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COME BOWLING IN ST JOHNS CHAPEL
 | St Johns Chapel Town Hall Bowls Club meet every Wednesday at 7pm , you don't need to be an expert bowler just come along for a nice sociel evening with friends.
We play in the Weardale Bowls League every September , so keep an eye out for the results
3rd place in 2006
1st place in 2007
At Christmas we all take our partners and go out for a Christmas Dinner a great sociel event to finish off the year.
St Johns Chapel Town Hall Bowls Club
TOOK PART IN THE HELP THE AGED CHRISTMAS LUNCH 2007
St Johns Chapel Town Hall Bowls Club held a Christmas celebration for over twenty older people as part of The Help the Aged Christmas Lunch 2007, thanks to a grant from the Charity. Help the Aged is hoping to raise £100,000 this year to support its UK-wide Christmas Lunch programme through its ‘1 is the saddest number’ fundraising appeal.
For older people, the festive season can often bring on acute feelings of loneliness. Help the Aged research shows that one million older people spent Christmas Day alone .
The Christmas Lunch programme has shown that this type of support, where older people can socialise and enjoy a Christmas celebration, is the ideal way to help ease the isolation of older people across the UK. The money provided by the Charity is designed to help older people’s groups and projects with the financial cost of their Christmas event such as food or extra transport so that all members of a group can take part. These are some of the expenses that cash-starved groups and projects often find difficult to meet.
More than 500 Christmas lunches will take place across the whole of the UK, throughout December.
Shelly Scholes the secretary of St Johns Chapel Town Hall Bowls Club said, “Christmas can be a particularly difficult time for some of the older people who visit our group, especially if they have few plans to mark the festive season or live far from their families. We would like to thank Help the Aged for this support; it was great fun and a memorable celebration”.
Daniel Pearson, Director of Community Services from Help the Aged, said, “We are pleased that we can help with this Christmas celebration. We are committed to assisting local community groups in their remarkable work that supports so many older people across the UK. The Christmas Lunch 2007 is one of a range of ways in which we can help to bring people together.”
Help the Aged is hoping everyone will get behind its campaign to end isolation and loneliness as just a £4 donation can enable the Charity to provide a Christmas meal for an older person to enjoy with friends. To donate to the Help the Aged ‘1 is the saddest number’ appeal please call 0207 239 1983 or visit www.saddestnumber.org.uk.
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