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38 The Link Magazine • January 2005
Project in search of professionals
Take a seat in our new showroom
Keeping a charity going is hard work and requires a range of skills
and an eye for detail, particularly where there are paid staff and
Swindon's dining centre
property involved.
Also stockists of And one well known
office/study furniture West Swindon charity is
making an appeal for _
and lounge furniture more professional peo = • •
ple to come forward to =" J
CLASSIC FI[IISHEFS offer their help in a vol
untary capacity so that P
Unit 19, Bridgemead Close, Shaw & North Swindon services can be directed 0o
more effectively to fami-
u y
Westmead Estate, Westlea, Swindon Tewkesb r 3 a
Way
Police 1O lies who need them.
Westmead
s^aue^ ^ es^aie Set up over 20 years
Telephone: 01793 513155 Wes"ea ^
• ca55 c ago the West Swindon
Furniture
Open Mon-Fri 9.30atn-4pm Sat 9-4pm Gt Western Way & Town Centre Community and Family
Project is run by a man-
agement committee of
local people from an en-
larged four bedroom
GA S TECH house at 15 Gainsbor-
ough
Way
in
Freshbrook, and em-
ploys 5 full time and 5 Getting ready for Christmas, from left to right,
part time staff. Alysson Cardis, Kal Badesha, Trish Rahrnan, Sarah
Hundreds of families Battershall, Trudi Griffiths holding Kali Pinto,
* Central heating installation
and efficiency upgrades and individuals have Samantha and Chloe Nicholls, Nicki Hillier
• Repairs to all appliances used the project over the
and central heating systems Full preventative years, receiving support through lives; they become more confident
Servicing to central heating boilers maintenance, annual service, difficult times, day to day help in about tackling new things, through
Gas appliance fitting practical matters, and advice and a course at the project or somewhere
parts and labour cover
• Warm air heating information on welfare benefits else, or returning to work. Some
to entire system
• Gas appliance sales and advocacy from advice point people may need help from other
• Combination boilers www.gastechwilts.co.uk workers, agencies, and the Family Project is a
Last year over 200 families used good place to get direction."
the project, receiving personal one- However to keep up a high qual-
to-one help, taking part in a parent ity of service Tina says the project
and toddler group or meeting other needs to be able to call on a wider
parents at the weekly coffee morn- range of skills which she is sure are
ing at the house.
available in the community. "It's a
t
?Aeh1 O/1fA i' ai person Tina Mackie said she had really positive place, buzzing with
Management committee chair-
energy, but we need to tap into the
turned to the family project for abilities of the people who live in
help and it had changed her life. West Swindon who may never
"I've lived in West Swindon for need the Project, but could offer us
about 25 years. 1 didn't know much their time and expertise.
about the Project when I was busy, "Management committees have
YOUR LOCAL PVC-U MANUFACTURER but that was before I became disa- to deal with so much employment
bled. About four years ago I be- and safety legislation nowadays
• Buy direct from came totally fed-up with life be- that it can get beyond us. So we're
our factory cause I couldn't get out as I be- looking for people who could of-
came less mobile. I went to the fer us their background in human
• We make it and project to see if I could help in resources and training, health and
we fit it some way as a volunteer, safety, and also IT systems."
"People come here feeling low To find out more or offer help,
• High security
but after a time they are able to see call Alysson Cardis at the project
• 10 year guarantee the possibility of changing their on 871303.
• Lowest prices
Abbey backs stroke sufferers
Why not let Keen runners Gary Hancock and
Eric Butler raised just under
us handle £986.50 for the Swindon Stroke
Support Group by taking part in
everything October's Swindon half mara-
thon. As they both work for the
from start to Abbey Bank, their sponsorship
has been doubled.
finish? Gary is an active member of the
group since his father had a stroke
Call today 01793 790944 18 years ago. His mother is chair of
the organising committee.
or 07973 232435 (evenings and weekends) For details of how the group
The Marsh, Lower Wanborough. SN4 OAS provides friendship and a helping Cash for stroke group, Gary Hancock,
hand, call Lin Hancock on 529693. right, with mum Lin, and Eric Butler
