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Hate crimes and incidents are any

incident or crime which is perceived to

be any crime or incident where the

perpetrator's prejudice against an

identifiable group of people is a factor

in determining who is victimised.

Any incident or crime, which is

perceived to be motivated because of

a person's disability or perceived

disability, by the victim or any other

person, will be classed as "Disability

Hate". This can be committed against

a person or property. This would include anyone who is targeted as a result of their physical

disability, sensory impairment, learning disability or mental health.

Stop Hate Crimes - Report it Dial 999 or 112

If you cannot make voice calls, you can now contact the 999 emergency services by SMS text

from your mobile phone. Emergency Text Service – 65999 for Sussex police

Disability Hate Crime should be reported. By reporting incidents, you will enable the police, local

councils, housing associations etc. to build up patterns of behaviour locally, and highlight areas of

concern within your community.

But more importantly, you can get the support you may need and help ensure that offenders are

brought to justice and cannot do the same to other people. An online reporting facility has been

developed so that you can report hate crimes online, if you do not want to report directly to the

police. http://www.report-it.org.uk/your_police_force

The police take hate crime very seriously and will record and investigate this offence even if you

do not want to give your details. However, you must note that the investigation and ability to

prosecute the offender(s) is severely limited if the police cannot contact you.You may also specify

how you want to be contacted and if contacting you would cause you any difficulties.

What can I report?

You can report any incident you believe was motivated by hostility based on your: disability, race,

religion/belief, sexual orientation, transgender identity. These incidents may involve physical

attacks, verbal abuse, domestic abuse, and harassment, damage to your

property, bullying or graffiti. Please report any incidences of hate crime, if you

need help with this, we can help report the incident on your behalf. n

AwareNewsletter of East Sussex

Disability Association

Issue 46 - Jan 2013

actively empowering and supporting disabled people

Disability Hate Crime on the rise

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Aware - Jan 2013

and do more to mitigate against this. Once

again the most vulnerable will be facing

the brunt of these cuts. Whilst others will

be moaning because a pothole in their

street hasn't been filled, or the grass verge

near their house not been cut, many

disabled people will be wondering what life

is like outside their front door as they are

no longer able to get support to help them

out. Others may be facing a future in resi-

dential care because they

can no longer be kept safely in the

community because of the caps to

personal care funding.

That sense prevails over changes to

welfare reform. That finally the message

gets through that Atos and others are not

suitable organisations to be controlling the

benefit purse strings and that perhaps

professionals who have a history with the

claimants, and indeed the claimants

themselves, may know more about how

their impairment impacts on their daily life

better than someone conducting an hour

long interview.

That the feel-good factor from the

Paralympics continues and flourishes.

A recent poll showed that many non-

disabled people believe that their attitudes

towards disabled people have improved

following the Paralympics. Let’s hope that

the momentum can be kept up and that

more is done to improve the visibility of

disabled people in the media, in public life

and in everyday life.

Lastly, in case my wish list goes on for the

whole of Aware, I hope for continuing

success for ESDA. I want us to maintain

our own position as the voice of disabled

people in East Sussex and for others,

especially funders and other benefactors

to recognise our value and support us in

our work to build a better future for local

disabled people.

Happy New Year to you all. n

Contents

Disability Hate Crime .............cover

View from the Chair.......................2

Editorial .........................................3

Warm homes healthy people.........4

ESDA services.....................5/6/7/8

Local groups .......................9/10/11

LINk.............................................12

Volunteering at ESDA .................13

Other news..................................14

Letters .........................................15

Events and contacts ................back

Editorial

Nick Tapp

CEO

Well it’s 2013 – and if you’re reading thisthe Mayan prophecy that the world wouldend on 21st December 2012 was evidentlynot true. Another year and probably earlyenough that some of us are still sticking toour New Year resolutions. I’m sure we allhave hopes and aspirations for theforthcoming twelve months – here are a few of mine:

That disabled people stop being demonisedin the media. Disabled people are notscroungers/benefit cheats living the life ofRiley in front of their enormous flatscreenTVs whilst the rest of society is at work. It isvery worrying that vulnerable people arebeing made the scapegoats for theeconomic crisis.

