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38    The Link Magazine • February 2001                                                               www.swindc
                               Wake up to                     Free NVQ training offered with
               Play the
               Piano           a Fairtrade                        volunteering opportunity
             ' Learn to Sing breakfast                    Walk through the upper level of the Brunel Shopping Centre, from
                                                          the car park, and you will come across the Swindon Disability
      Phone Swindon 340437     in March                   Resource Centre.
      for further information
                               The Wiltshire Fairtrade Coalition  Managed by the Swindon Coali-  The coalition can be also found
                               is looking for people to organise  tion of Disabled People, the Re-  at www.scodp.co.uk
                               breakfasts using Fairtrade prod-  source Centre provides an impor-
                               ucts, to highlight the needs of  tant source of information for peo-
    DECOTEX                    farmers and growers overseas,  ple with disabilities and their fami-
                               during Fairtrade Fortnight from 5  lies, carers and friends. It is also an
                               to 18 March.               excellent place for the general pub-
     Painter & Decorator        Whether you prefer tea or coffee  lic to find out more about disabil-
                               and cereal, or hot chocolate and a  ity issues.
      Specialist Artexing
                               croissant, you can give the pro-  Project co-ordinator Steve
     Tel: (01793) 791388       ducers a fair deal by buying items Milner recently qualified as an as-
                               displaying the Fairtrade Mark  sessor trainer which means sev-
                               which guarantees fair wages for  eral staff and volunteers will be
                               farmers and decent working con-  enhancing the service by working
    BC The person who changed AD
                               ditions using farming practices that  towards a National Vocational
           History is changing
                               respect the local and global envi-  Qualification (NVQ) in Adminis-
          peoples lives Today  ronment.                   tration.
         o  y vange/1           The Wiltshire coalition includes  Volunteers are asked to commit
        S o   Worsley Road     Wiltshire Agenda 21, Christian  to a three hour session, once a week.
                               Aid, Oxfam, the World Develop-  To be eligible for free NVQ train-
                               ment Movement, local authorities  ing, you need to give up to six  Steve Milner receives his training as-
     v           m m m n
             cc  m= m          and local Fairtrade groups.  hours a week over three months  sessor from Sandy Corbyn, Training
         building with people   For a free breakfast organising  To find out more call Becky or  Manager with North Wessex Train-
                               action pack, call Ben Hammond or  Sally on 422979 or call in during  ing. Front, Sharon O'Byrne, vice-
          Come and join us
       Sunday at 10am & 6.30pm  Lindsey Allen on 01380 729 218 or  opening times, Monday to Friday  chair of the Swindon Coalition of Disa-
        For further information of  [email protected]  9.30am to 5.30pm.  bled People
     other meetings ring: 873050, call
      into the Church office or visit  Sixties star proclaims her faith                 A course to argue
         www.freshbrook.org                                                                  the case
    Jesus said: "I have come that YOU might  Helen Shapiro, the sensational teenage singer of the early 1960s,  Swindon Advocacy Movement
     have LIFE and have it in its fulness"  comes to Freshbrook Church on 15 February to share her story in  (SAM) is looking for more volun-
                               word and song.
                                                                                     teers to become citizen advocates.
                                People of a certain age will   with a gospel concert, sing-  A training programme begins in
         SWINDON               remember Helen as a four-       ing from her two albums.  February and covers a wide vari-
    FAMILY CHURCH              teen year old belting out         The format later changed  ety of subjects. You would be
                               Walking back to happiness       to become the 'Testimony  matched in a one-to-one partner-
     SUNDAYS 10.30AM           39 years ago.                   Tour' where Helen shares  ship with a person with a learning
                                From being at the fore-          her challenging story. She  disability and your role would be
          MEETING AT
                               front of the modern pop era,       begins by singing a se-  to represent the views, wishes and
    THE WINNERS LOUNGE         she has gone on to become          lection of worship  rights of the person, when they
        SWINDON TOWN           a highly respected jazz            songs with live backing,  might not otherwise be heard.
        FOOTBALL CLUB          singer with Humphrey      r        then she describes how  Most volunteers spend about an
                               Lyttleton and his band,           she came to faith in Je-  hour a week with their 'partner'.
            AND AT
                               whilst still singing all her    sus. This is interspersed  No specific experience is neces-
        THE PINEHURST          hits with her own band. Stage  with song including her ever  sary, but a strong belief in the rights
       PEOPLE'S CENTRE         musicals and pantomime roles are popular hit.         and value of people with a learn-
    All ages of children & teens cared for  also within her repetoire. Helen has taken her story to the  ing disability is.
                                In 1987 Helenbecame a commit- USA, South Africa and Russia.  For details on the course or about
    Information: call Brian on 849731
          in association with  ted believer in Jesus and two years Now you can see her in Freshbrook.  the work of SAM, call Rachel
     NEW FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL  later started to tour extensively To book a ticket call 873050.  Deegan or Diana Reed on 465640.


                                               We are                ^i.LOCAL CHURCHES
                                Greenmeadow
    NSC                        Primar  School ^l  r here!
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                                                            All Saints' Lydiard Millicent — 10:30am
                                                            Revd Peter Knight: 772417 (for the Village & Roughmoor)  o
                                                            Holy Trinity Shaw — 10:30am Revd Andrew Hetherington:  E n
                                                            770568 (the Church is at Shaw Village Centre)  N
                                  To Safeway
                                                            St Mary's Lydiard Tregoze — 9:00am, 10:30am  t y o
    North Swindon aptist Church                             Revd Ann Mackenzie: 870244                a a
                                                            Toothill Church - 10:45am Revd Mark Roper: 692620
                                   Whitworth Rd. • 1        (also Free Church minister for the parish)
                                                            Westlea Church — 10:00am Revd Peter Knight: 772417  w  U
      Sunday Worship 10.30am                                (this Church meets in Westlea School Hall, Langstone Way)
       - Sunday School & Creche -  Web: http://nsbc.org.uk
                                                            The Parish of West Swindon and the Lydiards
        Pastor Dennis Weaver      TEL: (01793) 345051        Baptist • Church of England • Methodist • United Reformed Church
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