Hello everybody, welcome back to my blog, if you’ve been reading my previous posts then you will see that I’ve been having the best time at Jamie Oliver’s cooking classes. These have helped me gain skills and get more confident in my own kitchen. So let me tell you what I got up to in…
Our Fourteenth ‘Sparkle’ Event and Hub Christmas Pantomime Parade At the Hub in Harrogate we got together with people we serve and the ubu Team members to talk about finding a way to make our theme for this year, ‘Unite@Christmas’ something sparkling. We’ve thought a lot about the experiences and feelings that we share and…
Our thirteenth ‘Sparkle’ Event and Christmas Song, Joke and Poem Competition Stefanie who lives with greater independence, enabled by ubu in the East Midlands sent us a fantastic video of the ‘Sparkling’ event she and her friends and neighbours put together for their local community. “We talked about Christmas and what was important to us…
Our twelfth ‘Sparkle’ Event and Christmas Gingerbread Competition Dylan, who is 13 years old from Newcastle has a rare disease called Larsen Syndrome. It’s a condition that has damaged his spinal cord and weakened his joints. Dylan’s health took a turn for the worse this year and now he’s unable to feed himself can’t move…
From tinsel to trees, ribbons to wreaths, and ornaments to gingerbread men, the holiday season is full of colourful Christmas related décor. Today we are celebrating our tenth day of ubu Christmas Competitions and we have been looking for the best homemade decorations. Here is an interesting fact about a common Christmas decoration you may…
Our tenth ‘Sparkle’ Event and Christmas Recipe Competition Amanda from Spalding wrote to say “At this time of year there are lots of people who don’t have their family around to help them celebrate Christmas. After talking with my friends and neighbours in Spalding where we live, enabled by ubu we decided to do something…
Though we may celebrate it as the most wonderful time of the year, winter and the Christmas holiday season can be a particularly difficult time for many people for lots of reasons. This is our traditional time of giving, of being together with our family and friends and of thinking of others around us in…
Though we may celebrate it as the most wonderful time of the year, winter and the Christmas holiday season can be a particularly difficult time for many people for lots of reasons. This is our traditional time of giving, of being together with our family and friends and of thinking of others around us in…
Our ninth ‘Sparkle’ Event and the Mini Christmas Tree Competition Ian who lives, enabled by ubu, with greater independence in Middlesbrough presented a voucher for a sparkling spa day to a lady called Annemarie. We met her at Acklam Green Centre in Middlesbrough where many of the people we serve go to for socialising and…
Our eighth ‘Sparkle’ Event and the Homemade Christmas Decoration Competition This year the people served by ubu chose a theme for our traditional seasonal celebrations – ‘Unite@Christmas’. We hold events and celebration parties to bring everyone together, to enjoy each other’s company, to share the happiness and excitement that most of us are fortunate enough…
Our seventh ‘Sparkle’ Event and the Homemade Christmas Cake Competition This year the people we serve and ubu team members had no trouble in deciding what we wanted to do for our Christmas Sparkle event. Our dear friend Louise who going through a difficult time at the moment has worked for ubu for over 16…
Our sixth ‘Sparkle’ Event and the Christmas Table Decoration Competition There is a local church in Darlington nearby one of the ubu services where people, enabled to live with more independence sometimes go. Each year the Kings Church hold a free Christmas event for ‘underprivileged’ children. While most of us are enjoying plenty, even excess…