That Government realise the huge impact

cuts to Local Authority budgets will have on

disabled people, their families and carers

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ESDA - actively empowering and supporting disabled people - www.esda.org.uk 3

At the end of my first year as Chair, I can

sum up my time as a roller coaster, with

swoops and bends, bumps and blocks –

never boring, always challenging! I want to

pay tribute to the rest of the Board and to

ESDA staff for their loyalty and support

that have enabled me to come out of the

rollercoaster relatively unscathed! This

article is really the speech I should have

read at the AGM, but at that time there

were several reasons why I was not as

well prepared as I would have liked to be

and I am taking this opportunity to say

what I wanted to say then.

During the year we have lost two Trustees

and gained two more. I want to pay tribute

to the time, hard work and commitment of

Alan Cole, recently resigned, who served

the Board for seven years as Treasurer

and Trustee and is of course still active on

the ESDACS Board and in the Battle

District Committee. His contribution has

been a key part of ESDA’s development

over the last decade. Roy Neeve was also

our Treasurer for several months and a

steadying hand on our finances at a very

difficult time, thank you Roy and my good

wishes for a peaceful retirement for you

and your family.

At the AGM, Andrew Bruce and Dennis

Yates, who were co-opted during the year,

were voted on to the Board as full

members and we are fortunate indeed to

have the benefit of their longstanding

connection with ESDA in different roles

and their experience and expertise during

this time of change.

Change – a small word but it can mean

huge upheaval or a small shift or anything

in between. ESDA is no stranger to

change and this is undoubtedly the secret

of its survival. For some people, change is

immensely difficult, because it may require

a shift in their personal perspectives on life

in general. Others may welcome change

and immediately look at what they can do

to be part of it, because it makes life

interesting! We all, whatever our personal

approach to change, need information,

support and guidance and to feel involved

as much as possible in any changes,

especially those that affect us personally.

This is why ESDA’s Board and staff are

working at this time to engage and involve

ESDA’s volunteers, those people who give

their time so generously for little reward,

as well as seeking to ensure we meet the

expressed needs of disabled people in

East Sussex.

The current recession is the worst this

country has faced in recent years and the

austerity regime is hitting disabled people

of all ages and circumstance, whether in

work or not, harder than most. ESDA has

no option but to work within this context

and to do what we can to both address our

internal financial situation and carry out

our mission for all local disabled people. It

is a time when we can really show the

value we have in the county and we

welcome all suggestions and ideas for our

review that help us to continue to respond

dynamically to the political, social and

economic changes which affect us all. n

View from the

Chair

Sarah Playforth


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East Sussex will be spending an extra

£296,000 on innovative projects to keep

vulnerable people warm and healthy

this winter.

The County Council has been given

Government funding, by the Department of

Health, to deliver a co-ordinated

programme to tackle fuel poverty, build on

cold weather planning and support people

through periods of extreme weather.

The programme will be delivered in

partnership with District and Borough

Councils, the NHS and voluntary and

community sector organisations.

Vulnerable people, including the elderly or

disabled or families with children on low

incomes can get support through the

following mechanisms:

• Advice on keeping warm and well in

winter and signposting to help from

trained staff and volunteers in key

agencies and local communities;

• Advice on maximising income through

local money or benefit advice services;

and

• A Winter Home Check service for

eligible vulnerable households. It

includes a full home assessment and

advice on how best to keep it warm and

small preventative works such as

improving insulation or clearing gutters

or chimneys, and providing emergency

temporary heating. There is also access

to advice on financial help with heating

costs.

For more information contact

Social Care Direct 0345 60 80 191.

Cllr Keith Glazier, Deputy Leader of the

Council and Lead Member for Public

Health, welcomed the new funding. He

said: “Keeping warm in winter and

remaining healthy go hand-in-hand and it

is often the most vulnerable in our

community that suffer the most.

“By having a co-ordinated and planned

approach, we can help prevent

unnecessary deaths and illness by more

targeted help, advice and support to the

people who really need it”.

The Council is also providing more help

and information about being prepared for

the possibility of severe weather. Follow

the Council on Twitter at:

@EastSussexCC and @esccroads, where

it is tweeting on winter subjects using the

hashtag #ESwinter.

