charity , COPE the autumn for more information contact Scotland; considers [email protected] or follow us on that the hard work 5 @COPEScotland. and endeavour of the Dates and progress will also be included in future newsletters.

She loves to wash her owners face with her tongue! They love Readers Pets her to bits and are really glad they made her part of their family .

This is a new feature, if you would like your pet to be in future editions send to [email protected] we will use as many pictures as we can, why not add a funny caption or a story about your pet.

This is Nikki, she is a wee rescue bunny. A reader got her from pets at home 2 years ago where she had been dumped. The staff had been cleaning out the rabbits and when they were putting them back into the cages they had an extra rabbit!

She was not a well bunny either, she had to get her teeth removed because they were all gnarled and misshapen. She is a loving wee creature! The Human Body

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HAIR HEAD EARS NOSE EYES MOUTH LIPS CHEEKS NECK SHOULDER CHEST TUMMY BACK HIPS ARMS ELBOWS HANDS FINGERS LEGS KNEES ANKLES TOES WRISTS TEETH TONGUE BOTTOM CHIN Useful phone numbers Employment, training and personal development

Apprenticeships http://www.apprenticeshipsinscotland.com/youngpeople/

http://www.youngscot.org/info/239-modern-apprenticeships

Colleges and Universities

• City of Glasgow College http://www.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk/ 0141 566 6224.

• Glasgow Clyde College http://www.glasgowclyde.ac.uk/ 0141 272 9000

• Glasgow Caledonian University http://www.gcu.ac.uk/ 0141 331 3000

• Glasgow Kelvin College http://www.glasgowkelvin.ac.uk/category/college/ 0141 630 5000

• Glasgow School of Art http://www.gsa.ac.uk/ 0141 353 4500

• Piping College http://www.collegeofpiping.org/ 0141 334 3587

• Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama http://www.rcs.ac.uk/ 0141 332 4101 (now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

• University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/ 0141 330 2000

• University of Strathclyde https://www.strath.ac.uk/ 0141 552 4400Bridges Programme http:// www.bridgesprogrammes.org.uk/pages/about.php 0141 558 9749

COPE Scotland 20 Drumchapel Rd G15 0141 944 5490 www.cope-scotland.org

Jobs and Business Glasgow The Open Gate Hecla Square Drumchapel G15 0141 949 4949 www.jbg.org.uk

Job Centre https://www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus 0345 604 3719 Useful phone numbers Advice and information for Carers of Older adults Glasgow Carer’s Information Line on 0141 353 6504 [email protected] West Glasgow Carers Centre Tel: 0141 959 9871 www.carers.org/local-service/glasgow-west Care information for older people www.careinfoscotland.co.uk ge Concern working to improve lives in later life 0800 00 99 66 www.ageuk.org.uk/scotland/about-us/ Age UK advice on issues of ageing 0800 169 6565 www.ageuk.org.uk Citizens Advice Bureau to find a Bureau near you www.cas.org.uk/bureaux Quarriers Glasgow North West Carers Centre 0141 331 9420 www.quarriers.org.uk/what-we-do/all-services/glasgow-north-west-carers-centre/ Pain association, self-management for Chronic Pain www.painassociation.com/ The Good Morning Service a free telephone befriending and alert service for older people Tel No: 0141 336 7766 www.goodmorning.org.uk/ The Silverline a free confidential telephone helpline for older people 0800 4 70 80 90 www.thesilverline.org.uk/ Information on services for older people in Glasgow www.glasgow.gov.uk/olderpeople Information on developments around services for older people www.gcvs.org.uk/engagement/reshaping_care_for_older_people_rcop

nitive behaviour therapy skills https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome Useful phone numbers Mental Health and Well being Support

Primary Care Mental Health Team provide mental health support 0141 232 9228 www.thebroomhillpractice.co.uk/Downloads/Self%20Referral%20PCMHT.pdf Lifelink provide a number of mental health services 0141 552 4434 www.lifelink.org.uk/ GAMH provider of mental health services www.gamh.org.uk/ COPE Community well being service in West Glasgow 0141 944 5490 www.cope-scotland.org Breathing space phone line on 0800 83 85 87 www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk Samaritans free phone line on 116 123 www.samaritans.org/branches/samaritans-glasgow Living Life is a free NHS telephone support offering Cognitive Behavioural Therapy on 0800 328 9655. Living life to the full useful tips website www.llttf.com SPCMH useful website for tips on managing stress www.glasgowspcmh.org.uk/home.php Useful tips for managing stress www.stepsforstress.org A free self-help program to teach cognitive behaviour therapy skills https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome

nitive behaviour therapy skills https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome