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In June 2012 brothers Keith and Richard Hopkinsons’s Challenge is to walk the whole 80 kilometres of the Calderdale Way over boggy moorland and through peaceful hamlets in 24 hours!
The walk will start at Clay House in West Vale and follow the route through Ripponden, Todmorden, Heptonstall, Pecket Well, over Midgley Moor, Luddenden Dean, Wainstalls, through the Shibden Valley, Shelf, Norwood Green, Bailiff Bridge, Brighouse and then back to West Vale.
“Little Stoodley” at Pecket Well
Keith and Richard have
been donated clothing for
the walk by Bagshaws and
have sponsorship from The
Bank Sandwich Co., Heath
Rugby Club and Simprint……
To keep up to date on this
AMAZING feat, check out
our website:
www.noahsarkcentre.org.uk
Keith and Richard are hoping
to raise over £1,500 for the
Noah’s Ark Centre and need
back-up support on the
day/night.
If you would like to be a part
of the support team please
contact the office on 01422
366911.
FEBRUARY 2012
FEBRUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER
If you would like to help
Keith and Richard reach
their target and to sup-
port the Noah’s Ark
Centre, please either
contact the office on
01422 366911 or follow
the link on
www.mydonate.bt.com
/fundraisers/
keithcalderdaleway
If you have any queries
please don’t hesitate to
contact Lesley at the
Noah’s Ark Centre.
Inside this issue:
10 Year Celebra-
tion Report
Rainbow News
Fundraising Up-
dates
On Friday 4 November 2011 the Noah’s Ark Cen-tre celebrated 10 years of supporting the communi-ty in North Halifax.
The Rt Revd Tony Robin-son (Bishop of Ponte-fract) opened the pro-ceedings with a prayer of thanks for the work that continues at the Centre.
Some messages
left on the day:
“How you have
grown over the last
10 years. I hardly
r e c o g n i s e t h e
p l a c e . ” G w e n
Sanderson.
“Carry on the good
work at Noah’s Ark.
Still miss coming
Sunday and all the
friends I made
here.” Marjorie Kil-
son
“Noah’s Ark—what
a blessing to so
many chi ldren,
keep up this won-
derful work.” Arnold
and Marjorie Spensley.
“Carry on the won-
derful work you do
here. Well done—
hope and pray you
have many more
birthdays!” Gwen
and Tony Knowles.
DEBT ADVICE NEWS
We welcome Andrew Sykes to the
team (which now totals TWO!), which means we can welcome more clients. Please spread the word and
call Peter Naylor or Andrew on 01422 364664 to arrange a meeting at Noah’s Ark Centre. More infor-
mation is on the website: www.noahsarkcentre.org.uk and
click on the Debt Advice tab.
We also welcome Phil and Linda Major who are currently going through training. Phil will be a third
adviser and Linda would like to offer
budgeting advice.
We are all volunteers but the ser-vice does need financial support as
well as prayer support, so please
contact Peter if you can help.
Our counselling services are as busy as ever. Last year we
saw 216 new clients as well as our existing ones from the year
before! We now have Sarah and Catherine coordinating the
Adult Service, with Natalie as the Young People’s Coordinator
and Andrea as the Rainbows Coordinator.
Sam is Counselling Manager overseeing all of the counselling
services.
Our pilot project for family therapy work is going well, and we
are making steady progress towards being able to open our
doors to external family therapy referrals.
Our fantastic band of volunteers continue to dedicate their
considerable skills to their clients, and lives are being trans-
formed as a result!
Sam Crook
Counselling Manager
10 Years and Still Going Strong!
Counselling News
Birthday cake
made and donated by
Keith Hopkinson.
Around 30 people came to share in the celebrations and to look at the new extensions. Jean Hoggard (co-founder) gave a presentation on how the Centre was formed all those years ago.
More pictures can be found on the website, www.noahsarkcentre.org.uk
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FEBRUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER
Great gifts from the
Halifax offices of
Provident Insurance
for the children at
Christmas – their fac-
es were a picture of delight and happi-
ness, they were so
excited to receive
their gifts…..it was a
lovely end to the suc-
cessful term at Rain-
bows.
