Winthrop Pop Up Cafés and Craft Fairs
These are very popular events and a great opportunity to meet up with friends and family just before Christmas and enjoy a cuppa together and bag a few stocking fillers!
These evets are being held on Wednesday 4th December and Wednesday 11th December at Wickersley Community Centre, Bawtry Road, Wickersley S66 1JJ and are between 9.30am and 12.00pm.
Winthrop Men’s Group
This group is for older men living alone and Winthrop is pleased to provide a monthly opportunity for them to get together for a cuppa, quiz, soup and a chat. The current guys are friendly and welcoming and really enjoy meeting together and making new friendships – which we know from experience is not the easiest thing to do as you get older. Know anyone who might be interested? Interested yourself? Please help to spread the word.
The group meets on the first Thursday morning of every month except January between 10.30am and 12.30pm. The next meeting of the group is on Thursday 5th December at Winthrop Gardens, Second Lane (off Morthen Road), Wickersley S66 1EE.
Winthrop Memory Café
Winthrop’s popular volunteer-run café for people living with dementia and their carers has been running since 2017. The Café is held on first and third Fridays of the month and those with Wickersley or Winthrop connection are given a priority. Due to the limitations of space available, this is not a drop-in activity and if you’re interested please call 07397 039226 to enquire about a place.
They’ll be accepting new guests in 2025 and their first Memory Café of the new year will be held on Friday 7th February.
International Women’s Day 2025
Following on from Winthrop’s very successful event in March 2024, they are in the process of developing their 2025 International Women’s Day event. They are looking for partners to help them support their chosen charity, the Toybox appeal (www.toybox.org.uk) who work with street children across the world – raising funds to help them register children and get them a birth certificate – their first step to moving off the streets.
Their project in Kenya seems particularly appropriate for International Women’s Day as it will enable girls and women in Wickersley to work together to help girls and young women in Kenya.
This project in Nairobi is called ‘Wezesha’ which means ‘to empower’ and works with women and girls, many of whom lack access to identification documents, thus limiting their ability to access essential services such as healthcare and education. This project focuses on supporting women and girls to get their birth certificates and identity documents as well as providing training to help build their resilience through economic empowerment and awareness of their rights.
Fundraising from the event could make a real difference. Providing young children with birth certificates costs an average of £12.00 and providing business startup kits (for example sewing machines and equipment for young women training in tailoring) costs £115.00 per person.
Winthrop’s event will be on Friday 7th March 2025 – the day before International Women’s Day and will be held at Wickersley Community Centre, 3.00pm for 3.30pm to 5.30pm.
They’re at the early stages in their planning – so if you think this is something your organisation might like to partner up with us on please do get in touch by calling Anna Chester on 07937 039226.