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Current Projects 2008 to 2009.

Below is a summary of this years activities.

Befriending

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Project Funders: Waveney District Council

As we grow older it is easy to feel isolated or that we can't make a positive difference to our lives. The project aims to value and support elderly people by offering companionship, sharing memories, encouraging a positive outlook on life and promoting physical and mental well-being.

Contact Details: Telephone 0776 533173 or e-mail befriending.sp@btinternet.com

Clothes Bank

Project Partners: Tenants and Residents Association

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Clothes bank collects good condition clothes for children from 0 years to 2 years in age. It then allows other parents to select items from those collected to use for their babies free of charge.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Community Champions

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Helping people to deal with statutory or goverment agencies, by accompanying them to interviews, writing letters or making phone calls.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Community Computers

Project Partners: Lowestoft College

Project Funders: Original grant from Suffolk Single Gateway, SAVO.

We are available to offer support to individuals who feel they don't have confidence in operating a PC, those who want to learn about the basics, find out how to use the internet and e-mail or have a desire to learn some item of software in more detail. We are planning with our partners to offer free courses on IT in the near future.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

DreamworX

Project Partners: St. Andrews Church of England

Project Funders: FairShares, Help an East Coast Child, Extended Schools

It is a street based youth project aimed at 8-13 year olds in North Lowestoft. The project is non-stigmatising aiming at the young people as individuals and based on need rather than ethnic origin or other labels.

Contact Andy Doring (project manager) on Telephone 01502 537798 / 07805035180 or e-mail dreams.signpost@btinternet.com

Dyslexia Support Group

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We assess children (and adults) for dyslexia and help people with statementing and tribunal problems. Session: First Wednesday every month between 1.30pm to 3.00pm at Signpost Gunton.

Contact Details: Via signpost for Sue Plant and Sue Willgoss. Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Fantasy Football League

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This fun project has been running for several years now and has been successful in contacting male members of the community. Although the league is in no way exclusive it was started by the positive dads group Signpost used to run. If your are interested in joining in for next season please contact us below. A small fee is expected for the league to help pay for the paperwork and prizes.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Food Co-op

Project Partners: Tenants and Residents Association

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An opportunity to buy fresh vegetables, fruit and salad. The bulk buying by the co-operative allows a variety of fresh seasonal items to be shared with those who want to take part, at a reasonable price. Bags of vegetables must be ordered the week before they are needed. The vegetables are supplied by the mobile shop on a Friday morning and sorted and packed at Signpost before being transfered to the Tenant's Hall for afternoon collection. Opening hours are 1.30pm to 2.30pm every Friday at the Tenants Hall (Hollingsworth Road).

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Friday Coffee Bar

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Open house for coffee and tea. Also to come and share fellowship. During the time the coffee bar is open various other activities take place such as the mobile vegetable shop.

Opening hours: 9.30am to 11.30am Fridays

Friday Coffee Bar

Project Partners:

Project Funders: Lowestoft Together

A periodical event where people can bring items they have finished with and want no money for. Those same people or others can take home other items brought to the Give and Take events.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Gunton Community Park

Project Partners: Waveney District Council

Project Funders: European Union, Waveney District Council, Lowestoft Together

We are a group of local people who are committed to working in a professional way to see the transformation of a neglected playing field into a Community Park that will be exciting, healthy, safe and environmentally friendly open space at the heart of our community; a park that will be enjoyed by all ages.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Gunton Partnership

Project Partners: Tenants and Residents Association

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Our aim is to bring together organisations and groups living or working on the Gunton Estate to identify and address the needs of the whole community. To promote pride in the community and to champion the estate. To co-ordinate community activities on the Gunton Estate.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Information Centre

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The information Centre has a collection of helpful leaflets from various organisations that are free to take as required.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Larder

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The larder was sent up to distribute food to those in need in the local community with items provided by local people. If you feel in need of support please contact us by methods below or come to Signpost Gunton on Montgomery Avenue.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Life Coaching

Project Partners: Probation Service, Community Payback

Project Funders: European Union Social Fund

To help people to find their own solutions to life's challenges and to improve on an area of life: personal relationships, work, achieving an ambition, making right decisions, becoming more confident, or just feeling down. For Life Coaching use the contact details below.

Contact Details: By appointment only contact Colin Napper or Gillian Foulger on Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Lunch Club

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An opportunity to meet people and enjoy a meal provided by the volunteers at Signpost. This usually occurs once a month. There is a small charge to pay for the food.

Contact Signpost Gunton on Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Mad

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Make a difference is involved in supporting, particularly by volunteer power, community activities taking place in the area.

Contact Details: Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Parent and Toddler Group

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The parent and toddler group has been running sucessfully now for many years. They meet on a Wednesday morning between 10 am and 12 noon. Because of its success they have a waiting list for new members to join. To join that list or find out about the group talk to Jan Napper on a Wednesday morning or use the contact details below.

Contact Jan Napper at Signpost Gunton on Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Pocket Allotments

Project Partners: The Yard

Project Funders: Lowestoft Together

Providing free 1m square allotments and providing the vegetables a manageable way of produce free, locally grown healthy veg.

Contact Signpost Gunton on Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Re-mind

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Project Funders: Lowestoft Together

We all have good days and bad days: sunshine and shadows. We can't eliminate the bad days but we can help one another to prolong the periods between the bad days: more sunshine, less shadow. Our aim is to support and remind one another of the simple steps that can help lengthen the period of sunny days. Re-mind will provide information, support groups, activities and life coaching.

Contact Details: Telephone 0776 533173 or e-mail befriending.sp@btinternet.com

Web Portal

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Project Funders: Awards For All

The intention of this project is to draw in all parts of the community to create a web portal full of up to date information. Local topics of interest, historical, environmental, community related and for all ages. The information on the site will be creatred by those who live and work in the community.

Contact Details: Contact:Telephone 01502 537798 or e-mail signpost.gunton@btinternet.com

Woodlands Area

Project Partners: Waveney District Council, Friends of Gunton Community Park, Green Light Trust, Suffolk Constabulary, Suffolk Wildlife Trust.

Project Funders: Heritage Lottery Fund, Waveney District Council, local area forum funding.

The plan is to develop a new woodland and conservation area for the community to enjoy for generations to come. Local schools are already involved and will be part of the planting of trees and plants, which is due to take place in Oct / Nov. Local Historian Ian Robb will be producing a community history information leaflet to inform local people and visitors of the heritage of the Gunton area.

Contact Details: John Fryers - Chair of Woodland and Heritage group. Telephone 01502 569192 or e-mail john.fryers@waveney.gov.uk

Stuart Halsey - Community Cohesion Officer - Waveney District Council Telephone 01502 523354 or e-mail stuart.halsey@waveney.gov.uk

Youth Football

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Project Funders: Original grant from Sport for All.

The youth football project supports a local team of children.