Friday 10^th July

FREE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 2015

After last year’s success May Contain Nuts is back, this time in several locations in Huddersfield town centre to celebrate great local independent businesses & their passion for the arts.  (Please note that this festival is a general open event and is not specifically for children.)

2PM | Hoot Creative Arts, Bates Mill, HD1 3DX
The Mardy Gras
Hoot’s Batley based music group, ‘Another Planet’, mutates into a parading augmented kazoo and percussion ensemble with a bizarre take on New Orleans jazz – imagine Louis Armstrong was born in a parallel universe. Join us for the trip, kicking off at Hoot at 2pm & appearing throughout the day between other performances, taking us from one venue to the next.

2:30PM | Coffeevolution | 8 Church St
Original & moving poetry readings from the talented members of The Write Stuff.

4PM | Vinyl Tap | 42 John William St
Hoot’s Guitar Orchestra premieres their Mariachi inspired suite & more.

5:30PM | Café Ollo, The Media Centre | 7 Northumberland St
An opportunity to see an outstanding, thought provoking exhibition of work produced in the first year of Going Sane? Videos, music, installation, poetry, performance, photography and more – for one evening only.

Hoot Creative Arts is a flourishing arts health organisation offering people the opportunity to get involved in music, dance & other creative activities as a way of improving physical & emotional wellbeing.

Going Sane? is a two year Hoot project which places artists with different artforms into organisations across Kirklees, to explore ideas around sanity & madness.www.goingsane.co.uk

The first ever Kirklees Community Sports Awards to recognise and reward those who are involved in sport within our area have been launched by the Huddersfield Examiner, in association with Huddersfield Town Football Club.

They aim to recognise sports teams, individuals and the unseen work done by volunteers in our local clubs and societies.  There are several categories including Disabled Athlete of the Year.

For more information about the different categories and how to make a nomination please visit: http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/you-know-sporting-star-hunt-9444082 

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is co-hosting a conference with the University of Huddersfield that explores the topic of spirituality, its use in healthcare and the implications for integrating this into practice.

 Venue: University of Huddersfield Business School

Time: 9.30-4.30

Key note speakers include:

• Dr Sarah Eagger, consultant psychiatrist and executive member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Special Interest Group in Spirituality,
• Mike Gartland, head of pastoral and spiritual care at the Trust

During the conference, the Trust will also be sharing more information about Spirit in Mind – an innovative project that brings together community based spiritual organisations in collaboration with the Trust.

If you have an interest in spirituality and its implications for healthcare, you may be interested to attend. It’s free to attend for NHS staff and SWYPFT service users and carers. For all others there is a £25 fee. Booking is essential.

You can book your place by contacting Debby Walker on 01924 327318 or debby.walker@swyt.nhs.uk

Find out more about the conference and Spirit in Mind on the Trust’s website – swyt.co/spiritinmind.

Aqua Splash, Friday evening 7pm – 8.30pm in the training pool

Aqua Splash is a family swim time specifically for disabled children and young people and children and young people with special educational needs and their families.

 The pool water is warm, there are activities and music and more staff on hand to provide assistance.

 Normal pool entry charges will apply.

Stanley’s Training Project and The Church of Nazarene are celebrating Learning Disability Awareness Week by holding a music event on Friday 19th June 2015 at their Activity Cafe.

To find out more please contact Stanley’s Training Project on:

Telephone: 01274 872915 or Email: info@stanleysproject.org.uk

Website: http://stanleystrainingproject.org.uk/activity-cafes/ 

NHS North Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) would like to invite you to an event on Wednesday 8th July 2015 at 2pm-4pm at Batley Town Hall.

The event has been arranged as an opportunity to hear about the work that the CCG has been doing, their priorities, challenges and plans for the future.

As well as hearing the presentations, you will be able to participate in discussion groups about transforming Primary Care.  they would also like to understand more about people’s expectations of their GP surgery and to test out some ideas about potential new ways of working.

If you would like to attend you can book online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nhs-northkirklees-clinical-commissioning-group-public-event-tickets-16972402914 or contact Alison Waterhouse on Tel: 01924 504938 / Email: Alison.Waterhouse@northkirkleesccg.nhs.uk by Friday 26th June 2015.

For those who are unable to attend but would like to be involved a survey is being developed.