Making more of Creekmoor

January 2006 Newsletter (web version)

We need your help - What do YOU want in your Community ? What issues do you have ?

We need to know what issues you have and what you want in YOUR Community. Please email the management team by clicking here. Please respond by the end of February. We are particularly looking for projects that will improve the amenities in Creekmoor; we have some funding available and for the right projects may be able to generate further funding.

The CCA is non-political, run by volunteers, meet every 2 months and we want all the help and involvement we can get. If you can spare any time, however small, or have a skill we can use, please get in touch. It's rewarding and you have the opportunity of meeting new friends and colleagues. Please ring 387473 if you are interested or contact any of the CCA committee listed on www.creekmoor.info

Dorset Police Ringmaster

Get immediate Police notification of issues that may affect you or your area e.g. bogus callers etc.! It is an automated telephone or e-mail message system - Ring Debbie Kelly on 227840 or e-mail her on Ringmaster.Poole@Dorset.PNN.Police.uk to register.

Dorset Wildlife Rescue

This is a voluntary organisation in Creekmoor, helping to rescue all kinds of animals. For more information, call 246555, 07780 997881 or e-mail on info@dorsetwildliferescue.co.uk

Friends of Upton Heath - protecting our heathland

If you interested in joining this very worthwhile group, please phone 256109 or look at the Dorset Heaths' Site - www.dorsetheaths.org.uk.

Creekmoor Youth Club

This covers age ranges 11 - 18. If you would like to attend or get more information, please call Carol on 605340.

Save a Life - Give Blood !

2006 dates for this vital service are Fridays 7 April and 25 August at the Youth Centre, Northmead Drive

EPD (Elderly Persons' Development, Northmead Drive) News

· BINGO is held every Monday and Thursday afternoon, 2 - 4
· A lunch club is held on a Thursday, every 2 weeks, all welcome

Please call Kay on 698160 if you would like more information on any of the above events

Creekmoor Library

Membership of the library is free, Free Internet access, Coffee Mornings, Photocopying, Jigsaws and all your local information Come and visit us at 34 Northmead Drive - just across from the doctor's surgery. Any inquiries please contact Rose Epton-Peter, Library Manager on 659289

Gardening - Naturally

"GARDENING Naturally" - lawn, shrub and plant maintenance, creative ideas and planting. Telephone Diana - 602427. Reasonable rates and complementary initial discussion visit.

Creekmoor and Oakdale WI

Creekmoor and Oakdale WI meet at St George's Church Hall, Darby's Lane, Oakdale, 7 for 7:30 on the 1st Thursday of each month. New members are very welcome. For more information, ring 246202.

Poole Public Patient Involvement Forum

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE NHS ? HERE'S A CHANCE FOR YOU TO HAVE YOUR SAY…………
Patient & Public Involvement Forums are independent groups, made up of volunteers. They make sure that your views are fed into the NHS. PPI Forums raise awareness of the needs of patients, and monitor the quality of local healthcare services.

Poole PPI Forums are currently looking into many different aspects of local health services including the closure of Hillbourne Clinic, access to Complementary Medicine, Poole Hospital Trusts policy on mixed sex wards, Patient Information and Hospital Cleanliness.

More volunteers are needed, so if you are interested in joining or want to find out more, please contact the Forum Support Office Tel: 0845 4500 418 or write to Poole PPI Forums, 896 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth BH7 6DL.