As part of Castleland Community Centre's growth, development and support to the community, dancing has recently been revived at Castleland Community Centre. Sequence Dancing takes place on Tuesdays (1.30 - 3.30pm), refreshments are included in the admission fee (£1) , a raffle is held and spot dance prizes are awarded. Some of those who attend went to the original dances and recall the memories of those times with fond affection.
Dust off your dancing shoes, come along and dance the afternoon away in a welcoming and comfortable atmosphere.

Earlier this month, the Charity Commission agreed to award the Drop In Centre charitable status in support of the continuation of our work for the community.

As well as providing recognition to work already achieved, becoming a charity will also bring a number of other benefits including increasing future funding opportunities.

Our thanks to Community Matters (National Federation for Community Organisations) who provided legal expertise and worked with the Charity Commission on our behalf, thanks Sarah!

We hope to hold an official launch later on in the year.

We welcome Marvin to the Drop In Centre core team. Marvin has worked with the Friday Night Club for the past 3 years and has joined the CYPIC Project to support our work with children and young people.

Marvin will be working on a number of new projects and is busy at the moment preparing our annual Summer Programme.

If you would like to contact Marvin please ring the Drop In Centre On Wednesdays (12-5pm)
Thursdays or Fridays (9-5pm)

The Drop in centre's very own Tanya Dee has recently passed her 1st year exam for CACHE level 3 award and level 3 diploma in playwork.
The course covers:

• An introduction to play and playwork in the lives of children and young people. (What is play ?)
• Ways in which the playworkers relate to, support and safeguard children and young people in play settings (Child protection)
• The playworkers roles and responsibilities in creating and resourcing inclusive and challenging play environments.(Involing children and young people in desicion making about the setting etc)
• The playworkers legal and managerial roles and responsibilities in providing a quality provision. (Filling out forms, health and safety,etc)
• The playworkers roles and responsibilities within the local public and professional community. (Networking)
• Reflective playwork in practice. (Looking back on the session and disscussing with playwork team how they think session went).

Tanya will not know if she has passed her coursework until September so fingers crossed!

We started off with three games of Hoy to get everyone warmed up. Each of us paid a pound into the pot for each game with the winner of a game taking the prize of £10.

We then started the Bingo session with the Flyer tickets, we then play the book of 5, and on the last ticket in the book is the "Snowball House".

The Snowball house rolls over by a pound each week until it's won.

We then have another flyer and then an interval, during which the football card £10 game is played.

Then we played 2 raffles. The entry raffle was drawn, and the prize was 2 free entry and free tickets each session. The second raffle was the prize raffle, where the winner took home plants, tea towels, handbag and a variety of cosmetics.

Also during the interval, Teas, Coffees, cold drinks, sandwiches and biscuits were sold.

We then started the second session of Bingo, with 5 books and a Flyer to finish the night.

This is typically what we do every week, if you are interested in coming along we are pleased to welcome you, but would like to know more then please contact Sue Brine (07805 323671) and she will be happy to help put you in touch with the group.

The Sensory Garden team recently took advantage of an offer witnessed in the Daily Express to purchase 280+ Geraniums and 140 Petunias.

On Thursday the 24th of June some of the team took advantage of the lovely Summer weather and planted every one of these plans in the central beds in the Garden.

We are still waiting for the money to come through to finish off the landscape work, but in the meantime we are doing what we can to make sure the garden prevails whilst we await our funds.

If you want to get your hands dirty the next time we go down there, please don't hesitate to contact us: