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REACH OUT – Engaging & Breaking Barriers

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Nov

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REACH OUT – Engaging & Breaking Barriers

REACH OUT is a Women in Neighbourhood (WiN) project which seeks to engage women from a variety of cultural backgrounds through the medium of art. The project has received National Lottery funding and is coordinated by Gulnaz Brennan, Founder & Chair of WiN, working with team leaders Jenny Vining, Wendy Ann, Urvashi Tulsidas and Anna Kinley. The launch, at the Great Lever Connected in Calvert Road, was well-attended and enthusiastically received. Gulnaz introduced the project, which is about mosaic creation, with a central theme of Women. Jenny gave a demonstration, encouraging participation and practice while introducing the project and discussing…

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Oct

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PRANAYAMA (Yoga) for Women

PRANAYAMA FOR WOMEN Women are blessed as we are moms, we are the world for our loved ones and we are the ones who are sanctified with unconditional love. Oh! One moment we behave like a thorough professional and the next moment we wear our heart on our sleeve ... then we learn baby talk to make the little one smile. Seldom do we find a moment to find peace with the sounds of silence. Yes! In the sound of silence we listen to the voice deep within. This voice is our listener. How often we complain for not…

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Oct

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Second Helpings

'Second Helpings' is a FREE course organised by WiN. The main objective is to promote healthy lifestyles through healthy eating. If you are obese or overweight, you have an increased risk of developing various health problems. Even a modest amount of weight loss can help to reduce your increased health risks. The best chance of losing weight and keeping the weight off, is to be committed to a change in lifestyle. This includes eating a healthy diet and doing some regular physical activity. Most people in the UK live where tasty food can be found at almost any time of…

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Oct

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Get fit with WiN

As well as providing an online community for the women of Bolton to share, create and discuss, WiN also wants the town’s women to be healthy in the body as well as the mind. That is why WiN is offering the women of Bolton fitness classes in and around the town. According to government statistics parts of Bolton are some of the unhealthiest in Greater Manchester and, along with our cookery classes, WiN wants to make a difference to the physical health of the Bolton’s women…that means you! We also want you to play an active role in the process by encouraging, engaging and evaluating your own success…

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Sep

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A Journey Into the World of Mosaics

For thousands of years, mosaics have been part of interior spaces. Their start can be traced back to primitive man’s simple arrangements of pebbles into patterns, describing a direction or message. The techniques gradually developed through history — from decorative floor and wall surfaces in villas and cathedrals to the modern expression of mosaics as art. Mosaics can be described as the art of decorating a surface with designs made up of small, closely placed pieces of hard material, or tesserae. Tesserae glass material, known by the Italian name smalti, is opaque and brilliant in color and can be manufactured…

18

Sep

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Understanding YOGA for Stress Relief

Is yoga right for you? It is, if you want to fight stress, get fit and stay healthy. Yoga is considered a mind-body type of complementary and alternative medicine practice. Yoga brings together physical and mental disciplines to achieve peacefulness of body and mind, helping you relax and manage stress and anxiety. Yoga has many styles, forms and intensities. Hatha yoga, in particular, may be a good choice for stress management. Hatha is one of the most common styles of yoga, and beginners may like its slower pace and easier movements. But most people can benefit from any style of…

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Sep

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Cook yourself healthy with WiN

Are you a woman on the go? Whether that is a mum on the school run before work, eating a breakfast bar over the steering wheel; or a business women putting in overtime at the office that where your evening meal is a dinner-date with a vending machine. Do you yearn for a healthier diet but think it is too much of a hassle to cook something that is nutritious and edible and, therefore, find it easier to microwave a meal or tuck into a take-away? Well don’t worry, you’re certainly not alone and help is now at hand thanks to WiN. Joanne Pointon is a…

14

Sep

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Emma Gregson ‘Austerity’

Austerity affects nearly the whole of Britain, you have families struggling to make ends meet. Feeling guilty when they can't treat their children. Benefits being cut for important services needed. Some can't even afford cereal for their children which is main start to the day. You have social housing with rent increase and charging separate for repairs in their own properties or not even doing the repairs at all. We have more diagnosis for children with medical conditions like ADHD, odd, conduct etc You have parents separating due to money issues. We live in a broken Britain and for many…

14

Sep

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Gemma Aitchison YES MATTERS

My name is Gemma Aitchison and I want to talk to you about sexual objectification. This is my passion, what gets under my skin, what drives me every day. Let's explore what it means and you will see why. An object is something that serves a purpose for a subject. It is to be used to serve or gratify the needs of the subject. An object is replaceable. An object is disposable. You do not have to respect, consider or gain the consent of an object. You do not have to justify using or destroying or disposing of an object.…

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Sep

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Anna Kinlay ‘Children’

I was brought up in South Africa, and I saw a lot of poverty and hardship, but mostly it was the children who suffered immensely, many stood begging on the streets for food and had nothing. Sadly some of them were from homes where they were abused and neglected by adults. Hence of so many issues around the world, the one closest to my heart, is the wellbeing of children as they are gifts from God and yet they suffer most in many situations through poverty, hunger, war and abuse which surrounds them. Sadly some parents are poor role models…