NEWS AND EVENTS
Activities for adults with a learning disability
Cynnig are looking to organise regular activities for adults with a learning disability as of September. These activities will take place either during the weekday, in the evening or at the weekend. The activities that they are looking to provide initially are Music and Drama, Art and Craft, Basic Cooking, Walking, Days Out and Cycling. Additionally, they will also be looking to expand / vary the activity base by offering Horse Riding, Metal Detecting, Photograpy and Fishing.
Each session will normally cost £2 per person and places will be limited. Music and Drama has already been organised and will begin on 15th September at the Cynnig Drop In for 10 weeks. The course will be delivered by two qualified teachers and will work towards a show as the Grand Finale! The cost for this is £2 per session and places are limited to 12 so be quick.
For more information please contact Nathan on 01745 815588 or 07917062448.
posted 26 August 2010 [top of page]
Posh Frocks and Wedding Dresses
This fun event is a chance to get glammed up for a good cause. The £35 ticket includes a 3 course dinner, bubbly on arrival, dj entertainment and more.
When: Friday 15 October 2010, 7pm
Where: Oriel House Hotel, St Asaph
For more information and to book tickets please email Yvonne or phone her on 01745 550461.
posted 26 August 2010 [top of page]
Funky Dragon Newsletter
You can view this month's Funky Dragon newsletter on their website.
posted 16 August 2010 [top of page]
Your Future Your Feature
The deadline for the ‘Your Future Your Feature’ Competition to mark the launch of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Pupil Voice Wales website has been extended!
To mark the launch of the new Pupil Voice Wales website the Welsh Assembly Government is staging an exciting video clip competition called ‘Your Future Your Feature’.
Through this competition we are inviting young people from youth forums across Wales to submit video clips saying how they would like to be more involved in decision making in their youth forum/community, or how they have been involved in making improvements.
Ideas can be submitted to the competition address on a CD or DVD in FLV, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 format allowing it to be posted on our special YouTube channel. The closing date for entries has been extended and is now Monday 18th October 2010.
Don’t forget to ensure that photograph/video consent forms are also completed! These can be found on the same website address as below and need to be submitted with your entry form.
posted 16 August 2010 [top of page]
Calendar Check
Afasic Cymru have registered with Calendar Check to advertise forthcoming events in your area to view simply visit the Calendar Check website and enter charity name Afasic Cymru and authorisation code 1C24674.
This site has been designed to help charities to publicise their events, free of charge, in order to help them sell more tickets, increase awareness and make sure they are not clashing with other similar events in their locality. Calendar Check is also helping the charities to attract more supporters and volunteers.
Why not register for sponsored walk up Snowden on Saturday 26th September 2010 OR forthcoming cake bake and sponsored silence. All donations are gratefully received and will be used in Wales.
posted 9 August 2010 [top of page]
Fun Educational Excursios for children with an ASD ages 11 to 16
I am pleased to confirm the dates for four fun educational activities to take place during the summer holidays for children with an ASD aged 11 to 16 years old. All of these activities will take place on Saturdays between 10am and 5pm.
The C-SAW mini bus will leave Denbigh leisure centre at 10am prompt and will arrive back at the leisure centre for the children to be picked up at 5pm.
If you would like to attend any of the activities please complete the form below and return it to the C-SAW office no later than 15th July. Registration forms will then follow.
posted 19 July 2010 [top of page]
Article about SPD in SEN Magazine
The latest edition of SEN Magazine contains an article about semantic pragmatic disorder. The article was written on our behalf by Margo Sharp who is a speech and language therapist specialising in SPD and one of Afasic's trustees. We are very grateful to Margo for taking this on. For more information about SEN Magazine please see their website.
Margo Sharp's article in SEN Magazine
posted 13 July 2010 [top of page]
Family Forest Fun Days
Some free sessions for Children and families over the summer holidays - 10am–3pm. See the poster for further details.
Tuesday 20th July -Castell-y Dail wood, Newtown
Sunday 1st August – Dolforwyn wood, Abermule
Tuesday 10th August - Castell-Y-Dail woods, Newton
Sunday 22nd August - Gregynog Hall, Tregynon
For more info email Patrick Harrison or phone on 01686 668661. There is also a website with information about the event.
posted 5 July 2010 [top of page]
Polly Howat - International Performance Storyteller visits Denbighshire Language Units
Thanks to funding from Denbighshire County Council’s Cymorth Fund, Polly Howat an International Performance Storyteller from North Cambridgeshire recently visited young people within Denbighshire who have communication impairments. Interactive storytelling can be a beneficial way of encouraging participation through the use of repetition, rhyming and song.
Young people, staff and parents at Ysgol Melyd, Ysgol Mair, Twn O Nant and Tir Morfa were visited at school by Polly who delivered sessions of interactive tales with exciting puppets to help boost the pupil’s communication and language skills.
The young people enjoyed a day of interactive storytelling which enhanced their vocabulary and developed their imaginations. The children and adults who took part certainly had their own favourite stories and songs, but it was very clear that the puppets were a huge success.
posted 1 June 2010 [top of page]
New fundraising events
A fundraising meeting was held on Tuesday 20 April at Oriel House Hotel, St Asaph. and as a result Yvonne has arranged a few fundraising events across North Wales.
The first of the fundraising events is The Great Cake Bake Challenge and people from across whole of Wales can participate in this one, basically we want you all to get baking and then sell your wares. Please click here for flyer to promote the Great Cake Bake and when you’re ready to sell you can simply download this poster to advertise your event. The next cake bake will be held 1st – 7th November 2010 unless you want to organise one before!
