Latest News from City Synergy

This page will keep you up to date with news about City Synergy, including new items placed on the web site, forthcoming activities, news about our fundraising etc

 

Evening Argus achievement awards

City Synergy were thrilled to be awarded the accolade of Charity oif the year at the Evening Argus achievement awards held on June 24th June 2008

Funding from the Robin Hood Pub

We were delighted to receive £1500 in June 2008 from The Robin Hood Pub in Norfolk Terrace, Brighton. Their policy is to donate their profits to community groups

Take Part

As part of this sports festival we have received a £250 grant to run a Tai Chi taster session, this will take Place at Cornerstone on Saturday 13th July 2008

Computer Course

Several City Synergy members attended the EyeT4All course aimed at people with little or no experience of using computers on May 2nd 2008, Click here for a report

 

Andy Cross

We were saddened to hear of Andy's death in a motorcycle accident on 14th February 2008, He was a much loved and valued volunteer in the early days of City Synergy and previously with Leisure Link, please click here for a tribute to Andy

Christmas 2007

We enjoyed a very successful Christmas programme, Click here for a report

Funding from Argus Appeal

We were thrilled to receive £1,000 from the Argus appeal which will help to fund the workshops we are planning with Spiral, 13 of us visited the Argus office in Hollingbury on June 13th 2007 and enjoyed a very interesting tour

Spiral Workshops

In October 2007, City Synergy started some craft workshops in co-operation with Spiral, a local charity for adults with learning disabilities. We are hoping to restart courses in the near future and would welcome any members interested in art or craft activities, please contact us for more details

New Fundraising initiatives

One of our priorities for 2008 will be to find some new funding, ideas include a fundraising Cellidh and having a stall at a car boot sale,

Proms at the Dome

Each year the BBC organises one event outside London which is an opportunity for schools and community groups to experience the unique atmosphere of the proms concerts, In 2007 Brighton was the venue and 19 of us enjoyed a variety of music on the evening of June 13th

AGM

Our Annual General meeting took place on Saturday 9th February at the Cornerstone Centre in Hove, and was an enjoyable afternoon which included a presentation from Kerry Leask about her work as Eye Care Liaison Officer. We also presented the City Synergy awards. thanks to all who attended, minutes will appears shortly on the AGM page

The following persons were re-elected onto the committee

Paul Gillett (Chair)
Chris Dutton (Treasurer)
Jacquie Campbell
Jim Lee
Keith Turner
Ruby Woolvern
Shirley West

Co-opted Volunteers:
Jonathan Dutton
Sue Joseph
Christina Mendez
 

Murder Mystery Evening

A Mystery sinking of the Oxford boat, the poisoning of the commentator, a stolen trophy and press reporters with a phobia of water were some of the surprises as Chris & Jonathan's living room became the river Thames (minus the water!) for a murder mystery evening in the 30th September 2006

The dastardly deeds of the competing teams were unveiled as Jonathan led us through an enjoyable evening with clues recorded on audio tape in the form of the six o'clock news and desert island discs.

 

Chessington

When we planned the outing to Chessington we thought this would particularly attract the younger members in the end 10 of us travelled, of whom only one was aged under 50 and including our oldest member, Rose, aged 95, this latest "Extreme City Synergy" saw us have a go on a number of the rides stopping short of the fabled Ramases revenge  

Craft Workshops

A variety of creative activities including pottery, mosaics and working with different materials to produce a variety of designs have been popular with City Synergy members and previously Leisure Link,

City Synergy member Jacqui Campbell commented on a recent show at Fabrica

"Fabrica art exhibition 'Running Stitch', on Mon 20th at Duke St, Brighton was wonderful, amazing what modern technology can do now. Really enjoyed the afternoon, fascinating to see how tracking, mapping and stitching on huge canvas people's movements around a city or anywhere in the world really is possible with GPS (Global Positioning Satellite). Never seen the like before and this would not have been possible even 2 years ago! Jolly good stuff."

 

Goalball

Goalball is run separately from the main City Synergy organisation allowing it to develop independently and find its own funding. The two organisations will continue to co-operate with news about Goalball appearing regularly on this site.

See the Goalball page for contact details

The Penalty King

City Synergy was pleased to be the charity supported by the makers of this film about someone who loses their sight but whose love for football gets him involved in a local pub team where he discovers a skill as a penalty taker, find out more about the film here

The Brighton Premiere of this film took place at the Odeon Cinema on Friday 9th March

See a preview of the film on Youtube

Tandem

In 2004 we purchased our own tandem. This is now located with one of our members In Brighton. It is hoped that we will be able to arrange some activities in the coming months. Please get in touch if interested

Web Awards

This site was nominated for the Brighton and Hove web awards organised by The Sussex Community Internet Project (SCIP), It was a privileged to be recognised in the top 5 from 17 nominations, we were beaten by the excellent My Brighton and Hove web site but it was good to be part of the event and to raise awareness of City Synergy and to promote the importance of internet accessibility.