You can also follow the Council’s winter

blog at www.eastsussex.gov.uk/winterblog

and follow the authority on Facebook at

www.facebook.com/eastsussexcc

To find out whether day care centres,

libraries or other council services are

affected by winter weather, and to find out

which roads are on the Council’s gritting

routes visit: www.eastsussex.gov.uk/alerts

n

News‘Warm Homes and Healthy People’ for East Sussex

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Feeling unwell?

Make the right choices this winter, info

taken from the NHS ‘Choose Well Leaflet’.

Self care - Have some every-day

medicines and first-aid materials at home.

Ask your local pharmacist what kind of

things you need.

Pharmacies (chemists) - Check in your

local paper or pharmacy window for

opening times

NHS Direct 0845 46 47

For expert health advice and information,

24 hours a day www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

GP surgery - Call your surgery for advice

including out of hours arrangements

Eastbourne Station Health Centre 01323

726650 8am to 8pm 7 days a week,

including bank holidays. Appointments

available to everyone; you don't have to

be registered. Terminus Road,Eastbourne,

BN21 3QJ

Minor Injuries Units- (open 8am to 8pm,

7 days a week except during the following

times)

Lewes Victoria Hospital, Nevill Road, BN7

1PE 01273 402504 Closed Christmas

Day, open Boxing Day 10am to 4pm.

Uckfield Community Hospital, Framfield

Road, TN22 5AW. 01825 745030 Open as

usual including Christmas Day and Boxing

Day.

Crowborough War Memorial Hospital

Southview Road, TN6 1HB. 01892 603602

Closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day,

please use Uckfield.

National Pandemic Flu Service

Information 0800 1 513 513

Treatment 0800 1 513 100

Samaritans 08457 90 90 90

Sussex Mental Healthline (support and

information) 0300 5000 101

Monday to Friday 5pm - 9am, and 24

hours at weekends and bank holidays.

Emergency contraception Call NHS

Direct (no. above) or for advice, contact a

family planning clinic, minor injury unit,

pharmacy or your GP.

Dentist - Looking for an NHS dentist?

0300 1000 899 Mon-Fri 8.30am- 5pm for

appointments. Out of hours (including

bank holidays) Hailsham 01323 449170

Hastings 01424 850792

Lewes 01273 486444

Care Services, Adult Social Care Direct

0345 60 80 191 Out of hours emergencies

(Mon - Fri, 5pm to 8.30am, weekends,

bank holidays 07699 391462

Ambulance 999

If you think someone is suffering from one

of the following call an ambulance:

• heart attack (eg chest pain for more

than 15 minutes)

• sudden unexplained shortness of

breath

• heavy bleeding

• unconsciousness (even if the patient

has regained consciousness)

• traumatic back/spinal/neck pain.

A&E is for life threatening conditions and

emergencies:-

Eastbourne 01323 417400

Brighton 01273 696955

Hastings 01424 755255

Haywards Heath 01444 441881

Tunbridge Wells 01892 526111 n

ESDA ServicesInformation Service


Aware - Jan 2013

How it works:

easyfundraising.org.uk helps charities,

schools, sports clubs, community groups,

and other good causes to raise money

when their supporters shop online. So far

we've raised over £3 million for causes

throughout the UK.

It works in a similar way to many other

loyalty shopping sites, but instead of

earning points when you shop, you raise a

donation for your cause instead. It's as

simple as that!

You can shop with over 2,000 well known

stores and each will donate up to 15% of

what you spend. For example, John Lewis

will donate 1%, Amazon 2.5%, The Body

Shop 6%, some insurance retailers will

even donate up to £30 simply for taking

out a policy with them!

It doesn't cost you a penny more

The great thing is it won't cost you any

more, plus we've got lots of voucher codes

and special discounts so you can actually

save money while you help your good

cause. There is no cost for the good cause

either - our service is totally free.

How to generate donations

It's very simple - once you've registered

with us, when you shop with one of our

retailers, our system makes a note of your

purchase, collects the donation from the

retailer and passes it to your chosen good

cause. That's it! No hassle for you, we do

all the hard work while you shop as your

normally would.

Get started

It's really easy to get started (we don't call

it easyfundraising for nothing!)

