This preliminary report was drawn up at the request of Aberdeen Older People Consultation and Monitoring Group, an initiative supported by Aberdeen City Council, to aid discussion by the Group on the issue of alcohol and older people. Aileen Brown, a member of the Group, has also taken this issue to Aberdeen city Council’s Older People Advisory Group for discussion.
The report has been placed on the Silver City Surfers’ website for information, and to alert older people to the existence of the Consultation and Monitoring Group. This Group is open to anyone, and meets in Froghall Community Hall, at 1,30pm, on 2nd Tuesday of the month.
Charity Shop
These are all photos from our recent stint in the George Street Charities Shop where, with help from a number of volunteers from Silver City Surfers and from the Aberdeen University students' Dirty Weekenders, we had a really successful week of fundraising.
Radio SHMU with Rod the Radio and Mike the Mike!
So Why Don't You..... listen to the show we were on? We recently joined in on SHMU Radio's regular Volunteering Programme, hosted by Rod and Mike from the Volunteering Centre. Listen to the programme by following this link to the SHMU website and clicking on the 'listen to the previous show' link.
Job Vacancy - Co-ordinator The Co-ordinator post has now been filled - thank you to all who applied. We are pleased to welcome Christine Dunhill as our new coordinator and are very grateful to Barbara Cowie who is providing support as the outgoing coordinator.
A Fond Farewell to Barbara Cowie, Co-ordinator (In Post Jan 2009-Dec 2010)
We were very sorry indeed to say goodbye to Barbara, as her contribution during these two crucial years was immense: we have much to thank her for!
This was a time of consolidation and change; for example, the job remit changed at least twice! Barbara dealt with that situation with the same competence, adaptability and humour that she showed when working to consolidate our City Centre, Seaton and Tullos groups.
We, the volunteers, Committee members and users of the Silver City Surfers are grateful for her support, common sense advice and hard work, and wish her well for the future.
Margaret Smith
Chair
Charities Shop Update
The Silver City Surfers have just had a very successful week in the Charities Shop in George Street. Aberdeen City Council leased the shop to Silver City Surfers to allow us to raise funds to help us to keep our service going for those over 55. We had a lot of help from our volunteers and also from our learners. They donated goods and also spent a lot of time before the week organising and storing the goods and also in the shop during the week. All this hard work resulted in us making over £1800. We must also thank all the people who buy from the shop. Without them we would not have been so successful. A BIG THANK YOU!
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Change of Wednesday Session Time From
Wednesday 7th April 2010 the new time for Wednesday sessions
at the Citadel will be 10am until 1pm. This change is in response
to customer feedback.
Friday sessions will be as usual 10am until 1pm.
We look forward to seeing current and new learners at both
these sessions.
New-Look
Silver City Surfers Website Launched Silver City Surfers launched their new-look website on Monday
15th June 2009, please click here to let us know what you think and give us any
feedback/recommendations.
