� Goldies supporter Lizz Lipscomberan both the Bath Half and the

London Marathon raising over£2,000 for Goldies. Lizz is wellknown to our Withywood

Bristol group as the formersession leader. Aprofessional violinistLizz still finds timeto pop into see herWithywood Goldieswhen she can.

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YOUR 2014 GOLDIES NEWSLETTER

ACROSS WALES & ENGLAND BY THE END OF 2014

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WE WELCOME OUR NEW SESSION LEADERS >>>

AND WE WELCOME NEW SESSION LEADERS IN ENGLAND

Goldies Cymru extend a warm welcome to new session leaders, writes Rachel Parry, our Wales project leader.

Rachel herself currently runs the sessions in Barry, Penarth and Bonvilston.She says:

“A big welcome to all our sessionleaders and also a big thank you . . .

you are the glue that holds it all together. Goldies wouldn’t be Goldieswithout all your hard work and energy.”GEOFF ASHFORD has recently started a

group in Llantwit Major funded by The National Lottery through the Big Lottery

Fund Wales. Geoff is soon to be up andrunning with a new session in DinasPowys.A warm welcome also to CAROL PEGLER

who joined us a few months ago and hashit the ground running with sessions inBedwas, Pontllanfraith, Caerphilly and recently Rhymney. Carol has also taken onNewbridge and Pontlottyn in partnershipwith the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation. CISWO approached us awhile ago asking for Goldies sessions andwe are delighted that the Lottery funding is

making this reality.JACKIE COURT has been with us a few

months. She leads the Porth and Riscasessions. Jackie also runs groups in conjunction with the CISWO at Blaenrhondda and Penrhiwceiber. She is due to start a new project in Risca working with other service users.SIAN DONOVAN has been running

sessions in Cardiff and Ewenny for sometime and is currently singing away inAdamsdown, Ely, Gabalfa, Llanrumney aswell as Ewenny.

RACHEL WALKER is the Musical Guru forthe Euphoria Show Choir based in NorthSomerset. Rachel showed interest in running Goldies sessions having visitedanother session and found it very movingto see older people having such a wonderful time through the power ofmusic. Rachel now runs the Goldies session in Nailsea at the Methodistchurch.CLAIRE STOBIE is a Bath University

graduate who has taken on the sessionsacross Bristol and Bath in areas includingKingswood, Bathampton, Shirehamptonand Twerton, Bath. Claire is soon to starta new Goldies session in Oldfield Park,Bath working in connection with OldfieldPark Baptist Church.SAARA GOULD-HAINES lives in South

Somerset and is a member of the Yeovilton Military Wives Choir. She hasrecently taken on both the existing Yeovilsession and a new monthly session inChard and Ilminster, both are which aregoing really well.NICOLA POCOCK lives and works in Bath

and now runs a very popular session inthe Larkhall area of Bath. We are pleased

to be working with Hanover Housing Association at this session.In September 2013, LIZZIE FIGGIS began

running sessions in the Gloucestershirearea. Our already successful Hucclecotesession was taken on by her and sessionsin Cheltenham, Cirencester and Stroud followed. The success of these sessionsspread quickly with a further two sessionsbeing introduced in Cam and Podsmeadshortly after.Our second Chippenham session is up

and running with new Session Leader JOYDAVIS. Joy has previously worked in education and now runs our session at theSheldon Road Methodist Church in thetown.A regular monthly session is taken by

SONIA LOWER in Andover and Salisbury.Sonia has worked hard to make contactfor the Charity in Hampshire and we hopeto start at least another two sessions inAndover this year.We were sad to loose Chloe Laing as

Session Leader at the Malcolm X Centrein Bristol as she moved away from the city. We are very pleased to welcomeCHARMAINE LAWRENCE to the Goldies team.

As we develop across the South of England, Abby Rakes introduces eight ofour newest Session Leaders on the Goldies team.

MIKE RICHARDSON (pictured) is the newChair of the Goldies Trustees taking overfrom Jenny Smerdon after her two yearsof office. Mike is a Chartered accountantwho has been in private practice for manyyears in Bath. I am not a singer!! He says..... but he is delighted to be involved withGoldies who he has supported from thestart of the Charity.He is involved with a number of other

charitable concerns both in a professional capacity and as a Trustee. He has lived inBath for 45 years and has particular sporting interests in Rugby and Cricket inthe city, not forgetting Bath's local footballteam. Mike is a keen supporter of Ipswich,his home town.

