Blog by Elaine Dean, President Around about 18 months ago we held a brainstorm meeting of the Northern Region Member and Community Council and in the group I was in, store manager Paul Robinson suggested we started up a group specifically for men to get together. We have been encouraged by t...
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Blog written by Elaine Dean, President. Friday 10th January was a bitterly cold day but I arrived at the newly open Shelton Lock store to find that the car park was full, the shop was busy and there was a queue in the cafe ! What a great start ! This store has been a long time a-coming; plannin...
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Blog written by Elaine Dean, President. The Insomnia coffee shop in Littleover has been open for a few years now and is almost always very busy with people sitting inside and out – even in cold weather – and with the community room almost fully booked. We have worked hard to encourage groups to ...
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Blog written by Elaine Dean, President. In 2006 I was made aware of a wonderful animal rescue centre in Ashbourne by one of my former students. This was Ashbourne and District Animal Welfare Society – or ADAWS – commonly known as the Ark. I was pleased that it was a membership organisation lik...
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Blog written by Elaine Dean, President. Last year, our Society Toy Appeal visited 9 stores because many of our car parks were too small to take the huge lorry! As we sat sheltering in the lorry from a wild storm in Dodworth, Andy Peake, from our Executive team and I started discussing what w...
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