If you would like to support a cause:

Support a Cause

1. Click on ‘Find a cause' and select the

cause you wish to support. ESDA are

registered as: East Sussex Disability

Association

2. Fill out the quick form to register your

details.

3. Find the retailer you want to shop with.

4. Click to visit the retailer, then shop as

you normally would.

5. Your donation will be shown in your

easyfundraising account within 30 days. n

ESDA Services

Fundraising

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Long weekends * Short Breaks * Holidays

Did you know ESDA Coach Services can

provide fully accessible coach transport for

holidays and long weekends? Using our

take and collect service we can deliver

your group, including any wheelchair

passengers and luggage** to a holiday

resort of your choice, within the UK.

Alternatively, our coach and driver can

stay on hand to provide sight-seeing

transport and trips to local venues during

your break. One of our regular member

groups recently negotiated a very good

deal with the Parkbury Hotel at Sandown

on the Isle of Wight. Their party enjoyed a

three night long weekend at the hotel

which they found had good disabled

access, excellent food and facilities and

very helpful staff.

Contact Wendy Hiscox on 01323 514512

for more information, we will be happy to

offer advice on planning outings and

holiday breaks.

Driver Hire

If your group has the use of its own

minibus then ESDA Coach Services can

offer driver only hire, so long as the

vehicle has suitable insurance and meets

legal safety standards. Prices start at £12

per hour (minimum hire 6 hours) and

means your group can enjoy a

professional service using one of our

specially trained drivers with vast

experience in assisting older, disabled and

vulnerable people.

Serving our Community

ESDA Coach Services Ltd is proud to

serve not only 19 ESDA Group Districts

but also more than 80 other eligible Social

and Community groups in the County that

offer inclusive outings and events;

ensuring that disabled residents and

members can partake in the fun.

Door-to-door service

Our midi sized 30 seat coaches enable us

to go door-to-door to collect disabled

people from their homes, which is vital if

they have no other form of accessible

transport. These outings give isolated

people the chance to socialise and enjoy

trips to venues they would not be able to

manage without ESDA Coach Services

and the support of their community

group/association.

Email [email protected]

Website www.esdacoaches.com

Telephone 01323 514512

ESDA Services

ESDA Coaches

Sandown Pier, Isle of Wight

** Our 30 seat fully accessible coaches have removable seats

to accommodate wheelchair passengers, mobility aids and

luggage. The number of passengers we can carry will depend

on the number of wheelchairs and storage space required. n


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Great news! Our bedroom display area is newly decorated and back in operation (after

water damage from roof leak). See our before and after pictures below.

Drop-in mornings - First Thursday every month from 9.30am to 12.30pm, all welcome, no

appointment necessary.

Guest exhibitors are invited to some of these sessions - for updates please look at the DLC

page of the ESDA website www.esda.org.uk.

N.B First drop-in after Christmas will be on Thursday 7th February

Would you like to receive emailed news and updates from the DLC? Send an email to

[email protected] with your contact details to be added to our mailing list. n

ESDA Services

Daily Living Centre

Before

Before

After

After

Photos from December’s drop- in

session at the DLC

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DAWNS attended the Forest Row Festival,

at The Foresters Green in Forest Row on

the last weekend of September, where

they were supported by Elsie

the Dalek. (See below)

We also enjoyed a cream tea at the

Garden Pride garden centre in their Cafe

Latte restaurant, Ditchling.

For the Forest Row Christmas Tree

festival we did glass painting.

Next year we have ten pin bowling

planned as well as emergency first aid

training. New members are always

welcome.

Our New Age Kurling club is going well.

We meet fortnightly in Ashurstwood

Centre. For more info contact Jo on

07759948788

DAWNS Chair

Disabled Adults Wealden North Social

www.esda.org.uk/dawns/701 n

Crowborough has grown as a group as

2012 has gone on and now has a good

number of regulars going on their trips on

the first Wednesday of the month. A bus

full went to the Roebuck Inn, Laughton in

October on a very wet day but

nevertheless enjoyed their meals and the

scenic drive to and from the destination.

In November ESDA took them out to the

Eight Bells, Bolney – a nice drive and

back, a lovely meal for a reasonable price

in a lovely pub. They enjoyed themselves

so much they want to go back there for

their Christmas dinner.

