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The Riverside Players

Posted by Administrator on September 27, 2007 9:03 AM

The Riverside Players

Contact Janet Blizard

Website The Riverside Players

Email Janet Blizard

Telephone 0151 6050667

Address

110 Brookdale Avenue South, Greasby, Wirral, CH49 1SP

About us

The Riverside Players of Heswall, Wirral was formed in 1943 and recently celebrated 60 years of bringing Theatre to the People of Wirral. The Society presents four main productions a year in Heswall Hall, in October, November, March and May, with a play for children in January. The Society also produce a one act play each year which is entered in a number of local festivals and the All-England Theatre Festival, several times having reached the English Final, winning, most recently in 2001, with The Art of Remembering and winning the British One-Act Play Festival in 1985 with Skirmishes.

Recent productions have included Snake in the Grass, Happy Families, The Witches, Breezeblock Park, The Constant Wife, I Can't Remember Anything, A Doll's House, Black Comedy and Elegy for a Lady (Double Bill), Fantastic Mr. Fox, Canterbury Tales and Quartet.

Auditions for the plays usually take place in June/July for the first three productions and December for the remaining two productions of the season and the festival play.

Rehearsals take place in Richmond Hall on School Hill in Heswall on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and members not involved in the production in rehearsal are encouraged to come along on rehearsal nights for a cup of coffee and a chat.

Wirral Writers

Posted by Wirral Writers on September 25, 2007 7:37 PM

Wirral Writers meet regularly to read manuscripts, hold workshops and competitons and welcome speakers. We give assistance and advice to all our members, whether experienced or trying out some first creative ideas.

Our membership includes poets, novelists and short story writers and those who are still waiting to be published.

Between us we have a wealth of experience and information on current markets and competitions.

Wirral Writers meet on the first and third Fridays of each month at Bebington Civic Hall

Continue reading "Wirral Writers"

£250,000 Big Lottery Funding

Posted by Wirral PCT Health and Wellbeing Team on September 25, 2007 2:19 PM

Wirral Primary Care Trust’s Health and Wellbeing Team is to receive £250,000 from the Big Lottery Fund to improve the health, wellbeing and lifestyles of thousands of people in disadvantaged areas of the borough.

The funding will be in place from October and will be used to extend the work of the Team’s Community Health and Development Project in the three key areas of healthy eating, physical activity and mental health, by:

•Improving access to and support for people with mild to moderate conditions of anxiety and depression
•Supporting individuals and groups to eat more healthily through schemes such as the Food Education Awareness; Staff Training (FEAST)
•Improving provision of safe and effective exercise for older people to improve health and wellbeing and help reduce the number of falls in older people

The grant is part of a £7 million wellbeing programme supporting 27 Healthy Living Initiatives across the North West, between 2007 and 2012.

A LIGHT FOR LOVE AT CLAIRE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE

Posted by Claire House Volunteer Group on September 24, 2007 5:55 PM

Celebrity supporter Pete Price has launched the Claire House Light for Love campaign. Radio City presenter Pete will be at Claire House at the sepcial event on 1st December to switch on the lights.

Continue reading "A LIGHT FOR LOVE AT CLAIRE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE"

Wirral PCT Health and Wellbeing Team

Posted by Aaron on September 20, 2007 11:03 AM

Wirral PCT Health and Wellbeing Team
Contact: Sue Prince
Email: sue@princejournalism.co.uk
Tel: 07973 871 535


The Health and Wellbeing Team works with local people and organisations to improve health and reduce health inequalities through a range of projects and initiatives, from healthy cookery courses for diabetics to chair based exercise for older people.

The team is based in Wallasey and includes the award-winning stop smoking service (SUPPORT) and the Lifestyle and Weight Management Service.

Independent Direct Payment Forum

Posted by Aaron on September 20, 2007 10:52 AM

Independent Direct Payment Forum
18 Melford Drive
Prenton
Wirral
CH43 3EX

Contact: Sue Lowe
Website: www.idpforum.org.uk
Email: independent.forum@ntlworld.com
Tel: 0151 6081412


The INDEPENDENT DIRECT PAYMENT FORUM is a member-led community group whose purpose is to represent Wirral residents who are in receipt of Social Services Direct Payments.

We are actively engaged in consultations with WBC to improve and extend the Direct Payment Scheme and improve users independence.

