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Hello everyone, this is the eighteenth edition of the Clubhouse Network Newsletter made by volunteers and customers of the Clubhouse Community. Thanks to everyone who made contributions to this issue. We welcome any articles or ideas from Clubhouse customers.

Halloween was celebrated in fun style at twentyfourSEVEN. Customers helped to decorate the room in a suitably eerie fashion. As usual Charlotte’s costume didn’t disappoint as she dressed as Cousin It from the Adams Family.

Charlotte as Cousin It Val is in the Frame and Tracy as a cat

Photographs of people in the Halloween Frame proved popular with many people. The Karaoke machine had an outing and many songs were sung, some more tuneful than others. Pumpkins-a-Plenty A Halloween hunt saw customers searching for sweets hidden all around the building. Other activities included a Halloween quiz hosted by Howard and Gary and delicious hot dogs were also Andrew Belts out a Number Spooky Decorations served. on the Karaoke Machine Have fun with this Sudoku Puzzle! Chester

A Trip to Beautiful Chester A trip was undertaken by Howard, Phil S., Dave D. and Dave H. to visit the beautiful Roman town of Chester. The town didn’t disappoint!

(The solution is on the Clubhouse notice boards) The Newsletter Online The famous Chester clock The current newsletter and back issues are now available online. Scan this QR Code to be taken to the webpage where you can view the newsletters.

Use the QR code or type in this URL http://www.brighter-futures.org.uk/clubhouse- Tudor shops, Chester High Cross network-newsletter

Newsletter Availability Photography Group As well as the print edition, the newsletter is Learn to take better photos! The available in other formats. From The American an photography group meets every Tuesday audible version of the newsletter is available on CD from 10:30am at the American Clubhouse. to borrow, listen and copy. In addition an audible Howard and Dave run this group. mp3 version and text version are on the desktop of Colouring Group the customer computers at The American. If you The Colouring Group meets at the American would like to receive the Newsletter by email (as Clubhouse (in the main room) on Thursdays text or audio) ask Gary, Howard or Mark. 2:00pm – 4:00pm. All members are welcome. You can also send a request to This group is facilitated by Charlotte and Jean. [email protected] to be Please come along and take part in this put on our emailing list. creative and relaxing activity.

Hear Our Voice

Hear Our Voice is a new volunteer run service. The aim of the group is to pick up from where North

Staffordshire Voice for Mental Health left off.

If you would like to participate in

this group there are monthly meetings you can attend. You will

be most welcome.

See Phil Scoggins for information, Your monthly Newsletter is created by: dates and venues. Assoc. Copywriter, Photographer: Charlotte Booth Reporter, Newsletter Champion: Gary Dutton

Reporter, Photographer: Howard Dexter Librarian, Runner: Phil Scoggins Editor, Audio Edition Producer: Mark Gilbert Proofreader: Jean Sturgess Proofreader: Pete Wynne Approval: Sharon Godwin And all contributing members.

Timetable for Activities Dec 18/Jan 19 – Clubhouse Recovery Network For more Information call: SARA THOMAS – Support Worker – 07824 638088 KATIE NICHOLLS – Support Worker – 07824 630858 ALL BOOKING FOR HIGHLIGHTED COURSES MUST BE DONE THROUGH ABOVE NUMBERS Please note timetable is subject to change Café Area Main Hall Other Room Tues 11th Dec Social, light lunch 12-1 1.30-3.30 Karaoke (small charge) activities include Making Candles Thurs 13th Dec Social, light lunch 12-1 1.30 -4pm Collect your Christmas photo 11-1 Cook and Eat (small charge) activities from 4th Dec Booking required include making Christmas cards Tues 18th Nov Social, light lunch (small 1.30-3.30 Prize Bingo (small charge) charge) and activities. Thurs 20th Dec Social, light lunch (small End of Year Celebration charge) and activities Tues 25th Dec CENTRE CLOSED CENTRE CLOSED CENTRE CLOSED

MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS Thurs 27th Dec CENTRE CLOSED Tues 1st Jan CENTRE CLOSED CENTRE CLOSED CENTRE CLOSED Happy New Year Happy New Year Happy New Year Thurs 3rd Jan Social, light lunch (small charge) activities include Knitting and Crocheting. Tues 8th Jan Social, activities, light 1.30-3.30 Mind Board Art and Craft Activity lunch (small charge) – New year fresh start positive ideas for 2019 Thurs 10th Jan Social, light lunch (small 10-12 Cooking Class – 6 charge) activities Weeks Booking required including cross stich, Tues 15th Jan Social, light lunch (small 1.30-3.30 Prize Bingo (small charge) 1.30 -3.00 charge) and activities Group Therapeutic session Booking Required Thurs 17th Jan 2-4 pm Social time and FREE COMMUNITY MEAL 10-12 Cooking Class - activities Socialise and share idea on how to shape Booking required your community Tues 22nd Jan Social, activities, light 1.30 -3.00 lunch (small charge) Group Therapeutic activities include clay Session modelling Booking Required Thurs 24th Jan Social, light lunch (small 1.30-2.30 Mindfulness session Cooking Class - charge) and activities 2.30-3.30 Yoga Booking required (£2.50 subsidised charge) Tues 29th Jan Social, light lunch (small 1.30-3.30 Prize Bingo (30p a go) 1.30 -3.00 charge) and activities Group Therapeutic Session Booking required Thurs 31st Jan Social, light lunch (small 1.30-3.30 Tea Dance – Cooking Class - charge) and activities Open to all ages Booking required

THE DIRECTORY Places members may like to visit Name Where What Impact Boxing Brocksford Street Boxing fitness classes. Fenton Root and Fruit Trubshawe Community Learn how to grow your own food. Allotment On Facebook at en-gb.facebook.com/trubshawcross/

Kniveden Leek Gardening and growing, pottery, woodwork, Partnership Jewellery and alternative therapies. Growth Point Shelton Allotment Site Gardening, growing. Tutor Led Cultural 51/53 Merrial Street Cafe, Table Tennis, Art. Squatters Newcastle under Lyme One rule. Our rule. #bekind ST5 2AH http://culturalsquatters.uk/ Over 55 Lunch Centre Are you 55 years or older? If so come and join our Club Whitfield Valley Centre, Luncheon Club. Fegg Hayes Road, Monday from 1:30 pm. Activities, including gentle Fegg Hayes, exercise (1:30 – 2:00 pm), followed by lunch and Stoke on Trent three games of bingo. ST6 6QR All for £4.00 http://www.whitfieldvalleycentre.org.uk/index.html West End London Road, Boothen, Wednesday – Friday 10:00am – 2:00pm Community Stoke-on-Trent An excellent cafe with great food at great prices. Centre and Café ST4 5AW SpoonFull Café b-Arts Bi-annual Pop Up Café. Excellent food and music. 64-72 Hartshill Road http://www.b-arts.org.uk/ Stoke-On-Trent. ST4 7RB Frazzled Cafe Marks and Spencer Peer support drop in sessions (similar to Changes but Wolstanton Retail Park more relaxed) Wolstanton Held once every two weeks ST5 0AP The meeting is held in the community room. Easy parking. Cost is: Free Good accessibility Refreshments are available (tea, coffee, ) Bus routes 99 and 98 up to 17:30 Bread in 72 Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent’s real bread bakery. Bread baked Common Stoke-on-Trent with flour, water, salt, yeast and natural flavourings. ST4 7RB There are weekly bakes at B-Arts in Stoke. Watch out Bus Route 25 from for their bakes taking place around the city. Hanley or Newcastle breadincommon.com If you have questions about any of these venues, activities or events ask Mark for further details. This directory will expand as we visit or learn about new venues and activities.

