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Chief Executive Parpinder K Dhatt is participating in the YMCA Sleep Easy and sleeping rough for one night.
If you would like to support Poppy please log onto her donation site at:
http://http://my.artezglobal.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=311936&Lang=en-CA
The event takes place on the weekend of the 28-30 January 2011 and we will let you know how Poppy gets on! Keep warm Poppy!
At our AGM in December 2010 the Board of Directors presented the annual report and accounts for the financial year 2009-10. Please follow the link below to find out more about our year at SAFSS 2009-10.
Please contact us if you would like a paper copy of our Annual Review or if you would like a copy in an alternative format or language. Please contact Claire on (0121) 558 2198 or devmgt.safss@btconnect.com
This Thursday (13th January) our Parents and Carers Group session will be led by Shaam from the SAATHI Project. Shaam will be talking to our parents and carers about diabetes within the Asian community and keeping healthy.
If you would like to attend the session or know more about our Parents and Carers Group please contact Neelam on (0121) 558 2198
A big thank you to everyone who supoprted our Winter Celebration Raffle. We managed to raise over £50 towards the cost of our Winter Celebration Party. The raffle was drawn on Monday 20th December by Claire Bradshaw and Amar Hussain and the winning tickets are as follows:
Argos Vouchers – 304
Next Vouchers – 139
Cinema tickets – 296
Hamper – 165
Costa Coffee Goodie Bag – 136
Tin of Celebrations – 245
Green Goodie Bag – 148
Pink Goodie Bag – 241
Thorntons Chocolates – 251
Beauty Gift Set – 166
M&S Chocolates – 185
Thank you to everyone who donated prizes and bought tickets. If you havea winning ticket please contact Claire or Geeta on (0121) 558 2198 to collect your prize!
Snow outside our premises in Fenton St, Smethwick on 18 December 2010.
Winter conditions did not stop the SAFSS Winter Celebration Party on Saturday 18th December. The event, supported by Irwin Mitchell, went ahead despite the terrible snow. Food, dancing and fun was had by all and our thanks to Irwin Mitchell and all our staff and volunteers who helped the event.
SAFSS AGM took place on Thursday 10th December. Attendance was once again very good and several of our families came to support the event. The Board presented the annual accounts and annual review for the financial year 2009-10. Copies of these documents will be available on-line in due course.
Above Centre: Neelam Pallen (Manager) and Sayma Akhtar (Out of School Club Co-ordinator) from SAFSS receiving the ME2 award.
Congratulations to all our staff at our “Smiling Stars Out-of-School Club” who were awarded the Me2 quality kite mark in November. The award recognises, celebrates and promotes inclusive play in childcare and play settings for children and young people with disabilities. The award was set up by Mencap and organisations are audited by a young people’s panel of children and young people with disabilities.
Our feedback from the Young People’s Panel was “Smiling Stars should get the award because the building is accessible, the staff are sensible and talk to children in different languages because they are from different cultures and they do Makaton to let the children understand what they are saying to them.”
For more information about ME2: http://www.mencap.org.uk/page.asp?id=14940
Thanks to the law firm Irwin Mitchell, SAFSS Out-of-School are the proud owners of a brand new HUGE flat screen television!
Mandy Luckman from Irwin Mitchell LLP presents the new television to Neelam Pallen (Manager) and Rajvinder Shoker (Chair of the Board of Directors) from SAFSS.
Irwin Mitchell have been supporting SAFSS for a number of years and heard of the demise of our old television.
“The charity plays an invaluable role in supporting parents, carers and guardians in addition to the person who as a disability” says Rajbir Somel of Irwin Mitchell’s International Travel Litigation Group (ITLG), who has recently joined SAFSS Board of Directors. “We hope the television will go someway towards enhancing the lives of those for whom SAFSS cares.”
Photographs taken by and included with permission from Paul Thomas Photographic Limited www.ptpimages.co.uk
This year SAFSS annual day trip will be to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Thursday 29th July 2010. All SAFSS families and staff are invited to attend.
Any child or adult who uses our services can attend the daytrip free of charge and can also bring a main carer who is free of charge. For any additional seats SAFSS are charging a flat rate of £7.00.
For further information and a booking form please contact Kam or Amar on (0121) 558 2198
SAFSS have been awarded the PQASSO Quality Mark at Level 3. The PQASSO (Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations) Quality Mark, highlights SAFSS’ commitment to efficiency, effectiveness and quality. The Mark was set up by the Charities Evaluation Service (CES) and enables the voluntary and community sector to assess performance.
Mark Davis (SCVO), Neelam Pallen (SAFSS) and Carole Harte (SCVO)
For more information about PQASSO visit: http://www.ces-vol.org.uk/index.cfm?pg=329
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