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The ‘Thy Kingdom Come Bolton’ Fortnightly Prayer Meeting

The Thy Kingdom Come Bolton Prayer Team hold a prayer meeting praying for our town every other Thursday at 11am for an hour via zoom. Everyone is welcome to attend.

 The next meeting will be on Thursday 6^th Jan at 11am. To join the meeting please use this zoom link:
Time: Jan 6, 2022 11:00 AM London
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6396969008?pwd=dzV0SUxQRk9jaXk1cGdzRGtjMGFhdz09
Meeting ID: 639 696 9008
Passcode: Deane

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 Interfaith/Uniting Communities Information

The Bolton Unity Project’s ‘Community Winter Walks’

Everyone is welcome to join the Bolton Unity Project (Bolton Christian Community Cohesion, Bolton Wanderers in the Community, Bolton Interfaith Council, Bolton Solidarity Community Association, Bolton Council of Mosques and Bolton Hindu Forum) on a series of 5 ‘Winter Walks in January and February aimed at bringing people together from different backgrounds in the Bolton community:

Thursday 13^th January, 2pm

Moss Bank Park to Barrow Bridge

Thursday 20^th January, 2pm

Guided walk at Walker Fold by the Woodlands Trust

Thursday 27^th January, 2pm

Rivington Reservoir – Great Hall Barn to Liverpool Castle

Thursday 3^rd February, 2pm

Tree Planting with the Woodlands Trust at Walker Fold

Thursday 10^th February, 2pm

Last Drop Village to Turton Towers

All the walks are fairly gentle and about 2-3 miles in length taking about an hour (although the tree planting activity will be on a steepish slope and could be trickier). Each walk will include a stop for refreshments either during or after the walk.

If you would like to participate in any of the walks please contact Keith Armstrong on tcc@bolton.gmim.org.uk who will send you more details of meeting points, directions etc.

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If you have any anything to share regarding initiatives or information related to faith communities in Bolton please send this to Philip Austin (contact@boltoninterfaithcouncil.org.uk ).

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Other Bolton Community Information

Humanitarian Response Emergency Contact Number

Bolton Council’s COVID 19 community response line offers vital help to people who need food or essential items – Telephone 01204 337221

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Latest Covid/NHS Bolton CCG Information

 Walk-in Covid-19 vaccination clinics

All the latest dates and times for Bolton’s walk-in Covid-19 vaccination clinics are on the NHS Bolton CCG website.

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Creative Self-Care Workshops – Ordinary Glory

Ordinary Glory are running a community based mental health and wellbeing co-creation project, funded by the Arts Council and Cameron Grants for Innovation in Mental Health. We are Ordinary Glory, a theatre for social change company based in Bolton. 

We are keen to connect with organisations who work with individuals experiencing mental ill health, in order to outreach to potential workshop participants who may benefit from the project.  You do not need to be a mental health organisation specifically, in order to recommend participants. The full details are below.In summary, the project is a short workshop series inviting Bolton residents with experience of mental ill health, to design and develop a peer-to-peer creative support pack to be distributed to a small group of people locally. The three workshops in the series will be facilitated by experienced freelance artist-facilitators with lived experience of mental ill health and supported by Dr. Samantha Hartley (Clinical Psychologist, NHS Pennine).The workshops will support people to develop and design the things that they feel they’d like to see in a peer support self-care pack. This could include shareable creative exercises, small pieces of art or craft that can inspire, well-wishing inserts, a comic strip or imaginative games that can be played alone. Participants will also have a chance to contribute to designing these care packs, before they are professionally produced and printed for distribution through peer support groups.
In the process, our main aims are to encourage and empower:

–        People to own their own creativity and be supported to produce something collaboratively
–        Peer-to-peer support networks
–        People to reflect on what helps them when they experience instability in their mental health and to share this with others

We are inviting anyone to take part who is over the age of 18, interested, and identifies as experiencing mental ill health. The half-day workshops will take place at St. ANDREW and St. GEORGE CHURCH, St. GEORGE ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 2BX on the below dates. As the design process is cumulative, participants will ideally attend all three dates.

Tues 11th January 2022

Tues 18th January 2022

Tues 8th Feb 2022

Anyone interested in taking part, or keen to find out a little bit more, can contact info@ordinaryglory.co.uk or call Amy on 07912 885646.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Amy Hailwood & Alastair Michael
Ordinary Glory

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Bolton CVS Courses/Events etc

Safeguarding Children and Young People
Friday 7th January 2022, 10.00am – 12.00am
This interactive course will enable participants to obtain basic knowledge about safeguarding children and young people and share learning and good practice.
For more information and to register, click here.

Measuring your impact – The essentials
Tuesday 11th January 2022 – 6.00pm – 7.30pm
“This has added depth to my understanding and will support me to further develop and understand measuring impact and change.”
With increasing demands we need to ensure the delivery of our projects and services our safe, strong, sustainable, and of course fundable. This course will help you to do exactly that.
For more information and to register, click here.

Easy Books Workshop
Friday 14th January 2022 – 10:30am – 12.00pm
A beginner’s guide to managing your group’s finances where you will discover simple ways to keep track of spend and grant award money, dealing with petty cash and more.
For more information and to register, click here.

Safeguarding in the VCSE Sector
Thursday 20th January 2022, 10.00am – 11.30am
Safeguarding is everyone’s business and effective safeguarding is more than just having a safeguarding policy, particularly in the current climate. This session will look at the wider issues which come under the safeguarding umbrella including recruitment, health and safety and how they affect volunteers, employees and beneficiaries.
For more information and to register, click here.

Level 3 First Aid at Work >>Register here
Thursday 27th January 2022, 9.00am – 4.30pm
This accredited training course is for people who have a specific responsibility at work, or in voluntary and community activities, to provide basic first aid to a range of people in first aid emergencies. There is a cost of £70 per participant.

Bolton Coaching Academy Q&A session >>Register here
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 12.30pm – 1.30pm 
Are you passionate about your own and others personal development? Are you interested in being coached? In the New Year, would you consider starting a course to become an accredited coach? Would you be keen to learn about a new Bolton based cross sector coaching academy, and would you be interested in being a part of the shaping of this exciting initiative?
If you have said yes to some or all of these questions, then we warmly invite you to join this online Q&A session to explore further how this new initiative may be just what you are looking for.  

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 Bolton Council’s Bi-weekly Bulletin and the NHS Bolton Clinical and Commissioning Group’s Community Partner Weekly Update

If you would like to receive the Council’s and NHS CCG’s bulletins you can get them directly by emailing the relevant contacts and asking to be added to their mailing lists:

Bolton Council’s Bulletin: Press Office – pressoffice@bolton.gov.uk

NHS Bolton Clinical and Commissioning Group’s Community Partner Update: Communications (NHS BOLTON CCG): BOLCCG.Communications@nhs.net

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 Keep Smiling!

 Did you hear about the bloke who went on the Big Wheel at Blackpool on the 1^st January. He was making a New Year’s Revolution!

Happy New Year Everyone!

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