Page 28 • The HERALD • 7th March 2024 v BRINGING THE GOOD NEWS TO YOU SINCE 1994 v Acorn Building Contracts Ltd u Reliable, local builders offering affordable, quality workmanship u Our employees are fully qualified and fully insured u All aspects of building undertaken including extensions, structural alterations, roofing, ground works, kitchens, bathrooms, carpentry and plastering u Drawings arranged u Insurance work undertaken u Local Authority Approved Contractor For free quotations and friendly advice please call Office: 023 8024 3336 Mobile: 07786 656865 Email: acornbuilding@gmail.com or visit our website: www.acorn-builders.co.uk You will not be disappointed Chris Hopkins Painting, Decorating, Carpentry, Tiling Free Estimates Photographs & references available on request Telephone: 023 8081 5210 Mobile: 07986 806277 An Open Invitation to Waterside Art Group’s Art Critique in Hythe Waterside Art Group invites anybody with an interest in viewing art or practicing art to a review of members’ work by professional artist John Edwards. is event will be held at Hythe and Dibden Community Centre o Jones Lane in Hythe on Tuesday 19th March commencing at 7.30pm. As always, everybody will be warmly welcomed for the fee of £5. A local artist and tutor, John will show the artists how they can always enhance their art by listening to the good points and the opportunities for improvement. Even those who do not take paintings along to be reviewed by John will nd that there is a lot to learn from his positive comments about certain aspects of a painting as well as from his gentle hints of how a painting could be improved. erefore this learning evening will be as applicable to visitors as it will be to members. It will even be of interest and entertaining to non-painters! e review will no doubt give a avour of the paintings that members will be entering in the group’s summer exhibition in the Centre in August. Full information about this sociable, welcoming art group as well as their programme of events can be found on the group’s website at: www. watersideartgroup.co.uk Alternatively, contact the Secretary, Andrew Rance on: 023 8084 5970 or: secretary@watersideartgroup.co.uk Potential new members are always welcome to go along to their Tuesday painting evenings for free to ‘try them out’ for a few weeks prior to joining. A painting that may be reviewed by John Edwards Patient Champions Coffee Mornings On Tuesday 23rd January, the Patient Champions, representing the ve local GP surgeries in the Waterside and led by Natalie McKenzie, enjoyed a lunch at e Heath. e group has only recently been formed, so it was a good way for people to get to know one another. e Patient Champions are a group of volunteers, representing each of the Doctors’ Practices in the Waterside Primary Care Network (WPCN). Using their local knowledge and with the support of the doctors across the WPCN, the Patient Champions have been asked to provide a range of socially based activities to help promote the health and wellbeing of patients. Groups include IT for Health, dog walking, Book Club and co ee mornings. On ursday 25th January the Patient Champions held their second co ee morning at St. John’s Church Hall in Hythe. ey had volunteers representing their IT for Health group, dog walking group and Book Club. People could go along for a chat and enjoy a homemade chocolate cake, a cheese scone or a homemade cookie, as well as tea/co ee and biscuits. e co ee morning was a huge success and people commented on how well they had been looked a er. Patient Champions coffee morning For more information about the Patient Champions please visit: www.wpcnpatientchampions.co.uk/ Enjoying lunch at The Heath Swans (Support with Additional Needs) Parents Support Group Families Matter run Swans (Support with Additional Needs) Parents Support Group, supporting parents and carers of children with all kinds of additional needs, as well as the needs of their siblings. Swans o er drop in sessions on Fridays during term time from 10am to 12noon at Cornerstone URC Church in Hythe, children are welcome to attend with you. ey also o er activity days during the school holidays for your child/children with additional needs and their siblings. 1-1 home visits are o ered if you would like to have a chat and nd out more. For more information about Swans visit: www.families-matter.org.uk, email: o ce. fm.hurc@gmail.com or call: 023 8020 7623 ART IN LYMINGTON Lymington Arts Group hold meetings in the McLellan Hall at Lymington Community Centre, New Street, Lymington SO41 9BQ, on the second Friday afternoon of each month (excepting February and August). Meetings start at 2.30pm and normally last two hours. eir next meeting will be on Friday 8th March for Ronnie Ireland’s demonstration ‘Still Life in Oil’. On Friday 12th April Artwork Critique with Mike Bragg. Visitors are very welcome and pay £3.50.
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