henshaws.pdf  Booking Form

Henshaws Society for Blind People are organising an afternoon of festive fun at St Mary’s Church in Prestwich. The concert is taking place on sunday 16 December from 2pm – 4pm.

There will be performances from Crystal Chords – Greater Manchester’s Female
Barbershop Harmony, St Mary’s Primary School Choir and Swinton Wind Band. There will also be traditional carols, mince pies and mulled wine!
 
They have chosen St Mary’s as it is the resting place of their founder – Thomas Henshaw. This year, Henshaws is celebrating 170 years of providing practical, caring and imaginative services to blind and visually impaired people of all ages. Henshaws help people live independent and fulfilling lives, despite the many obstacles that they face and they understand that sight loss affects not just the individual but friends and family also. Henshaws currently supports over 80 people in the Bury area.
 
I am sure they would be delighted if you could join them – I’ve already booked my place!See the attachments at the top of this posting for the poster and booking form.
 
For further details contact: Louise Ingham, Community Fundraiser, Henshaws society for Blind People, John Derby House, 88-92 Talbot Road, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0GS, Tel: 0161 7863 661 or email louise.ingham@henshaws.org.uk>

If you have a Prestwich community event you would like to publicise please contact me.

I attended a meeting last night that was effectively a project meeting to look at plans for the site.

Officers confirmed that the proposals will now include a play area at the front of the school, a nursery play area to the front at the end and the proposed ball zone will be at the opposite side. I requested that the ball zone be as close to the school as possible and as near to the front as possible. In addition it is proposed that additional security fencing be installed to prevent access to the playing fields to the rear of the school. If need be the ballzone will be scaled back in size and facility to minimise any negative impact.

Crucially the next step is the public consultation. It was agreed that proposals subject to consultation be on the agenda of the next Prestwich Area Partnership (January 15th) and that will be followed by a drop-in session at the school (probably 23rd January).

Prestwich Area Tasking Team meets 6 weekly to deal with tackling Anti-Social problems throughout Prestwich. If your community or business is affected by anti-social problems then you may wish to report the problem/s to your local councillors or Carran O’Grady (Area Partnership Manager – Tel:0161 253 7245 c.o’grady@bury.gov.uk).

In most cases complainants are asked to complete diary sheets of incidents to build up a picture and pattern of events.  Following on from that the ATT will contact you and either invite you to an ATT to go through the issues, in more detail and/or sign post the issue to the right agency.Please feel free to contact me, fellow councillors or Carran O’Grady if you wish to draw our attention to any relevant issues.  

PRESTWICH ATT MEETINGS

DATE    TIME    GROUP   VENUE  
12 December 2007        2.00pm  Prestwich ATT   Prestwich Library      
23 January 2008             2.00pm  Prestwich ATT   Prestwich Library      
5 March 2008                  2.00pm  Prestwich ATT   Prestwich Library      

2nd Parrenthorn High School Christmas Fair (from 11-2pm)

5th Heaton Park School Ball Zone Project Meeting

10th Prestwich Christmas Lights Switch-on (from 4.30pm -6pm)

12th FULL MEETING OF BURY COUNCIL, Town Hall (with Public Question Time)

17th Standards Committe , Town Hall

25th MERRY CHRISTMAS