2013 will see them start with a

new committee.

Contact Marianne Colliard for further

details about volunteering with ESDA

01323 514531

[email protected]

1 Faraday Close, Eastbourne,

E.Sussex, BN22 9BHn

News from local groups

DAWNS Crowborough ESDA Group


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Polegate and Willingdon have had an up

and down year but have come strong in

the end. They have a new committee

which is up and running. They have

enjoyed trips to various places through

2012 and in October went to The Drove,

Newhaven for a nice 3 course lunch

followed by lunch at The Halland Forge in

the month of November.

Polegate and Willingdon had some

fundraising events in Polegate at

Christmas fetes. Christmas lunch for

Polegate and Willingdon was held at The

Langham Hotel. n

Seaford Kurlers

Well we are still enjoying our New Age

Kurling and attracting more members. We

must be doing something right.

The Wave Leisure Para Games day on

August 19th was once again a resounding

success. We were there to guide the

contestants and help with the scoring.

Eddie Kidd was there with the Olympic

Torch he carried.

We had our 2012 AGM in October and

elected our committee for the following

year. On the same day we awarded the

recipient of this year’s Bob Matthews

Achievement Cup. The member that gets

the most votes in a secret ballot is the

recipient. For his personal achievement

and his improved input to the club, it was

awarded to Jordan Meeks.

On the 23rd November, a group of us went

to the Brighton Ice Show. It was superb.

We were once again taken there by ESDA

coach services. We had of course to suffer

the usual abuse from Dave.

We love him really!!

The in - house tournament was completed

in November. The winners were Barbara

Bradley and Joyce Lane ( once again), the

runners up were Eileen Ward and

Jan Haydock.

We had our Christmas lunch at The Drove,

Newhaven. They really do know how to

put on a super spread with all the

trimmings. On our last kurling day for 2012

we had our usual mince pies. Delicious.

We will meet again in 2013 on Tuesday

8th, January. The next day a group of us

will be going to Starlight Express at the

Brighton Centre.

In the Spring of 2012, one of our kurlers

told me that she belonged to Seaford

Choral Society and that twice a year they

did a performance where the retiring

collection goes to a worthy charity/ club in

the town. She had put forward Seaford

Kurlers for the December performance. At

the end of October I received a telephone

call from Peter Sayers. He introduced

himself as the Sec. to Seaford Choral

Society. He said that after much

News from local groups

Polegate and Willingdon

District Group

Jordan with his keepsake of the Bob Matthews

cup

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discussion at a committee meeting it was

decided that Seaford Kurlers would be the

group to receive the retiring collection from

their performance of The Messiah on 1st

December, at St. Leonard’s Church,

Seaford. I was very pleasantly surprised. I

had to write a short article about our club

and say how the money would be put to

use. I said in the article (to be included on

the programme), that the money would

enable us to get a complete set of kurling

equipment up to Bradbury Court in

Seaford. The house is run under the

auspices of the charity SEEABILITY. A

number of our members belong to the

charity, some live in as residents. Sadly

some of their members are too disabled to

get to us, but are perfectly able to play the

game. After discussion with the staff there,

plus the fact that two of their members are

qualified kurling coaches, it seemed a

good idea to take the game to them and

give them another interest. Half way

through the performance of The Messiah

we showed the audience the equipment

and described the game. Since then we

have had some enquiries from prospective

members. After the event I received a

cheque for £460. A complete set of

equipment costs about £435. So we will be

able to achieve our aim.

I would like to say a very heartfelt thank

you to Seaford Choral Society and to the

congregation that gave so very generously

to our club. It is a very difficult time of the

year from a financial point of view and with

the knowledge that charity donations are

down because of the world financial

situation.

Once again – thank you to all concerned.

June Wood, Sec. Seaford Kurlers. n

East Sussex LINk is in the last phase of its

life and will no longer exist after 31st

March 2013. The new consumer

champion for health and social care locally

will be Healthwatch East Sussex, a new

organisation; East Sussex Community

Voice will be responsible for making sure

local people will continue to have a strong

voice in how the services they use are

planned and commissioned.

Sally Burfoot was appointed as the Chair

for East Sussex Community Voice in

October 2012 and has been getting

around the county meeting the volunteers

and organisations who will be involved in

the new Healthwatch structures.

