Community Listings
times at Murthly Primary School. Contact school on 01738 454263. Music Group for U5s Group held at Vision Perth and Kinross on Mondays, at 10am and Auchterarder Parish Church on Tuesdays, at 10am. These colourful sessions are fun packed with musical activities including dance, songs and percussion play to music from around the world. Pay as you go weekly. Email info@babyboomba.co.uk Musical Groups for Babies and Toddlers Children get a chance to play with various instruments such as the violin, cello, french horn and others, parents get a chance to meet other parents and have some refreshments. Sessions are from 10.30–11am, at Perth North Church, every Friday. Cost is £1 per child. Contact Fiona Trayner, call 0784 2133547, or visit website www.simpelsite.com/music2 Myeloma Group For further information please contact Linda Winton on 01796 482 350 or lindawinton64@ me.com; or Mary Kenny on 01738 44110, or jrkenny@btinternet.com Newburgh Nippers A parent/carerled playgroup for birth to five-yearsold. The group meets every Monday during school term at the Tayside Institute Community Centre, Newburgh. Contact Sandra Wilson, 07974 773453. North Muirton Beaver Scouts 12th Perthshire Beaver Scouts meet on Mondays from 7-8pm at North Muirton School, Uist Place, Perth. Beaver Scouts is for boys and girls aged six-eight years. Contact Scott on tel. 624724 for more information. Oakbank Playgroup A friendly playgroup for children aged 2½–five years run by experienced play leaders who provide a wide range of activities in a fun and stimulating environment. Children do not have to be toilet trained or live in the Oakbank catchment area. Runs Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, from 9.30am–noon, during term time, at Oakbank Community Centre, Viewlands Road West. For more info email oakbankplaygroup@ yahoo.co.uk or website www.facebook.com/Oakbank.Playgroup PKAVS Carers Respite Day Services Are you an unpaid carer in need of a break? This service is open to anyone over the age of 18 that does not require complex personal care. Trained and friendly staff will carry out an assessment before the first visit to ensure the needs of the cared for and equally the carer are fully understood and met. If you are caring for someone with complex needs or are looking for services available for those under 18 years of age we urge you to get in touch to discuss this with our staff. Monday to Friday, 9am - 3pm, The Gateway, North Methven Street, Perth; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 9am - 3pm, Rattray Community Hall, Balmoral Road, Blairgowrie. Emergency respite care available if 48 hours’ notice given. Cost is £25 per day and includes five hours at the Day Club, three-course lunch and refreshments, organised activities such as games, quizzes, gentle exercise techniques, crafts and much more. For more details contact Laura McKenzie or Linda McGougan on 01738 567076. Parachute Regiment Association Perth and District Branch, Parachute Regiment Association meets at Perth Ex-Service Club last Saturday of the month at 3pm. All ex-serving airborne personnel welcome. For more information, contact the secretary 01738 623137. Parkinson’s UK The Perth branch holds its meetings on the second Thursday of each month from 2-4pm in the Gateway Centre, North Methven Street. All who are living with Parkinson’s, carers, and volunteers will be welcome. Contact: Doreen Brown 01738 621815 and Margaret Blythe 01738 634345. Those looking to go onto further education next year are invited to attend an open day this week at Perth College UHI.
The Fair City’s Goodlyburn campus will open its doors to potential future students tomorrow from 2-6pm.
Visitors will be given a tour of the
Patchwork and Quilting Piece Partners Quilting Group meet from 7.30–9.30pm every second and fourth Tuesday of the month, at West End Bowling Club, Gray Street, Perth. Tel 01828 640424. Perth and Kinross Carers’ Voice Meets every six weeks on a Tuesday from 11am to 1pm in the Gateway Centre, North Methven Street, Perth. If you support someone who is ill, frail, disabled, has a mental health problem or an addiction, and you want to get your voice heard and the chance to have your say, then please come and join us. Contact Maureen Summers 01738 623897 or Kerry Donaghy 01738 567076. Perth and Kinross Disability Sport Supports the development of a strong, vibrant and successful sporting structure for athletes with physical, learning or sensory disabilities. If you would like to get involved as an athlete or volunteer, contact us - enquiries@perthandkinrossdisabilitysport.com or telephone 07716628452. Perth Asthma Swim Club Tuesday 6-6.30pm at Perth Leisure Pool for children aged 5+. Tel Judith on 01738455068. Perth Death Cafe We are meeting again to drink tea, eat cake and discuss death, but this time during daylight hours! Join us on Friday, September 29 at Queen’s Hotel in Perth from 10am-noon. We are part of a worldwide network of pop-up Death Cafes, with no agenda other than increasing awareness of death to help people make the most of their finite lives. There is no speaker. Strangers gather in small groups to talk about death. http://deathcafe. com/deathcafe/4775/ All ages welcome to this free event. Perth Film-Makers Club The club holds its meetings on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 7pm in Oakbank Community Centre, Viewlands Road West, Perth. A Member of the Scottish Association of Moviemakers, PF-MC is a long-established club aimed at promoting the art of amateur film-making involving script-writing, production, editing and adding sound to films many of which are entered for interesting and themed in-club competitions This year the event is scheduled to be held in November at Carluke. The club is also well-known within the Perth and Kinross Community providing interesting documentary and comedy film shows to local organisations and the recording and editing to DVD of amateur stage productions throughout the area. For those interested in membership of this friendly club or booking a film show, enquiries can be made to made by contacting Secretary Phil Walker on 01738 561530 or Deputy First Minister John Swinney chats with fitness instructor Mandy MacDonald and Olympian Stephen Milne during a visit to Perth College
Crieff Road college, and hopeful students will be able to pick up a copy of the college’s prospectus.
Staff will be on hand throughout the day to give advice.
It’s home to sport and fitness courses, hairdressing and beauty therapy courses, and an automotive
engineering‘virtual welder’.
Visitors will be able to enjoy coffee, as well as take part in a range of science experiments and hospitality challenges.
Visitors should report to the registration desk in the college’s Brahan building.