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What's On October 2022 and beyond
Welcome from the Principal
The first half of term has been a wonderful start to the year for the charity. Courses are well subscribed; the café is producing delicious food and workplace opportunities for adults with learning disabilities; and the ‘Inspired by Lindow’ exhibition has been overwhelmingly well received.
We are proud that we are currently working in partnership with the following charities and community programmes:
The Rossendale Trust – Adults with learning disabilities
Bare Necessities Toiletry Bank
Transition Wilmslow – Festival of Nature: ‘Inspired by Lindow’ exhibition.
Cheshire East Council – Adults with learning disabilities
Cheshire Police – Cybercrime prevention
Cheshire East Trading Standards – Scams Awareness
New Leaf & Springboard – Employment Support
The weather is becoming more autumnal, and the evenings are getting darker earlier. This has resulted in a greater demand for spaces in the carpark. Therefore, it is imperative that everyone makes the effort to park carefully within the spaces. There have been several occasions of careless parking resulting in near misses by drivers trying to manoeuvre in and out of restricted spaces.
We are now taking bookings for spring term courses which commence from Tuesday January 3rd onwards. Please remember to book early if you want to avoid disappointment because some classes were oversubscribed in September.
With kindest regards,
Paula Riordan
⭐ Notice- half term week 24th-28th October.
The Guild's Community Cafe will be open 10am-3pm Monday to Friday for snacks, cakes, light bites and drinks. The full menu resumes Monday 31st October.
The Guild is Championing Health and Wellbeing
We’re excited to lead on an exciting new intuitive to create better public services in our area. We can help you access health care by signposting you to the service you need.
Cheshire East is made up of 8 Care Communities. The Guild represents CHAW Community Care Team (Chelford, Handforth, Alderley & Wilmslow) as the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector lead.
All communities consist of health and social care teams to deliver services that treat illness, promote wellness and self-care. Care Communities include GP’s, Community nursing teams, Mental Health Teams, Social Services and Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector organisations.
Our overall aim is to:
👍 to enable our local population to live well
👍 to work together for the benefit of our resident’s
👍 to understand need and support initiatives
If you'd like any further information, please get in touch.
Some of our wonderful Cafe assistants achieving their certification in the essentials of Food Hygiene. So proud of you all.
Progression
An Exhibition of work by Guild Art students Stuart Mollison and Andy Jeffrey
Sunday 16th October to Sunday 6th November 2.00 – 4.00pm
Two of The Guild’s Art students have an exhibition at the Bollington Arts Centre next month.
Entitled ‘Progression’, it shows how their work has developed over a period of time guided by mutual encouragement and by their teacher at The Guild, Anna Riordan.
Stuart Mollison
Stuart trained as a horticulturalist and often uses landscape and plants as a source material with the shapes, forms, textures and colours fascinating him. Urban sketching, buildings and architecture are another recurring theme. Pen and ink wash, watercolour, mixed media and acrylics are his materials of choice. Recent exhibitions include MODA Manchester, The Stockport Open and Blue & Berry Gallery, Chelford.
Andy Jeffrey
Andy largely takes his inspiration from the countryside around him, the people he meets and fellow artists, however, recently interiors have started to feature. One of his Lockdown pictures “The Covid Captive’ was selected by Grayson Perry during the second series of his Art Club and is currently on exhibition at Bristol City Art Gallery. The current series of ‘Wood’ pictures was inspired by the way that light filters through windows in early spring and late autumn with the wood pattern items leaning on Braque and Picasso during their early collage phase.
Recent exhibitions include MODA Manchester and Macclesfield Art Trail at The Park Tavern and Bristol City Art Gallery.
Please feel free to visit @andy.p.jeffreystudio for the complete selection of the “Wood Series” together with the option to purchase limited edition signed prints.
Emergency First Aid at Work (1 day/6 hours) GFLL Community Course
19 November 2022
14 January 2023
11 March 2023
Approved by the First Aid Industry Body (FAIB) this is a 1-day Emergency First Aid at Work training course. It consists of 6 classroom hours with a mixture of theory, individual and group work, and practical sessions. No prior knowledge or experience of first aid is required.
The course syllabus is as required under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981. On successful completion this gives the learner the right to be an ‘Emergency First Aider in the Workplace’.
We are proud to be able to offer these community courses free of charge.
10am-4pm at the Guild
Bare Necessities Toiletry Bank
BBC Breakfast are helping to keep the conversation going with their wider piece this morning on hygiene poverty, it’s effects and impact.
@jaynemccubbintv visited us to see Team Tuesday in action last week and we were delighted to share our story. Here’s a clip - it’s National Hygiene week a great time to donate. Everything you give to us helps local people in financial crisis. We support 32 charities, month in month out, including women, young people, schools, street homeless and food banks.
What are you doing for Halloween? We know what we are doing! Putting on a fantastic play about murder, mayhem and laugh out loud comedy.
Two aunts poisoning old lonely men. A murderous brother returns, and another brother believes he is the President.
Mortimer Brewster has an interesting family.
Arsenic and Old Lace, Guild Players Publicity - YouTube
Book Tickets Now!
26th to 29th October
£8 (£6 on Wednesday)
7:45 PM Start
1 Bourne St, Wilmslow SK9 5HD
Our Pantomime needs you
We are looking for people to join our ensemble for The Dragon of Wantley.
Panto dates are 14th to 17th December.
If you are interested, please email guildplayers@guildlifelonglearning.org
Events at the Guild
Saturday 22nd October
Italian Cookery Class
Saturday 5th November
Mega Life Drawing Day
Saturday 12th November
Wilmslow Scribes - Vintage Lettering
Italian at the Cinema
Jewellery making - make a set of rings in a day
Saturday 19th November
Viva Verdi
Sunday 20th November
Jewellery making with Hannah
Thursday 24th November
Theatre Trip - Sleeping Beauty at the Lowry
Saturday 26th November
Mega Life Drawing Day
Date for your Diary
Tuesday 13 December
Guild International Evening
The next meeting of the Gardening Club is on Thursday 20th October at 7.30pm.
We are looking forward to Tracy Foster’s talk on How to Plant a Beautiful Mixed Border. Tracy is an RHS Gold Medal winning garden designer, creating gardens since 2002. She has four gold medals and won the People’s Choice Garden twice. Her favourite projects include being commissioned to design a garden for ‘Hedgehog Street’ which has been installed at the RHS gardens at Harlow Carr in Yorkshire and producing a garden to celebrate Yorkshire’s famous Bronte sisters at the Chelsea flower show.
Tracy also works as a botanical tour guide, author, and mentor for aspiring garden designers. She runs garden design workshops for the Royal Horticultural Society and lectures onboard cruise ships.
She has a degree in Plant Biology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a Diploma in Garden Design from the Institute of Garden Design.
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We always welcome feedback, ideas and suggestions. We'd especially like to know how you've enjoyed visiting our newly revamped Community Cafe over the last few weeks.
