Adult Autism Assessment Service Open Day
Autism Awareness Drop in at the Adult Autism Assessment Service.
Thursday 4th April 2019 10:00am – 2:00pm.
Harplands Hospital, Edward Myers Building, Ground Floor, ST4 6RR.
As part of national Autism Awareness Week the Adult Assessment Service are doing a drop in for people to come and see what the service pathway is and what information is available from both them and their local partner agencies Lifeworks, NSAAA, SAAS and The Social Agency, in the wider community. They will have a number of information leaflets and web resources and team members will be available to answer any queries.
Anyone attending can also enter the general knowledge quiz, devised by Anne Hegerty from “The Chase”, with the first prize of a luxury Easter Egg! The cost of entering the quiz will be £1 with all proceeds going to a local autism charity.
Lifeworks Open Day Merrial Street
Lifeworks had a fantastic open day on the 15th February 2019.
The mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme Gill Heesom came to officially open Lifeworks at our new premises in Merrial Street, Newcastle.
Our CEO Louise Zandian, our staff, trustees, volunteers and some of our clients and carers came along to support us, as well as professionals from the Autism Assessment Service, Job Centre Plus, N-u-L Council, Staffs University, North Staffs Carers Association, The Dyslexia Association and Radio Stoke.
The main purpose of the event was to network and introduce Lifeworks to new people and professionals and advertise ourselves through Radio Stoke. There was a buffet and cake, prosecco, and a raffle to raise funds.
Louise Zandian donated the cake and prosecco to celebrate the opening.
The buffet was sponsored by Morrison's Goose St, Adbeck Fabrications LTD and Prestige Roofing & Building Services.
Some of our volunteers, carers and clients donated items to the raffle. £86 was raised for Lifeworks which will go directly to us and will be used to help our clients.
Lifeworks would like to thank all who attended, donated and helped to organise this event as well as Gill Heesom for opening Lifeworks and Radio Stoke.
Gallery
New Address
We have relocated to 12 Merrial Street, Newcastle Town Centre, ST5 2AD. We are next to the old civic offices and right opposite Changes Cafe.
Please be aware that you will have to pay to park unless you have a disabled badge then you can park for three hours in certain places.
Please see below for parking charges. If you do not comply with these charges then you will get a parking ticket that you will have to pay. Please make sure you check instructions for parking charges in the location you decide to park.
Asda Wolstanton
Lifeworks has been chosen to be in Asda Wolstanton, please vote for us!Many thanks.
Office Move
Thank you to all the volunteers who came to help with our office move on the 3rd January. We could not have done it without you.
Lifeworks will not be up and running for another week or so. We will let you all know when Lifeworks will re-open.
Moving Premises
Lifeworks are hoping to relocate to Newcastle town centre and we will update you all when we have confirmed our new premises.
Because of the move there will no more drop ins or activities in December. However if there is something urgent that you need to discuss then e-mail or call us and we can make an appointment with a member of staff.
Tesco Bags of Help
Lifeworks received £2,259 from the Bags of Help funding from Tesco.
The three stores that were involved were:
Tesco Express, Hartshill Road, ST4 7NH.
Newcastle Tesco Express, Keele Road, ST5 2HN.
Tesco Superstore, 291 Newcastle Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 6PL.
Fundraising Event at the Stoke-on-Trent Repitory Theatre
Every year we hold a fundraising event at the Repitory Theatre on Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent. http://stokerep.info/
We sell tickets for a Saturday Matinee and a proportion of the ticket sales goes directly to Lifeworks.
We also have a raffle to raise extra funds and some leaflets are available for people who don't know who we are. Raffle tickets are sold before the play starts and the prizes are announced in the intermission.
Refreshments are sold at the bar, you can grab a drink before the performance starts or during the intermission.
Our next event will be in 2019.
Lifeworks, Emails to BT Addresses
Hi folks, Lifeworks email messages to BT addresses are automatically going into people’s Spam folder. To stop this happening go into your Spam folder find one of Lifework’s email messages and mark it as ‘This is not spam’. This should resolve the issue. We have made BT aware of the problem.
New Parent and Family Group in Leek @21
The first evening group in Leek was held in the At21 Leek Market Street, on Monday 20th August from 6.30-8.00pm.
Our first session was very successful with 23 people taking part which included a number of families. Pool, football table, Xbox etc were enjoyed by all and we had a variety of refreshments to enjoy.
Thank you to Ann Cager for the delicious chocolate cake!
We would also like to thank Leek Rotary Club who, through their donation, have allowed us to offer this further service.
Why not come along and join us for the next session on the 1st October 6.30-8.00pm.