Arts and crafts play a big part in the

Clubhouse Network. Making art and crafting are effective therapies for people with mental health difficulties and are enjoyable in their own right giving a tremendous sense of achievement when completed. Crafts

&

Arts

Our Arts Co-ordinator from the Clubhouse Network, Chris Oldham is Chris With Russian Hat working in Bradwell Willow Wizard Wood, Newcastle-under- Lyme to improve the visitor experience. Environmental artist Chris is building a giant willow sculpture of a Wizard in a hat. You can sit inside the wizard’s mouth. This is part of a bigger project to regenerate the woods. There is a guided walk around this ancient oak woodland 9th Dec at 11am. Meet at the Fed Ex depot. Visit friends of Bradwell wood at willowarts.co.uk/WebPage 5/bradwell%20woods/Bra dwellWoodspage.html The Wizard Sculpture Taking Shape

Football Talk To Us! Events Football for everyone. Don’t You can give any forget Walking Football is still contributions to Gary,

on. Tuesday from 2:00pm to Howard or Mark. You can If you would like an 3:00pm. This activity is at also send ideas or stories to event publicising in the Dimensions on Scotia Road and volunteeringlande@brighter- newsletter please let us is free to take part in. futures.org.uk

know. If you are over 50 and would

like to play regular football then

there is a weekly group starting Day Trips at the YMCA (Hanley) There are lots of day trips Wednesdays 11:00am – throughout 2018. Go along on a 12:00pm, Thursdays 6:00pm- trip, you will have a great time. 7:00pm. See Howard or Gary for latest Play football with Brighter Please can people begin details. Futures on Mondays 2:00pm – donating items for the 3:00pm at the YMCA Hanley. Walking Group Christmas Hampers? Canned Task Group Want some gentle exercise? and dry foods accepted. Task Group takes place There is a walking group every See Jean or a member of staff fortnightly at the American. Tuesday starting at 1:00pm from to donate. twentyfourSEVEN. Come along and help shape Clubhouse activities.

Community Walks This Month’s Recipe Come along on a gentle walk We hope you had a go at from The American. Look out making the Italian Style Pizza for dates for these Community in issue #17 of the Walks on the notice board. newsletter. Here is another easy to make and very tasty Useful Contacts recipe Oat Soda Bread. Eat Clubhouse Network: this with salted butter. Chances are it will all be gone Diwali The American - 835 220 before its cold. The Observatory - 272 799 Whether you are a would-be A group of Brighter Futures twentyfourSEVEN 0300 1231535 contestant on Master Chef or customers visited the Diwali Ext. 1470 ‘can’t boil an egg’ please give celebrations held at Stoke-on- Brighter Futures Helpline - this a go! Trent Museum and Art Gallery. 0808 800 2234 Cooking yourself a nutritious meal can be very rewarding whether it is just for you, Echo - 07500 444 4116 friends or family. Please let us Safe Spaces Network - 811 815 have any recipes you enjoy North Staffs Mind - 262 100 making. Citizens’ Advice Bureau – 0344 411 1444 [email protected] Traditional Jewellery for sale www.snscab.org.uk Changes – 413 101 Headway House –280 952 Greenfields – 0300 790 0236 Sutherland Centre – 0300 123 Ingredients: 1162 Butter to grease pan GrowthPoint – 0300 123 0907 270g rolled oats or oat flour 285g plain flour, plus more for dusting and kneading 1 ¾ tspns baking soda Delicious food was on offer 1 ¼ tspns fine salt In the day-long celebration of 415ml buttermilk, more if Diwali, the Hindu Festival of needed Lights there was performance art, dancing, singing and culture. .. Traditional Indian jewellery and Brighter Futures QR Code. Scan to be sari material was for sale. taken to the Brighter Futures website We all enjoyed sampling the ever or use: so tasty Indian food. http://www.brighter-futures.org.uk/

