Moira is Running Again

Glenvale Unit Manager, Moira Roberts is running for her clients and Hall Lodge in a race that covers 69 miles! Well done to you Moira and good luck.

Film Review : Ghost Rider

Some of the guys in Sunbeam have started up a film club. This is the first movie they have reviewed. Nicholas Cage is a legend.

Here are some of the comments and reviews following our viewing of Ghost Rider : Spirit Of Vengeance on Wednesday the 22^nd Feb 2012.

Brian (Rosanna Staff) – Supporting cast were…breath-taking

Amanda (Rosanna) – Enjoyed it, a bit scary though

Helen (Rosanna Staff) – Very heavy themes

Colm (Courtyard) – Too violent and scary

David (Courtyard) – Good (how are you?)

Maureen (Courtyard) – Good, though I couldn’t say why I liked it

Arron (Courtyard, Student) – Hell yeah!

Tim (Courtyard, Staff) – Loud, ridiculous, senseless.. and a total guilty pleasure

Stephan (Eolais) - … Interesting!

Paul (Eolais) – Scary! Fun!

Thomas (Eolais) – Very good action, liked how Ghost Rider looked

Derry (Eolasi) – Nice, a little scary but funny

Ian (Eolais) – Not scary at all! Good.

Anne-Marie (Eolais) - I loved it, exciting

Sunbeam Photo Competition 2012

Well, it is that time of year again folks. Photo Competition time! The theme for this year is there is no theme. That's right, you heard me. There is no theme. We just want you to go out and take the best photograph you can. Get out there with your camera and really look at your environment. Something will apppeal to you, and only you, in a unique way. Perhaps the way a branch is bent in the wind or the pattern of puddles on a muddy lane. It's up to you.

Details:

Open to both service-users and staff (and families and affiliates of Sunbeam!).

Entry is free.

Photos must be submitted digitally - on a CD or memory stick or by e-mail, etc. (not printed out!)

Send entries to Sunbeam Media, Killarney Road, Bray.

You can enter up to 3 photos.

Entries will be assembled into a video and displayed on Sunbeam’s website, Youtube and in the Granary Cafe, SHS, Bray. As such, Sunbeam Media reserves the right to display and re-use all entries as it sees fit. (Copies of the DVD can be sent to units if requested).

First prize in the service-user category is a small camcorder.

First prize in the staff category is a digital camera.

More prizes are on the way and will be raffled amongst the remaining entrants.

Closing date - Friday, 13th of April, 2012.

Queries - call Brian Manning on 086 8532068 or email brian.manning@sunbeam.ie.

Video of the month - Supported Employment

It's been a while since we've had a video of the month so sorry. Here is a really nice short video from America on supported employment.

Cody has some good stuff to say. He thinks we all have a disability of some sort and that everyone has problems in their lives. We are all on a spectrum of ability. We are all human.

Dell Hang Out

Just a pic of the gang who attended training here in Training centre with volunteers from Dell last Friday 3rd Feb.
It was a great day as usual. Many thanks to our friends in Dell who really are a special bunch of people.

Everest Accomplishment

James Traynor from the Garden Team recently undertook some serious climbing at Mt. Everest in the Himalayas. Himself and his team did it all for charity. They climbed as far as base camp which is high up. Picture Bray Head.......then a bit more. Well done to him.

Video: A Poem by Nathan Phillips

The Courtyard - roundup

· The Super-Cook classes pictures are from the 17^th of January 2012 when Glenvale visited.

· The Funderland pictures are from the 5^th of January 2012 when we went up to Funderland with the Bray Lakers. It was fantastic aside from Ciarans insistence on getting on rides that terrified him! Though in fairness that is the whole point of Funderland isn’t it…?

· There is a picture of Laoise Byrd, a student from DIT that has been working with us in the Courtyard as part of her course with us. It is the young lady in the picture with Patrick playing cards. She has been fantastic while down here and we would love to get her some blog-space if possible!

· We also have two poems, one by Patrick and a poem by Gina, who recently started coming to us for literacy classes and has been doing great so far. I can’t remember if we sent you Patrick’s poem before though.

Singled out by Gina Wilkin

My name is jane

I live down the lane

I often go out

In the field and play

But I end up in the corner

Without having a say

Everyone says I get in the way

But I am the one who

Is trying so hard to let it all out

But I am really trying to say

Look at me

Yes I have just been

Singled out

By Gina Wilkin

A Love Letter to my Fiance by Patrick Power

Every other day in my life

Like some gift of language.

Make passionate our friendship and love

Siobhan my heart pounds for you

When I dream of you

When I am with you

I feel loved by you it makes my heart sing for joy

When I look into your eyes

You brighten up my day with your love

You are my friend, my true friend

I care for you I do I really do

You are special to me you mean so much in so many ways.

It is a dream come true to be with you, a spark ignited in me.

