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Contact us
Maidstone & Malling Carers Project
39-48 Marsham Street,
Maidstone Community Support Centre
Maidstone,
ME14 1HH
01622 685276
Activities
All our carers activity groups are funded by donations to the project or by fundraising activities such as tea making at the Maidstone Mela, sales of handmade cards and sales of our calendar for 2010. Please consider our project if you are in the position of donating or directing some charitable money to a good cause. |
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FUNDING FOR CARERS ACTIVITIES We are in our 2nd and final year of our grant funding from the Colyer Furgusson Charitable Trust so we will need to be looking for future funding to enable the activity groups to be maintained. We would like to thank Waitrose for naming us one of the charities of the month during March and to thank those customers who placed their tokens in our box. We received a cheque for over £400 . We would also like to thank Marks & Spencer for naming us their charity of the year and all those carers and customers who dropped their lose change in the collecting tins on the check out. Our gratful thanks also to Maidstone Lions and Malling Lions for their continued support and last but not least to all those carers who have given donations over the past year.If any of you have any really good fundraising ideas - do let us know! |
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ART GROUP - meet 1st Monday in each month from 1.30 - 3.30pm This small but friendly group bring along their own materials and do their own individual work but enjoy together as a group so they can set aside a couple of hours each month to be 'creative'. Future art groups are on 04 Jul, 01 Aug, 05 Sep, 07 Nov and 05 Dec. If you would like to come along ring 01622 685276. |
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KNIT & STITCH GROUP - meet 2nd Tuesday in each month from 1.30 - 3pm Run in a similar way to the Art Group - you just come along with embroidery, knitting, patchwork, crochet or just mending to do and enjoy a chat and a cup of tea with good company. 01622 685276 |
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| ZUMBA DANCING Thanks to the generosity of the Liquid Nightclub in Lockmeadow in Maidstone, we can now enjoy dancing in luxurious surroundings with a great atmosphere and sound system. Zumba incorporates Latin American & African dance with additional exercise movements. It's fast, it's fun and will tone up those muscles as well as lift the spirits! Every Thursday afternoon from 3-4pm 01622 685276 |
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Monthly walking group for carers - come rain, come shine! The group meets on the last Monday of the month alternating between an easy walk and a longer country walk to cater for all physical abilities. It is always very sociable, some carers finishing with either a picnic lunch or pub lunch. Let Jane know if you are interested in coming along and if you need any help with transport or arranging alternative cover
The walks are an excellent way of getting out to meet other carers, exchange views and information at the same time as enjoying some very beneficial fresh air and exercise. 01622 685276 |
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THE SWIMMING GROUP meets on Tuesday mornings from 10.20 at the Living Well Fitness Centre at The Hilton Hotel in Maidstone. Two groups swim or gym on alternate weeks. After a workout or a swim, relax in the steam room, sauna or jacquzzi and finish off with a coffee in the hotel lounge. If you would like more details or want to join the waiting/reserve list 01622 685276 |
“Andy Larkham is late. He is due at the funeral of his favourite school teacher, who once told him: “its hard work being anyone”. Its especially hard for Andy – stuck in a dead-end job, terminally short of cash and with a fiancé who is about to ditch him. When the funeral leads to unexpected consequences Andy has to ask himself: how far will he go to change his life.”
This author was new to all of us as a writer of fiction. One member described it as fantastic; so much so that she read it in one go and paid the price with a sore back! Other s found it boring or far-fetched. We all agreed that there was a heck of a lot going on with several stories layered through the book and while that appealed to some, it made it hard work for others. As usual we had really helpful insights from our members – an understanding of the potential and practicalities of mining iron ore in Australia, an explanation of where Armenia was in the world and a knowledge of the real-life philosophers whose works were ‘discussed’ by one of the characters who was a publisher of self-help books. We each gave the book a score out of 10. There were 2 x 9s and one 10. The average comes to 7.66!
BCO 10 May 2011
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The Book club meet at the Maidstone Community Support Centre, once a month on Tuesdays from 10-11.30. . For details call Christine on 01622 685276 2011 MEETINGS 13 Sep - 11 Oct- 08 Nov - 34 Dec |
The Book Club
Inheritance by Nicolas Shakespeare
Take a look at the book group on film at http://www.kent.gov.uk/adult_social_services/watch_our_videos/browse |
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Reading List Inheritance - Nicholas Shakespeare The Sunday Philosophy Club A McCall-Smith Constable in Love - Martin Gayford Playing for Pizza John Grisham The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shafer & Anne Burrows How Novels Work - John MullanThe Keys of the Kingdom - A J Cronin La’s Orchestra - Alexander McCall Smith Burying The Bones Pearl Buck in China The Elegance of the Hedgehog - M Barberry Small Island - Andrea Levy All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd The Mesmerist - Barbara Ewing The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey The Story of Forgetting - Stephen Merril Block The Mesmerist - Babara Ewing The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe Not Forgotton - Neil Oliver A Thousand Spendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
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Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh The Suspicions of Mr Whitcher - Kate Sumerscale Tell it to the Skies - Erica James Sea of Poppies - Armitav Gosh The Pirate's Daughter - Mararet Cezair-Thompson The Painter of Shanghai - Jennifer Cody-Epstein Disolution - C J SansomResistance - Owen Sheers A Conversation on the Quai Voltair - Lee Langley The Sea Lady - Margaret Drabble The Master Bedroom - Tessa Hadley The Tenderness of Wolves - Steff Penney My Cousin Rachel - Daphne u Maurier The Philosophy of Friendship : Mark Vernon Snow Flower and the Secret Fan : Lisa See Half of a Yellow Sun : Chimammandia Ngosi Adichie House of Orphans : Helen Dunmore Linger Awile : Russel Hoban Tomorrow to be Brave : SusanTravers Long and Winding Road : Andrew Marsh Jane Eyre : Charlotte Bronte The Sign of Four : Arthur Conan Doyce Book seller of Kabul : Asne Seirstad Truckers : Terry Pratchet Digital Fortress : Dan Brown NB: Reviews available on request |