For more info please send a message to Yvonne or phone her on 01745 550461.
posted 24 May 2010 [top of page]
Afasic Cymru Snowdon Challenge Sunday 26th September 2010
There are six main routes to the summit of Snowdon. They are fairly easy to follow, and mostly easy underfoot. Many thousands of people reach the summit each year, so you will not be walking alone. There is great camaraderie amongst the walkers on these mountains - as you go up you will meet people coming down, and they are happy to share how far you have to go, and what to watch out for.
Do you fancy the personal challenge of Snowdon with a view to helping children and young people who have a speech, language and communication difficulty and are willing to raise a minimum of £50 for charity? For an information pack including a sponsor form, please send a message to Yvonne or phone her on 01745 550461.
Snowdon poster (English and Welsh)
Snowdon walking route
Snowdon registration and declaration form (Welsh)
Snowdon registration and declaration form (English)
posted 24 May 2010 [top of page]
Afasic Cymru teams up with revolutionary online children’s present service
Afasic Cymru has joined forces with a young entrepreneur to create what the South Wales Echo has termed ‘the perfect present for children...and parents’.
The first of its kind in the world, timto – ‘there is more to … birthdays’ – is a website that allows children to create a wish list, while simultaneously raising money for their chosen charity.
The online service timto.co.uk, which is a corporate member of both the Institute of Fundraising and the Fundraising Standards Board, was established to replace the small individual gifts that children receive on their birthday. Instead, guests are encouraged to make a contribution to the child’s very own timto birthday fund. The child’s family can then use this fund firstly to purchase presents from the ‘timto shop’, and secondly to make a donation to a charity of their choice. The amount donated to the charity is determined by the child’s family and 100% of the amount given will go directly to the chosen cause.
timto.co.uk is working in association with household names such as Amazon.co.uk and Red Letter Days to provide a wide range of products and children’s experiences from the online timto shop. The service also offers parents the opportunity to order high street vouchers for The Entertainer, Early Learning Centre and Mothercare.
Afasic Cymru is among the charities which have endorsed the concept and established a relationship with timto. As a result, any child choosing to host their own timto birthday party will have the opportunity to donate a proportion of their birthday fund to Afasic Cymru.
Now looking forward to what he hopes will be a successful relationship with the organisation, Luke Cornish, founder of timto.co.uk, said: “We are excited and very grateful to everyone at Afasic Cymru for supporting timto. The concept that we have created ensures that children receive the presents that they wish for, while family and friends benefit from the convenience, accessibility and simplicity of the service. Parents are then given the added opportunity of fundraising for Afasic Cymru or for another of the listed timto charities, by redistributing some of the money that may have been ‘wasted’ on individual gifts for the child.
Jeannette Carr, Director of Afasic Cymru, said: “We decided to join the timto family because it is a fantastic initiative for charities, a problem solver for busy parents, and provides a greater choice of gifts for the birthday child. It is a ‘win win’ situation!
“Charities will benefit from much needed voluntary donations, while parents can avoid spending time searching for appropriate birthday gifts. The child is then able to choose the ‘big’ present that they really want, whilst at the same time sharing their good fortune with a charity of their choice”.
Mr Cornish added: “In teaming up with Afasic Cymru, we hope to be able to encourage children across the whole of the UK to support such worthy organisations and to teach them the true value of a gift”.
posted 24 May 2010 [top of page]
Youth Award winner in the news
Afasic Cymru Youth Award winner, Rachel Bacon, has an article printed in the Flintshire Chronicle about her achievements. Rachel has achieved a Lifeguard Qualification and employment as a lifeguard at a local pool.
posted 11 March 2010 [top of page]
Afasic Coastline Challenge
This is a year long challenge to all our members, supporters and friends to cycle/walk/run around the coastline of the mainland UK, which I am told is about 5,000 miles, over the coming 12 months.
The aims of the event are to raise much needed funds for the work of Afasic; raise awareness of the hidden disability of speech, language and communication impairments; and raise awareness of Afasic and how we can help. If you decide to take part you should therefore look to get sponsored and publicise your participation in the challenge.
You can do this on your own, in groups, just once, or have as many trips as you want. It could be for a few hours, a day, a weekend, a week or a number of different trips, it is entirely up to you. The only stipulation is that there is a minimum distance of 1 mile, other than that you can do as much or as little as you want.
All we ask is that you let us know what you plan to do / have done towards it; let us know where you start and finish so that we can map it all, and send us your photos and stories. It would be especially great to hear from anyone with a special story about their trip, anyone doing a long distance, raising large amounts of sponsorship, doing a distance in the most unusual way (e.g. backwards, on a unicycle, in fancy dress etc), children or young people taking part etc!
We will hold a central master map and can advise people what bits of the coastline have been done already to avoid duplication of effort. Please encourage others to join in and so help us to raise as much money and publicity as possible.
To enter, and for more information, help and resources for this challenge please contact Mark Thompson at Afasic central office.
posted 2 March 2010 [top of page]
Afasic Golf Day 2010 - Friday 17 September
The amazing success of last year’s Afasic Golf Day has inspired us to continue this popular event in 2010 and we are happy to announce that we will host the competition again at the Shire London Golf Club in Barnet. This year we are looking to recruit 20 teams of 4! Whether you are a corporate team competing with another, or looking to entertain your clients or an individual simply wanting to enjoy a beautiful game of golf – the event is perfect for you. If you are interested in registering a team of 4 or you know anybody who might like to participate in this event, please get in touch now to reserve your place. We are also looking for auction items to be donated to us and are happy to provide sponsorship opportunities at this event. More information is available at the Afasic England site.
posted 2 March 2010 [top of page]