The latest issue of the OPAL Newsletter celebrates our fantastic OPAL volunteers. You can read the latest news and stories here, including a report from our volunteers’ event on 7th June and the outcome of our latest volunteers’ survey.
Join us on Thursday 22nd June from 5pm – 7.30pm at Nicholaston Lodge, Cross Lanes, Oscroft, CH3 8NQ
for tea & cake in the gardens, and as the evening unfolds, enjoy a glass of fizz as you wander around.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.buytickets.at/opalservices
Or email Juliet at Juliet.compston@opalservices.org.uk
£12 per person plus raffle.
To celebrate the King’s Coronation, Kelsall OPAL Club held a fundraising coffee morning on Big Help Out Monday, 8th May 2023 at Kelsall Methodist Church Hall.
The event was was well supported by volunteers and local residents and raised nearly £300 for Kelsall OPAL Club. Thank you to all involved.
OPAL held another successful soup lunch at Kelsall Community Centre on Friday 24th March.
We raised just over £500 and were delighted that the event was well attended by both members & supporters. It was great to see everyone there.
This event was of special importance as it was organised by our new fundraising group of volunteers. We held a raffle and sold bags of Easter eggs.
We are already looking forward to the next event!
OPAL has been awarded £10,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund to help our community thrive. The money will be used to maintain services in those areas we already operate in and contribute to the further development of OPAL Go On Line and OPAL Branching Out .
The funding will be used across the area we cover and will enable us to keep the Branching Out ‘Whats Cooking’ group going in Farndon and to contribute to the start up of a Branching Out group in Kelsall. It will also support us to get OPAL Go On Line up and running in Malpas.
Find our all the latest OPAL News in the last OPAL Matters Newsletter of the year.
OPAL is once again fortunate to receive grant funding from the Marshes Community Benefit Fund. This funding award will see us linking up two of our successful services: OPAL Branching Out and OPAL GoOnLine and providing services across Frodsham, Helsby and Elton.
For more information please contact us on 07512 632 515 or 07779 283 591
Have you heard about our OPAL Lottery?
Feeling lucky?!
Do you have tickets? Join today for your chance to win!
Every week one of our players wins a cash prize of around £12 plus the chance of winning up to £25,000
Since July 2021, our supporters have raised £2010 for OPAL.
50% of all tickets sold will be used to raise vital funds to support services to older people in rural west Cheshire, keeping them in touch with their local communities.
| With Christmas fast approaching, we have a fantastically festive prize – on Saturday 10th December one of your supporters could WIN CHRISTMAS! That’s right – this mega prize bundle includes a huge food hamper containing all your favourite festive treats, a luxury tree, stockings, a door wreath, decorations, lights, bubbly, chocolates, and so much more… we’ve included everything but the sprouts! And of course, that’s on top of the weekly cash prizes, AND the chance to win the £25,000 jackpot! |
For more information or to take part go to https://www.onelottery.co.uk/support/opal-services
or contact OPAL on 01865678679
Tickets only cost £1 per week, 50% of all tickets sold comes directly to OPAL to support our older people and carers.
Please support us and share the news with your friends, family and colleagues.
The next OPAL Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 9th November 2022
at Cheshire View, Plough Lane, Christleton, Chester, CH3 7PT (01244 332 442)
Tea and coffee served from 5pm for a 5.30pm start.
OPAL Services is looking for a Communications Officer for 5 hours a week, to be responsible for the production and maintenance of newsletters, the website and other OPAL communications. Working mainly from home, you will be working alongside staff and trustees in a small rural charity that delivers services for older people in rural west Cheshire to help prevent social isolation. OPAL is a volunteer-led charity whose volunteers have been awarded a Queen’s Award for volunteering.
The successful candidate will have excellent communications skills plus experience of writing for publication, publication design and layout, photography, media editing, web editing and social media. They will be flexible, self-motivated and have access to transport.
Apply us application form For further informationcontact morag.hutson@opalservices.org.uk
Closing date for applications: Friday 29th July