SHOPTILL YOUDROP!Another important development forGoldies will be the opening of our firstGoldies Charity Shop which we hope willbe in the Bath area before Christmas. Thisproject will be in partnership with theDorothy House Hospice and everyone livingin the Bath & North East Somerset or Wiltshire area will know about DorothyHouse and the wonderful work they do.For those reading this outside the area,

The Dorothy House Foundation was setup in 1976, based at the Bath home of itsfounder Prue Dufour a woman of vision,determination and deep faith. She saw aneed for care of terminally ill patients intheir community, rather than in hospital. In 1995 the Hospice moved to Winsley,just outside Bath and was able to offertreatment within the spacious, purpose-built In-Patient facilities and beautifulgrounds in addition to care throughoutthe community. They have continued tobuild on and develop services, supportingincreasing numbers of people from earlier stages in their illness and the range of services has expanded – but thefundamental commitment to care hashardly changed since those early days,back in the 1970's.Dorothy House runs a highly

professional retail operation with 27shops. Goldies, through this partnershipwill benefit from their wealth of experienceand Mike Richardson, Goldies chair ofTrustees said;“ With Dorothy House we are now looking

for our first location. A Goldies Shop willgive us a presence in the community and,if successful, we hope to introduce moreshops across the Goldies area in the yearsahead, and we will need all the support wecan get from our Goldies supporters infinding stock to sell. We also hope thatsome of our Goldies in the area will feelable to give some time during the week tocome in as volunteers in the shop.“This really is a BIG Goldies step

forward. If you need to know more, if youcan help, please contact Grenville on01761 470006.”

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GOLDIES IN WALES

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• BARRY • BEDWAS• BLAENRHONDDA • BONVILSTON

• CAERPHILLY • CARDIFF ADAMSDOWN• DINAS POWYS • ELY• EWENNY • GABALFA

• LLANRUMNEY • LLANTWIT MAJOR• PONTLLANFRAITH • PONTLOTTYN• PENARTH - SOUTH GLAMORGAN• PENRHIWCEIBER • RHYMNEY

• RHONDDA • RISCA• RISCA (SESSION TWO)

• NEWBRIDGE • YNYSYBWL

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Schools from across Wales are invited totake part in an intergenerational communityproject supported by the Big Lottery FundWales, which launched at the National Museum Cardiff on May 12.At the launch older people joined together with

children from Lakeside Primary School, Cardiff tosing a special ‘World War One’ medley of songs. The medley has been specially arranged by malevoice choir leader Alwyn Humphreys, pictured right,who is an enthusiastic supporter of Goldies CYMRU.Goldies CYMRU and Age Cymru joined for the launch under the

Gwanwyn Festival banner. Gwanwyn was a month-long festival celebrating creativity in old age.At the launch schools across Wales were encouraged to put on

commemorative days, and open their doors to their local older peopleand to sing along to the tunes that bought communities together during the First World War at home and in the trenches.

We want schools from across Wales to take part in our intergenerational community project supported by the Big Lottery Fund

Wales, which launched at the National Museum Cardiff on May 12. Our picture shows the Goldies massed singers.

www.goldiescymru.org.uk

TIME for SCHOOLS

� John Lewis in Cardiff nominated Goldies Cymruto benefit from their tokens in the coffee shop fromOctober 2013 to January 2014. A total of £840 wasraised and our picture shows Helen Cahill, Community Liaison Co-ordinator at John Lewishanding the cheque to Rachel Parry.

Goldies from around Caerphilly attended a very special lunchtime Time afterTime sing at Lewis School, Pengam to join with members of the School’sConnecting Communities intergenerational club. A one hour singing sessionwas led by Goldies Cymru’s Rachel Parry with year 7 pupils attending andsinging along ( and dancing ) with 60 special guests. Our picture showsCouncillor David Carter, the Mayor of Caerphilly county borough and theMayoress with some of the attendees. They all stayed on after for a splendidschool lunch.Goldies founder Grenville Jones said; “We would like to thank John

Poyner, Connecting Communities Manager at Caerphilly County BoroughCouncil. He was the man who helped to make this happen as well as the brilliantly energetic staff at the school.