So Good When Warm

Method Preheat the oven to 205C /Gas 6 New Groups at the with a rack in the middle of the American Clubhouse oven. Butter and line a 2l loaf in January pan or tin with parchment paper and set aside. Model Making Workshop To make the oat flour, (if you Come and join in with this new only have rolled oats) use a food group. Make whatever you processor to pulse the rolled oats want to; Airfix, Model Rail, a few times. Then process into a painting figures or even Lego. fine powder – another minute or This weekly group starts on the two. 11th Jan 2019 from 10:00am to Sift the flours, baking soda and 2:00pm and will be co-ordinated by Frank. salt into a large bowl. Make a Claire with Bobby well in the flour and pour in the Sewing Workshop Tracy and Becky were the buttermilk. Stir just until This new workshop will include lucky winners of the Raffles. everything comes together into a learning dress making and The raffle rasied £36 for the dough. Turn out onto a lightly alteration skills. members’ fund. floured countertop and knead for This weekly group starts on the thirty seconds or so, just long 9th Jan 2019 from 10:00am to enough for the dough to come 2:00pm. For more information together into a cohesive, slightly speak to a member of the team. flattened ball without many cracks or fissures. If your dough is on the dry side, add more buttermilk a small splash at a Thanksgiving at the time. Now ease the dough American Clubhouse evenly into the prepared baking It’s that time of year again pan. where we celebrate Brush all over the top and sides Thanksgiving at the American with buttermilk and sprinkle Clubhouse. generously with flour, two There was a large turnout of tablespoons or so. Slice a few members most of which were Tracy and Becky deep slashes across the top of eager to sample the hotdogs with their prizes the dough. Bake for about thirty and donuts. The tombola was massively minutes, then quickly move the Attractions included a tombola, popular and raised £143.20 rack and bread up a level, so the craft stall and raffle. for the members’ fund. top of the bread gets nice and To say Claire was happy to win The jewellery stall raised £16 toasted. Bake for another the giant teddy bear was for the members’ fund. twenty minutes, or until a hard somewhat of an Thanks to Jean and Tracy for crust forms and the bread is understatement. Claire organising the ‘name the baked through. It will feel very correctly guessed that the giant bear’ competition and raffles. solid and sound hollow when you teddy bear was called Joshua. Thanks to Tracy and Sue for knock on it. Carefully lift it out of However Claire has decided to running the jewellery stall. the pan and allow to cool on a call her bear Bobby. The giant wire rack. bear competition raised £40 for the members’ funds.

being in the house alone all

A Passion To Play Or on the Web: day. As we both worked full time it was left to my wife to Again? go home at lunch time to let The Biddulph and District the dog out to answer the call Youth and Community of nature. This proved to be Orchestra problematic as she was often needs you! late getting back to her

We’re keen to bring in all Safe Spaces QR Code. Or use: office. So we decided the instruments, played by young http://www.brighter- only option was to buy a car. musicians and also by folk futures.org.uk/safe-spaces This worked out well as it who may have played before also gave her more time to

and had to give it up when Pets’ World: eat as well as dash back for Life got in the way. the dog. Rehearsals are held every My First Dog The only downside was that Friday evening from 7:00pm Growing up my sister and I the car cost nine hundred until 8:30pm at the Victoria always wanted a puppy but my pounds. I used to joke to Centre in Station Road, Dad probably rightly, said no as people if we hadn’t bought a Biddulph. he felt all of the looking after dog it would have saved us a Want more details? would be left to him and my grand. Mum. However when I met my We had her for thirteen years Phone Frank on: wife to be she loved dogs. So 01782 517238 and she was a lovely dog. We soon after we got married we went on to have others but Note: the orchestra has saw an advert in the local paper none came close to Molly. changed its age limit so for a breeder selling cocker She was so quiet and rarely everyone can go. spaniel puppies and she even barked. suggested maybe we could just The only problem we ever go and have a look; she was had with her is she that she bound to want one. was overly friendly and we were always telling her off for jumping up to people to say

hello. My Mum used to live Safe Spaces provides a safe, in a terraced house and every supportive environment for time we used to visit, on people in mental distress. letting Molly off the lead she How can Safe Spaces help me? would hare all the way Safe Spaces offers a safe space through to my Mum who was during the week and weekends usually in the kitchen, my when you’re in mental distress or Mum bless her was never firm enough in telling Molly crisis when a hospital admission Sure enough we picked the to get down so we would is neither wanted nor needed. cutest of the litter and called always have to go and rescue her Molly. We paid one How do I contact Safe Spaces? her. hundred pounds which was For more information and to This story played itself out on quite a sum of money for a dog speak to a member of the team every visit for many years. in 1982. call 01782 811815. In the mid ‘90s Mum got the We didn’t have a car at the time very sad news that due to but didn’t like the idea of Molly

