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Janet’s
Puppy
Skool
Have fun teaching your dog 29 October, 2pm til late. Sun Inn, Coate
good manners and behaviour Raise money for your charity and also Brighter Futures
at one of our friendly classes Are you at work all day?
3 Playskool class for puppies Going away? Or just too busy? Register to take part at www.anythingispossible.org.uk
3 Adult beginners/improvers The National Pet Care Company
3 Senior Skool/advanced classes Dog holidays with host families, Making a
3 One to one advice & training Cat Care, Pet Feeding
3 Fun agility workshops difference
www.janetspuppyskool.co.uk The Complete Pet Service
APDT Member (01066) Pet Taxi/Ambulance Volunteers provide vital support to regular or occasional basis.
Janet Garrett DipCABT (QCF-Level 4) Tel: 07496 855694 organisations in Swindon and the Suns Listening Line supports
Tel: 01793 727158 [email protected] people they are working with. Could people with mental health issues
[email protected] www.animalsathome.co.uk/swindon-district you free up some time to help? and is ideally looking for people
Marie Curie Cancer Care is looking with experience of these. So if you
Dog lovers wanted: for volunteers to help run their love chatting on the phone from
online store that sells items through home, are non-judgemental and can
EBay. If you like social media, keep details of calls, this could be
Open your home to a friendly dog for his holiday. photography or have a special an opportunity for you
While owners are away you will welcome interest in books, vintage items or Swindon College needs people
their dogs into your family home fashion, this could be a role for you
and give them the love with a background in education or
companionship and The Open Door Centre has started wanting to gain experience in the
exercise they an activity group for the over 55s field to support adult students in
deserve.
deserve.
on Tuesday afternoons. You will be literacy and numeracy classes. This
helping attendees join in activities, could make a real difference to
For more information chat with members and generally someone’s life.
please contact:
help out. To find out more about these
Hilary Coates The Rainbow Children’s Trust needs and other opportunities, contact
Tel: 01793 874 777 / 07436 796 115 people to support their work with Volunteer Centre Swindon on 01793
Email: [email protected] the families of sick children. It could 420557 or info@swindonvolunteers.
www.waggingtailsuk.co.uk/sn
A franchise owned and operated under licence by Hilary Coates be offering practical help such org.uk
as shopping, doing the ironing or Visitors can drop-in at 1 John Street
supporting siblings of those affected from Monday to Friday, 11am to

West Swindon and Lydiard Tregoze by illness. You can help either on a 3pm, to discuss opportunities.
Church Partnership October: Grandparents

Please join us in worship on Sunday mornings
Westlea Church, Westlea School: 10am Information and advice for parents from ePIP
St Mary’s Lydiard Tregoze
- the church in the park: 10am ePiP parenting coach Rachel charity Age Concern, and is now
writes: widely celebrated across the world.
Holy Trinity, Shaw: 10.30am These days, it is not uncommon This year Grandparents Day was
Toothill Church: 10.30am for families to have three or four celebrated on Sunday 11 September.
For details of these and our other services generations living together under The idea originates from the USA,
call the Partnership Office on 01793 874221 one roof. Multi-generational where it was made an official day of
living has many benefits and can
recognition in 1978 to acknowledge
Email: [email protected] Website: WSwinlyd.org.uk contribute to the creation of a the vital contribution the older
Anglican • Baptist • Methodist • United Reformed Church shared caring environment within generation make to their families
which to bring up our children. and wider society.
Whether grandparents live under As brilliant as grandparent
St. John’s Haydon Wick the same roof or not, the role they childcare is, we know it can be
play in supporting their children
a source of tension when they
and grandchildren should never be occasionally adopt a different
On Thames Avenue underestimated. Grandparents often parenting approach to our own and
next door to Morrisons have more available time, can listen, give children a conflicting message
Contact: observe and attend to the small to the one from their parents.
Revd Raymond Adams things as well as pass on cultural At ePiP Direct, we help families
Tel: 634258 and family traditions. Children love with inconsistent parenting all the
to learn from their grandparents. time, which often extends to the
Sunday 9am Traditional communion service In the UK, up to half of working wider family and grandparents.
Services 11am Eventful, contemporary worship parents rely on grandparent care for Give us a call on 01793 328102 if
with children’s groups meeting their children. This is not surprising you want to create a consistent
www.stjohnshaydonwick.org.uk as they offer a trusted, affectionate, parenting approach across the
flexible, reliable and usually free generations and we would be
Re-opening Friday 7th October source of childcare! delighted to help.
Open to all, serving tea, coffee, cakes & sandwiches National Grandparent’s Day was Call us on 01793 328102 or see
Fridays and Saturdays: 10.30am - 1.30pm introduced to the UK in 1990 by the more at: www.epipdirect.com
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