For me, as the one remaining LINk

member of staff, I would like to take this

opportunity to say what an important role

ESDA, as a disabled people’s user led

organisation, has had in contributing to the

success of our LINk, one of only two

ULO’s in the country to have hosted a

LINk project. To those of you who have

been involved with the LINk, I hope you

will continue to be involved with

Healthwatch East Sussex, to make sure

the social values of user led organisations

are continued.

My heartfelt thanks to Nick for all his

support, the LINk could not have

handpicked a better host organisation so

thank you for letting us be part of your

world for the past 4.5 years. I hope we

have the opportunity to work together in

the future.

Elizabeth Mackie LINk Manager n

LINk


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There are many different things that go

into making ESDA what it is and that

ensure the services we deliver meet the

needs of our members. We have a large

number of disabled members and service

users across the County, we have a small

dedicated team of paid staff and the many

volunteers who give of their time to

support our work.

This support happens in a variety of ways,

all of them important. We have volunteers

acting as Board members, as officers on

local groups and committees, giving

information and advice at HO and

elsewhere, filling in benefit forms, keeping

the database up to date, pushing

wheelchairs on outings, making the tea

at club meetings, fundraising, people

looking after the garden at the Office,

doing odd jobs in our building and so the

list goes on.

All sorts of people volunteer with us too,

including increasing numbers of disabled

people. For your continued support we

thank you and look forward to many more

years together.

We always aim to let our volunteers

know how much we value their support

at all times.

One way we say thank you is by the

annual awards that we make at the AGM.

As you probably know we commissioned a

silver version of the ESDA badge and this

was presented along with a certificate to

the nominees at the AGM.

Most of the recipients were there on the

day and as usual they didn’t know they

had been nominated so this was a

surprise for them.

Firstly Brenda Cox of Battle DC who

meets with prospective new members and

helps them with their membership form.

Brenda has been with the committee for

over 10 years and acts as escort on all

their outings and has provided tremendous

support in all Battle’s fundraising activities.

Hailsham DC have nominated Sharon

Pummell, their Treasurer. She has been

the Treasurer for a number of years and is

absolutely dedicated, efficient and goes

about her role with true professionalism.

She watches over their funds like a hawk.

In addition she writes numerous

applications for funds and has had a lot of

success. Sharon also ropes in her

husband, Bob to help at collections and at

the Open Garden and he sells her cakes

at his workplace in order to raise funds.

Volunteering at ESDA

Brenda in the middle facing Lady Lloyd

Lady Lloyd and Sharon

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And Head Office have nominated

Andy Evans.

Andy is well known in the Eastbourne

community and to ESDA having

established the Eastbourne Area Epilepsy

Group of which he is Chair. Andy is also a

volunteer and speaker for the National

Epilepsy Society as well as being Chair of

Langney Area Panel. And that is before we

even get to his voluntary work with ESDA.

As a member of the Eastbourne District

Committee Andy took on a more active

role at the beginning of 2012: providing

essential support to Marianne who was

coordinating Eastbourne, Polegate &

Willingdon, Sedlescombe & Westfield and

Crowborough District Committees as well

as trying to resurrect Uckfield ESDA.

Andy soon became an indispensable

member of the volunteer team supporting

Marianne and the local groups; assisting

with ring rounds, booking venues, acting

as escort on outings as well as working

hard at fundraising for all of these groups.

This year Andy has been very busy

undertaking fundraising activities for

Crowborough, Sedlescombe & Westfield

and Polegate and Willingdon groups –

holding table sales, making collections at

supermarkets and writing to local

benevolent organisations seeking funding.

He is very popular with the members and

was vital in supporting Polegate &

Willingdon and Crowborough districts to

form their own committees. Andy is now

Chair of Polegate and Transport Officer

for Crowborough respectively. In addition,

Andy can often be seen on outings with

Hailsham and Peacehaven groups

providing valuable assistance to their

members as well.

His dedication and commitment reflect his

caring and generous spirit and his ability to

support many different groups and

individuals in many different ways at the

same time.

Andy was not present at the AGM as he

was busy volunteering …. However he

was presented his award when he was

next helping out at the ESDA office.