We are part of The Clubhouse beautiful children who can Recovery Network which we test my patience but they have extended to Meir where keep me grounded. we hold a safe space and offer Finally, I really could not work advice connected to social in any other environment; I welfare and a person’s hope our work in the Meir wellbeing. This is open to area becomes a vital part of anyone living in the Stoke-On- the community. Trent area. illness her life would soon be over. Of course friends and family were all devastated but she had a very strong faith and convinced everyone that she was City Places To Visit going to a better place. A few This month we take a look at months after my Mum went we the Potteries Museum and lost Molly due to old age. My Art Gallery. Wife and I laughed, thinking The city’s largest museum Mum would be saying, ‘What opened in 1956. However in have you sent her for, I’m trying the late 70’s a major to get a bit of peace!’ expansion took place. The DogMan finished attraction opened to great acclaim and in 1982 the Brighter Futures new building received the prestigious Musem of the Support Worker Katie at Clubhouse Meir Year award. The Clubhouse Network would Setting up a new project has not be able to be as it is without been testing however, I the support workers who do an consider myself to be open amazing job supporting the minded, approachable, members. In this occasional energetic and fun to be around feature we will profile one of our and the people I work with both great team of support workers. in the Community and my work This month we have Katie colleagues, have made me feel A queue for the Saxon Hoard Nicholls from Clubhouse Meir. very welcome; valuing people The museum contains over Katie and their difference in opinion, 650, 000 individual objects in I previously worked for Brighter lifestyle and character is what I many collections. Futures for two years from 2015 feel is vital to my role. There is so much to see from as a Support Worker and My interests are in keeping natural science, archeology subsequently a Housing worker myself mentally and physically and as you would expect for The Housing Team based at challenged and take pleasure ceramics; from the early Whittle Court. My new role is as (most of the time) participating stoneware to the fine bone a Mental Health Support Worker in cardio classes and weight china that made the city for GP Surgeries and Businesses lifting; yoga is something I also great. in the Meir locality. practise when I need some calm In other areas visitors can in my life as I have three view a public house, chemist

and a fish and chip shop from its former glory. Don’t worry you do not have earlier times. When it returns in 2020 it will to sing, just go along and There are also audio/video be housed in a new glass dome enjoy listening to the tunes. presentations from real Potteries costing several million pounds. This takes place on the first people about the tough times I read online that the average Wednesday of every month they endured. time a visitor stays is around from 4:30pm till 7:30pm. The museum’s most prestigious two hours. This doesn’t Sunday Lunch collection is the surprise me as there is so much Did you know you can Hoard. Incredibly it was found by to see on the two floors. get a delicious Sunday lunch a man in a farmer’s field with a Finally the café serves very good at twentyfourSEVEN metal detector in 2009. affordable food, from cheesy from 12:00pm-1:30pm and to jacket potatoes 2:00pm – 3:00pm? both with salad. The lattes and The cost is £4.25 with cappuccinos can also be proceeds going back into the recommended. catering network.

Mindfulness twentyfourSEVEN What is Mindfulness? Nail Art takes place on the first Mindfulness is wordless. Sunday of every month from Mindfulness is meeting the moment as it is, moment after moment after moment, A Gold Cross found wordlessly attending to our with the Hoard experiencing as it actually is. When counted there were over It is opening to not just the four thousand items and is now fragments of our lives that the largest Anglo Saxon gold and we like or dislike or view as silver hoard ever found. important, but the whole of Art is well represented from 12:00pm till 2:00pm at our experiencing. locals like Arthur Berry to the twentyfourSEVEN White Wind Zen Community much more famous L.S. Lowry. The museum has an excellent This month’s theatre in which events, shows Karaoke Mindful Moments and films are presented throught The Karaoke Nights at The truth is that our finest the year. twentyfourSEVEN are great fun! moments are most likely to All Clubhouse members are very occur when we are feeling welcome. deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by pure discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways A Spitfire in Flight or truer answers. At the time of writing the iconic M. Scott Peck Spitfire isn’t on show as it is away being restored to bring it back to

One of the best protections Indeed as no track is longer instrument for the first time. against disappointment is to than four minutes, it has to be I have written quite a few have a lot going on. said that no song outstays its music reviews for the Alain de Botton welcome. Newsletter and for the first The band wanted the album time Muse are a band I have Album Of The Month cover to look like a film sci-fi seen and rate highly so poster and maybe with this in maybe I am a little biased but This month Music Man reviews mind, track one, Algorithm, is I have to say I rate Simulation Simulation Theory by Muse. very cinematic and would be Theory as an eight out of ten. Back in the early ‘90s three perfect for a Blade Runner type Music Man awkward teens from Teinmouth film.

