november 2009 newsletter for nottingham chinese welfare association (english version)

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Members with the same address, please pass around.

(SENDER)Nottinghamshire Chinese Welfare Association

Office Address: Room 5A, International Community Centre

61b Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3FN

Charity No: 1062082

Telephone: 0115 9507888

Website: www.nottinghamchinese.org.uk

Email: [email protected]

October 2009 Newsletter

:Our association welcomes people with disabilities to take part. Please let us know if youhave any special requirements. The centre has disabled parking spaces.

NOTE: NO Classes during half term, Easter holiday etc. If you are not sure the date,

please call the office to confirm.

Non-

memberPlease sit& wait our

outside

office.

Manythanks
http://www.nottinghamchinese.org.uk/mailto:[email protected]://www.nottinghamchinese.org.uk/mailto:[email protected]


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The Chinese legend of the Dragon encourages us to respect each

other and not to take advantage. Recently, a man whosemembership had expired for two years and had not rejoined

came to the office needing to use the phone and asked for a

translation service. He expects us to be here to help but is not

repared to contribute, whilst others fully support NCWA. Please

make sure your membership is up-to-date so that we can be here

when you need us.

November 2009 - Newsletter

2009 AGM & Mid-Autumn Festival Date: 29 September 2009Chairmans Speech September 2009

Good afternoon! Ladies and Gentlemen

As Chairman I represent Nottinghamshire Chinese Welfare Association members, and on their behalf I want to

thank you for your support and for coming here today to our AGM and Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration.

NCWA has been supporting Chinese folk in Nottinghamshire for 19 years now and the last six years have seen

a considerable boost in our activities.

During this time, with the support of our funders, we have established NCWA as a successful, professionally

managed service providing for the needs of local Chinese people and a resource for other organizations to call

on when dealing with Chinese folk.

For all Charities, funding is crucial to their operation, so I particularly want to thank:

o Awards for all

o The Community Fund

o The City Council

o The County Councilo Boots

o Age Concern & Help the Aged

o And the Nottinghamshire Community Fund

o NHS

o European Fund

I want to thank these organizations for their confidence in us and for giving us the resources to provide:

a service that helps people access day to day support that many of us take for granted:

NHS, Police, Social Services etc

a service that helps people understand the letters they receive not least from the council and social

services a service that provides Social Support in the form of:

Friendship groups so that people can support one another

English classes to improve their grasp of the language

Tai Chi to improve their health

and many other social events which help improve their quality of life

A service that provides a point of contact for other organizations to call on when dealing with Chinese

issues and people

And also a service that provides Chinese Cultural activities such as this one today

You know we record enquiries to our office so that we can monitor our activity. Consequently we know that

our office typically responds to about 63 enquiries a week, thats over 3200 enquiries a year that need aprofessional response. About half these enquiries are by phone and half with people dropping In.

Now not all of those enquiries will be major issues but this is clearly a considerable work responding to a

considerable need and you can see the broad range of enquiries that our experienced staff needs to deal with.

We are particularly proud of our links to other groups:

NCVS & YMCA

NHS & City Council & County Council

Help the Aged/Age Concern

Elder Forum

Housing Associations: Particularly Metropolitan & Hanover

New College & South Notts College

Radford Care Group & African Caribbean Centre

Equality Community Forum

And others too.


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Our location is very important to us and our Drop-In centre which is open 5 days a

week and located at the International Community Centre on Mansfield road, provides

an easily accessible point for our members, many of whom are Elders and cant get

about much, but can find the centre of town and places close by.

I have a few photos to show you of some of our activities.

We organized a day trip to London, China Town and Kew Garden and day trip toLiverpool.

We organised BBQ outside ICC garden area.

We also organised birthday party for our elderly over 60.

Nutrition talk is one of a number of healthy talks we hold during the year for our

members.

Painting and Tai Chi classes are cultural activities we hold during the year for our

members.

Turning to our accounts, as you can see from the slide the net funds for last year were

negative, and this is clearly not a sustainable situation.

We have been working on finding core funds and this has not been so successful.

Although we have won funding for various activities e.g. healthy project, ESOL andinterpreting we have not managed to put into place the core funding needed to pay for

the general running of the organization.

As you can see we have some reserves, but never-the-less the committee has found it

appropriate to take various unpalatable decisions, particularly:

Making our managers assistant, Manda, redundant

Moving to a smaller office.

The situation is still serious and we are continuing to look for core funding in order to

maintain the service we are providing.

So please watch this space and if you can help, please get in touch and let us know

how.And you know this service we provide takes a lot of hard work to run, and I would

like to take this opportunity to publically thank some very dedicated people.

