Activities and Groups currently running in Stewartry

Crocheting Knitting X-Stitching Group

Merry Christmas

Detect Cancer Early

To view the poster please click here

DON’T GET SCARED, GET CHECKED. “IF YOU’VE HAD A COUGH FOR THREE WEEKS, SEE YOUR GP.”

Please click on this link :  http://www.getcheckedearly.org/

Tai Chi for Health and Wellbeing

Tai Chi
for Health and Wellbeing

Starting Friday 21st November 2014

(last session 19th Dec 2014)

Are you living with long term condition? Are you caring for      someone or are you 50+?

Would you like to improve your health and wellbeing and meet    new friends? 

Then come to new Tai Chi for Health and Wellbeing gentle exercise classes.

Tai Chi strengthens and mobilises joints and muscles, improves fitness and mental relaxation. 

All sessions are free.

For further information or to register your interest please contact 

Annemarie Sim -  Self Management Programme Worker on 07885 704509 or 
Renata Brittainova on 07885 704510.

Activities & Initiatives

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Lets Cook

Supporting our Carers across Dumfries and Galloway

To find out more please go to www.dumgal.gov.uk or call 01387 260935, email carers@dumgal.gov.uk

Interested in crocheting, knitting and x-stitching?

Are you interested in

CROCHETING  KNITTING  X-STITCHING?

A new group starting soon in Castle Douglas.

· Meet people with the similar interest

· No experience required

· All materials provided

· Help & instruction given

· Sessions free of charge

For further information or to register your interest please contact              

Annemarie Sim - Self Management Programme Worker on 07885 704509 or Renata Brittainova on 07885 704510.

Dumfries and Galloway Wellness & Recovery College

The Dumfries and Galloway Wellness and Recovery College (Course Guide)

The Dumfries and Galloway Wellness and Recovery College, is a local initiative that delivers a range of wellness and recovery focussed learning and development opportunities. Courses will provide students with a range of learning opportunities, these may include: 

• Learning skills and strategies to cope with challenging times, for example in relation to change and loss
• Strengthening personal coping skills
• Developing and maintaining positive relationships
• Helping to understand personal responses to situations  

Courses vary in content and length. You may be interested in signing up for just one course or more.

To view the course guide please click here.

To view the courses available please click here.

For more information please contact the BHC office. 

Airfix Modelling Workshop

Access Art Workshop

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Up and Coming Events

Please look below at the up and coming events over the next couple of months in the stewartry area.

Art Therapy

Tuesday 21st January 2014

A 10 week block of Art Therapy with a trained art therapist, will start on the 21st of January from 2.00- 4.00pm at Dalbeattie Fire Station.

You don't have to be good at art to attend. Explore your emotions and feelings and move forward with more personal insight and awareness.

There are a couple of places left so if you are interested please telephone to book a place.

Self Management Programme

Wednesday 29th January

Six week Self Management Programme run in partnership with Arthritis Care will be held at Castle Douglas Community Centre from 10.30-12.30am.

This programme is for anyone with a long term/chronic health condition and is person-centred. It will cover topics such as:

Effective communication

Pain management

Activity and exercise

Finances and managing change

Please contact me to book a place.

Let's Cook

Thursday 13th March

'Let's Cook' sessions will be starting in Corsock Hall in March. You will have the opportunity to make two courses which can be finished off at home. All ingredients and equipment will be provided.

This will be a small group so booking is essential.

Let's Cook

Thursday 10th April

'Let's Cook' sessions will be starting in Castle Douglas Church Hall in April. You will have the opportunity to make two courses which can be finished off at home. All ingredients and equipment will be provided.

This will be a small group so booking is essential.

Dalbeattie Tai chi

The first of the 10 week block of classes took place on Wednesday in the town hall in Dalbeattie and 12 out of 15 participants attended. The class went well and everyone enjoyed it although the room was rather large and the acoustics could have been better. Julie’s music was rather lost so we will have to find bigger speakers for next time.

Julie is our volunteer who teaches the tai chi classes and it would be wonderful if we could clone her. There is a lot of demand for tai chi in the Stewartry and so hopefully we can train some more volunteers next year.

“I Could Eat A Horse”

The Glenkens cooking group were chosen by the theatre company ‘A Moment’s Peace’ to represent Dumfries & Galloway along with Dumfries High School and Gatehouse Primary.

I Could Eat A Horse is a multi-artform project exploring the diverse relationships that individuals and communities have with food and the food industry. It investigates personal choices around food consumption to examining who is in control of our access to food.

The theatre company worked with the three groups in Dumfries & Galloway and three groups in each of Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow, producing 12 short films. Wednesday saw the first local screening at the Catstrand in New Galloway alongside an interactive event which provoked debate amongst the audience.

The Glenkens group thoroughly enjoyed the experience and created a wonderful film which promoted ‘growing old disgracefully’.

I am hoping to get a copy of this film next year and will hopefully be able to set up a link to it and share it with everyone.