🎶Healing Voices🎶
Have a wonderful Christmas everyone!
Singing for Wellbeing: Are you struggling to deal with life at the moment? Do you often feel lonely? Suffering from depression? Do you have health problems? Are you recently bereaved? Maybe you have dementia? Or are just fed up with things at the moment? Or do you just love singing?
Come and join us at Healing Voices!
🎶Come along for an hour of fun singing, with all music provided, followed by a cuppa and biscuits🎶
😊Ditton Community Centre 3.30pm- 5pm😊
Usually the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month
9th & 23rd January
13th & 27th February
13th & 27th March
10th & 24th April
8th & 22nd May
12th & 26th June
10th July
Donation appreciated, to include a cuppa and a biscuit
🎄Fabulous Christmas Fun!…..🎄
We had a fabulous fun sing together when we met on Halloween 🎃
📕📗📘📙Also, This is a post from Cllr Andrew Kennedy….
”I was very pleased when Helen, the Tesco (Lunsford Park) Community Champion, invited me to nominate a local voluntary group to be the beneficiary from their Christmas Book Exchange.
Tesco shoppers will know that at the front of the store there is a book area where shoppers can pick up a second hand book in exchange for a donation. the money collected is donated to a local charity.
After a great deal of consideration, I have nominated Healing Voices based at Ditton Community Centre and run by the amazing Kathryn Ridgeway.
Healing Voices does amazing work locally with up to 100 people participating in community singing and mindfulness. They support people coping with bereavement, loneliness and social isolation- and helping members regain confidence and make new friends. When I last attended to present them with a cheque to buy new song books, I met people from Larkfield, East Malling, West Malling, Wateringbury, Ditton, Aylesford, Eccles, Burham and Maidstone. I am full of admiration for what they do.
so if you shop in Tesco, please pick up a book and make a donation in the sure knowledge that your money will be going to a local voluntary group that does great work in our community.”
Thank you to Margaret for leading us in making origami love hearts during our singing session on 29th February❤️
And here are some pictures from our Zentangle session before Christmas
Fantastic singing workshop in November at All Saints Church! Thank you to Chaz Bedford for these lovely photos of the workshop and Healing Voice members leading everyone in a rousing sing song of Sweet Caroline 🎉
Thank you to all those who sang in our recording of ‘Thank you for Being a Friend’ as part of Dementia Awareness in July. Many thanks to Paul for recording this for us….
In March we were awarded £300 for resources from Andrew Kennedy, a Kent Mental Health Champion. Chas Bedford took some wonderful photos of the session. 😊
“I really enjoy Healing Voices! You don’t have to be good at singing, we just really have a laugh! I always come away happier.”
“A friendly, welcoming group which lifts our spirits. Singing makes us happy Good to meet others and Kathryn makes it so fun! We always end up laughing!”
“Very relaxing, enjoyable sessions Very welcoming. Enjoy meeting new people and having tea, coffee and biscuits.”
“Pain has kept me indoors for so long. Whilst singing the pain subsides. Thank you Healing Voices.”
