Monthly Archive: April 2012

Apr 30 2012

Food & relaxation helps mood and reduce stress

Food and Mood On 27th April we ran a food and mood cooking session as an introduction to show visitors the benefits of certain foods in helping improve your mood and tackling stress. The session was delivered by our local health trainers, Michelle and Diane, who explained how food effects our bodies and how we can …

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Apr 30 2012

Interested in Model making?

Are you interested in model making? Why not give Heywood Model Railway Group a try, they make plenty of models as part of their model railway exhibition displays. The skills needed are quite diverse and very creative, and once completed the layouts look stunning. Here is a link to a new layout being constructed at …

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Apr 27 2012

Spring online with us!

We provide free beginners courses to help you learn computing & the internet. These courses are running all the time whenever the centre is open, Monday to Friday between 10am – 4pm. Spring online is a national campaign to highlight the use of computers and to let people know where they can get support to …

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Apr 27 2012

Brush up your painting skills

Art classes every Thursday We have started a new art class and painting activity that will be running on a Thursday morning from 10:00am. The classes are open to anyone to attend whether you are a complete beginner and what to know how to get going, or you have been paintig a while and want …

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Apr 27 2012

Learning to play the guitar – taster sessions

Pluck up courage to get started. We held another guitar taster session this week run by Colin Stephens our volunteer tutor who has been showing some of our visitors the basics of playing a guitar. The sessions are quite flexible and are open to any one whatever your ability, from the complete novice to the …

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Apr 27 2012

Middleton DIAL move into the Lighthouse

Local disability charity Middleton DIAL have moved into the Lighthouse Project to share our premises and to develop and build up their work. Earlier in the year DIAL were served notice to vacate their former premises next to Middleton Citizens Advice Centre in Milton Street. After looking at several unsuitable premises someone recommended the Lighthouse …

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