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The HWCS Magazine
Issue 23 Autumn 2014
Your magazine – by you, for you
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The HWCS Magazine
Issue 23 Autumn 2014
Your magazine – by you, for you
Contents
Overcoming difficulties
DAYS OUT
HOBBIES
Caught in
ACTIVITIES
My challenge
Spiderman’s GENERAL By Carminda Pontez
OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES
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A message from the InSight editorial team
In the next edition of InSight we will: • Update you on the InSight Review
Group of service users thoughts and
• Draw the winner of the recent Insight
ideas for future editions
survey – one lucky winner will receive
£30 in vouchers Don’t forget, articles for the next
edition of InSight can be sent to I left my native country of Portugal five
• Publish the results of our InSight years ago to move to England. I felt
insight@ncha.org.uk
survey quite scared as I did not speak any
The InSight Editorial Team English. After a long process of
Before being supported by Foothold I
applying for benefits
A big thank you to all of this Anne Jones from Wells Road was struggling with financial issues and I was finally awarded
felt very isolated. I became pregnant
issue’s reviewers: Tracey Lamb from Orchard Street
and lost my job and as a result I had no
them and was able to
Barbara Adams from Wells Road Carley Benjamin from Nuthall Road
Amie Kerr from Stamford YP
income. set up payment plans
Mr Butt from Ashiana
I had secured a property but had and pay off my debts
no furniture and was told I did not
Your Susan Parker, based Lorna Ocheduszko, qualify for benefits. I was not able to
Insight at Clumber Court based at Clumber pay the rent and I was unaware I was
Editorial Court responsible for paying council tax and Since my support started with Hanaa,
very soon my debts began to build up. I have accessed several courses,
Team
including admin and improved my
In October 2013 I was allocated Hanaa English language skills. It was a big help
Compiled by NCHA’s Housing with Care and Housing with Care and Support, Unit 1 Clumber
from Foothold who was to be my for me to practise my English with her as
Support department and edited by our service Court, Clumber Avenue, Nottingham, NG5 1AJ. Support Worker. After a long process it increased my confidence.
users with help from the Corporate Services team. Tel: 0845 650 1202 www.ncha.org.uk of applying for benefits I was finally
All articles, drawings and photos are reproduced Nottingham Community Housing Association is
with kind permission of our service users. registered as a charitable social landlord under awarded them and was able to set up I am now in part time employment and I
the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies payment plans and pay off my debts. feel confident and independent again.
Act 2014. Registered Number 20614R. A member
of the National Housing Federation.
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And then we met Spiderman!
By Paxina
Our family set out to the superhero the moment and lastly the place would be
picnic day at Wollaton Park on what awash with countless superheroes - who
was a blissful Wednesday morning. wouldn’t be excited at such a prospect?
Although slightly apprehensive about the Of course for poor Tanya (Children’s Worker)
weather (when is one never?) the sun was sitting next to an enthusiastic Malachi on the bus
shining and dare I say there was a bird or meant she had to endure minutes of him pointing
two singing, perhaps a slight exaggeration and calling out every single thing he saw -”look
but one must set the scene. another bus”, “there’s a taxi” and so forth.
But alas before we knew it we were there! The
OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES
Understandably the two boys were beyond
excited; firstly because having just moved sun was still shining, we had our picnic (and
to Nottingham, this was our first “family” the mandatory ice cream as is allowed on
outing. Secondly buses just happen to be such occasions) and of course, Malachi met
one of our Malachi’s favourite things at Spiderman! A great ending to a great day.
DAYS OUT
My journey through
Corporation Oaks
By Iona Simone Banton
Before becoming a tenant at
Corporation Oaks I wasn’t in the best
of places so was assessed to live in
Corporation Oaks and three weeks I won Student of the
later was accepted and could move in
immediately. Year at 6th Form in 2012
The tenants were friendly and we had a
gathering for Halloween which was an ice
breaker. Another training opportunity has arisen so I
Staff supported me through my A Levels can help older students who are struggling
and I won Student of the Year at 6th Form with homelessness.
in 2012. The staff have supported me throughout
During Christmas I took a more leading role and we have had numerous social events.
at Corporation Oaks and volunteered in the Corporation Oaks is a lovely project that
community to help clean up, wrote letters allow you to have numerous opportunities
for us to do more events and have recently
Reviewer’s
and staff dedicate their time to us. comments
undergone Peer Mentoring training so I
Looks like they had a nice day.
can support other tenants and become a I’ll be sad to leave Corporation Oaks!
Barbara Adams at Wells Road
tenant rep.
