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ShopMobility and Dial-A-Ride

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Would you like to look round the shops, stop for a coffee and have a sit about in the park? Is this a distant dream as you have had a recent operation, a poorly leg, iffy balance, an accident or just poor mobility?
Maybe you have a medical condition that makes you exhausted quickly and you just need a bit of physical support but don’t know which one would suit you best.

We have a FABULOUS solution for you here at Eastleigh ShopMobility. Recently we have won the BID Gold Award for customer services. We are open from 9-4.30 Monday-Friday. 9-4 on a Saturday (Closed on Sundays.)

You can hire; Scooters, Powerchairs or manual chairs.
To register or just make a booking please telephone 023 8090 2402 or email us here
The Shopmobility office is located at:
Unit 2, Swan Centre, Wells Place, Eastleigh, Hants SO50 9SG.

It is a flat cost of £8 to become a member of ShopMobility. Once you are a member you can benefit from a much cheaper rate of hire.

You can book a manual wheelchair for a day- £3 for a non member and £1.50 for a member, if you wanted an extended lease (as in overnight) this can be arranged for a further £1.50

If you are a member you can book a powerchair or a scooter for a day for £3 or £5 if you are a non member.

If it is difficult to drive or get a lift into Eastleigh, please contact our Dial-A-Ride services who will happily book you on one of our friendly community service buses.
Pre 9.30am, local shorter journeys eg from Boyatt Wood or Cherbourg Road to Eastleigh ShopMobility cost £2 (return) per passenger. After 9.30am the cost is £1.50 return. For longer journeys e.g. from Hedge End to ShopMobility in Eastleigh it would be £3.
For further information please contact the Dial-A-Ride office on 023 8090 2450 or
023 8090 2432. Or email: lplestead@1community.org.uk

We are looking for volunteer drivers- if you would like to apply- email Charlotte volunteer@1community.org.uk

Eastleigh Museum & Eastleigh ShopMobility win awards.

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Successful Awards Night for One Community

One Community had a very successful evening at the Eastleigh BID Mystery Shopper Awards, held at The Chalet on 11 June.
Sixty retailers and businesses in the town of Eastleigh received a mystery visit or enquiry and were rated on their window displays, interior layout, and customer service. The mystery visits were carried out by an independent organisation, Insight6.
Awards were presented to the businesses who achieved outstanding results in the following categories: charity, dining, leisure, retail, health and beauty, and pubs.
Two One Community Services entered this year: Eastleigh Museum and Shopmobility, and Eastleigh Museum received a Highly Commended Award in the Leisure Category, and Shopmobility won the Gold Award for the Charity Category.
Head of Voluntary Sector Support, Julia Allan, said: “This is a great achievement and the staff and volunteers at both Shopmobility and the Museum deserve huge congratulations.”
Jean Roberts-Jones, Chief Executive of One Community, was also presented with flowers in thanks for her term as Chair of the Eastleigh BID.

Finished your exams?

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Really great to have finished those tricky exams and tests.

Tempting as it is to put the whole lot of revision stuff on the bonfire, please hold onto to your revision books for us!

Bring them into Eastleigh and drop them with us at the Museum (opposite Iceland supermarket.) Or into Fareham and our One Community shop.

We will tidy them up and they will be helping the community and next years students.

Bus Photo WINNER!

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A couple of weeks ago we ran an INSTAGRAM competition. It was for people to take photographs of our buses in the area, upload them to their INSTAGRAM account and tag @1Comm (our charity’s account).

There was a wonderful prize of afternoon tea offered for the winning photograph.

We had a good look at the entries and in the end agreed on:

“Pussy Passengers”

Yesterday we were able to congratulate the winner, Ricky Vivian….

Ricky said:

“Thank you for this wonderful prize. I will enjoy taking my Mum on the Watercress line for our afternoon tea.”

Congratulations Ricky from all of us at One Community!

Celebrating Volunteers.

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Celebrating Volunteers

Making the most of Volunteers’ Week 2019 (1-7 June), One Community, held two Volunteer Awards events on consecutive evenings. The first was at The Point in Eastleigh on Tuesday 4 June and the second at Ferneham Hall in Fareham on Wednesday 5 June. Over the two events 152 volunteers from 26 organisations were recognised, receiving their certificates from the Mayor of Eastleigh Cllr Darshan Mann and the Mayor of Fareham Cllr Pamela Bryant.

            The presentations provide the opportunity to tell the individual stories of the volunteers, both amusing and touching in turn. The organisations represented reflect the diversity of the roles undertaken, from Front of House volunteers welcoming and serving visitors to Westbury Manor Museum in Fareham, to Street Pastors, who have been listening, caring and helping people on the streets of Eastleigh on Friday nights since July 2009.

