We have had a few busy days/months here in the West Outreach.
October 10th was World Mental Health Awareness Day, our social group gathered in the office for a quiz. We had a good laugh at our quiz reader Annmarie with her reading and mixing up words!
That evening we had a cinema night with five of our female service users and two staff members to see Downtown Abby this was thoroughly enjoyed.
Over the next two months our team worked hard to collect donations for our annual bingo night. We got some very good prizes from our service users, staff, friends, family and some very generous local businesses. Also, Teri, one of our support staff donated a night at the View Lodge in Portpatrick for one very lucky winner in the raffle.
On the 28th November we held our Bingo Night at the Stranraer Fitba Bar. The night had a great turn out, there were lots of lucky winners of prizes and we raised a fantastic £1,345.00. One of our team members, Yvonne, won the night stay at View Lodge. We are so thankful to everyone who donated and took part in helping organise. Annmarie, Emma and Karen were pleased with the success and were glad to rest and recover after it was all over. A great night enjoyed be all.
It was then onto the annual Xmas Party planning. In total 53 staff and service users came together again at Stranraer Fitba Bar for food, music and dancing. A 3 course lunch was delivered by Colin Herron, which went down a treat. Music provided by Lianne Brown and there was plenty of dancing. We even got a wee song sung by Colin on the mic, singing ‘One Man Band’, who knew he was such a good Leo Sayer impressionist?
Safe to say we all looked forward to some down time at Christmas and New Year after a busy few months.
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