Bowls equipment has been donated to the centre. Picture: Richard Nunney.
The equipment was provided by Bowls is Bowls, who also want to raise awareness of the centre.
The New Age Bowls and New Age Kurling score wedge will give the centre opportunities to create income and generate room hire within its recently extended building.
Part of the wider Daventry Health Rehabilitation Trust, the centre takes referrals from many sources including the army, local authorities and doctors’ surgeries, but does not get any income for a referral.
Enjoying the new equipment. Picture Richard Nunney.
Its mission is to ‘show people what they can do, not tell them what they can’t’ and to ‘treat mind and body as one’, which has a natural link with the ethos of Bowls is Bowls which aims to make bowls in all forms accessible to every community.
Alec Hogg’s Inbox: Violent anarchy was little short of an attempted coup
“a sunny but cold Western Cape
” who writes:
I am no supporter nor apologist for our government and its present leader. I do, however, want to give some food for thought.
The anarchy we are witnessing was little short of an attempted Coup d’etat. We are all aware of how State institutions have been compromised. This compromise is not only the destruction of enterprise but the infiltration of ‘moles’ into the Intelligence, Military and Policing structures. (Why are the police being ‘defunded’ and the VIP Protection unit getting an increase? Trust!)
Forrest Co. deputies arrest two in Brooklyn area Deputies in Forrest County manage to arrest two people in the Brooklyn community area last week. (Source: Forrest County Sheriff s Office) By Renaldo Hopkins | April 25, 2021 at 10:00 PM CDT - Updated April 25 at 10:00 PM
FORREST COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - Deputies in Forrest County manage to arrest two people in the Brooklyn community area last week.
According to the Forrest County Sheriff’s Office, deputies put together a vehicle safety checkpoint in the Brooklyn/Carnes area.
One of the vehicles that came to the checkpoint was an older model Ford Focus driven by a woman, later identified as Tammy Rasberry.
completing two- or four-year college degrees?
You can think about this in different steps, right? First there is the step of going to college in the first place. And then the second step is persisting through college and then ultimately graduating. Our study found that some of the factors that decreased their likelihood of going to college were things like academic preparedness in high school, issues with mobility while they re in foster care, the number of foster care placements they were in.
And then interestingly, once youth are in college, when we re looking at their chances of ultimately graduating and earning a degree, I found that youth who are parents, youth that had to work extra hours to pay for their bills, and the number of economic hardships that youth faced in college real world difficulties, everyday taking-care-of-the-finances difficulties, and parenting responsibilities, are things that drove down their likelihood of persisting and
Youth leaving foster care should receive guaranteed income
Dave Cortese and Shimica Gaskins
March 9, 2021
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The debate over survival checks is front and center as millions of families face an uncertain financial future. While short-term relief for the duration of the pandemic is certainly necessary, the debate over stimulus checks has opened the door to a long overdue conversation about guaranteed basic income. But even that conversation often fails to address some of the most vulnerable among us: youth transitioning out of the foster care system.
A new report from The Appeal’s The Lab makes the case for direct-cash programs initiated at a local level that offer the potential to empower young adults leaving foster care not just to survive, but to thrive. Children in foster care, and particularly those aging out of the system, are often left out of conversations about vulnerable communities in this country, despite the significant uphill ba