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HEAR TO HELP: The NHS Volunteer Community ‘Hearing aid Drop-in service’ is cancelled until further notice. Please contact Audiology if you have a problem.

CITIZENS ADVICE: Advice line Cymru - Mon to Fri 9am-5pm 03444772020. You can also access www.Adviceguide.org.uk

BANGOR

RED CROSS: is looking for volunteer drivers and helpers to assist at Ysbyty Gwynedd and in people’s homes – contact Corinna on 01248 351103

ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE: is looking for new volunteers to join the team and help with its Community Transport, Good Neighbours and Positive Steps services in Gwynedd and Ynys Mon. If you have a few spare hours a week and would like to make a difference in someone’s life, the RVS would like to hear from you. Contact Gwenda Hughes on 01248 661915 or Gwenda.hughes@royalvoluntaryservice. org.uk

SSAFA GWYNEDD: Seeks new caseworkers in the Gwynedd area to help and support veterans and their families. If you can help, contact Andy Williams 07958524298.

CHURCHES TOGETHER: The Christian Church has responded with determination and resilience to countless crises over 2000 years. The current epidemic is no exception. Within a few days of the Prime Minister’s first press conference, all ten of the Bangor Churches Together were using combinations of Internet, social media, phone and post to worship Jesus Christ, to care for their congregations, and to serve the wider community of Bangor. Many of those congregations are over 70 or vulnerable to the coronavirus; and many have no access to the web. So pastoral care is now mainly by phone. Churches are streaming services via the Internet, for example the English-speaking Methodists are using https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UCUAUqhmhevz5sqhh72LIMxA; or delivering them by email, post or hand. Several Church groups have adopted virtual meetings accessed by web or mobile phone. Since 2011, Bangor Cathedral Foodbank has helped families who cannot afford enough food, supported by donations from individuals, businesses, schools, churches and other charities. For the last year the Cathedral has also run Caffi Deiniol in Deiniol Shopping Centre as a ‘fair price’ café that also provides subsidised meals to those in need. Once the Government told cafés to close in response to the virus, the Foodbank moved from the overcrowded Diocesan Centre beside the Cathedral to Caffi Deiniol, thus achieving much better social distancing. To complement the Foodbank, St John’s Methodist Church have for the past year delivered a Soup Run on Saturday evenings to support the homeless of Bangor. The enforced closure of Caffi Deiniol has led them to transform this to a safe afternoon run on the four days a week when the Foodbank is not open. Anyone who is fit and aged less than 70 is welcome to contribute to the Foodbank or the Soup Run by texting Ian Russell on 07 564 347 811. Thus Bangor Churches are responding to the epidemic with love and care. But they hope and pray that responding to the coronavirus will help to redefine the role and methods of the Churches in the 21st Century.

SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL: meeting held on Zoom on Tuesday November 3, Steph Healy was the invited speaker, on Fancy a Gong Bath? Sound Baths have been increasing in their popularity recently, with more and more people searching for ways to help themselves in a more natural way. But what is healing through sound all about? How often has music or a particular song moved you, lifted your spirits or made you get up and dance? Perhaps there is a piece of music which reminds you of a very specific time or memory, and when you hear that sound it is as if you are transported back to that very moment. Sound is extremely powerful and it has been used as an effective tool for supporting health and wellbeing for

At the thousands of years. Sound can bring the physical body, mind and soul into a state of natural balance and harmony. When we are experiencing dis-ease it’s like our bodies are “out of tune”. The good news is that the human body is made up of over 70% water, which makes it an excellent conductor of sound. Furthermore, it’s not only the physical body and its various systems that are affected by sound – emotional, mental and the spiritual states of consciousness can all be supported, strengthened and balanced through sound and resonance too. Steph is a certified Sound Healing Practitioner, Gong Practitioner, Biofield Tuning Practitioner, Past Life Regression Therapist and Energy Healing Practitioner. For further information on Soroptimist International Bangor, contact the Secretary at lmac28@ hotmail.co.

