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Your Forum needs you! All on on the social committee work hard putting the Forums social programme together and would welcome and encourage more members to come foreword to help on organising events, trips and socials.

SWIMMING FORUM
Everyone is welcome and it promises to be fun! With opportunities to attend during the day and evening.                    Please contact Sue Scott if you would like to attend on:         020 8368 0861 e-mail scotsf48@hotmail.com

POETRY GROUP                                                     The Forum’s poetry group meetings with a theme, take place monthly on the following Thursdays from 10.30am until midday at the Oakwood Library, Bramley Road.

Themes: 20 May -food & drink, 17 June - love and 15 July - evenings

English Barn Dance                                 English Barn Dance at Southbury Leisure Centre – every first Wednesday of each month from 14.00 – 16.00; next sessions:   2nd June and 7th July.

Sat 31 July 2010 – Midsummer BBQ - The Forum’s Social committee is pleased to invite you to its annual BBQ at the Parish Centre of St. Monica’s Church, Cannon Hill, Southgate, N14. Cost: £6 all inclusive. From 8pm till late. Details and tickets from Roddy Beare on 020 8292 4324 email: roddybeare@blueyonder.co.uk

Thur 9th August 2010 - Coach departs at 9.15am and returns to Enfield at 6.45pm Cost £15 without lunch or £22 with a lunch selection at the luxurious Hydo Hotel Conservatory.
Contact Polly on 8807 2076 for details and to book a place

Thu 19 August 2010 – Day trip to Eastbourne. The Forum party will be met by former Enfield resident Gwynne Pickering who will lead a guided walk – we will meet members of the Eastbourne Elders Group for a chat about our mutual interests – or you can wonder off as long as you return by 4.30pm for our journey home. Departure from the Civic Centre, Enfield: meet at 9.15 to leave at 9.30am. Return approximately 6.45pm. Travel by luxury coach with toilet facilities. Cost: £24pp including lunch at the luxurious Hydro hotel or £15 for return trip only. Contact: Polly

Mon 23 August 2010 – Four-course lunch £8.50 (includes entrance fee)Everyone on holiday – fancy a chat and a delicious lunch? Come and serve yourself and then go back for more (if you can manage it) to a varied selection of starters/sweets with three main courses to choose from, followed by cheese & biscuits. Coffee & licenced bar available. Meet at 12.15 for 12.30ish start. North Enfield Conservative Club, Baker St, Enfield (near the Hop Poles pub.) Buses: W9, W9, 191 or 15’ walk from Enfield Town. Contact: Jacky Pearce

Thursday 2-6 September 2010: 5-day break in Istanbul, Turkey.   No further bookings for this trip as it is now full!

Wed 15 September 2010 – Coach trip to Winchester. There are few places still left. Join us for a wonderful step back in time to the original capital of Wessex home to the round table and many more treasures. The £25 cost includes a guided tour of Winchester Cathedral and College, the oldest boy’s school in England. Contact: Olivia

Thurs 14 October 2010 - Theatre outing to see War Horse – Olivia is inviting you to join her for her third viewing of the highly acclaimed and touching 1st WW play about the relationship of a young boy with his horse; unusual and incredible life-size puppets and a story line that will have you reaching for the tissues! Cost: £35 for this midweek matinee. Details & tickets from Olivia.

Mon 6 December 2010 – Traditional Christmas Buffet Lunch 12.30 –3.30pm.Join the Forum for a festive Christmas lunch with all the trimmings! After lunch DJ Danny is guaranteed to get you on the dance floor. North Enfield Conservative Club, Baker Street, Enfield. Tickets cost £15 & are available from Roddy Beare.

Tues 7 Dec 2010 – Christmas Disco Evening 7.30 – 10.30pm at the North Enfield Conservative Club. Ticket prices remain at 2009 price of £15 and include wonderful music and a sumptuous cold buffet. Tickets sold out quickly last year so don’t delay-book today. Contact: Olivia

Future Events: we are planning visits to 10 Downing Street, Kew Gardens, St. Martin’s-in-the fields, the National Portrait and National Galleries, and Hampton Court. Watch this space!

26 August 2011 – 5-day Germany walking holiday – following our disappointment at being too slow to book for this exceptionally popular holiday for this summer, we are delighted to announce that we have first pickings for next summer. This is an easy walking trip suitable for most abilities in a stunning part of the Ahr Valley. For full details and a booking form contact Olivia.

 

Tea treat for Elders friendship day

The Forum organised a most successful afternoon cruise on the River Lea at Broxbourne, enabling less mobile and often lonely elders in the borough to leave their homes and enjoy a fun and safe time with their peers.

It was so successful that one lady of 92, who asked social secretary Roddy Beare if she could bring her daughter, aged 63, subsequently joined the Forum - as joint life members! So a big welcome to Lesley Birkett and her mother Alice. Praising the Forum for a lovely day, they want thanks to go to Irene Richards for a safe journey escorting them there and back.

Volunteer drivers collected the 25 Enfield elders - nine of them from the Rushleigh House residential home in Edmonton - and took them to Broxbourne, where they boarded the boat for the cruise and a delicious afternoon cream tea.

The trip (on Wednesday 5 May) was funded by the Forum from donations it received for the specific purpose of organising this special day out. So as well as arranging social activities for its members, it held this special Friendship Day to reach out to the more frail, vulnerable and sometimes housebound elders in the Enfield community.

We’ve been urged to do this more often”, said Roddy,but that depends on raising more money for the purpose. Certainly everyone had a lovely time including a “cruising down the river” singalong. Afternoon tea was delicious. The Elders really appreciated the opportunity to get out of their home and asked us to organise more breaks from their quite lonely routine, he added.

 

Roy Barrows

Contacts for social calendar bookings:

Polly Lawman: 020 8807 2076 - Forum Office email: info@enfieldover50sforum.org.uk

Roddy Beare: 020 8292 4324, 18 Lucerne Close, N13 4QJ                    Roy Barrows: 020 8360 8561, 72 Broadfields, N21 1AH email: roycar1939@btinternet.com

Olivia Goodfellow: 8447 8841 email: olivia.harrod@virginmedia.com

Jean Mittins: 020 8367 2102 email: mercia211@talktalk.net

Jacky Pearce: 020 8482 3575 jackypearce@blueyonder.co.uk

Sue Scott: 020 8368 0861 e-mail scotsf48@hotmail.com

Bill Thear: 020 8363 9216 46 St George’s Rd, EN1 4TX email: thear_242@hotmail.com

*All cheques should be made payable to: Enfield Borough Over 50s Forum and enclose a SAE and your phone number.

Please note: if you have to cancel your place on a Forum social activity/trip, we will make every attempt to fill your place. If this is not possible you may lose your booking fee/deposit.

Disclaimer: The Enfield Over 50s Forum is not liable for any personal injury/accidents that may occur during any of

Roddy Beare, Social Secretary 

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