We at the Bridgend Centre are so pleased to have been able to take part in the WorkTaste Placement programme run by the Rossendale Trust.
Please see attached leaflet for information, we are on page 11!
Author: Rebecca Lea
Exciting new initiative at Bridgend
What do you do with a broken toaster? Or with a bike when the wheel runs out of true? Or with a sweater full of moth holes? Bin it? No way! A Repair Cafe is about ‘repairing broken items together, to get advice and inspiration’.
The Bollington Repair Cafe starts on Saturday 17th June at 10:00am. Various volunteer repair experts will be available to help make all possible repairs free of charge. Tools and materials will also be on hand. People visiting the Repair Café will bring along their broken items from home. Toasters, lamps, hair dryers, clothes, bikes, toys, crockery… anything that is broken is welcome. And can more than likely be repaired. The Repair Café specialists almost always have the know-how.
Ceilibh tickets now available
Please contact Bridgend to purchase yours.
Easter Opening Hours
13th Bollington Nostalgia Hill Race
White Nancy Walk
The Bridgend Centre in partnership with Walkers are Welcome and the Discovery Centre have developed a free walking leaflet to show the route up White Nancy and back to Bollington. Please do pop in to pick up your free copy from either Bridgend or the Discovery Centre.
Some photos from the Bridgend walk on Saturday courtesy of Simone Tomasi
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Fundraising Ceilidh
Caring with Confidence course
Mindfulness Group
Our Mindfulness group meets on Mondays. This week the group discussed a ‘full mind versus a mindful mind’. We can operate in ‘autopilot’ too much of the time and this can mean we miss out on the here and now, on life as it is being lived. The group also meditated and shared the poem ‘Mindful’ by Mary Oliver.
Mindful
Every day I see or hear something that more or less
kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle
in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for – to look, to listen
to lose myself inside this soft world – to instruct myself over and over
in joy, and acclamation. Nor am I talking about the exceptional
the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant – but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab
the daily presentations. Oh, good scholar, I say to myself, how can you help
but grow wise with such teachings as these – the untrimmable light
of the world, the ocean’s shine, the prayers that are made out of grass?
~ Mary Oliver ~