 Our MAKE enterprise over in Fratton teaches the people we support art and craft skills to help them express themselves through the way they experience the world.
Art provides a way to explore your life and feelings, it can have a positive effect on mood, function, behavior and cognition. Buy working with the people we support with different art projects, they have lots of fun creating and exploring different skills and techniques. They have recently been looking at the surreal artwork of Pablo Picasso, by creating their own collages of the staff, volunteers and friends at MAKE. Their artwork is on display for everyone to see, so why not pop into MAKE in Cornwall Road next time you are in Fratton and don’t forget to try one of their delicious homemade cakes too!
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The Gig Buddies Portsmouth team had another fantastic time at their bi-monthly club night event at Kingsley’s Bar in Southsea, Portsmouth. The theme this time was love being so close to Valentine’s Day, and the people who came along certainly knew how to get the night going with song requests being fulfilled by the DJ and Bar Owner Steve Kingsley, and his sidekick Arthur.
 Our Wednesday group in our Earthworks enterprise have been having great fun creating pictures and crafts with a Valentine and Spring theme.
They really enjoy creating artwork using recycling paper in a mosaic technique, to produce pictures of different themes that are used to create greetings cards for our Country Centre shop. They have been working hard on producing images for Valentine, Mother’s Day and Good Luck cards so we have a range of cards available for all occasions. Their designs are scanned up by our Digital Media team and then printed on cards which display who the artist is on the back. So, our special greetings cards are designed and made in house by the people we support. Each day in Earthworks a different group of the people we support take part in craft activities, and as each group is different, we look at a variety of arts and craft techniques to suit their own unique skills set. What will they be up to next?  Our horticulture team are actively involved in maintaining the trees, shrubs and plants around the Country Centre site. The team have been busy on the orchard today with staff, volunteers and people we support.
James Simpson was having great fun pruning the willow ready for it to start shooting in the Spring. James really enjoys working in the orchard and especially likes it when the apples and pears are ready for picking and eating! The trees were all part of the original orchard from the early days of the Country Centre when the Trust started as a horticultural enterprise. With the development of the new Quarry building, the trees were carefully and lovingly moved to their current position so that they could continue to grow and produce fruit for the people we support to enjoy. With many varieties of apples and pears, we also have a raspberry patch which is being pruned back ready to produce a crop for us this summer.  One of the people we support, Kerry Tapper enjoys working in our horticulture department. She enjoys helping to keep the department tidy and organised.
We work towards being environmentally friendly trying to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as we can. Claire Seaby, one of our horticulture volunteers was able to obtain a donation of gardening gloves for the horticulture team to use. This has meant that every member of the team has their own pair of gardening gloves, so we no longer need to use plastic gloves! Kerry had the idea to organise the gloves, so it was easier for people to find them. Creating this shelving system, each one is named to make it more personal for each member of the team. She even organised them so the tallest people’s gloves were at the top! Now everyone has a pair of gloves and hopefully will always know where they have put them. Kerry has also spent time organising all of the plant labels, which are colour coordinated by type to make it easier to find what they are looking for.
Number 73 hosted their first Games evening on Thursday 23rd January as part of their new co-production programme. The sessions are being led by the people we support who have a learning disability and/or autism, who enjoy taking part in Roleplaying Games.
Their first night led by Tony Jolly was a great success, where they enjoyed Roleplaying Games, Warhammer, D&D, wargames, model building and painting. They are looking forward to their next session on Thursday 6thFebruary.  Over at our Creative Arts Studio at No73 Aldwick Road Bognor Regis, we have launched our new Monthly Magic Award!
This award recognises selfless acts of kindness and support by the people who use our services each month, these awards are also awarded by the people we support. Congratulations Lilian Barlow on receiving the very first Monthly Magic Award, handed over by Josephine Goddard. We look forward to finding out who will be presented with the Monthly Magic Award in February. Casper Beade Rioseco, Community Solutions & Co-production Manager  Gig Buddies Portsmouth had the pleasure of being invited to the Portsmouth City Council annual LD Celebration and Learning event at Gunwharf Quays on Friday, 24th January. We took our fantastic volunteer, Holli, to spread the word of what we do and how we can support Portsmouth-based adults with a learning disability to expand their social circle and enjoy leisure activities with a volunteer. The event was a great success, with lots of interest in the Gig Buddies project, so much so we ran out of signup forms.
Holli lead her first ever presentation and did a wonderful job in promoting Gig Buddies to the many Care Providers, Healthcare Professionals, Parents and Carers – well done Holli! We are looking forward to grow the project with the help of these events; to showcase the value of volunteering and making a difference in your local community.’ Mike Harris, Gig Buddies Portsmouth Project Coordinator  It is important that the people we support at the Aldingbourne Trust take part in activities across the Trust and work together to improve the support we provide for them.
We recently looked into changing the way we do risk assessments to ensure they are accessible for the people we support. To help us do this, we set up a group and invited staff and people we support to participate working together in co-production. Having discussed what we all felt was important to include, we now have a risk assessment for the people we support which has been designed to ensure they are able to lead in the risk assessment process and design/agree the measures they need to reduce the risk. The risk assessment is also colour coded in Red, amber and green to provide a visual regarding the level of risk. by Debbie Bagnall, Quality Manager and Casper Beade Rioseco, Community Solutions & Co-production Manager  A group of clients visited the East Wittering Fire Station on Thursday 16th January to learn about fire safety, the importance of smoke alarms in the home and how fire fighters respond to emergencies such as fires, car crashes and sea rescues. The clients had a great time as they got to sit in a fire engine and rescue boat and they even had a go with the fire hoses.
The Trust would like to thank to our lovely volunteer Claire Seaby for arranging the visit, Ruby for managing the logistics of getting us all there, Louise for driving and finally massive thanks to Neil and John, the fire fighters, for showing us around the station. By, Rob Nettleton, Digital Media Group Lead |
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