Devon, wearing Nirvana t-shirts Five tracks, The Darkside, channeled their adolescent angst Pressure, Something Human, and drive to be as weird as Thought Contagion and possible, to form what would Digdown will already be familiar become the institution and to the band’s fans as they have powerhouse that is Muse. been released as teasers online and the majority of the tracks have been played on the radio. The Dull Men’s Club Something Human is almost a pop song but is still very good. (Born to be Mild) Pressure was featured on a The Dull Men’s club was recent Jools Holland show and formed in New York in the judging by the studio audiences 1980’s when founder reaction is bound to become a member Grover Click (great live favourite. name), and his friends were chatting saying, they were The same can be said for fed up with their mates Thought Contagion on the showing off about doing Over the years the band have deluxe version of the CD you been compared to a heavier sports! From bungee can hear the fans singing along jumping, climbing mountains, version of Queen and indeed at a gig last year. legendary guitarist Brian May is a deep sea diving and much I found most of the album to be big fan. more. an easy listen though back-to- They decided that their Probably one of the differences is back tracks Propaganda and hobbies and pastimes were that lead singer Matt Bellamy as Break It To Me needed a few maybe dull but never boring. well as being a superb guitar plays as they are a little About 20 years ago Grover player is also a classical trained experimental. moved to London and was pianist. As always Matt’s falsetto voice delighted to find hundreds of So over the years the band has enables him to hit every note Dull Brits!For example a chap often mixed rock with orchestral with ease though on this record called Steve collects empty and classical elements. However I did miss the guitar riffs and milk bottles. At his last count for this their eighth album, gone piano solos. They have mainly they amounted to over are the long and some critics been replaced by synthesizer. seventeen thousand. The would say, overly self indulgent In fact so many tracks feature weird thing is he doesn’t like songs for much shorter offerings. the instrument it’s almost like milk! they have been given the Dick travels all over Britain

taking pictures of old village On leaving the aircraft we had out their website. I promise water pumps. to fall for approximately five you, it’s not at all dull. Member, Neil found a very old seconds. So, we were told to Howard house brick many years ago and count, one-hundred, two- notices that the makers name hundred, three-hundred… and Inside Brighter Futures was stamped into it. then pull on five-hundred. There are many sectors to He now has hundreds, everyone Pulling too soon could result in Brighter Futures. These are different. the chute flying up, getting known collectively as the Women are also members of the caught in the propellers and ‘Schemes’ of which the club. Amanda has a passion to crashing the plane! Clubhouse Network is one. follow Brown tourist signs, We were told that we would be Each month we will be always intrigued to see where attached to the plane and if for featuring someone from one they lead. some reason we didn’t pull the of the Schemes. This month Other members take pictures of lever out after fifteen seconds we have Martin Callan who is cloud formations and road then the chord on our backpack head of governance, business roundabouts! would tighten, releasing the and compliance. I was thinking that I have never reserve parachute! done anything dangerous or Martin exciting. Apart from a parachute Mike Moors Martin has worked for jump in 1973! Brighter Futures since 2009 Although that’s not the full story. Garden and has a background in I had a friend who decided in his retail banking from the age of wisdom to organize a charity sixteen when he left school. parachute event! Thanks to Homebase for all the His role is to make sure the I must admit I wasn’t very keen help they have given us with the board meet regulatory on the idea but he persuaded me garden, which continues to bear minimum requirements and by saying he had others who had fruit and for donating a also to make sure the Board agreed! Christmas tree to the American have everything they need to The drive to the airfield was quite Clubhouse. support the customers. long as it was in Hereford. On out arrival we were taken to a By now I had decided I really building where there was a didn’t want to do this. Then we platform about seven feet high. had a stroke of luck the wind Our instructor taught us how to speed had increased and it was jump off before rolling into a ball too dangerous to take us up but on landing. Saying failure to do we could come back another this properly could result in a day. I wasn’t disappointed that broken ankle or leg! we never did. There was a strong breeze when So hopefully by only nearly we got to the site but we were doing a parachute jump. I could assured it wouldn’t be a problem still join the Dull Men’s Club. As as long as it didn’t get any worse. most of my hobbies like doing Most people now-a-days doing a crosswords are dull. jump for the first time would do The club has over five-thousand Martin it strapped to an instructor but members worldwide and Martin also manages Jane we had to learn how to pull the produces a yearly calendar, who is the Health and Safety chord out! mugs and other items. Check

