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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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