>>> Get your school involved with Time after Timeemail: emlyn@golden-oldies.org.uk

We have launched our new Goldies Cymru websitewhich is in Welsh and English.

www.goldiescymru.org.ukIt was designed by Swansea-based Zooba Ltd and

funded by an Awards for All Wales grant and managedby Goldies founder Grenville Jones.

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www.golden-oldies.org.uk

coming soonNEW SONGS

sailor No. 1

(Sailor, stop your roaming) Sailor, stop your roaming Sailor, leave the sea Sailor, when the tide turns Come home safe to me As you sail across the sea All my love is there beside you In Capri or Amsterdam Honolulu or Siam To the harbour of my heart I will send my love to guide you As I call across the sea Come home to me Sailor, stop your roaming Sailor, leave the sea Sailor, when the tide turns Come home safe to me As you sail across the sea All my love is there beside you In Capri or Amsterdam Honolulu or Siam To the harbour of my heart I will send my love to guide you As I call across the sea Come home to me

sailor No. 1

(Sailor, stop your roaming) Sailor, stop your roaming Sailor, leave the sea Sailor, when the tide turns Come home safe to me As you sail across the sea All my love is there beside you In Capri or Amsterdam Honolulu or Siam To the harbour of my heart I will send my love to guide you As I call across the sea Come home to me Sailor, stop your roaming Sailor, leave the sea Sailor, when the tide turns Come home safe to me As you sail across the sea All my love is there beside you In Capri or Amsterdam Honolulu or Siam To the harbour of my heart I will send my love to guide you As I call across the sea Come home to me

PET is still TOPS

Summer holiday No. 2

We’re all going on a summer holiday No more working for a week or two Fun and laughter on our summer holiday No more worries for me or you, for a week or 2 We’re going where the sun shines brightly We’re going where the sea is blue We’ve seen it in the movies Now lets see if it’s true Everybody has a summer holiday Doing things they always wanted to So we’re going on a summer holiday To make our dreams come true, for me and you We’re going where the sun shines brightly We’re going where the sea is blue We’ve seen it in the movies Now that’s see if it’s true Everybody has a summer holiday Doing things they always wanted to So we’re going on a summer holiday To make our dreams come true, for me and you

Top of the Goldies Pops is still Sailor by

Petula Clark, voted for in a questionnaire earlier

this year. It was No. 1 in February 1961 .

Thanks to support from the Allan LaneFoundation all our session leaders willhave NEW Goldies song books soon.We asked our Goldies to tell us theirfavourite songs and the new song bookis crammed with 33 ‘faves’. There’s also the World War One Medley linkingin with the English Heritage Projectmentioned earlier in this newsletter.

GREEN, GREEN

GRASS OF HOME

STUPIDCUPID!

Teenagerin Love

She Loves You

Walking Back to Happiness

Rubber Ball

BYE BYE BABY

You weremade for me

Project Manager the Golden-Oldies CharitySupported by the Henry Smith Charity

Hours 21 per week, £ 12-50 per hour plus travel expenses

This is a new 24 month freelance Project Manager post to develop our work across theSouth West and South Wales with new singing and activity sessions in BAaME communities.

The successful candidate will be a skilled communicator with a proven track record and knowledge of delivering community projects in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic

communities. We are looking for someone with a wide range of talents but most importantly,an enthusiasm for the ethos of our charity as we develop in the years ahead.

Primary duties will be to establish links with Local Authorities, community groups churchesetc., in Cardiff, Swindon, Gloucester and Bristol engaging with the community leaders

delivering a programme of new singing and activity “Goldies” sessions as well as engagingwith schools to develop inter-generational partnerships in the 2 year cycle of the project.Fundraising experience would be an advantage. Closing date - Friday August 29th 2014.

Please email your CV in the first instance to Grenville Jones D.Litt. Chief Officer andfounder of The Golden-Oldies Charity – glj@golden-oldies.org.uk

www.golden-oldies.org.uk

AND AT . . .

Our Patron, Sir Cliff.

