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Guinness World Record attempt at Coalburn


Powering to the Future Sustainable Saturday
 

Friends of Volunteering Clydesdale are staging an audacious Guinness World Record attempt at Coalburn Miners Welfare on Friday 27th August and Saturday 28th August 2010. Our attempt begins and 5 pm on Friday until 5 pm on Saturday. We aim to generate electricity from bicycles over a 24 hour period. The record currently stands at 12,953 watts and we need at least 1000 participants to stand a chance of breaking the record. As long as you can cycle for a minute you can become part of history and gain entry into the hallowed Guinness Book of Records. This event can be used as a team building event for staff or clubs or organisations can use it for fundraising opportunities. We will be arranging free transport throughout Clydesdale. The bikes will be provided and we will be indoors and under a marquee.

Our heroic effort is part of our sustainable Saturday family day where there is something for everyone and non-participants can lend their support or enjoy other activities such as soft play area, healthy cooking demonstrations, interactive renewable demonstrations, face painting and bouncy castles.


ZUMBA classes
starting in Coalburn Miners' Welfare on Sunday 8th August 2010 from 7.45 - 8.45 pm.


Active Kids and Ready Steady Cook

We also have funding to run 'Active Kids' and 'Ready Steady Cook' and are working in partnership with Healthy Valleys to deliver these courses but these are not due to begin until the Autumn.

Salsa classes

We also received funding from 'Awards for All' to run salsa classes. These classes started on the 6th May and are scheduled to last 48 weeks. The classes are on every Thursday between 2pm and 3pm. We have places available so if anyone is interested please contact Helen or George at the One Stop Shop on 01555 820060.

Flower Arranging Course

Thanks to funding from 'Awards for All' a flower arranging course has just finished in the One Stop Shop. This course ran from Wednesday 14th April until Wednesday 19th May. A local resident May McNeill was the tutor and eight people attended the course each week. This again has proved to be a very popular and successful activity and as there is some funding left another course is planned for later in the year.

A certificate was presented to all the students taking part at the end of the course and all completed an evaluation. The feedback was that all had thoroughly enjoyed the class and were looking forward to the next.

 

 

COMPUTER TRAINING

Funding was received from ' Awards for All' to deliver computer courses in the One Stop Shop. This was very well attended and we have enough people signed up to run two beginners courses initially. ALVO is providing the tutors for these two courses. They will both be on a Wednesday with one class running from 10.00 am until 12.00 noon and the next class running from 1.00 pm until 3.00 pm. This is scheduled to begin the first week in June and will run for eight weeks. We have funding to run another two courses and intend to run these in the Autumn.

Computer Class at Coalburn One Stop Shop

Nine students completed a basic training computer course at Coalburn One Stop Shop. This course was delivered by JHP training and the tutor was Andrew McCrory. This was made possible by the students being able to access ILA (Individual Learning Accounts) and most were able to claim £200 towards courses for the year 2009. People can access ILA accounts if their income is less than £18,000 per year, unemployed or if they are in receipt of benefits. This course was delivered over a four week period and each course lasted 3 hours. Most of the students are going onto complete an Advanced Computer Training Course at a later date (hopefully within the next month), also to be held within the One Stop Shop and delivered by JHP Training. There will also be a number of other basic training courses and Microsoft accredited courses available soon. An open day within the One Stop Shop is planned for 20th May 2009 for anyone wishing to access information on these courses. There will also be a representative in attendance from the Credit Union who wish to start a service in Coalburn. Anyone interested in attending any course or anyone wishing to require any further information regarding any of the above or other services available within the One Stop Shop can contact Helen or George on 01555 820060.

Pictured are 8 of the 9 students receiving their certification with tutor Andrew McCrory.
 

Online Survey

 

UKSE GRANT ALLOWS COALBURN COMMUNITY SHOP TO REOPEN


COMMUNITY SHOP & FOOD COOPERATIVE

Services Leaflet

Pictured above: Yvonne Howley from LEADER programme, Ann Clyde area Manager from UK Steel Enterprise, George Greenshields Centre Manager, Helen Donnelly
and 5 volunteers: Ann Buchanan, Jim McLean, Annette McLean, Cirsty Elliot, Sally Thomson.

News Release

Coalburn Miners Welfare Charitable Society/One Stop Shop has no external funding to pay revenue or running costs. We have looked at ways to raise funds to keep the vital service that we provide for our local community. We came up with the idea to run a community shop and food cooperative. We have put a bid into the Lottery to purchase a local building that would be used for the community shop but we will not know if we have been successful until May 2009. Since the Busy Bees crèche sadly closed at the end of September 2008 we brought forward our plans and have opened the community shop/food cooperative in the crèche. This has been open since 6th October 2008. We have been fortunate to have first class volunteers who without their help would not be able to operate. We would also like to thank all who donated a very high quality of goods to the community shop, books, toys, DVD’s, videos, various household items and all have sold well. If anyone wishes to donate to the community shop goods can be brought in Monday to Friday 9.00 am – 5.00 pm. The opening hours of the community shop are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10.00 am – 2.00 pm. These hours may be extended and anyone wishing to volunteer can contact Helen or George at the One Stop Shop on 01555 820060.

Fruit and vegetables can be ordered on a Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and will be available for collection the following day.
 


 

'Awards For All'

Coalburn Miners Welfare Charitable Society received a grant from Big Lottery 'Awards for All' for ££9,290.

This is to enable us to deliver the following activities within the One Stop Shop:

Computer Classes
Flower Arranging
Salsa Classes
Active Kids Classes
Ready Steady Cook

If anyone is interested in any of the above please contact the One Stop Shop on 01555 820060 or e-mail:
helendonnelly@coalburnmw.org.uk
 


Q & A SERVICES



We now have South Lanarkshire Council Question & Answer Service in our One Stop Shop. It will be available every Thursday from 1.15 pm – 4.15 pm starting from 12th March 2009.

This service will cover all council services:

Rent Account Queries
Council Tax Enquiries
Housing and Council Tax Benefit
Housing repairs
Special uplifts
Blue Badges
Leisure Enquiries

We hope the people of Coalburn will use this vital service as the staff at the One Stop Shop has worked hard over the last year to bring this service to the community. The council have said if this is a success other council services e.g. money matters may also follow.
 


OTHER SERVICES WITHIN THE ONE STOP SHOP

Services we provide within the One Stop Shop include a Post Office, ‘Free to use’ Cash Machine, Routes to Work South, Heritage Centre, Citizen Advice Bureau, Free Solicitor Advice, Councillor’s Surgeries, Salsa Classes, Cruets café, Rooms to let from small meeting rooms to larger rooms and conference facilities. We can also accommodate wedding parties and birthday parties etc and catering can be provided if required. To access information regarding any of the services we provide you can logon to our website at www.coalburn.org.uk. There is also a DVD on this site to view.

 New Cash Machine at the One Stop Shop
 

 9.00 am 5.00pm Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday & Friday with a half hour break for lunch between 12.30 1.00pm
and open 9.00 am 12.30pm on a Wednesday and Saturday.


We are pleased that once again the people of Coalburn will have this facility especially following the closure of local sub post offices.

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