NEW SEASON AT THE SHEDSEaster brought the start of a new season at the recently restored fishing sheds on West Cliff. The Fishermen’s Heritage Centre now boasts a superb scale model of the Augusta, the first of Sheringham’s purpose-built lifeboats, together with a display of the photographs of Sheringham fishermen of yesteryear, collected by local historian May Ayers. In addition, the displays on the history of the Henry Ramey Upcher lifeboat have been totally revised and reorganised. Next door is the spectacular display of shell artwork created entirely by Peter Coke (every piece his own work). There is also a craft shop, now run by Janet Lines. It is well worth going along to have a look. The Fishermen’s Heritage Centre is open daily from noon to 4.30pm and the Shell Gallery from Thursday to Saturday, also from noon to 4.30pm. The unavoidable closure of Sheringham Museum in Station Road with its contents not due to be relocated to the Mo until the latter end of next season at the earliest, leaves a significant gap in what the town is able to offer the visitor with an interest in heritage. Sheringham Preservation Society has taken responsibility for the opening of the HRU lifeboat shed since 1983, and in that time many volunteers and tens of thousands of visitors (an amazing 11,000 last year alone) have come and gone. We are very fortunate that our current chief steward, Nancy Appleton, is so committed to her role that she is down there virtually every day for the whole of the season, but having lost volunteers recently through ill-health, she is desperate for extra help. The Shell Gallery is also operating with just a handful of volunteers, which means that sometimes it will have to close at advertised opening times. We have now reached the stage that many organisations reach, where responsibilities fall on fewer and fewer shoulders, yet to the outside world everything seems to continue as before. Just ten to twenty people offering a couple of hours each a week would make all the difference and is not too much to hope for in a town the size of Sheringham, which, with the surrounding settlements, has a high proportion of retired people. Both the Fishermen’s Heritage Centre and the Shell Gallery have inspirational stories to tell. If you can help offer visitors to Sheringham (and locals too) the sort of warm welcome we want them to remember us by, please don’t hesitate but pick up the phone today and get in touch, on either 01263 824343 (Reg Grimes: Chairman) or 01263 824155 (Kathleen Bird: Secretary) SHERINGHAM EVENING WIThis has been a special month, celebrating our 30th Birthday with a superb Dinner
provided by our Catering Officer, Tricia Williams and her band of helpers, followed by
excellent entertainment by Colin Thackeray, when we could sing-along to some old
favourites. We welcomed our County Chairman, County Treasurer and W. I. Adviser and Edith
Buchanan, Founder President and other Founder Members. Edith had been allowed out of
hospital following a broken leg, just to join us. At our April meeting, where we were joined by two visitors, David Williams enthralled us with the history of the River Thames and its dominance of London from Roman and Saxon times, through the Great Fire, the introduction of a sewage and underground system, up to the redevelopment of the London Docks. THANK YOU DAVIDThank you for stopping and helping me when I broke down on Holway Road, Wednesday 18th April and for lending me your mobile. The car is all fixed now. Kerri Clarke |
Potting a winner for ‘BREAK’!Holiday maker’s enjoying a sport’s themed week at BREAK’s
Rainbow Holiday Centre in Sheringham took part in a special pool competition held at The
Tyneside Social Club in Sheringham on Wednesday 18th April. Rainbow Holiday Centre in
Sheringham offers a range of exciting individualised holiday activities for the people
that stay with them, these themes may include, ‘Arts and Crafts’,
‘Dance’ and ‘Health and Beauty’. This week the theme is
‘Sport’s’ and the adults with learning disabilities on holiday at BREAK
have been enjoying and watching playing their favourite sports. Dee Madin, stewardess of Expert Patient Programme CoursesMy Name is Stan Melling, if you remember I wrote to you last year I am a Volunteer Tutor for the Expert Patient Programme. I would like to thank you on behalf of the EPP for advertising the courses we ran in 2006 and this is just to tell you how the E.P.P (Expert Patient Programme) went. I am very pleased to report that there was a marked uplift in applications to go on the Course once the advertising were in place in Doctors Surgeries and local magazines. The Courses in general went extremely well benefiting most participants. There is quite a contrast from Wk 1 to the end of the Course. By Wk 6 you see a radical change in the patient. They seem more self confident, active, generally happier and less depressed. We successfully ran with the help of a lottery donation 9 Courses in the North Norfolk Area, and are looked on enviously by other Areas. We are the only EPP group in Norfolk that I know of, who advertise in Local Magazines and Doctors Surgeries. We have 6 Self Help Groups as a result of last 2006 courses. They regularly meet every 4/5 weeks. One group is in Fakenham, another in Sheringham, Two in Cromer and North Walsham. They base their meeting around the problem solving exercise used on the EPP course. Because they all suffer with similar Symptoms if not the same chronic condition, they discuss their problems and try and help resolve them. They bond quite quickly on the course and form a close relationship with in the group, because everything that is discussed in the group is in confidence, and never divulged else where. "What is said in the group is kept with in the group". We the Tutors are very keen to continue helping as many patients as possible by running more course's, in 2007, however we are not allowed to apply for another grant from the lottery commission for another 5 years. The courses were run by the PCT but has now been passed on to a new company called the CIC (Community Interest Company) who are investigating possible ways to get finance to run EPP courses in the future. The PCT now have to Commission Courses from the CIC, but as you know they are at present strapped for cash because of the huge debt they must clear in 2007. At the moment there are no courses planned, but they do intend to run courses as soon as possible, in the meantime if anyone is interested in going on a course please ask their Doctor about the EPP (Self-management of Long-term Health Conditions Course). We do need to contact Previous EPP Delegates to ask them to fill in a Questionnaire. Please contact Stan through our office on 01263 825939 and we will pass your contact number and details and he will return your call ASAP. Yours Sincerely, Stan Melling EPP Tutor |
@ Sheringham Community Paper - Issue 74 - 11 May 2007
