Social activities for people with sight loss, in the Brighton and Hove Area Argus Charity of the year 2008

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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, Click here for some further reports on our activities

 

Take Part 2009

Find out more about the festival and see how you can take part by visiting the TAKEPART09 page

Brighton Carnival

City Synergy will be participating in the parade on July 12th, see more info on our Carnival page

AGM

Our Annual General meeting took place on Saturday 14th February at the Cornerstone Centre in Hove, thanks to all who attended, minutes will appear shortly on the AGM page

The following persons were re-elected onto the committee

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

Co-opted Volunteers:
Jonathan Dutton
Sue Joseph
Christina Mendez
Valerie Mainstone

Christmas 2008

Click Here for a report on our activities over the Christmas period

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, See a fuller report here

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

World Sight Day

As part of world sight day we had a stall at Asda in the Marina on October 11th 2008, The aim was to increase awareness of issues relating to sight loss and to let people know about services provided for blind and partially sighted people, several City Synergy members and volunteers joined with the RNIB and East Sussex Association for the Blind (ESAB) to man the stall and talk to passers by

A big success was the buzzer game in which participants had to navigate a ring along a wire without touching it and thereby setting off a buzzer, this was made even more difficult by wearing sim specs which enabled users to see what people might see with different eye conditions or levels of vision 

Tai Chi

As part of the Take Part sports festival we  received a £250 grant to run a Tai Chi taster session, this took place at Cornerstone on Saturday 13th July 2008, further sessions were held later in the year

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, Our Friends at ESAB have invited us to participate in a further course in Sept 2009, please contact for more details

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

Funding from Argus Appeal

We were thrilled to receive £1,000 from the Argus appeal which 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

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."

 

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 2006

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.