http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk Making the world of difference Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:34:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Although we only ran a car wash in July, the Service Users at Bishops Lodge had badgered Mandy into doing it all over again. All proceeds to PWSA. See poster below. Pictures to follow next week! http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/09/03/845/car-wash-at-bishops-lodge/ Activ Hastings is a website which describes itself as an online guide to Hastings. Gayle, David and Sanchia met with Mark Bradley from Activ Hastings on Tuesday. Mark has kindly put an article on the website about New Directions and in particular promoting our fundraising for PWSA at the Dragon ... http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/09/03/842/activ-hastings/ We are pleased to announce that the Employee of the Month for August 2010 is Leslie Reid from Bishops Way. Leslie has achieved her NVQ Level 3 during the month and is a helpful and reliable member of the Bishops Way team. Congratulations Leslie! http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/09/03/838/employee-of-the-month-august-2010/ Saturday 28th August is the 18th birthday of New Directions administator. We do not normally allow silly hats in the office, but we had made allowances on this occassion. HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICKY X X X  http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/08/27/834/administrators-coming-of-age/ After 11th September there will be a full report with pictures of how Girls Out Loud (New Directions fundraising team) got on at this event. In the meantime the text below has been taken directly from PWSA instant news.   If you live in the South East, here's an exciting day out ... http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/08/27/829/dragon-boat-race/ We can hardly believe that it is 2 years on 1st September since Bishops Way first opened.    We have all developed and grown in that time!  The staff team are now well established, those who did not have previous experience of working with adults with PWS are knowledgeable and well ... http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/08/27/824/bishops-ways-2nd-anniversary/ On Thursday 19th August,  everyone at Bishops Croft went to Eastbourne for the day.  We had a picnic on the beach and then went to the theatre to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  All service users and staff said how fantastic it was.   Mark was the star of the group ... http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/08/20/819/general-news-from-bishops-croft/ Barry, Ryan, Sam and Louise from Bishops Corner went on a Day Services trip to Legoland. We asked them to write a piece for the website on their day. On the 4th August I went to Legoland with my friends, I went on a water ride called Extreme Team challenge, it ... http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/08/17/804/trip-to-legoland-bishops-corner/ Last month saw Simon launch his stage ‘career’ at the Phoenix Arts Centre in front of a packed house, his Mum, his brothers children and some people from Bishops Way were amongst them. It was a long, but extremely entertaining evening. Grant is continuing to win his fight to lose ... http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/08/16/799/general-news-from-bishops-way-3/ Sam, Barry, Paula and Louise all went for an afternoon trip to Bedgebury Park and what an amazing place that is. We walked along Woodland trails and explained what was around us they had a giant adventure trail, it was very quiet with hardly anyone around and that’s when the ... http://www.praderwillisyndrome.org.uk/2010/08/13/794/bishops-corners-trip-to-bedgebury/