Our manager, Liz

Our brushing painting teacher, Peter Millward

Our ESOL teacher, Jennifer Liau

Our ESOL teacher, Gerda Weaver

Our Talks interpreter, Jenny Hong

Our Tai Chi Teacher, Winnie Chen

Our Administration Assistant, Sarah

And our office assistant, June & Susan

Well done all of you, I personally see the work that you do and really appreciate yourefforts.

Please give them a round of applause for their efforts.

The other people that contribute to the Association but whose efforts frequently go

unrecognized are our committee.

Consultant: Mrs Maryvonne Hands

Vice Chairman: Mr KK Yau

Secretary: Mrs Gerda Weaver

Treasurer: Ms Li Sau Man

I would also like to thank them for their support.

What can we expect from next year? Well as well as working on the funding and

supporting members in their day to day lives, we will be laying on various activities,as you can see.


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Feb New Year Celebration, April Central Park, May Sheffield/ Leeds/Lincoln,

June Trip to Lakes District/Cardiff, July One day trip Cambridge, Aug

Mapplethorpe/Skegness, Sept AGM/Mid-Autumn Festival, Oct Turkey/Spain,

Dec Christmas Celebrations

Finally I wish everybody good health and a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Thank you

for coming.

Housing Talk

4 Nov 09 (Wednesday)

Talk: 11:00 am 12:00 pm

Luncheon: 12:00 pm

Elderly: 1.50 Adult: 2.00

Elderly Birthday Party Free lunch

for elderly birthday & free gift.

At least 8 people register with us will

hold the above party.

Please let us know one week in

advance. Many thanks.

Nutrition

Healthy Cook & Eat(Candice Lau)

Starts 11-11-09 Wednesday12.30- 3.15pmIf you are interesting in the above

course, please register with the office

in advance.

ATTENTION!ESOL students

Any one who is on benefit with

proof letter, no need to payadministration fee.
http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3855&contactid=4317#%23


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Nottinghamshire Chinese Welfare Association

Charity No: 1062082

2009 2010

Membership Form

Surname Sex

Forenames Occupation

Telephone No Date of BirthExpiry Date Member No

Address

Post Code

Each Person New Married Couple joining at the same time

(discount 2)

Existing Elderly Member (60+) 5.00

Existing Member (16 to 59) 8.00

New Or Expired Elderly Membership (60+)15.00

New Or Expired Membership (16 to 59)20.00

Total:

Signature

Office Use

Membership No: _____________

Date of Issue: ____________________ Issued by : __________________

Time Activity on 6, 13 & 20 Venue at ICC

10:30 11:30 Tai Chi Large Hall

11:30 13:30 Interpreting Course Room 5a

1:30 3:30

1:30 2:30

Healthy Talk

Blood Pressure Check Room 5a

1:30 3:30 Chinese Massage

Healthy Check

Room 5a

Tuesday Healthy Project6 & 13 September Healthy Mind

20 September Change Makers Heart

Health.

These courses are organized for

NCWA members.

Non-members will be encouragedto join so that we

can continue to put on such

courses and they can

receive the monthly newsletter

which keeps them

u to date on other events comin

Annual General Meeting 29 September 2009

AGM starts: 11:30 am

Remind our members to renew your membership by the end of September to get discount.

If you want to join our AGM, please renew your membership to book your free lunch atCity Council House on 29 September 2009.


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ActivitiesOctober 2009

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

NCWA NCWA NCWA NCWA

10:30 - 11:30

ESOL

Admin fee:

Elderly: 10/yr

Adult: 20 per/yr

Non-member:

3 extra /lessonStarts: 21st Se tember 09

10:30 - 11:30

ESOLAdmin fee:Elderly: 10/yr

Adult: 20 per/yr

Non-member:

3 extra /lesson

(Starts: 15th September 09)

Tai Chi10:3011:30

Starts: 8-9-09

Chinese PaintingFrom 9th Sept 09

11.00 am - 12.30pm

Peter Millward

JenniferGerda

Liz/Sarah Liz/Sarah

12:00 - 3:00

Chat, Games

11:30 13:30

Interpreting Course

1 0:00 - 4:00Computer/Internet

Toast and noodle

Toast

1 0:00 - 4:00Computer/Internet

Toast and noodle

Help yourself Help yourself

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Thursday Friday Saturday

NCWA NCWA NCWA

10:00 - 3:00 Computer/Internet

10:00 - 3:00 Computer/Internet

Elderly Meeting

Activities

Liz Liz/SarahVOLUNTEERS

12:00 - 3:00Chat, Games

12:00 - 3:00Chat

Games

Mandarin

classes for

beginners

(Suspended)

noodle

2:00 - 3:00

Elderly MeetingChinese Newspaper arrives

on Friday. You are

welcomed to collect it.

10:00 - 4:00

Computer/Internet

Help yourself Liz/Sarah Volunteers
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