Wirral Therapies Exchange

Posted by Aaron on September 20, 2007 10:37 AM

Wirral Therapies Exchange
The People Centre, Highcroft
Heath Road, Bebington
Wirral
England
CH63 3JL

Contact: David Waddington
Tel: 0151 691 8561
Website: www.therapiesexchange.com
Email: david@waddington.ws


If you are interested in therapies, healing, alternative philosophies, etc. and live in or near Wirral then this is the organisation and website for you. We run twice monthly meetings and put on a guest speaker on a specialist subject each month.

Do please visit our website and register so that we can inform you via email about our regular meetings which cover many areas of healing and psychic domain. Registration will also give you access to the registered area of our website with access to more information than in the public area.

There is a yellow pages A to Z of local therapists and a directory of therapies which links to a huge amount of information of Wikipedia the Worlds largest on-line encyclopedia.

Wallasey Stroke Club

Posted by Aaron on September 20, 2007 10:21 AM

Wallasey Stroke Club
25 Grove Road Wallasey Wirral
ch45 3he
Contact: Diane Barrett
Tel: 07920 165 871
Email: diandmal@barrett.entadsl.com

WE are a stroke club for Wallasey and Wirral, affiliated to the Stroke Association, we have charity status and we formed 20 years ago by the present chairman Margaret Stamp who felt there was a need for a social gathering monthly for patients and there carers.

We meet at the Family church Hall in Serpentine Road monthly on a Saturday. To have entertainment and afternoon tea etc a christmas dinner at a local hotel and day trips in the summer with a theatre visit.

We use community transport and all our helpers are volunteers. All funds are raised by ourselves. We welcome more members and volunteers.

Headway Wirral

Posted by Aaron on September 20, 2007 10:16 AM

Headway Wirral
Place In The Park
109 Liscard Rd
Wallasey
Tel: 07982 952388

We are a registered charity, falling under the umbrella of Headway Uk.

We aim to provide support, advice and rehabilitation services to people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury, their families and carers.

We are currently looking for new members, and volunteers to help us either at Place in the Park, or to assist with fundraising/awareness in the community.

West Wirral Words

Posted by Aaron on September 20, 2007 9:56 AM

West Wirral Words
2 Headland Close
West Kirby
Wirral
CH48 3JP

Website: www.westwirralwords.org.uk
Email: malpoet@hotmail.co.uk
Tel: 0151 6250993

West Wirral Words (W3) is a group which celebrates and promotes the written and spoken arts through debate, discussion, poetry, literature and public speaking.

We are a friendly group open to everyone and we meet at St. Hildeburgh\'s Church Hall, Hoylake on the second and last Wednesdays of each month.

Alternative View

Posted by Aaron on September 20, 2007 9:46 AM

Alternative View
21 Dawlish Road
Wallasey
Wirral
Ch44 3dp

Website: www.alternativeview.eu
Email: info@alternativeview.eu
Tel: 07932 6121 39


Alternative View run Carers respite breaks in Southern Spain.

We provide the locaction and support which allows carers to gain the respite they need, enabling them to return to their caring responsibilities feeling relaxed, refreshed and recuperated.

Carers breaks run for 5 days and include:

* One to one support sessions
* Relaxation sessions that will allow carers to truly unwind
* Auricular acupuncture that assists in detoxifying stress and
toxins from the body and mind
* Full board
* Spanish airport transfers.

Carers can explore what the real Spain has to offer or just relax by the pool.

We also provide Therapeutic respite breaks for the parents, partners and carers of drug and alcohol misusers.

These breaks include:

* Drug awareness including treatment and recovery options.
* A chance to share experiences with others in a similar situation.
* Effective coping strategies to deal with drug and alcohol misuse within the family unit.
* An ation plan for their return home which will sign post relevant agency support.

For more information visit our web site www.alternativeview.eu for break content.

Alternatively you can email us with any enquiries or questions you may have.

We look forward to hearing from you.

West Kirby Social Club

Posted by Aaron on September 20, 2007 9:22 AM

A Social Club which has live entertainment, Bingo, Ladies and mens darts teams playing in local leagues and snooker teams, also playing in local leagues.

Concert room can be hired out for private parties, weddings & funeral receptions and christenings.

At the club the contact, mornings and evenings only, is the Stewardess, Sue Thomas.


