Following the government guidelines on social distancing the GHRA have decided we should cancel all meetings. This means coffee mornings, the monthly Residents association meeting (one of which was planned for 19th March) and our Easter Event will all be cancelled until further notice.
Stay safe, stay informed and look out for each other.
The GHRA committee
We received this from Michelle who lives in Galley Hill and she is a dementia support worker for the Alzheimer’s Society, Dementia Information Service (DIS).
I am just emailing to let you know about our service, in case you felt this information was suitable for the GHRA news letter, or if any residents would like me to attend a coffee morning. Our contact number 01908 669404 or email, dementiainformation.service@nhs.net
The DIS aims to support people with dementia, their carers, people with memory concerns and professionals to understand the benefits of a timely diagnosis and to raise awareness of specialist and community services, post diagnosis.
Evidence shows that people who are well supported following a diagnosis are:
People can self refer or be referred by their GP, the Specialist Memory Service (SMS) or by a care home or hospital to the DIS. The Dementia Support Workers will assess information and support needs and support primary care with input to care plans.
Benefits for people being referred to the DIS include:
We also have a local dementia friendly activity group held every Tuesday 10am – 12pm at Swinfen Harris Hall, London Road, MK11 1JA. Please get in touch if you would like anymore information. Kind regards,
Michelle
Michelle Lee hee shiong
Dementia Support Worker
Dementia Information Service Alzheimer’s Society
Suite 433A,
2nd Floor
Margaret Powell House
417 Midsummer Boulevard
Milton Keynes
MK9 3BN
T: 01908 669404
Happy New Year!
It’s that time of year when many of us are thinking of making changes or improvements to the way we live. The attached toolkit is full of ideas for you and those you support, work or live with, on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. You only need to do #OneADayMK!
5-waysHi everyone, just a a couple of quick notices from your Residents Association..
Firstly, a reminder that tonight (Thursday19th December) is our final GHRA meeting of the year and we would love to see you there.
And secondly, as this coming Tuesday is Christmas Eve we will be letting our catering volunteers take a well earned rest so there will be no Coffee Morning. Please let everyone know so they don’t turn up only to be disappointed.
The GHRA Committee would like to thank everyone for their support this year and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
4 options are being considered for the Regeneration of Fullers Slade, all of which could affect Galley Hill in terms of traffic, amenities and services in the area. Please see below document for more information.
Fullers-Slade-4-Approaches-Boards-100719-FINALGalley Hill Residents Association has been awarded a gold certificate in our recent Helth Check by Milton Keynes Council. This is very good news indeed for future funding and is mainly due to a lot of hard work and form filling mainly by our Chairman David.
Jenna Smith from Milton Keynes Council | Housing & Community Group dropped by to the coffee morning today to give us the physical certificate.
In line with many clinical commissioning groups nationally, and in particular Luton, Bedfordshire and Nene / Northamptonshire, NHS Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group is recommending to GP practices that they do not accept requests for repeat prescriptions from community pharmacies. Work elsewhere has shown a high level of waste particularly when the patient isn’t contacted by the pharmacy before the repeat is requested from the practice. See below where we have attached a leaflet that patients will receive along with a personalised letter from their practice. Practices will also take the opportunity to promote sign up to on-line services.
Template-Patient-letter-Third-party-ordering-changes-made-002To all residents of Fullers Slade, Galley Hill and Stony Stratford Town
Your Annual Town Meeting will be held on Wednesday, 24th April 2019 At Stony Stratford Library, 5-7 Church Street, Stony Stratford MK11 1BD
Starting at 7.30pm
Agenda
Please remember that this is not a meeting of the Town Council. This is your meeting so come along and have your say. Ask questions and we’ll try to answer them.
Convened by Robert Gifford, Chair
Stony Stratford Town Council, April 2019
It’s going to be a busy time in Galley Hill for the coming week. The Galley Hill Residents Association have a few things planned and we would love to see some of the residents there.
Firstly we have our second Easter Egg Hunt on the 13th April at the St. Mary St. Giles School. Entry is free for all, from 12pm until 2:00pm. You can leave your purses and wallets at home, as there will be free refreshments, free eggs for all the children who complete the egg hunt as well as crafts and a free prize draw to win one of 10 Easter themed toys kindly donated by a GH resident.
All from Galley Hill and our neighbouring areas (Fullers Slade, Stony Stratford etcetera) are welcome to join us on the day.
Next on the list of things to do is the litter pick on 14th of April at 10:45 outside the St. Mary St. giles School. As always we are looking for volunteers to help us pick up litter around Galley Hill to make the area we live in just a little bit nicer. Just an hour out of a Sunday morning can make a huge difference. As usual we will be assisted by the Stony Stratford Community Church volunteers, who also supply the equipment to help with the task.
Finally for the week, we have the GHRA monthly meeting at the Small Meeting place above the shop, at 7pm on Thursday the 18th of April. It would be nice to see some new faces alongside our regulars, and hear what you think needs to be done to make Galley Hill a better place to live.
Also, don’t forget our coffee mornings at the small meeting place every Tuesday morning from 10am until 12 am, free coffee or tea, biscuits and sometimes cakes too. Come along and say “hi” to some of your neighbours.
Finally, as always, thanks for all the support for the Galley Hill Residents Association, from all of the GHRA committee.
With the end of February looming and spring fast approaching we thought it was time we updated you on the things going on in your local area and what we in the Galley Hill Residents Association are up to.
Firstly, our recent bi-monthly litter pick was carried out in February with the usual help from the Stony Stratford Community Church volunteers, so a big thank you to them and to the local volunteers who turned out on a cold and rainy Sunday to clean up our area. The next litter pick will be on April 14th at 10:45 if anyone would like to volunteer, the more the merrier.
In local news, we have been told that the next Fullers Slade Regeneration Design Meeting will be held at the Rowans Centre on 27th February.
Also over in the neighbouring community of Fullers Slade is this fitness group we have been asked to let people know about
On a slightly less positive note, our Treasurer and local Councillor Roy Adams received a call on Saturday morning from Eric, the Church Warden at the SMP, saying that he had discovered that the Arts Centre below the SMP had been broken into. Roy had this to say
“The villains, had broken through the bottom panel of the side door and then opened the main doors. Unfortunately, we couldn’t tell if anything had been taken because we didn’t know what was in there in the first place. They appear to have made a bit of a mess( but, again we don’t know what state the property was in before).
I had the devil’s own job of trying to get someone at MKC to try and take responsibility for securing the centre again on a Saturday, ( contractors for YourMK and the Council kept saying that they only deal with residential properties).
I’ve made the Cuture Dept of MKC aware this morning and they are sending someone to check up on the situation and make sure it is secure.
I reported the crime to Thames Valley Police on 101 “
As usual, stay vigilant, stay safe and thank you for reading.
The Committee of the GHRA