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COMPUTER LITERATE VOLUNTEERS - WE NEED MORE OF YOU! |
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Our Silver Surfer sessions
are proving very popular, and we will shortly be running new sessions
at:
Newbury
Central Library, on Wednesday Afternoons, and
The Pines
Primary School, Bracknell, on Thursday Afternoons
These will be run on similar
lines to the ones at the John Madejski Academy (see below). So if
you live in the Newbury or Bracknell areas, have computing skills and
would like to help a beginner understand the basics, please give us a
call. |
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COMPUTER LITERATE VOLUNTEERS - WE NEED YOU! |
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 Due
to ever increasing demand, Age Concern Berkshire will be running a new
series of weekly "Silver Surfer" computer sessions at the John Madejski
Academy, starting on Monday 25th February 2008, initially from 3.30pm to
4.30pm
We
urgently need a number of volunteers who are willing to spend an
hour on a Monday afternoon, helping older people to understand computer
basics and giving them confidence to surf the Internet.
If you have basic computer skills in Word, Explorer, and email, you
could help someone understand what is becoming an essential requirement
of today's living. Any other IT skills that you may have
would be a bonus! The other key qualities are patience, and an
interest in conveying what you know to someone else in simple terms.
Alternatively, if you know someone who would benefit from individual
help with any aspect of computing, in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere,
please let them know about it, or ask them to give us a call.
If you are interested in taking part in this very worth-while activity,
please email us (acb@acberk.org) or
give us a call on 0118 959 4242. There's a leaflet telling you
more here.
Thank you! |
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NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT AGE CONCERN BERKSHIRE
Applications for the positions below are
now closed. Our thanks to all who have expressed an interest in
working with us. |
Healthy Lifestyles Co-ordinator (Ref: FFP/1)
Home
from Hospital Co-ordinator (Ref:HHP1)
Support Worker (Ref:SWP/1)
Fundraiser (Ref:FRP1)
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Tea Dance - 13th February, Concert Hall,
Blagrave Street, Reading |
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This popular event returns to the Concert Hall in
Blagrave Street once more. If you've not been to one of these
events before, the Concert Hall is a wonderful venue for a dance,
especially with the opportunity to dance to live music. |
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Music will again be
supplied by Sounds Easy, and there'll be a music quiz and
interludes on the Father Willis organ. There will, of course, be tea and
refreshments! Book your tickets in person at the Hexagon or Town
Hall, or call 0118 960 6060 to speak to one of the friendly Box Office
Staff.
This event is supported by
Age Concern Berkshire and The Royal British Legion. |
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Richard Stowell joins as Director |
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 Richard
joined on 17th
September, and comes to us with a long history of work within the
voluntary sector, both in the UK and Overseas. He has worked with older
people in the Disablement Income Group (DIG) and the Royal National
Institute for the Blind (RNIB) and worked with other groups in many
parts of Africa, Asia and the Balkans. Most recently he has been
Programme Manager for the Reading Children's Fund. He has lived in
Reading since 2000 and has three children. A keen Reading Football fan,
he also holds an F. A. Coaching Certificate for coaching girls football |
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Information Day - July 4th, 2007 |
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 Say
“cheese” for the
Evening Post photographer! Our picture shows Reading Mayor
Chris Maskell cutting the ribbon to officially open our new
headquarters in London Street. Ann Haydon, (left) chairman
of Age Concern Berkshire, Kay Everett, president , and Geoff
Chivers, director, hold the ribbon. We have now truly
arrived at our new home. (But just to make sure, the Mayor
cut the ribbon a second time in our downstairs office!)
Following the opening ceremony, the Mayor gave a short
speech. Members of staff were on hand to show visitors
around the offices, where there were displays of our
products and services, and light refreshments.
People came from a variety of backgrounds: in addition to
interested members of the public, we had volunteers, members
of other Age Concern organisations, representatives from the
Borough Councils, and from Reading University. |
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We have moved! |
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After over 25 years in
Wilton Road, at St Andrew's House (pictured below) Age Concern Berkshire has moved.
During
December, 2006, we moved in to our new home on three floors of 119 London Street,
Reading. 119 London Street is
also known as Huntley House, where a certain J Huntley and Son opened a biscuit
bakery back in 1822 (the premises were then known as 72 London Street.)
Transport was, of course, very different in those days. London Street, Reading was then on the main stage coach
route from London to Bristol, Bath and the West Country.
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A favourite stopping point was The Crown Inn, which
was then just opposite Huntley House. This gave Mr Huntley an excellent
opportunity to sell biscuits to hungry travellers, and the business
flourished. Joseph Huntley was something of an innovator. On learning
from the travellers that the biscuits tended to break on the journey
over the bumpy roads, he started selling them in a metal tin – and hence
the biscuit tin was born.
The firm was passed from father to son in 1838, and
George Palmer joined as a partner in 1841.
The company soon outgrew its original
shop and moved to a factory on King’s Road in 1846. The rest, as they
say, is history – a worldwide success story, which only came to an end
for us when the Reading factory closed in 1972 – the year of their 150th
anniversary. |
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