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Hilda Follows
Who passed away peacefully on Thursday
6th October 2011. Aged 87 years.
She and her husband Sid moved to March
from London 9 years ago because of Sids
health problems and he died 7 years ago.
We became friends and I helped her,
taking her to the club, visits, fetching
prescriptions, hospital appointments etc. I
had her bungalow key for 7 years. On
Thursday 6th October I went to visit her in
her home. I unlocked the front door, rang
the flashing door bell and looked into the
kitchen. I walked into the kitchen and
found her dead on the floor. So I went to
see her sister (Sylvia Chiverton), in the
bungalow just opposite to ring for help.
Sylvia was terribly upset. On Tuesday 25th
October we had a Funeral service at St
Peters Church, at 1.30pm. Rev. Anthony
Chandler took the service with Rev.
Charles Dixon interpreting. This was
followed
by
cremation
at
Fenland
Crematorium. Then we had the wake at
March Evangelic Fellowships Christian
Centre.
See photo on top left taken by Catherine
Palmer at Anglesey Abbey on 6th August
2011.
th
On Friday 7 October 2011 we had a Social Evening at the club with only 20
people because lots of our members were away on the EDDJ holiday. But
David Cook brought a playing cards game. It was called Navy. It was good
and the person with the highest points wins the game. Valarie Forge was the
winner.
John Uren organized a game called Crazy Putter on Friday 4th November
2011. Everyone was very close but Nigel Frisby won. It was a good game and
there was lots of laughing.
35 people came to the Christmas dinner on Friday 2nd December 2011. See 2
photos on left. It was a lovely 4 course meal with very good food. The menu
was vegetable soup, roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and vegetables, Christmas
pudding or trifle and cheese & biscuits and coffee or tea by Housedens of
Chatteris. There was also free soft drinks and wines. John Uren organized a
Christmas game asking what year famous people were born. Janice Floyd was
the winner. Catherine Palmer organized a Guess the Name of the Doll game
and lots of people played. Ann Ratcliffe won. Afterwards there were lots of
raffle prizes. Chairperson Christine Tarrant would like to say thank you to
everyone who brought prizes for the raffle and the committee for all their
help.
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Changes at Our Voice There are a few changes happening at Our Voice! Firstly
we have moved offices from Swavesey back into Cambridge. We are sharing
offices with another charity, VoiceAbility, to help save money so that we can focus
on providing services to clients. We are not part of VoiceAbility but we are very
grateful to them for letting us share their offices. Secondly, and sadly, Ruth
Godden and Doris Hill are both leaving Our Voice at Christmas. They have done
great work at Our Voice for their clients and for the charity and they will be very
much missed! We wish them good luck for the future, Ruth in her new job and
Doris in her retirement. From January 2012 we will have two advocates, Jude
Caldwell who has been working for Our Voice since May and Anna Baker, who
many of you will know as Our Voices volunteer project co-ordinator. Both of our
advocates know all about Deaf culture and issues and are able to use Sign
language to a high standard.
How to contact us. There is usually an Our Voice advocate present at the dropins in Peterborough, March and Cambridge. You can text us on 07553 349430 or
email us on our_voice@btconnect.com. Our address is, Our Voice, c/o VoiceAbilty,
Mount Pleasant House, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0RN Our web address is
www.our-voice.org.
RUTH KERN
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Fenlands Drop-In
12pm to 2pm every three weeks (not always) at The Christian Centre, Upwell
Road, March, Cambs. PE15 9DT. For further information please contact
Christine Tarrant using CDAs address or Tel no; (details on front page)
Jan 12th, Feb 2nd,Feb 23rd, Mar 15th Apr 5th
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Editors News
The last three months have been very busy. Brendan Casey, yet
again has done an awful lot of volunteering time for us with
Computer training by meeting many different deaf clients. Also we
have managed to recruit some new volunteers for the Befriending Service and I
am looking forward to seeing them meeting new clients soon. Please do let me
know if you are willing to give some of your spare time to volunteering. We
need volunteers for various things and transport is one of them.
It is good to see the new Huntingdon Deaf Drop-in going very well and I am
hoping other the other new projects in the pipeline e.g. Greek Dancing and Yoga
will also do well in the New Year. You can see information about the Greek
Dancing on the Deaf & Hearing club page. Good luck Anastasia.
It is really good to see an almost new Trust Board of Trustees for CDA and I
really look forward to working with them and for the future of the Deaf
Community.
Please take a look at the Questionnaire at the back of our newsletter, and make
an effort to fill it in and send it back to CDA. Please let us know if you need
some help filling in the form.
On behalf of all the Trustees of CDA, we wish everyone a very Happy Christmas
and a Happy New Year
JAMIE BILLAM
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CHARLES DIXON
Sign Post
Deeping Baptist C hurch, 42 Bridge Street, Deeping St James, Peterborough,
PE6 8HA
We warmly invite you to our monthly Sign Post meetings. Doors open 5.30pm
close around 10pm. If you do come, please bring your sandwiches for tea at
6pm we provide tea and coffee free. After tea - a time to socialise, games or
demonstration talk. After this a short talk from the Bible followed by with
tea/coffee and social time. Sign language supported also loop system and live
typing available.
Programme 2011/2012
Saturday 31st December - OPEN! Games and free food!
Saturday 28th January - 'Your Favourite Photo' evening. Show us your
favourite photo and tell us why!
Saturday 25th February - 'Your School Life' evening
Saturday 31st March - Paper Flower Arranging.
Saturday 28th April - Special Meeting - April Rally (Details in next CDA
Newsletter)
See Sign Post website for information about Sign Post, also of summaries of
Bible talks. www.sites.google.com/site/signpostdeeping
NIGEL FRISBY
Computer Training
Please do let me know if you need any help with understanding
how to use a computer and I can arrange a training date with you
to meet Brendan Casey who has skills in using computers as well
as being able to use a variety of different communication
methods to meet a wide range of communication needs.
The best time to meet him is on Wednesday, Thursday or
Friday. (Wednesday and Thursday are the best days.)
JAMIE BILLAM
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Questionnaire
You can find BSL signed videos of all these questions on our website at
http://www.cambsdeaf.org/questionnaire
We would be very grateful if you could spare a few minutes completing this questionnaire. This will help us to improve
the future of CDA. Your input is valuable to us and helps us to support the Deaf community around Cambridgeshire. We
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What level of hearing do you consider yourself to be? Please tick
Deaf
Deafened
Hard of Hearing
Other
Membership
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Services at CDA
4. Please tick the ones you have attended or used
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8. What would you like to improve for the future of CDA? Would you come to these new sessions if we started them?
Greek dancing
Parenting classes
Weight loss club
Stopping smoking sessions
10. Every year, we have AGM, what would you like in the AGM? (for example, guest speakers, cheese/wine, information
displays, what is happening in our community etc)
Interpreting Service
11. We hope to set up the interpreting service, what is your view on this?
12. Would you use it (It wont be for NHS but it could be for everything else)? Tick what you would book
Speech to text
Lip reader interpreter
Website
Note taker
BSL interpreter
Please circle.
YES
NO
14. Are you able to access to all the information on the website?
YES
NO
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18. Can you tick the things they have been able to help you with?
19. Have they helped you with other things? Please list
20. Do you know of any other places or people where you get help from?
21. How does the supporting people project help you to be independent?
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