DOWN YOUR WAY
Every Tuesday in your Echo
SOUTHWICK
Ring Jackie Brazier on 0191 548 5844 or email southwickforum@hotmail.com Southwick Health and Community Forum hosts Healthy Eating sessions every Monday at 10.15am. Go along and enjoy healthy foods, new recipes followed by a healthy walk. Everyone welcome. Cost is£1 The salvation Army has lots of activities on in the centre,t call in to find out more. Some of the sessions are: Crafts, Cameo Club, Daily Bread café, toddlers, Kidz Alive, Messy Church, Starfish Youth group. More information is also available by ringing 0191 5618272. Southwick Reach meets each Friday at 2pm in Austin House. At the moment members are planning an event, Sunshine Corner, at the Summer Streets festival which is being held at Seaburn Recreation Park on July 14. There will be jazz band memories, music, singing, stories, and much more. If you would like to find out more, pop along. Wanabefitelite, The Gym and Fitness studio, Beaumont Street, will be holding an open day fundraiser on Saturday from 11am to 2pm. Everyone is welcome. The gym is also helping to support Dementia UK and I’m Helping to Beat Cancer charities. Go along to find out what’s on offer: There are taster sessions, gym challenges and lots more to suit everyone. GRANGETOWN AND ASHBROOKE Ring Chris Dixon on 0191 551 7090/07950828272 or email cmdixon@hotmail.co.uk The Rotary Club of Sunderland is developing a programme of projects and competitions with local schools. Children from Benedict Biscop Church of England Academy, Moorside, took part in a poetry competition on the theme of the recent Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. There was an overwhelming response and the three winning entrants received certificates and vouchers. Blue Watch Youth Centre (BWYC), with funding from the East Area Committee, Sunderland Council, supported by local ward councillors, recently carried out one of its most successful litter-picks in St Michael’s ward, when over 50 volunteers collected a total of 41 bags of rubbish mainly from Queen Alexandra Road, Ryhope Road, plus areas of Westheath Avenue and cuts to Leechmere Road. BWYC considered it a really positive community clean-up session, with many of the young people having the opportunity to tidy the areas where they live. They also received some very positive comments from residents, some of whom came out of their houses to speak to the group and congratulate them on their efforts. This enabled Blue Watch to explain the various projects it is delivering, and receiving support for, in St Michael’s ward. St Michael’s Residents’ Association meets tomorrow at Auckland Homes, Hill View Road, at 6.30pm. Among items on the agenda will be a talk from local Councillor, Peter Wood, entitled Port of Sunderland, 2018. Residents living in the ward are welcome. St Michael’s Councillors, Michael Dixon, Robert Oliver and Peter Wood, are holding their next ward surgery on Friday from 4pm to 5pm at the Community Centre, Stannington Grove. Thornholme Residents’ Association will meet on Monday, July 2, at the Ashbrooke Sports Club, at 6pm. Sunderland Art Club meets in St Cecilia’s RC Church hall, Ryhope Road, every Friday from 9.30am to 12.30pm. New members with an interest in art are welcome. Sessions cost £2.40. Anyone interested in gentle yoga should go along to St Nicholas Church hall, Queen Alexandra Road, on Tuesday orThursday at 10am. For details, contact Christine Reed on 07999524707. Slimming World holds the following sessions at St John’s Church hall, Ashbrooke Road on Tuesdays at 3-15pm, 5.15pm and 7.15pm and Wednesdays at 9am and 11am. For further details, call Gill on 07939644129. Sunderland Symphony Orchestra holds it next concert on Saturday, July 7, at West Park Church, opposite the Park Lane Bus Interchange and Metro Station. The concert stars at 7.30pm. Tickets are adults £8; students (NUS card) and under 16s, £5. The concert is entitled Music of the Sea SPRINGWELL Ring Sarah Hindley on 01915228979 or email sarahhindley.project@yahoo.co.uk A toddler group meets every Wednesday, term-time only, from 9.30am to11am in St Mary and St Peter’s Project. Sessions cost £1.50 with under ones free. There is no need to book just go along. Do you enjoy gardening and have few hours to spare? The project is currently looking for volunteers to help maintain of the community garden. Volunteers meet every Monday from 9.30am to noon. If you would like to help, go along any Monday for a cup of tea or coffee and chat to some of the volunteers. For more information speak to me, Sarah, on the number at the top of this column. St Mary and St Peter’s Sunday School offers lots of fun, crafts, parties and all children are welcome. Adults welcome to accompany children. Starts at 9.30am every Sunday. A Healing Service takes place on the first Tuesday of the month at 6pm. Go along to St Mary and St Peter’s Church and enjoy a quiet service and receive prayers for healing. Open to all. Humbledon Methodist Church, Ettrick Grove, holds a number of weekly activities including: Mondays, MS Society, 10am to noon and Brownies, 6.30pm; Tuesdays Weight Watchers from 6pm; Wednesday Open Door from 11am to 1pm, when tea or coffee and toast also light lunches will be served; Thursdays Slimming World from 5pm to 7pm. On Saturday, Humbledon Methodist Church will be holding a Strawberry Tea in the church hall from 3pm. Tickets are £4 and available to buy now.
SEAHAM
Ring Elizabeth Armes on 0191 581 0419
It is hoped that the Field of Remembrance, a permanent feature of over 800 bronze resin poppies each bearing the name, rank and number of Seaham Service personnel who gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars, and successive