Buying Furniture - Yippee!!

Friday 12th March Exciting day today. We spent the morning looking at furniture options for the project. Sounds dull I know but I never realised there were so many options of seat depth and height, fabrics and design features. There will be something comfortable to sit on for all!!

Charity Shop Fashion Show

St Aiden's Church Community Hall Southcoates Avenue Hull HU9 3HF Friday 9th April From 7.30pm Tickets £3 available at the door

Exhibitors include Virgin Vie: Homemade Cake Stall: Book Stall: Flower Stall: Jewellery: Foot Massage And Much More!! All monies raised donated the The Hull Memory Clinic King’s Fund Project. Charity Number 1052727.

Arts Workshops begin

On Friday 26th February the team took part in the first of a series of workshops delivered by Hazel Burnham. Hazel is the glass artist chosen by to produce the glass we plan to use throughout the scheme. Over the coming weeks, Hazel will be working with clients, carers and staff to develop a theme for the project in addition to producing some of the glass art which will be used in the building.

Fundraising Concert

Sunday 28th February.

What a success and fun day it was!! Carousel Theatre Company entertained some 90 guests with their show "The Best of British" The audience were taken you back to important events in England in the 1940s and 50's. From The Festival of Britain, the advent of Television to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. They were also joined by Cliff Richard on his summer holiday, Muffin the Mule and the crazy Goons. We were also joined by Tommy Steele, Arthur Askey and Anthony Newley on the journey through the past.

Other fund raising efforts on the day included the ever popular cake stall, Fair Trade fancy goods, a beautiful flower stall and a hand made card stall. Proceeds from the Sunday lunches served in the Cafe were also donated to the cause.

We held a large raffle with prizes kindly donated by clients, carers, staff and members of the public. The prize for the free draw, a voucher for £20 to be spent at Bo Kays Florists was won by Chris Cuthill.

The event raised £430 in all - so a BIG THANK YOU to all those who attended, donated prizes or helped in any way.

The Carousel Theatre Company came back to the club on 2nd March to give a sneak preview of thier next show "The Not so Old Time Music Hall" which is due to start touring the area 15th March. Around 15 guests were treated to their second trip down memory of the week!!

A further unexpected £11.00 was donated on the day!

We have full approval!!

February 24th Not quite such an early start this time. We arrived at Trust HQ at Willerby Hill for a quick coffee and run through before our allotted 20 minutes. Conscious of the heavy agenda the Trust Board have, we had managed to reduced the presentation time down to a swift 10 minutes to allow a bit of time for questions from the board. Again we are delighted to say that our project has been given the stamp of approval. Our hard work continues!!

Project presentation to King's Fund panel

February 16th. An early start!! 7am train to London. We had a slightly giddy journey with us all wondering what the day might hold, all going over our "scripts" wondering if we could actually stay within our allotted 20 minute presentation slot. Two and a half hours on the train and taxi the King's Fund HQ and we were there, going through our presentation over a cuppa and toast. Two hours later we left the building relieved and delighted with the neccessary approval from the panel, which was thankfully made up of friendly faces we knew!! Just the Trust Board now!!

Update - what's been happening lately!

Well!! If you think the team were resting over Christmas, you'd sadly be wrong. Although there appears to have not been a lot going on we have been beavering away preparing our presentations to hopefully get the green light on the project from both The King's Fund and the Trust. On Fedruary 16th we are due to travel to King's Fund HQ to report back to them on our planned scheme. The panel need to be happy with our plans and that we have done enough to involve our users, and as the scheme is about enhancing the healing environment, we need to have addressed the issue of introducing art into the scheme sufficiently. The following week we are due to presnt to the Trust Board to seek their approval. Scarey times!!

Fundraising Meeting

Wednesday 2nd December We all got very excited today about our proposed fundraising event! At our meeting we all took on the role of one or two of the events planned they include :- • February 2010 – Concert and Cake Stall • March 2010 – Sky Dive • April 2009 – Easter Raffle • April 2010 – Auctions • May 2010 – Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk • May 2010 – 3 Parks Walk • June 2010 – Golf Tournament and Dinner • Summer 2010 – Valentines Ball Alison is to present a proposal to the Trust later this month to hopefully get the go ahead for the events.