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Hitchin get together meeting report

Group Meeting

28th January 2023

Twelve of us got together at the Orange Tree pub in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It was good to see familiar faces as well as members that have returned after a few years. Great to catch up & spend  time with HSP’rs, face to face, after a long wait.

Birmingham Pre-Christmas Lunch

Christmas

26 November 2022
It was great to have 16 people meet up at the Packhorse Pub on Saturday 26th November for a pre-Christmas Lunch and was really lovely to welcome four new members plus partners/friends.

Milford’s November Sunday Afternoon Tea

20 November 2022
With this being the first Sunday Milford meeting since lockdown, there was a lot of catching up to do. Our speaker was Paul Graham, from the Queen Elizabeth Foundation for Disabled People (QEF) Mobility Services.

Scotland Zoom Meeting Report

22nd October 2022
The meeting went ahead despite the muddle of Meta Rejigging of Facebook, and several zoomed including some new. We spent a lot of time talking about rollators, bikes and other rural mobility aids that could cope with tough surfaces as well as what adjustments Motorbility might make.

Colchester Branch Meeting Report

Group Meeting

16th October 2022
We met at Feering Community Centre, near Colchester in Essex on Sunday, 16th October 2022.  Most of us were regular attenders but we were delighted to be joined, for the first time, by one of our members from Cambridge.

Zoom for Families with Children & Young People Report

18th May 2022
A lovely group zoom with seven people and everyone happy to introduce themselves. One person had very recently developed hearing difficulties and decided to leave. He said that he’d be very happy to be included in the next meeting.

Colchester Branch Meeting Report

Group Meeting

10th April 2022
We met at Feering Community Centre, near Colchester in Essex on Sunday, 10th April for our first face-to-face meeting since October 2019.  It was so good to meet in person again.

Hitchin get together report

Group Meeting

30th April 2022
The Hitchin Get together was held on the 30th April 2022 @ 13.30 @ the Orange Tree pub. It was the first face to face meet up since the pandemic began in 2020.

Milford meeting report – So good!

23rd April 2022
During the afternoon, I heard these words many times. Why? So good to see each other again. So good to be able to chat and share again. So good not to be the only one with a funny walk. This last comment was surprising, but confirms the benefits of meeting with others with the same disability.

Birmingham meeting report

9th April 2022
We would have loved to have had a face-to-face meeting here in Birmingham in April but the meetings are held  in a Day Centre Facility and Covid restrictions still haven’t allowed us to return there as yet. We are hopeful for October.