We hope that more of you will consider

nominating volunteers from your group

next year. You decide who should get it

and let us know why. The only restriction is

that we only give one per group per year.

So get your thinking caps on…

Contact Marianne Colliard for further

details about volunteering with ESDA

01323 514531n

Volunteering at ESDA

Andy receiving his award at ESDA


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Bruce Wake Charitable Trust

A Charitable trust assisting the provision of

leisure facilities for disabled people.

Operate three boats designed for use by

disabled people, based at

Upton-on-Severn between Tewksbury and

Worcester. Two are narrow boats

designed for wheelchair users and families

with berths for 6-7 people for holidays on

the rivers and canals of the South West

Midlands. One is a wide beamed boat for

use on the rivers Severn and Avon and the

Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.

All three boats have two hydraulic lifts, a

hoist over a bed and a specially designed

WC/shower.

Rates: from £575 per week.

PO Box No. 9335, Oakham,

Rutland LE15 0ET

Tel: 0844 879 3349

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.brucewaketrust.co.uk n

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Letters

Dear ESDA Coaches

Please pass on our thanks to Dave our

coach driver for his consideration and

helpfulness, which helped to make the

afternoon so enjoyable.

Best wishes,

Mr E

Dear ESDA Coaches

Thank you for the service you supplied us,

as usual the drivers are very good, and I

am pleased to now know you provide a

wheelchair, as one of our members needs

one now.

Best wishes,

Mrs S

Dear ESDA

Many thanks to Julia for all your help in the

past year, enjoy the flowers and

chocolates.

Mr and Mrs H

Dear ESDA

Dear ESDA

Using the DLC made such a difference to

me, it made me aware that I dont need to

struggle or ’put up with’ things, the service

showed me that it was relevant for me, it

was absolutely fantastic. Staff were very

willing and knowledgable, they offered me

ideas I had not considered and even

phoned suppliers on my behalf. I cannot

praise them highly enough.

Everyone should have access to this

service, and there should be more of them.

All the best,

Mrs R

I am aware with confidence, that ESDA’s

Information Service will invariably provide

the help required or point one in the right

direction to attain it.

Many thanks for all your help.

Mr P

Dear ESDA

To the wonderful and dedicated staff team

at ESDA, with love and appreciation.

Mrs P

Please note that the views or articles in the Aware newsletter are not necessarily the views of ESDA.

East Sussex 1 Faraday Close, Eastbourne BN22 9BH

Disability Tel: 01323 514500

Association Fax: 01323 514501

Text: 07564 932445

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.esda.org.uk

Disabled Living Centre [email protected] - 01323 514515

Information Service [email protected] - 01323 514521

Meeting Room Hire [email protected] - 01323 514500

Local Services [email protected] - 01323 514500

Registered charity no. 1042071. Registered in England & Wales as a company limited by guarantee no. 2979027.

Events and contactsESDA DLC Open Days

February 7th 2013 - 9.30am to 12.30pm at the DLC

March 7th 2013 - with guest exhibitors - 9.30am to 12.30pm at the DLC

Please visit our website nearer the time to find out who the guests will be.

AGE CONCERN EASTBOURNE COMMUNITY SERVICES

AGE Concern Eastbourne provides free services in the community to support older people

to remain independent in their own home. These services cover people living in the

Eastbourne area, including Polegate, Westham, Pevensey and Pevensey Bay.

The Home from Hospital Service – provides short-term practical help and support to

patients aged over 55, when they are first discharged from hospital. Dedicated volunteers

provide practical help, such as shopping, collecting prescriptions and accompanying frailer

patients to appointments. The Service also provides support and reassurance, as well as

providing information and assistance to access other services.

The Befriending and Forget-me-Not Service - provides long-term support for older

people who are living alone and do not have family or friends living nearby and who are

lonely, frail or housebound. It offers regular support and friendship either by a weekly

phone call or by a regular visitor to share a cup of tea and a chat.

If you or someone you know needs help, or you would like to be a volunteer, ring us:

Home from Hospital 01323 749854 Befriending 01323 749034

A huge thanks to Crippen (Dave Lupton) for the cartoon on the front cover,

Thanks Crippen - I love the ESDA tee-shirt!

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