Recent Events
Mock Interviews
The club held mock interviews at Chatham Girls Grammar School. These interviews are appreciated by both staff and pupils alike and this was a successful event.Seniors Out
In September we held our Seniors Out event, taking a party from Age Concern on a country tour culminating in a cream tea at Headcorn. Both volunteers and their guests enjoy this event, which we hold annually.Arthritis care
We now have a third minibus driver and this will ease the pressure in supporting the Arthritis care club run.
Up and coming events
Santa
Santa will be making an appearance again at the Windows Children’s Home on Christmas Day.Christmas Float
Static and street collections for two weeks starting on 2nd December. On 6th September we will be in Chatham High Street outside Woolworths. We have a static collection on the 7th December at Asda and are looking for a further static collection on the 13th December. We are looking for a long term home for storing the float during the year.Youth Speaks
This project (run jointly with the other Medway clubs) will take place at 18:30 on Friday 28th November at the Visitor’s Centre in Rochester. The speeches are always of a high standard and it is an enjoyable evening. The winners will be invited to give their speeches at a club meeting at the end of January.
Vocom Visits
Kent Association for the Blind
The visit to the KAB centre was enjoyable and informative. They made us very welcome and supplied a very good buffet. We were given tasks to do where the effects of sight impairment and blindness were simulated, saw their talking book production and viewed some of the more high tech gadgets available for use by sight impaired people – including a talking microwave (!!!) and viewers for producing large print versions of papers. journals, books etc. They showed us their training kitchen, which includes some relatively cheap and cost effective adaptations that can be used to help sight impaired with things in the kitchen- for example highly coloured stick on tabs that can be felt to indicate positions on microwave controls, cooker controls and other kitchen appliances, relatively cheap sensors to indicate when glasses, cups jugs etc are full.
Last Updated: 29 December, 2008