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2008 20144 Goldies singing & activitysessions across England and Wales100

Goldies sessions

BY THE END OF 2014TOSSiixx aanndd aa hhaallff yyeeaarrss aaggoo,, iinn JJaannuuaarryy22000088,, BBaatthh cchhooiirr lleeaaddeerr GGrreennvviilllleeJJoonneess ffoouunnddeedd tthhee GGoollddeenn--OOllddiieesscchhaarriittyy ttaakkiinngg tthhee ffiirrsstt ffoouurr ffuunn oonneehhoouurr ddaayyttiimmee ssiinnggiinngg sseessssiioonnss ffoorroollddeerr ppeeooppllee iinn sshheelltteerreedd hhoouussiinnggccoommmmuunniittyy rroooommss aarroouunndd BBaatthh..This year, 2014, the charity will open

session number 100 with ‘Goldies’ acrossthe West Country and South Wales as wellas new developments in Hampshire,Staffordshire and Essex. There are nowover 30 session leaders and hundreds ofvolunteers are dedicated to taking thework of the charity forward.After a number of years conducting West

Country choirs, Grenville had realised thatsinging in a group, quite simply, improvedpeople’s social lives, encouraged friendshipsand made people happy.The charity has stated its aim to become

GOLDIES UK in the months ahead, reaching out to thousands across the UK.This year alone the charity has added

another 9 of its daytime singing and activity sessions with 15 more due to commence before the close of 2014. Fromthis figure 10 will be in SOUTH WALESunder the Goldies Cymru banner.In BATH &NORTH EAST SOMERSET a

new session has started in Odd Down andWestfield with additional sessions in Oldfield Park and Saltford on the horizon.In GLOUCESTER Goldies is working

with the city council and the British Heart Foundation to start new sessions. In HAMPSHIRE it links with town

councils and community foundations.There are popular sessions in and aroundAndover with plans in place for a furtherfour this year. New sessions have also started in

Stroud and Cam in GLOUCESTERSHIRE.In SOMERSET Nailsea is the newest

session with more in Chard, Crewkerneand Ilminster attracting older people eachmonth to enjoy the special Goldies experience. In BRISTOL AND SOUTH

GLOUCESTERSHIRE there are a total of12 sessions. At the Malcolm X centre in St Pauls and at Withywood South Bristol

they regularly attract over 50 people. Newsessions are planned including one in Brislington.In SWINDON a new session started at

the Coleview Community Centre in Julyadding to the seven already across thetown with the continued support of SwindonBorough Council. In WILTSHIRE a second session has

started in Chippenham with additional sessions starting soon in Devizes andCalne. These are supported by the Swindonand Wiltshire Community Foundation. A total of 11 across the county.In SOUTH WALES Goldies Cymru was

launched with eight session two years ago.The sessions are rapidly developing following a major grant over three yearsfrom the National Lottery Wales to establish new sessions. There will be aminimum of 50 by the end of 2016.Four new session leaders have been

recruited this year in Wales and the charities award-winning intergenerational Time after Time programme for schoolsacross Wales was announced at the National Museum Cardiff in May.A dedicated Welsh and English language,

goldiescymru website was also launchedin May.In England with Lottery English Heritage

funding, Goldies is working with primaryschools encouraging them to engage witholder people in their communities on WorldWar One projects. An easy to sing medleyof World War One songs has been commissioned and written by Cardiffbased Alwyn Humphreys.

Further afield in England Grenville Joneswas in Braintree in Essex in June to start the first of six new sessions in liaison withGreenfields Community Housing.Earlier this year Grenville was contacted

by Anne Griffiths who lives in Uttoxeter.Anne sings in a choir and had read aboutthe work of Goldies. Also in August a newsession will start in the town with plans toextend across Staffordshire in the yearsahead.Says Grenville;“Our progress has been achieved with a

very small team of dedicated people including our board of Trustees. We stillonly have one full-time staff member, AbbyRakes as well as five part-time staff. Twoof these are based in Wales working forGoldies Cymru.“Our session leaders are at the heart of

all we do. They are fundamental to ourgrowth.“To make the move to become a national

charity we need to find supportive philanthropic individuals and major truststo provide the funding to underwrite ourdevelopment.“We have illustrated with our

development to date that this can beachieved with a project leader in each area supported by our very small teamback at our office just outside Bath.”Grenville still maintains his links with

choral music. Most nights of the week he takes choir rehearsals and there areover 400 singers in his choirs. He isfounder conductor of seven in total, including the famous Last Choir StandingBath Male Choir who will visit Japan laterthis year.

If you would like to receive updates

from goldies please either call Emma on 01761 470006

or email emma@golden-oldies.org.uk

We would like tohear from you

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