Issue 6
CHAIR’S MESSAGE
Yet another year has passed and we are celebrating Christmas and New Year once again.
Our 2013 Annual General Meeting was very successful with the organisation of another ‘World Café’ to help launch our
new Strategic Plan for 2013—2016. Julie and Jenny put in a great effort towards the event and we are grateful for their
hard work. I must extend my congratulations to ‘ Meatballs’ on winning the Lloyds TSB award recently. Well done indeed! Thanks should also be extended to Rosemarie Williams, Geoff Lees and all Trustees and staff who have taken part in
the review of Day Services recently. They have come up with a useful set of proposals for the Board to consider. Peter
Gray has provided some useful sessions for Trustees over the past months on the finances/accounts of VOCM and we
thank him for his work on these.
We at VOCM continue to support our beneficiaries and members and feel that our work is becoming more and more important in these difficult times. We are very appreciative of all the support and encouragement we receive. Finally, I extend
the compliments of the season to you all and wish you every happiness in the Year ahead.
Mahoneys Christmas opening
Governance
We are pleased to report that Mahoneys Social Club will be A major piece of work the organisation has carried out over
open at some times over the Christmas period.
the last 9– 12 months has been to review our Strategic Plan
and set new objectives for the next 3 years.
If members would like a little company and benefit from a
chat please feel welcome to come along.
This along with the business plan was finalised following the
AGM on 12 December when we held a World Café similar to
Mahoneys is open over the Christmas and New Year period the 2012 AGM event to gather attendees thoughts and contrias follows:
butions.
Monday Dec 23rd - 9.30 am - 12.00 noon (Mince pies etc)
Tuesday Dec 24th - 9.30 am - 12.00 noon ( Mince Pies etc) The Board of Trustees would like to thank all Services Users,
Wednesday Dec 25th Xmas Day—closed
Volunteers, Staff, Stakeholders and Trustees who have been
Thursday Dec 26th Boxing Day—Closed
involved throughout this process. We rely on you to influence
Friday Dec 27th—Closed
our direction in trying to meet the local needs of our
Monday Dec 30th - 9.30 am - 12.00 noon (snacks) community and people.
Tuesday Dec 31st - 9.30 am - 12.00 noon (snacks)
Wednesday Jan 1st—Closed
Vale of Clwyd Mind WEB Page
Thursday Jan 2nd - 10.00 am - 2.00 pm (being run by Board www.valeofclwydmind.org.uk
members (Chip Butties + party food)
Friday Jan 3rd —Closed
The organisation has developed our WEB page thanks to the
Open as usual from Monday 6th January 2014.
work of Julie Pierce our Business Support Manager who took
up post in March 2013.
Meatballs News -Well Done
The singing group have been once
again been very busy over the last 6
months. They performed with the
ACQUIRE Community Choir in a
fundraiser which raised £800 towards
Mahoneys.
They have also performed at the
Eisteddfod and most recently won a
Lloyds TSB first prize award of
£3000. They managed to achieve over
46% of votes against other stiff competition in the area.
We hope you will have had a moment to look at this and agree
that it is a massive improvement and gives a lot of information
about our work.
Annual General Meeting
Vale of Clwyd Mind held our AGM on the 12 December
2013 at the Wellington Road Community Centre, Rhyl. We
thank our guests from Birmingham Mind who came and
shared their experiences of Change
Management with us.
Thanks to those attending for all your
support. All Trustee were re-elected to
serve on the Board for another year.
Vale of Clwyd Mind Big Annual Conference
Once again VOCM have organised an annual conference which was held at Venue Cymru, Llandudno on
15 November 2013.
The theme of this years conference was:
Risk, Resilience and Recovery.
130 delegates attended which was a huge success.
Y Gelli
Welcome to Cassie Moxon—New Secretary for Y Gelli and for the
Board who took up post on 2 September 2013.
She has a milestone to compete with, as our long serving secretary
Trisha Morgan retired after 22 years service.
Here's to the next 20!!
This was an extremely
well organised event and
thanks must go to Julie
Pierce and Jenny Bolton
for planning the day and
for other members who
helped on the day to
ensure it went like Pictured left to right Cassie,
clockwork.
Jenny, Elaine and Julie
Interesting workshops and
speakers included talks on
Mindfulness, Meditation,
Mental health at work and
Positive Psychology.
Halloween at Y Gelli
Thanks to Darren Mercer
and associates for sponsoring
our event.
A fun evening was held at Y Gelli on Halloween night.
Rural Support Services
The Reflections Group, Llangollen and the TiM
Project, Denbigh joined together for their Christmas Party at the Bridge End in Llangollen. We
were joined by many Group Members, Board
Members, Volunteers and Staff to enjoy a
wonderful lunch. It was fantastic to see
members enjoying a Christmas catch up and the
members mixing together.
Pictured are Sonia, Joanne and Elizabeth dressed for the occasion
and what an improvement!! Although I am worried we may be
starving our staff.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014
Come along and celebrate the new year of
2014 with Jenny, Jane and Ros
Thursday 2nd January 2014
Mahoney,s
15 Bedford Street, Rhyl
10am onwards till approx. 2ish
Chip butties, party food & lots of fun and
laughter
All welcome, we look forward to seeing
you there
Sad News
Barbara Howells passed away on 9 December 2013.
She was a founder member of Vale of Clwyd Mind in
the 1980’s and Trustee before becoming our first
Director of Services, prior to the appointment of our
current Director Our condolences go out to her son,
Robert and all the family.
The Board and Management wish to
acknowledge their gratitude to all the Staff
and Volunteers who work tirelessly to
provide a quality service.
From all at Vale of Clwyd Mind and the
Editors of the Newsletter we wish you all a
Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy
New Year.