On Tuesday 10th March we presented 78 Believe and Achieve and Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Sectional Certificates and 13 Full Awards to 34 individuals, all of whom either attend Helen Anderson Trust, or work through their Awards remotely through our Open Award Centre.
A few had to have their Certificates sent out by post, due to illness, but we had a great turnout at Bromley Community Centre, and a huge celebration was had by all.
From the 3rd to the 6th March, we had 7 of our Gold Believe and Achieve and Duke of Edinburgh’s Award participants up at Waipara Camp undertaking a range of team building and other outdoor activities.
It was a huge success, due in part to the wonderful staff who run the camp and the “get stuck in” attitude of our participants.
Here’s a few pics of what they got up to.
Last week, our Silver Duke of Ed and Believe and Achieve Participants attended another Art Camp at Spencer Park and the surrounding reserves.
Everybody had a great time and produced a number of Art pieces in a variety of mediums.
Last month we had to relocate our veggie garden with it’s big planter boxes and enormous 8-metre polytunnel. It was both scary and cool to watch the guys from Crane Trucks Ltd lift everything and then put it in it’s new home.
The new venue is a lot closer to Amos Place and is a really nice place to be.
3 of our guys and Sarah, our Coordinator, had an amazing time on the Spirit of New Zealand recently!
Big thanks go out to RATA Foundation for funding this experience.
Nine Duke of Ed and Believe and Achieve Participants have just completed their camp training in the run-up to our November Bronze and Silver combined camp. They learnt some serious outdoor and navigation skills and had time for laughs along the way.
Well done to you all!!!
Thanks to the Lion Foundation we have just been able to replace our ageing wheelchair van with a 2018 Toyota HiAce. The new van is an automatic and so can be driven by the entire staff team. It is smooth, quiet and comfortable and we are looking forward to a long association with the new member of the Helen Anderson Trust van fleet.
Thanks also to James at Hopman Motor Group QE2 for helping us through the process of selecting the new van, both organisations are very nice people to do business with.
This monthly show is created and presented by the service users at the Helen Anderson Trust, for people within the disability community and the wider community.
The show is based around music, covering soundtracks, world music and songs relating to sports and the team’s favourite artists.
Broadcast on the second Thursday of the month at 12noon.
Hear the last five episodes online here Programme Details (plainsfm.org.nz)
