28th January 2016


Hi there, welcome back to our BLOG.

Would anybody be interested in taking part in a fundraising event on Saturday 26th March? There is a " bag pack " event planned at B&M's, Team Valley Retail World. There are time slots still available. (Please note that the slots from 10.30 - 12.30 are now full). If you could spare an hour or two please contact Shona Tong on 0191 433 6066.

Blogged by Peter

Award Night Photo's

Photographs taken at the Special Olympics Awards Night, in December, are now available for purchase, at a cost of £1.50 for a 6"x4" photo, mounted.

If interested, please speak to the manager at your day service.

Blogged by Susan Dalton

 Chinese New Year

This is the year of the Monkey, Chinese New Year is on Monday 8th February. To help us to celebrate, Kasia, our Art volunteer is showing us how to make some themed decorations. We will take some photo's on the day to show off all our hard work.

Blogged by Norman Stephenson.

Valentines Disco

Don't forget that we are having a Valentines Disco here at Marquisway on 12th February. Our very own DJ will be knocking out the tunes!

Blogged by EM

And that's it for this week, we've run out of time!

Take Care, see you next week and don't forget to send us any info or news that you'd like us to share.

The Bloggers





Thursday 21st January 2016





Welcome back


First of all, Margaret Dunn left on Tuesday, it was very emotional.
We would like to welcome Shona Tong who is the new deputy manager.

blogged by SA B

Pancake Day  (February 9th)

Great news!!! Carole, from team 3, will be having a Pancake extravaganza! There will be pancakes available to buy, more details will follow next week.


Did you know? Pancake day or Shrove Tuesday is the last day of "gorging" or "fat eating" before Lent (Ash Wednesday). Lent is a period of approximately 6 weeks that ends on Easter Sunday. If you are interested to know more about the significance of Lent and Easter, please ask staff or your carers to help you.
If there are other festivals or celebrations that you would like to know more about please ask staff or carers or email us and we could do the research for you!


blogged by Christine Croudass




Valentines Day! February 14th



We have asked our resident DJ, (DJ Deeks) if he will do a disco for us to celebrate Valentines day. This will be on Friday 12th February from 1pm. Don't forget to invite your Valentines along!

Did you know? Valentine was first associated with 'Romantic love' back in the Middle Ages!
In the 18th Century it became an occasion to send your loved one flowers, cards and sweets. Valentine keys were also given to signify the unlocking of the givers heart!
Today, Valentines Day is a huge industry, mass produced cards and Valentine tokens available just about everywhere.


blogged by Susan Dalton

Our Special Olympic Boccia team are in action again on 20th February 2016 at a tournament in Newcastle. We're sure that you will join us in wishing them well.

blogged by Peter Smith

That's it for this week.

Have a good weekend

The Bloggers



14th January 2016


Hi Everyone and welcome back. we hope that you all had a good Christmas and we want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year.




Feedback.


Deacons disco on the 11th December was really good. It certainly got everyone into the Christmas spirit. Thank you to Deacon and Chris from Team 4.

If you remember we had a visitor to the centre on 18th December, ELVIS! Everybody really enjoyed the show and had a fantastic time. Huge thanks to 'our' ELVIS, we really appreciate the time and effort that he put into the show.

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On December 21st 2015, there was an awards evening to recognise all the achievements of Gateshead Special Olympic athletes and coaches. It was a fantastic night. Lot's of awards and recognition to everyone that has contributed to Special Olympic events.
Special mention to Gary Cringle who won the prestigious 'Sportsman of the Year' award in recognition of all his hard work, dedication and successes. We are very proud of him and all our athletes.

2016

This year promises to be a busy one. There'll be lot's going on that we will keep you up to date about.


Last year we told you about all the building work, that was being done at Marquisway, to create some more usable space for us. If you remember it all had to stop for a while because we had Swallows nesting in there! Well it's all finished now and it won't be long before we can start to use it.
One of the rooms will be our I-muse room, we are very excited about this and looking forward to us being able to get in there and using the equipment.

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This year we will be having a lot more in the way of Special Olympic events. We have asked that we can have information regarding up and coming events, awards and fundraising events so that we can let everybody know about it on our BLOG. 


For starters there was a fundraising evening on Tuesday 12th January at St James' Park. Permission was given for volunteers to collect donations from the public outside St James' park. This was on the night of the match between Newcastle United and Manchester United. (FT result 3 - 3!).
It was a very successful evening and £618 was raised. Well done to everyone that turned out to do the collecting. There could be more opportunities to collect at football grounds coming up shortly, possibly at Sunderland AFC ground, The Stadium of Light.
In March there will be a 'Bag Pack' at B&M's store at Team Valley. We need some volunteers to help out packing shoppers bags! We will confirm date and time on our next BLOG.

If anyone has any ideas for fundraising events please get in touch.

There will be a BOCCIA competition in Newcastle on 25th February. More information to follow.

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We will be having a Dignity in Care Day again this year, further details as we get them.

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                        The Carnival

Did any of you come to the Carnival Preview event before Christmas? The Carnival is going on tour this year. The first show will be at St Chad's Church. Please see the Flyer below.

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                       Margaret Dunn

We would like to take this opportunity to say a fond farewell to Margaret who, after 32 years service with Gateshead Council, is retiring. We are sure that everyone at Marquisway wishes her well and hopes that she will come back often to visit us.

 

                            Best Wishes Margaret.

That's it for this week, please get in touch if you have anything that you would like us post on our BLOG.

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Best Wishes,

Your Blogging Team