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Nottingham Senior Support - By Fikula Madiya
Nottingham Senior Support Group is here for older
people from any African community in Nottingham.
Senior Support exists to work with the over 55s to be a
source of advice and information, of friendship, and of
opportunities to be active and to socialise.
We respect our community elders but the UK lifestyle
with its pressures of work sometimes mean that our
elders get isolated, lonely, and cut-off from life. Senior
Support takes that pressure away.
To make the group more successful we need to get more
members. The more over 55s who join us, the better our
sessions will be and the more friends they will make. Our
volunteers speak the African languages that your elders
need so they can communicate and be comfortable.
ask guest speakers to come and talk about subjects of
interest to our members.
Please think about the elders in your community and
family and tell them about our group.
Ask them to call Madiya on 07538 544374 to find out
more. The weekly sessions take place at the ‘Life at the
Centre’ church on Lower Parliament Street opposite
the Victoria Centre on Wednesday mornings between
10am and 12 midday.
With your help we aim to have 50 members by the end
of August 2017.
We meet every week in the city centre to socialise
as a group and to help one another with advice and
information. Our Senior Support volunteers also do
home visits and can provide help over the telephone.
We organise day trips and gentle exercise activities. We
The Sunken
Place
It’s easy to become frustrated with the
space between now and and what is to be.
You began your degree 4 years ago, but
the wait to finally graduate is driving you
crazy. You wrote a business plan 6 months
ago but 6months later, the vision is failing
to materialise. What’s worse is others
around you are fulfilling the dreams you so
desperately want to come to life, and although
you congratulate and wish them well, an aching
sense of disappointment and discontent lingers within.
The main cause of this is a loss of focus. Our tunnel
vision gets dislodged because we become distracted
by others finishing before us, or we give up prematurely.
The key is to remember exactly why you started in the
first place, and reflect on how far you’ve come. Perhaps
By Angela
Mwaniki Mugo
you started later because a ground
breaking idea that will of yours needed to
time to mature into what it is today.
The feeling of discontent is one I know
all the well about. I struggled with the
unleashed potential within me – but wasn’t
willing to accept that it simply wasn’t time
for it to be birthed. It forced me to learn how to
be patient and appreciate the present for what it is,
while hoping for the future.
It’s important to honour the space between now
and better. The present is not necessarily a failed
or stagnant state, it is simply not what is it come.
Nevertheless, it is still worth celebrating. All the fruits
of your labour: the stress, frustration, late nights and
tears will soon be rewarded, if only you hold on.