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Making a cheesecake and
collecting for Macmillan
By a service user at Ashland Road West
ACTIVITIES
DAYS OUT
Alton Towers
By Richard from PST (Personalised
Support Team) Derbyshire
I have had support from Mel to help I wanted to be in the Insight magazine so
I collected tickets from The Sun and sent them off sent in my article and picture and what I like
make a cheesecake. We followed a
for my two free tickets to Alton Towers. I went with to do. Kathy helped me with this.
recipe and added our own special treat.
my partner Clare and my support worker Dennis.
We spent the day there and had a packed lunch for I had support to hold items and to mix. I Reviewer’s
dinner which we made before we went. We took lots shared this with my friends at Ashland and comments
of pictures and went on lots of rides. Clare only went was told it was very nice. I feel that this article is very inspiring
on the Pirate Ship as big rides scare her. I went on to all readers. Very lovely to read. The
Ripsaw, Smiler, Rita, Nemesis, the rapids and the log I also helped to go around on Ashland cheesecake sounds really yummy!
flume. We got wet on the rapids and the log flume, Road West’s open day to collect money for Amie Kerr from Stamford YP
and so did the people watching us! We got home the Macmillan Cancer Coffee Morning and
around 6:30pm and had a really good day. raised £100.
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BBQ and karaoke My holiday in
at Midworth Street Scarborough
By Trish from Midworth Street By Janet Gunn from Carrington
I went on Waves came in at night time and one
On the Saturday evening holiday by morning I got up and Judi asked if I would
of 27th July we had a BBQ, car with my key worker, Judi. On the like to have breakfast on the balcony and I
karaoke and lots of dancing. way we stopped to have a drink and said yes!
Everybody had lots of a toilet stop, then carried on and On the first day I walked around the shops,
fun including the staff at stopped for something to eat. had lunch and at night got ready and went
Midworth Street. The weather out for dinner which was very nice!
When we got there we went to the place
was lovely and everything were we needed to sign in. The place we The second day I went on the train all the
was a huge success and stayed in was an apartment with a balcony way around Scarborough and did some
we hope to do this again looking out onto the sea and sand. more shopping.
sometime soon. This was all
arranged by me. A fantastic I really enjoyed going to the sealife centre
day! and took lots of photos.
ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
My holiday was fantastic.
Reviewer’s
comments
I enjoyed reading Janet’s story about
her holiday. It sounds like she had a
really good time Scarborough. It would
have been nice to see photos of where
Janet had been.
Tracy Lamb From Orchard Street
Image: Constantin Stanciu / Shutterstock.com
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Drop-in centre taster Knitting Prince George
By PST (Personalised Support Team) Derbyshire
a shawl
Some of the service users did By Carol Brown from Derbyshire Directions
a drop-in centre taster and
wanted to share their pictures
with you!
Reviewer’s
comments
Looks like they had a good
time dancing
By Barbara Adams at
Wells Road
ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
I thought the readers of InSight might like to hear
about me knitting a shawl for baby Prince George
when he was born. It took me six weeks to knit a
circular shawl which I sent to Kensington Palace on
Wednesday 23rd July. On Saturday 7th September I
received a reply from Buckingham Palace thanking
me for the gift. I am now thinking of sending a shawl
for Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall’s little girl, Mia.
BBQ at WISH
By Lisa
A beautiful day on Friday 18th July, the sun
was out so we decided to make use of the
day and have a barbeque. The children
made new friends and played in the garden
happily. Everyone had a great time chatting
with staff and interacting with new people.
We would all like to say a BIG THANK YOU
to all staff at WISH for thinking about us
and organising the event. Hopefully we can
do something as enjoyable again.
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Pamper night Karate award
By Nagwa at Derbyshire WISH By Richard Parker from Leicestershire
Learning Disabilities Floating Support
I am Richard Parker and I go to karate (GKR) at
the Leisure Centre in Ashby-De-La-Zouch. I go
there on Friday evenings. I was awarded my blue
belt in February this year. I have been going for
three years and I enjoy learning to defend myself
and the friendship of other members. I am now
going to train for my red belt.
Reviewer’s
comments
The photo of Richard Parker with his award was
good, it made me want to give it a go!
By Anne Jones at Wells Road
Well done and good luck to Richard for his hard work!
ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
By Carley Benjamin from Nuthall Road
NASS supports Macmillan’s
biggest coffee morning
By Ashton Harris at Moving Forward Victoria Street
One Friday night we had a pamper
event, I was so looking forward to it. On the 10th September NASS held All our service users enjoyed the day so
a coffee morning in Newark Baptist much and it was amazing to see how
It reminded me of those girlie nights
Church. Many shops and companies confident and comfortable in interacting
that I used to have when I was in my
donated cakes, tea cakes and prizes with the public they all were. They
teens. To start we had music on and have asked to be volunteers for future
that’s always a bonus, and everything for Tombola and Raffle prizes to
collections with Macmillan.
else was set up from drinks to snacks raise money for MacMillan.
and sweets on one side and the other Services users from three different areas
side of the room was amazing stuff of the county came together to help with
that all us girls love so much! serving refreshments, selling raffle tickets
on the tombola stall and also collecting in
I started with a peeling face mask, a hand the streets, in Asda and B&M shops.
massage with a lovely manicure with glittery
nail varnish, a relaxing foot rub massage The people of Newark really supported
and to finish off with some foot spa socks, this brilliant event and on the day £361.21
which left my feet super soft. I am definitely had been raised for MacMillan with other
looking forward to the next event; hopefully monies to be collected so it could reach
we can have our hair done next time. I loved the total of £500.
it! Thank you very much.
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Umuada gets active
In August Umuada enjoyed a very fun day with games, laughter and
fun family and friends activity day. All challenges and ended with brilliant
the children were involved and the goody giveaways and some fish and
women joined in too. It was an active chips.
ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
William Street
garden project
By Martin at Lincolnshire
Homelessness Grantham
Service users at William Street project
worked on the garden to do it up! My trip to Butlins
As you can see Martin got stuck in to
this. As Martin said...
By Samantha Webster from PST
(Personalised Support Team) Derbyshire
My dad and stepmum took me to The next day we got up and had breakfast
It was hard work but it was Sheffield to get the bus to Butlins. and went swimming until 12:00.
all worth it and especially When we got there we booked in but We then called a cab to pick us up and take
as the staff made us tea couldn’t get into the room until 4:00pm. us to Skegness for a day out and for our tea.
and coffee every day! Once we did we unpacked, had a shower
When we got back we went to see a show
and got ready to go out for tea and to see a
show. We had a nice night! and it was very good!
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Ghost Ship
By Robert Flack from PST (Personalised Support Team) Derbyshire
Robert Flack sent in a great picture he created himself of a ghost ship.
Rose
Garden
By Mr Butt
at Ashiana
A lovely picture of
Mr Butt’s rose garden
DRAWINGS & poems
general
Central College Awards Night
By Gowthamy
Hi my name is Gowthamy and I go to
Central College to study English for
Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). I like
it very much and my English and Maths are
getting much better. On Tuesday I went to
a college awards night, I had a good time.
We had lots of food too and brought some
back. My teachers gave me the ESOL
Learner of the Year award. I went with
my Mum, my Sister, Tanya the Children’s
Worker and Val our Support Worker. I am so
happy and so is everybody else.
My mum is very proud and said “I am very
happy, my baby is very clever”.
Reviewer’s
comments
Well done Gowthamy, all your teachers
nominated you for the award so you
were the clear winner! All your hard
work and your attitude will ensure you
achieve many things in your life.
Anonymous
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WISH x
By Tonisha at Derbyshire WISH.
Sports Day
By Sapitha from Umauda
I wish I wasn’t ugly or a stupid fat cow,
Sapitha has created a great
picture of the sports day they I wish I went to college, I was dumb to stand my ground,
held at Umuada.
I wish I went to my family, to smile and laugh out loud,
I wish I had my old life back, it’s too late, it’s gone, let it go now.
DRAWINGS & poems
DRAWINGS & poems
They wished for me to listen, I ignored all their cries,
They wished for me to come home, I’m too scared to go, no way,
not now,
They wished I’d let them protect me, I’d always just say ‘no’,
Be Kind They wished for the old me, but she’s gone and almost dead now.
By Donna at Umuada
You are damaged and confused and angry. He wished for me to cover up, the bruises would be on show,
You have been abused, mislead and hungry. He wished for me to cook, clean and lay down, from that I should
You thought that all your life has passed already and nothing have known,
in the world can make you get ready for the biggest step and He wished for me to stay in, so nowhere I would go,
change in all your life. He wished for me to be perfect, I said ‘I am, it’s time for me to go’.
Enough …
You have done it. I am, BEAUTIFUL from inside and out!
You are free and not alone and on it … I am, SMART and I know that for a fact!
Abuse – experience, betrayal – just a lesson. I am, LOVED my heart is still intact!
Be kind no matter what, it’s humans life essential. I am, FREE from you and all your attacks!
This will encourage others to fight for their freedom. This is a
positive message to all in the community. You should never I CAN NOW BE ME!
Reviewer’s lose hope as there is always light at the end of a tunnel.
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