It must be true love.

Announcement

For the attention of all

Super cooks

The Courtyard on the Upper Dargle Road have started a Super Cook class on Tuesdays and have decided to invite different units within Sunbeam to join us every second Tuesday of the month. This has proved to be a very successful class and service users are really enjoying it.

We recently invited the Glenvale unit to join us on the 17^th of January. This proved very successful and was enjoyed by all, we are having the Flexi Service joining us on the 2^nd of February and are really looking forward to having them.

We hope in the near future to expand our invitations to family and friends of the service users. Enclosed are some photos we took when our comrades joined us from Glen vale north Wicklow.

Regards

From all the Guys at the Courtyard.

Guess Who?

Clues:

Member of staff.......North Wicklow........lovely accent.

Radio Interview about Friends In Deed

Mick Teehan will be on East Coast FM this Sunday, 15-01-12 between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., speaking about Friends in Deed. The presenter of the show is Ann Fortune.

Carol-singing with our friends in Takeda

Takeda Ireland and SHS launched their 2012 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Partnership in Takeda’s premises in Bray on the 20^th of December. To mark the occasion some staff and service users attended Takeda’s Christmas lunch and the SHS Carol Singers also graced the stage to lend to the festive atmosphere!!! Once the delicious turkey and ham was devoured, both John Hannigan and Greg Timmons (Takeda Ireland’s President and CEO) took to the stage and told the assembled audience of how much they were looking forward to this exciting partnership between the two organisations which both hoped will bring many benefits and opportunities to both organisations.

Posters - Help Needed!

Once again this January I will be encouraging members of the community to think about volunteering with Friends In Deed by putting up posters all around the county. If you feel you may be able to help by putting up posters in your area, maybe in a shop, a sports club, gym or any public space really well then I’d be very grateful!

There are a3 and a4 versions of the poster so if you would like some then please don’t hesitate to give me a shout and I’ll arrange to get some to you.

Thanking you in advance and wishing you all a happy 2012!!!

Thanks, Mick.

Mobile: 0866001031

Video: Garden Teams End of Year, 2011

Video: Difference Days

Many thanks to Difference Days for letting us use the video they made of the great day.

Inclusion Ireland Poetry Competition Prize-giving

Big shout out to all who entered the competition, especially to the guys who won prizes. There is an article all about it in the upcoming Sunbeam Times with some of the poetry in full.

From here, it appears that Stevie is controlling the President with a vulcan mind-meld and his laser-eyes.

News from the art studio in Glenvale

Out of a large number of entrants two of our service-users have won prizes for their art work in the credit union competition.

This is good news during these unsettled times and both service-users are delighted with their prizes.

The Festive Spirit

This morning Killian, Tomek, Paul, Ian, Andrew, Cathy, Nicole, Rachel and Selina decided that Brí Nua needed some Christmas cheer and attacked the windows with paint and enthusiasm!!!!!

Trip to RTE

Here are two pics showing BRI service-users who travelled to RTE studios last week. They visited the set of the Late Late Toy Show and bumped into some familiar faces.

Poetry - Inclusion Ireland

Last night 5 of our clients were honoured in the National Library of Ireland by Inclusion Ireland. The event was the announcement of the winners of the Inclusion Ireland 50th Anniversary National Poetry Competition. There were over 600 entries from all across the country. Last night the top 12 were honoured with a beautiful desplay of their poetry in a public event. Of the twelve poems, six of the entries were from Sunbeam House Services clients. One client, John Power, had two poems in the final twelve. The other four poets in the final were Stephen Browne, James Ledwidge, Patrick Grummell and Nathan Phillips.

It is with great pleasure that I tell you that James Ledwidge came third overall, a great achievement for James who received his prize, a beautiful handmade pen, from President Michael D Higgins. I am sure that you will all join me in congratulating James, John, Patrick, Stephen and Nathan in their wonderful achievement.

I have included James's award winnning poem below.

I would also like to thank the staff of Sunbeam House Services for their support for the five fine poets and all the other artists we have in Sunbeam. Well done everyone.

I'm Thinking - by James Ledwidge

If only I could turn back time
I wish I could see the boys
That I went to boarding school with
We shared it all

Good days, playing football and smoking at the back of the school
Bad days, getting slapped,
Six of the best and facing into the corner

I'm thinking of working in our garage years ago
Checking tyres and batteries on a wet day
Always on a wet day,
Or delivering groceries on the bicycle
I miss it still

I'm thinking
I'd love to see my father again
I was only six years old when he went and died
I'm thinking I would like to remember him
But I really can't, he's gone too long

They were some of the best days of my life
Good memories.

Summer in Rosanna

The lads from Rosanna have had a good Summer by the look of it. They took driving lessons at Mondello, met the Wexford camogie champions and witnessed the mighty Jon Bon Jovi in concert. Not bad!