manager and Kelly who works as Volunteering can be very Blackpool who I jumped at an administrator part time. beneficial and help develop the chance to sign for, I Martin works closely with CEO skills, such as communication, thoroughly enjoyed my time Helena to make sure the money handling, organising, playing for the Tangerines company business is taking the events, pool tournaments or and had a largely successful correct actions. Lately Martin working in the cafes. time In the North West has been working on the new playing for the side from GDPR regulations. until the injuries Martin has two daughters, one came. In early 2013 when I who is going into sports was only fourteen I suffered a journalism. serious double leg fracture Martin himself like most sports and Ankle Ligament Damage. and enjoys going to the That knocked my confidence occasional Port Vale game. If you feel that you would like to a lot but after a grueling eight Martin enjoys local theatre and try volunteering then please months out injured I on Fridays he loves Gala Bingo contact Mel McClure at Brighter managed to get back to full with his wife followed by a Futures. fitness and got back playing chippy tea! matches, then after only His favourite holiday haunt is St. three games back i felt a tear Ives where he enjoys body Clubhouse Stories in my knee which I didn't boarding. Please give us your stories of think anything of at the time Musically Martin likes mostlty what the Clubhouse Network but the pain got worse and it 70s and 80s music and has a means to you. was confirmed that I had large collection of vinyl records. This Month We Have Adam damaged ligaments again; On television he likes comedy on Hello, I've been accessing the this time in my right knee, UK Gold, documentaries and clubhouse network for about a that meant another long spell most sports. year and three quarters now. I out on the sidelines, which first found out about Brighter resulted in me being released Futures after being told by my from Blackpool in 2014 which psychologist about the things was a low point in my life. Find Brighter they do to help people in the I then had to build my fitness Futures on Social community who suffer from up once more and try to get various mental health issues back to the standard i was Media and that's what I felt I was going playing at before the injuries through at the time and still facebook.com/ happened. In October 2014 i struggle with on a daily basis brighterfuturesNW/ signed for Blackpool's fierce now. rivals Fleetwood Town which Now time to tell you a bit about didn't go down well with my myself, when i was just 9 I was @BFNW circle of friends but I felt like scouted by Stoke City to join it was the best thing to do to their academy, I spent a couple try and resurrect my football of years at Stoke until the age of career. Unfortunately in eleven when I was released, Volunteering 2015 aged just seventeen I being told I was too small to was medically advised to There are many different make it as a professional announce my premature volunteering opportunities footballer. After leaving Stoke i retirement and put an end to within the Clubhouse Network. then had the chance to join my dream of being a