Fareham fun in the picture:

            Guests described the events as “life affirming”, volunteers spoke of feeling valued, and another said that the lovely words written by her nominator, read out at on the night, “brought tears to her eyes.” A volunteer manager who accompanied some of her volunteers to the Fareham presentation said: “I really enjoy the evening, it is so positive, and it really makes me feel part of something wonderful.”

            The Eastleigh event incorporated the Mayor of Eastleigh’s Youth Awards, celebrating the work of young volunteers, aged 11-18, in the borough, an initiative that is supported by The Lions Club of Eastleigh. Silver and Gold Award runners up and winners were announced and certificates presented to 11 young people. (Pictured below.)

            Gold award winners, who have completed more than 100 hours of volunteering were Stuart Tucker who helps swimmers with special needs learn to swim at Eastleigh Swimming Club & Learn To Swim; Amy Merewood who has worked in the local Marie Curie Charity Shop for over a year, clocking up over 200 hours; James Wiseman, a young leader at the 10th Itchen North Beaver Group; Laurel Beer who helps out with young children in her boxing club; and Josh Doyle who has contributed greatly to promoting Scouting and music and is now Deputy Director of Music of the Spitfires.

To find out more about volunteering contact One Community’s Volunteer Centre on 023 8090 2458 or volunteer@1community.org.uk

 

Volunteers Week AVIVA and the Brickworks.

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On Tuesday 4th June, a bunch of very keen, sensibly dressed people arrived at the Bursledon Brickworks to help out for a day. They all work for a company called AVIVA in the UK and are giving their time as part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR.)

Here they are helping out, moving the tiles (made on site, using traditional methods.)

It is a great thing to do, get out of the offices and gain a better insight into who your colleagues really are! CSR covers a broad approach of social responsibility in business which can include offering your staff volunteering opportunities.

You can see from our short clip that many hands make light work and how much the small charity (in this case the Brickworks museum) has benefitted.

If your organisation would like to do some planned CSR related Volunteering in the Eastleigh and Fareham areas of Hampshire, we can help you set this up.

Please ring either: Julia or Charlotte on 023 8090 2400 or email: volunteer@1community.org.uk

 

 

Volunteer Awards 2019

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** APOLOGIES ** For the previously upside down photos, we did not hold awards in Tasmania after all!

Wow what a wonderful time was had on Tuesday 4th June 2019! The mayor of Eastleigh Darshan Mann was there and it was great to see him keenly supporting volunteering in our area.

Held at The Point, Eastleigh, it’s a fabulous evening celebrating the significant work of our volunteers. These amazing people are volunteers within the Eastleigh area. Their personal dedication and a great sense of giving to the greater good in a diverse range of projects has been celebrated.

We were delighted to receive so many nominations. We especially wanted to mention those from the Eastleigh Street Pastors who have celebrated their 10 year anniversary recently.

We had a lot of fun with the selfie frame.

Congratulations and many thanks to all those attending this warm, encouraging and uplifting celebration volunteer award evening.

Do you know about ACE’s?

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ACE’s are “adverse childhood experiences.”

Come and watch the acclaimed ground breaking documentary film “Resilience”, and learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how they impact on childhood and into adulthood. We would encourage everyone to go as you meet, work alongside, teach and deliver services to people who may have significant ACE’s.

Here is a short trailer.

There are two dates available, 19th July at Ashburton Hall near Winchester and 24th of July in Eastleigh. Both events are FREE of charge.

Further details are in the PDF Downloads below.

ACE's Training (Ashburton Hall, Winchester) ACEs Training (FREE OF CHARGE)

Volunteers Week 2019 A BIG THANK YOU!

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On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I should like to thank all our wonderful volunteers who support those who use our services. Whether your voluntary role brings you into face contact with people, you work behind the scenes, help with fundraising, marketing or research or if you are one of the many partners of our volunteers supporting them to give their time to One Community – a huge thank you. Without you we could not do the things we do, or maintain the consistency, reliability and standard and thereby together we make a difference to the lives of many people.
Many thanks,

Adrian

BUS PHOTO COMPETITION

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INSTAGRAM Photo Competition.

1) Take a photo of a One Community bus.
2) Upload photo of our bus onto INSTAGRAM.
3) Tag @1Comm

We have two prizes.

Prize 1 is for the most tagged photos of different buses.

Prize 2 is for the BEST photo of a One Community bus.

Prizes for the winners to choose from are:
A cinema light box and pocket photography book or an afternoon tea for 2.

Our Transport team are skilled at getting people on our buses and taking them to our Day Services. Our buses take people to groups and clubs or into the town to do some shopping. We have a Dial-A-Ride service and a really good service to take people to the Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury’s retail site. We often run trips and days out for our passengers.

We do need more drivers for our buses and if you can give us a few hours of your time we would love to have you in our team. We will help you with getting all your paperwork and MiDAS training through. Just ring 023 8090 2400 or email volunteer@1community.org.uk.

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