July 31, 2014

Bradford Disability Services have bought a full course of Jamie’s Ministry of Food cooking course, which would teach carers and disabled people how to cook delicious and healthy food from scratch for the whole family to enjoy.

The course is an eight week course, and starts with basic skills like knife skills before moving through soups, fish dishes, meat, vegetarian food and sweet treats, all with the aim of giving you a good foundation knowledge in the kitchen, to give you confidence to cook good tasting, healthy food.

It will be a fun and informal course, with lots of support for all abilities.

The course starts on the 6th October for eight weeks, between 12.45pm and 2pm.  It is run at the Jamie’s Ministry of Food centre on John Street, Bradford City Centre.  For more information or to book your place,  just call Ruth Gray on .

July 23, 2014

We cannot believe our new free training course is Makaton!  If you don’t know about Makaton, ask any pre-schooler you know about Mr Tumble!  It is a simple sign system designed to compliment verbal speech which helps ease the frustration of carer and cared for alike when communication is difficult.  We really think this is an excellent starter course for carers, as the system is becoming so well known with the advance of baby signing and the inclusion of Makaton into mainstream children’s content on Cbeebies (BBC).

In these two hour sessions, carers  will learn around 30 basic signs and get started in the programme, but, if we do have enough interest in these two sessions, we hope to put on a longer course which builds on these basic ones.

 

The Makaton ’s website says this:

“For those who have experienced the frustration of being unable to communicate meaningfully or effectively, Makaton really can help. Makaton takes away that frustration and enables individuals to connect with other people and the world around them. This opens up all kinds of possibilities.

Makaton uses signs, symbols and speech to help people communicate. Signs are used, with speech, in spoken word order. This helps provide extra clues about what someone is saying. Using signs can help people who have no speech or whose speech is unclear. Using symbols can help people who have limited speech and those who cannot, or prefer not to sign.

Makaton is extremely flexible as it can be personalised to an individual’s needs and used at a level suitable for them. It can be used to:

• share thoughts, choices and emotions
• label real objects, pictures, photos and places
• take part in games and songs
• listen to, read and tell stories
• create recipes, menus and shopping lists
• write letters and messages
• help people find their way around public buildings”

For more information on Makaton, please visit their website at https://www.makaton.org

To book or get more information, please ring Ruth Gray on or email at .

Check out our other courses available by clicking here.

July 17, 2014

From July, Bradford Disability Service’s Carers Breaks and Training project launches a new venture, a twice monthly local carers group, run by the carers themselves.  In four locations across the Bradford District, Thornbury, Woodside, Shipley and Keighley, there is a room booked with local carers names on it, but they will get to plan what happens.  So if they want yoga classes, these could happen.  If they would love to learn to cook, come along and ask!

The groups are held twice a month on Tuesdays and Thursdays in each of the four locations.  A regular group for people to meet, make friends, talk about whatever they like while enjoying different activities, and of course, tea and a biscuit!

Details of the venues and the times can be found by clicking here.

To find out more, or to book your place, just ring Ruth on or email her on .

 

July 17, 2014

 

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July 15, 2014

Bradford Disability Services are starting an exciting new project of exercise classes every Wednesday at our Dockfield Road offices.  It is a great workout, a great way to stimulate your body and mind, but accessible to all!  Its an upbeat and fun group session to exercise bodies head to toe.

Just because you are unable to stand, does not mean you can’t keep fit, come and learn how!  You don’t have to be in a wheelchair, or disabled at all, it is a great workout for everyone.  It is brilliant for general wellbeing as well as helping your body and mind relax, which can only make you feel better.  The session ends with healthy refreshments, and a time to chat and meet your fellow classmates.

The class runs weekly on a Wednesday from 11am till 12pm and is at our offices at 103 Dockfield Road.  For more information and to book your place please ring Joyce on .