footballer due to the serious The spark that lit both the Injuries I had suffered in the past General Strike and Pottery and due to the fact that my legs ECHO Riots was the decision, in probably wouldn't be able to have a Stand at early June 1842, by W.H. handle the severe pressures of the Table Top Sparrow, a Longton coal mine training everyday and if I carried owner, to disregard the law on I would probably eventually Sale and fail to give the statutory do more damage to my ligaments Hanley fortnight's notice before and that could result in loss of imposing a hefty pay mobility in my legs as I got older, Fire Station reduction of almost a shilling on the 26th December 2015. a day on his workers. The I made what's probably going to men went on strike and soon be my last competitive football surrounding colliery workers appearance in a 2-0 final win began showing support. The over Burton Albion which was an strike cause was championed emotional moment for me as the by Chartists, who called for a manager gave me the captain’s General Strike across the armband as a tribute because he Potteries. Indeed, by the end knew it would be my last ever game in the famous Cod Army Colours. 10:00am–2:00pm Football is still my passion to this 9th December day though, and will probably always be throughout my life, Arts and Crafts Being born in Chesterfield I do For Sale however support Derby County for my sins so feel free to give me of July strikes were endemic friendly grief if you ever see us Local History Potteries Riots 1842 across north Staffordshire lose a game. I also keep an eye and were spreading, notably out for Chesterfield FC with them in south east Lancashire. Predominantly centred on being my local club. It will be As the strike spread it gained Hanley and Burslem, in what is amazing to see them back in the the attention of the Chartist now Stoke-on-Trent, the 1842 league but somehow I don't see movement. On 13th August Pottery Riots took place in the that happening. prominent Chartist orator midst of the 1842 General Anyway I've dragged this on too Thomas Cooper arrived in Strike, and both are credited long now and most of you have Hanley and was given with helping to forge trade gotten bored reading all about lodgings by coffee shop unionism and direct action as a me. owner Jeremiah Yates. On powerful tool in British If you see me feel free to say Monday 15th August 1842, industrial relations. hello and come have a chat as Thomas Cooper, gave a The riots took place against the I'm always willing to talk even speech at Crown Bank in back drop of the 1842 General though some people say I never Hanley, decreeing: "that all Strike, started by colliers in and stop but hey ho we all love labour cease until the around the Potteries, and part talking at times. People's Charter becomes the of the popular working class Adam law of the land." Chartist movement.

Later on the 16th, Thomas location of his grave has not that I did remember, Powys, a Burslem magistrate and been found. A verdict of Were all too much when I Deputy Lord Lieutenant of the Justifiable Homicide was given. thought of a Christmas list county, ordered troops to fire on A total of 274 people were like in December. a procession of strikers in brought to trial in the special Being all showing my age i Burslem Square and read out the assizes that followed, of whom reached for my pension bag Riot Act. Four to Five thousand 146 were sent to prison and 54 and paid for three; protestors marched with a band were transported (to Australia). That was only that from Leek to join the local people By the end of 1842 the County recollected by me at all: my in Burslem. The marchers arrived Police Force had been memory is like a child's and and began to stone the established and the first Chief always will be. dragoons. Powys then ordered Constable appointed. Malcolm troops, based at the Leopard Inn, This did not dent the popularity to fire on the strikers in Burslem of trade unionism though. The Jokes Square. Miners' Association of Great Britain and Ireland was formally This month we have some established on 7th November more rib-ticklers that will 1842. The United Branches of have you guffawing like a Operative Potters (UBOP) was character from the Beano. born on 6th September 1843. A computer once beat me at On 28th April 2018 a plaque chess but it was no match for was unveiled in Swan Square, me at kickboxing. Burslem in honour of Josiah Did you hear about the Heapy. explosion at a French cheese factory? Poets’ Corner De-brie everywhere. This bit is for you. In each issue Bonnie Prince Charlie was the we like to include your poetry only man named after three sheep dogs. During the riot Josiah Heapy, was or creative writing. Any killed and many more men and contributions will be We all know Albert was a women were wounded. Heapy appreciated. Jokes (clean ones) genius but his brother Frank was nineteen years old and born are also welcome. was just a monster. in Quarnford, Staffordshire. He Childhood memories I’ve just got a microwave bed was an orphan. His mother had I stood by the counter trying to – you can get eight hours died when he was 3 years old remember the names, sleep in twenty minutes. and his father when he was 11 it was part of the usual mind My neighbours have just had years old. He moved to Leek and games. a baby girl and they wanted worked as a shoe maker. Heapy I wanted to make an impression to call her something original. was shot in the head in front of for these aims, to keep up with So I suggested Werthers. a Wishlist like my friends, the “Big House” on Moorland I used to have a girlfriend And ask for something that used Road and died instantly. called Loraine but now I have up the spends. Josiah Heapy's funeral was a new girl called Clare Lee. I I looked at them and arranged at St. Edward’s, Leek on can see Clare Lee now embarrassed as I was, 18th August and apparently led Loraine has gone. to no disorder. Although there I was completely at a loss. Financially too, because those has been local speculation, the

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