We started a new
term on 15 January
and the children were
slightly apprehensive
- very common for
children when meeting
new people, but it was a
very calm atmosphere
at the tea table. One
child came back from
last term. We weren’t expecting him but he
had loved it so much
that he returned and,
although we are full on
both days – Tuesdays
and Thursdays - we
found a slot for him.
Feedback from a new
boy aged 9 on his first
day told his mum ―I
really like her
mum‖ (one of the
facilitators)
Our new facilitators
from the end of last
year’s training have set-tled in well and the chil-
dren are seen to
be making good
relationships
with them.
Andrea Turpin
Rainbows
Co-ordinator
We are keen to recruit more
Trustees to the Board. The
main requirement is that
you are a Christian. We
would particularly welcome
applications from people
with a good Counselling
background, anyone who is
ordained, and anyone with
experience in any of the
building trades.
The Trustees would like to
inform you that the Annual
General Meeting is to be
held on Thursday 19 April
2012. We will meet at the
Centre for 7.00pm. All are
welcome to attend. PLEASE
CONTACT LESLEY TO
BOOK.
Christmas and New Year at Rainbows
Report from the Trustees
for; it confirms that there are companies out there who value the work that we do with adult clients and are will-ing to support us in this difficult economic cli-mate.
[Many thanks to Cathe-rine for her hard work in putting the bid together — The Trustees]
With other funding bids in the pipeline, the team is optimistic that the fu-ture for the Adult Coun-selling Service is looking brighter. We are meeting regularly once a month on a Monday evening at Noah’s Ark to organise fundraising events for all the ser-vices here, with the Calderdale Way Walk as
The Latest from the Fundraising Team The Co-Op comes up Trumps!
The team recently re-ceived the brilliant news from the Co-operative Community Fund that it is able to contribute £1,300 over the next 12 months towards the run-ning of the Adult Coun-selling Service. This was the fantastic news we have all been waiting
our next big fundraising pro-ject.
Catherine Booth, Assistant Counselling Co-ordinator with Special Re-sponsibility for Funding If you have some free time and are enthusiastic about Noah’s Ark, please come along and join in the fun! The next meeting is at 7.30pm on Monday 20 Feb-ruary.
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FEBRUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER
If you don’t fit any of these job
descriptions, don’t worry—we
would still welcome your applica-
tion. All we ask is that you have a
heart for Noah’s Ark and share
our ethos and beliefs. Please con-
tact me in confidence on my
home number (01422 202927) or
via email:
Peter Naylor, Secretary to the
Trustees.
FEBRUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER
322—326 Ovenden Road
Ovenden
Halifax HX3 5TJ
Centre: 01422 366911
Counselling: 01422 300457 Debt Advice: 01422 364664
Next edition due May 2012
If we can email this to you and keep
our costs to a minimum please let us know.
Thank you.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:
Monday 20 February—
Fundraising Meeting at 7.30pm in
the Noah’s Ark Centre.
Saturday 17 March—
Coffee and Cake Saturday 10 am
to 12 noon - venue tbc. (An
opportunity to promote the
Calderdale Walk)
Thursday 19 April—
Annual General Meeting starts at
7.00pm in the Noah’s Ark Centre.
PLEASE CONTACT LESLEY IF
YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME.
* The web site is currently being updated so please
keep checking it for fundraising events and ideas
which will be advertised here. *
WATCH OUT!
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Noah’s Ark Centre
Mission Statement
The Noah’s Ark Centre exists as a resource for all in our community. It is a place of
welcome, where all may find the space to gain the confidence and skills to
overcome life’s problems. We offer non-judgmental counselling, debt advice and
support at every stage of life.
NEW HORIZONS COFFEE SHOP
AND NOAH’S ARK CHARITY SHOP
New Horizons is located in Wheatley Lane, Lee Mount. It does wonderful work in getting the community together for various events or just a laugh and a beverage (non-alcoholic!). Next door to New Horizons is the Noah’s Ark Charity Shop where you can bring and buy to benefit us and you! More details on the website—just click on the ‘New Horizons’ tab.