Summer 2017 ck Warwickshire rwi shi a re W V i t si o r o n S u p p Vision WVS - Where Next? Page10 Food for Help us to help you Page 15 Eating Healthily to Thought Manage Diabetes Page 23 Warwickshire Vision Support Your Local Charity for Local People GREAT HOMEMADE FOOD – MADE EASY Great tasting frozen ready meals delivered to your door 3 Over 100 meal choices in 2 sizes 3 Free delivery – no minimum order 3 Cool touch packaging straight from oven/microwave 3 Selection of blended meals 3 Free from options (Onions, Glutens, Dairy) 3 We will deliver your groceries at the same time Our food tastes homemade because it is! For a menu call 01295 680 999 Visit our website at www.ofishial-foods.co.uk Or email [email protected] Sugarswell Business Park, Shenington, Oxfordshire, OX15 6HW Contents Regional General Meeting .......................................................4 Editorial .......................................................................................5 WVS People .................................................................................6 GREAT HOMEMADE FOOD – MADE EASY Christine Gill .....................................................................................................................6 Great tasting frozen ready meals Peter Joslin .......................................................................................................................6 Al Fellowes ........................................................................................................................7 delivered to your door A Year in Review ..............................................................................................................7 3 Over 100 meal choices in 2 sizes WVS Activities and News ....................................................... 10 3 Free delivery – no minimum order Warwickshire Vision Support - Where Next? ....................................................10 3 Cool touch packaging straight from Community Update ...................................................................................................11 oven/microwave General Meeting ...........................................................................................................12 Atherstone Club’s Unusual Guest ...........................................................................13 3 Selection of blended meals Help us to help you! ...................................................................................................15 3 Free from options (Onions, Glutens, Dairy) Financial Matters .................................................................... 17 3 We will deliver your groceries at the same time Identification .................................................................................................................17 Proof of Identity ............................................................................................................17 Our food tastes homemade because it is! Out of Date .....................................................................................................................17 For a menu call 01295 680 999 Chip and Signature Cards .........................................................................................18 Visit our website at www.ofishial-foods.co.uk I’m Jim, and I live in North Warwickshire .............................................................18 Or email [email protected] Attendance Allowance ...............................................................................................20 Sight Village 2017 ................................................................... 20 Good Health ............................................................................ 21 The Cost of Living ........................................................................................................21 Eating Healthily to Manage Diabetes ...................................................................23 A Good Night’s Sleep ..................................................................................................24 On a Bicycle Made for Two ........................................................................................25 Act FAST Campaign .....................................................................................................26 My Sudden Loss of Sight ...........................................................................................27 Sugarswell Business Park, Shenington, Oxfordshire, OX15 6HW 3 Autumn .................................................................................... 28 Leisure ...................................................................................... 29 Fun in the Sun ...............................................................................................................29 Shakespeare’s Plays .....................................................................................................31 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust...................................................................................31 Why not take up Golf? ................................................................................................31 Sailing with EAST ..........................................................................................................33 East Anglian Sailing Trust .........................................................................................33 Acknowledgements ............................................................... 34 Regional General Meeting • Would you like to learn more about YOUR organisation? • Do you have ideas that you would like to share? • We want you to help us to improve our services Please join us at our next Regional General Meeting. We will make a short presentation on our achievements, challenges and plans and then open the floor to you, our members, to share your thoughts and ideas. Everyone is welcome, but to save on costs, we will only send out agendas to those living in the Nuneaton and North Warwickshire area. If you do not live locally but wish to attend, please feel free to request an agenda from the WVS office by telephoning Barbara on 01926 411331 Date: 12th October 2017 Venue: Nuneaton Vision Support Centre The Methodist Church, Abbey Street, Nuneaton CV11 5BX Time: 10.30 am to 12.30 pm 4 Rosemary Went, Editor Rosalie Visick, Co-editor Editorial We hope you enjoy reading this inexorable rise of diabetes, together Summer edition of Warwickshire with information on healthy living. Vision – perhaps it will supply food Diabetes UK gives some dietary for thought. advice; however, it is of equal The warm weather seemed to arrive relevance to most of us who do not quite suddenly this summer, broken have this condition. We also feature fairly quickly by heavy rain. Will this exercise opportunities. pattern continue? There is a report on the progress Prince Philip is to ‘retire’. He has made of our Strategy review - the future and fulfilled the role of consort to direction for WVS. The holiday that our Queen Elizabeth for 70 years. He was ‘the opportunity of a lifetime’ is relinquished a rising naval career described and one of our Volunteers to be the ‘strength and stay’ of the writes of her experiences working Queen. At the age of 96 the Duke of for WVS (don’t forget that new Edinburgh feels that it is now time to Volunteers are always welcome). withdraw from the public limelight, We thank Paul Hinksman, who where he has provided constant has continued to provide editorial support. We are sure he will continue assistance. to provide support for our monarch, It would be helpful if articles for a although not in a public role. We Christmas issue of Warwickshire wish him well for the future. Vision could reach us by mid- In the Health section of this magazine September. We appreciate hearing there is an article on the apparently from our readers. 5 WVS People Christine Gill I joined Warwickshire Vision Support recently as a Community Worker. My previous job was working with a Community Interest Company in North Solihull who improve the lives of local people through neighbourhood projects and outdoor education. Much of the work I did family is a mix of many nationalities was to support people of many ages and I enjoy meeting people from with physical disability and poor different cultures, learning about mental health enabling them to their lives and traditions. I particularly develop life skills, reduce isolation enjoy travelling to the Far East and and improve their overall physical have lived in both Australia and and mental wellbeing. Borneo. We relocated to Borneo with One of my favourite projects my husband’s job and it was exciting was working on a programme going into the jungle and visiting called ‘Wellies2Bellies’ where we the Iban community who lived in worked with children from local longhouses. schools showing them how to The position with WVS appealed to grow vegetables, eat healthily me as I have family members who and engage with nature and the have diabetic retinopathy, AMD and local environment. It was great fun other eye conditions and I feel this building earth ovens and bug hotels, enables me to understand some of and particularly showing the pupils the difficult challenges people face. the wormery – there were many I enjoy visiting the Vision Support cries of ‘urgh’ and ‘gross’ when they Centres and Clubs, particularly found out that worms enjoy dining hearing about people’s life stories out on hair, clipped nails, eggshells and shared memories. This coming