HOLYHEAD

ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE: Seeks new volunteers to help with its Community Transport, Good Neighbours and Positive Steps services in Gwynedd and Ynys Mon. If you have a few spare hours a week and would like to make a difference in someone’s life, the RVS would like to hear from you. Contact Gwenda Hughes on 01248 661915 or Gwenda.hughes@ royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk.

LLANFIHANGEL T BEIRDD

EGLWYS ST MIHANGEL: Public worship in the Church in Wales has been suspended. Therefore there will be no acts of public worship in any of the Ministry Area churches or in the church hall until we are instructed otherwise by the Bench of Bishops.

LLANGEFNI

ANGLESEY DOLLS HOUSE AND MINIATURE SOCIETY: Have cancelled all future meetings until further notice. Contact Mike 01248 852654 or Jenny 01407 741047

HEAR TO HELP:

The NHS Volunteer

Community ‘Hearing aid Drop-in service’ is cancelled until further notice.

Please contact Audiology if you have a problem.

CITIZENS ADVICE: Bureau. Advice line Cymru - Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, 03444772020. You can also access www. Adviceguide.org.uk

ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE: is looking for new volunteers to join the team and help with its Community Transport, Good Neighbours and Positive Steps services in Gwynedd and Ynys Mon. If you have a few spare hours a week and would like to make a difference in someone’s life, the RVS would like to hear from you. Contact Gwenda Hughes on 01248 661915 or Gwenda.hughes@royalvoluntaryservice. org.uk.

LLANGOED

PLAS BODFA: An exhibition Unus Multorum - The Possibilities of a House will take place at Plas Bodfa, with 69 creative projects and over 100 artists. Due to the coronavirus situation, this exhibition has evolved into year-long project, slowly evolving over time, within the house and on the project page here : https://www. plasbodfa.com/unus-multorum-2020, where you can see the exhibits and some videos.

LLANNERCHYMEDD

CHURCH: Public worship in the Church in Wales has been suspended. Therefore there will be no acts of public worship in any of the Ministry Area churches or in the church hall until we are instructed otherwise by the Bench of Bishops.

MARIANGLAS

ST EUGRAD’S CHURCH: Public worship in the Church in Wales has been suspended. Therefore there will be no acts of public worship in any of the Ministry Area churches or in the church hall until we are instructed otherwise by the Bench of Bishops.

MENAI BRIDGE

MȏN AND ARFON STROKE CLUB: Due to the government’s advice with respect to Social mixing and Distancing arising from the Coronavirus emergency, the above club has suspended its monthly dinner at the Victoria Hotel Menai Bridge until further notice. Do keep safe and well and keep in contact by phoning one another. The club looks forward to meeting up again when the restrictions have been lifted.

MOELFRE

ST GALLGO’S CHURCH: Public worship in the Church in Wales has been suspended. Therefore there will be no acts of public worship in any of the Ministry Area churches or in the church hall until we are instructed otherwise by the Bench of Bishops.

NEWBOROUGH

EGLWYS BACH COMMUNITY HALL EVENTS: As a precautionary measure Eglwys Bach is closed to all activities until further notice.

PENRHOSLLIGWY

ST MICHAELS CHURCH: Public worship in the Church in Wales has been suspended. Therefore there will be no acts of public worship in any of the Ministry Area churches or in the church hall until we are instructed otherwise by the Bench of Bishops.

RHOSYBOL

CYNGOR CYMUNED: Manylion cyswllt clerc newydd Cyngor Cymuned Rhosybol. Mrs Debra Griffiths, Coedlys, Rhosybol- e. byst: cc.rhosybol@yahoo.co.uk neu drwy’r wefan: www.ccrhosybol.co.uk

VALLEY

HEAR TO HELP: The NHS Volunteer Community ‘Hearing aid Drop-in service’ is cancelled until further notice. Please contact Audiology if you have a problem.