West Kirby Social Club
98 Banks Road
West Kirby
Wirral
Email: john@westkirby98.fsnet.co.uk
Website: www.westkirbysocialclub.co.uk
Tel: 07701 064501
CH48 0RE

Wirral Flower Club

Posted by Aaron on September 19, 2007 3:24 PM

We are a Flower Club. We meet on the first Monday in the month at 7.45pm at British Legion Heswall. We offer Flower arranging classes, coach trips, coffee mornings,and other social events.We decorate Stately Homes, such as Tatton, Arley, and Thornton Manor. If you love flowers as we do , come and join us. we have demonstrations every month, and raise money for charity. our chosen charity this year is the McMillan Nurses

Contact: Jean Newton
Email: robert.newton24@ntlworld.com

TransWirral

Posted by Aaron on September 19, 2007 3:16 PM

Robyn Hoode
90-92 Chester Street
Birkenhead
Wirral
CH42 5DL
robyn@transwirral.zzn.com
Tel: 07833385126
Email: www.transwirral.btik.com

TransWirral is an Education, Advocacy, Campaigning & Support Organisation for all transsexual/intersex people (including children & teenagers) and their families who reside in NW England & N Wales.

Moreton Grange Golf Society

Posted by Aaron on September 19, 2007 3:12 PM

Moreton Grange Golf Society
72 Fairmead Road
Moreton
Wirral
Merseyside
CH46 8TY
Email: alan.bennett@edmund-nuttall.co.uk
Tel: 07920 496 929

Wirral South Liberal Democrats

Posted by Aaron on September 10, 2007 2:27 PM

Wirral South Liberal Democrats
Contact: Paula Southwood
Website: www.wirral-libdem.org.uk
Email: paula.southwood@wirral-libdem.org.uk
Tel: 07718 582397

7 Bennetts Hill, Oxton, Wirral, CH43 5RY

IBD Support Group

Posted by Aaron on September 10, 2007 2:18 PM

IBD Support Group
Contact: Graham Davies
The Anchorage
The Moorings
Heswall
Wirral
CH60 9JT
Tel: 0151 348 4040
www.healibd.org
g.davies1@homecall.co.uk

We are non-profit making and seek only to help and support people with IBD. We listen to their problems and offer free advice and suggest natural ways of helping to deal with their disease.
We have worked with people suffering from IBD recommended to us by local NHS professionals in Wirral for seven years now.

Wirral Wildlife

Posted by Aaron on September 10, 2007 2:02 PM

Wirral Wildlife
Website: www.wirralwildlife.co.uk
Email: info@wirralwildlife.co.uk

We are the Wirral group of the Cheshire Wildlife Trust. We run a range of activities including walks, talks and a children\'s group. Our aim is to conserve habitats on the Wirral and the plants and animals they contain. We manage nature reserves at Cleaver Heath, Red Rocks, Thornton Wood, New Ferry Butterfly Park. Our website has details of how you can join us and make Wirral a richer place for wildlife.

Wirral Farmers' Market

Posted by Aaron on September 10, 2007 1:58 PM

Wirral Farmers' MarketVillage Hall
Grove Street
New Ferry
Wirral
CH62 5HN
Email: wfm@btinternet.com
Tel: 0151 643 1393


Wirral Farmers Market is completely run by volunteers. It is now in its sixth year and is held on the second Saturday of every month. It has around 35 producers providing a wide variety of healthy, tasty produce with full traceability

Claire House Volunteer Group

Posted by liam on September 10, 2007 12:12 PM

Claire House Volunteer Group
Contact: Abi Smith
Appeals Office
Clatterbridge Road
Bebington
Wirral
CH63 4JD
Tel: 0151 343 0883

Our volunteer group helps us fundraise by helping at events with merchandsie stalls, games also serving refreshments at garden openings.

The volunteers all have good fun and throughly enjoy themselves. Our volunteers ages range from 18 years to senior despite the age range they are all good friends with each other.
Fax: 0151 343 1004

Poulton Bowling Club

Posted by liam on September 10, 2007 8:52 AM

Poulton Bowling ClubContact: Dave Piercy
07762940689
We are the oldest crown green bowling club on the Wirral. We play in the Wallasey League, Birkenhead League, North Wirral League and the Birkenhead over 55\'s League.
Our green is situated in Mill Lane, Wallasey