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.
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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.
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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.
Best Wishes,
Your Blogging Team
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