November 2009

Steam Aubergine With Oyster Sauce Celebrating your Birthdays

Ingredients: with us
Once every three months over the age of
65 will celebrate the birthday of the
elderly members (a total of four times
a year)
* Free lunches, gifts, and birthday
cake and birthday cards
1. 2 Aubergine
2. 1 scallion. * Date:
3. 4 baby ginger slices.
4. 2 tbsp. oyster sauce. 1. August of the first Tuesday (4-8-
5. 1 red chili. 09), Birthdays from August 1st to
Seasoning: October 31st
1． 1 tbsp. salt. 2. November of the first Wednesday
2． a dash of pepper . (4-11-09), Birthdays from November 1st
3． 1 chili. to January 31st- 2010.
4． 1 tbsp. salad oil.
3. February of the first Wednesday
Methods:
(6-2-10), Birthday from February 1st to
1. Steam Aubergine then cool off. April 30th.
Mince chili.
2. Preheat the pan with salad oil, fry 4. May of the first Wednesday
seasoning briefly. (5-5-2010), Birthday from May 1st to
3. Shred steamed eggplant and dish up, July 30th.
* Member inform your birthday should be
pour method. notified a month before hand.
4. With minced chili on it, add oyster Please registries with the office.
sauce and mix well, done.

Remark: fresh without greasy.

 2009 AGM & Mid-Autumn Festival

Member please note:

Your membership has expired on 30th September 2009. If
you haven’t renewed your membership, please renew now.
Please remember, whenever you join the association, your
membership will expire on 30th September that year. We are
now giving you a chance to renew your membership as an
existing member before the end of November. After that, you
will be treated as an expired member and will be charged
more.
 Members with the same address, please pass around.

Non-
member
Please sit

非會
& wait our
outside
office.
Many
thanks

(SENDER)Nottinghamshire Chinese Welfare Association

Office Address: Room 5A, International Community Centre
61b Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3FN
Charity No: 1062082
Telephone: 0115 9507888
Website: www.nottinghamchinese.org.uk

請坐
Email: enquiries@nottinghamchinese.org.uk

November 2009 Newsletter

辦工時間: 的辦
外等
Our association welcomes people with disabilities to take part. Please let us know if you

星期六 聚會:
have any special requirements. The centre has disabled parking spaces.

NOTE: NO Classes during half term, Easter holiday etc. If you are not sure the date,

常感
please call the office to confirm.
 Time Activity on 6, 13 & 20 Venue at ICC
Tuesday Healthy Project
Healthy Mind
Change Makers Heart Health.
10:30 – 11:30 Tai Chi Large Hall These courses are organized for
NCWA members.
11:30 – 1:30 Interpreting Course Room 5a
Non-members will be encouraged
1:30 – 3:30 Healthy Talk to join so that we
1:30 – 2:30 Blood Pressure Check Room 5a can continue to put on such
courses and they can
receive the monthly newsletter
1:30 – 3:30 Chinese Massage Room 5a which keeps them
Healthy Check up to date on other events coming

Nottinghamshire Chinese Welfare Association

Charity No: 1062082
2009 – 2010
Membership Form

Surname Sex
Forenames Occupation
Telephone No Date of Birth
Expiry Date Member No

Address

Post Code

Each Person New Married Couple joining at the same time

(discount £2)
£ 5.00
Existing Elderly Member (60+)

£ 8.00
Existing Member (16 to 59)

£15.00
New Or Expired Elderly Membership (60+)

£20.00
New Or Expired Membership (16 to 59)

Total:
Signature
Office Use
Membership No: _____________

Date of Issue: ____________________ Issued by : __________________

 November 2009 - Newsletter
2009 AGM & Mid-Autumn Festival Date: 29 September 2009
Chairman’s Speech September 2009
Good afternoon! Ladies and Gentlemen
As Chairman I represent Nottinghamshire Chinese Welfare Association members, and on their behalf I want to
thank you for your support and for coming here today to our AGM and Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration.
NCWA has been supporting Chinese folk in Nottinghamshire for 19 years now and the last six years have seen
a considerable boost in our activities.
During this time, with the support of our funders, we have established NCWA as a successful, professionally
managed service providing for the needs of local Chinese people and a resource for other organizations to call
on when dealing with Chinese folk.
For all Charities, funding is crucial to their operation, so I particularly want to thank:
o Awards for all
o The Community Fund
o The City Council
o The County Council
o Boots
o Age Concern & Help the Aged
o And the Nottinghamshire Community Fund
o NHS
o European Fund
I want to thank these organizations for their confidence in us and for giving us the resources to provide:
• a service that helps people access day to day support that many of us take for granted:
NHS, Police, Social Services etc
• a service that helps people understand the letters they receive – not least from the council and social
The Chinese legend of the Dragon encourages us to respect each
services
other
• a service thatand not Social
provides to take advantage.
Support in the formRecently,
of: a man whose
membership
 Friendship groupshad expired
so that forsupport
people can two years and had not rejoined
one another
 English classes to improve their grasp of the language
came to the office needing to use the phone and asked for a
 Tai Chi to improve their health
translation service. He expects us to be here to help but is not
 and many other social events which help improve their quality of life
repared
• A service to contribute,
that provides whilstforothers
a point of contact fully support
other organizations NCWA.
to call Please
on when dealing with Chinese
issuesmake sure your membership is up-to-date so that we can be here
and people
• And whenalso a service that provides
you need us. Chinese Cultural activities such as this one today
You know – we record enquiries to our office so that we can monitor our activity. Consequently we know that
our office typically responds to about 63 enquiries a week, that’s over 3200 enquiries a year that need a
professional response. About half these enquiries are by phone and half with people dropping –In.
Now not all of those enquiries will be major issues but this is clearly a considerable work responding to a
considerable need and you can see the broad range of enquiries that our experienced staff needs to deal with.
We are particularly proud of our links to other groups:
NCVS & YMCA
NHS & City Council & County Council
Help the Aged/Age Concern
Elder Forum
Housing Associations: Particularly Metropolitan & Hanover
New College & South Notts College
Radford Care Group & African Caribbean Centre
Equality Community Forum
And others too.
Our location is very important to us and our Drop-In centre which is open 5½ days a
week and located at the International Community Centre on Mansfield road, provides
an easily accessible point for our members, many of whom are Elders and can’t get
about much, but can find the centre of town and places close by.
I have a few photos to show you of some of our activities.
We organized a day trip to London, China Town and Kew Garden and day trip to
Liverpool.
We organised BBQ outside ICC garden area.
We also organised birthday party for our elderly over 60.
Nutrition talk is one of a number of healthy talks we hold during the year for our
members.
Painting and Tai Chi classes are cultural activities we hold during the year for our
members.
Turning to our accounts, as you can see from the slide the net funds for last year were
negative, and this is clearly not a sustainable situation.
We have been working on finding core funds and this has not been so successful.
Although we have won funding for various activities e.g. healthy project, ESOL and
interpreting we have not managed to put into place the core funding needed to pay for
the general running of the organization.
As you can see we have some reserves, but never-the-less the committee has found it
appropriate to take various unpalatable decisions, particularly:
• Making our managers assistant, Manda, redundant
• Moving to a smaller office.
The situation is still serious and we are continuing to look for core funding in order to
maintain the service we are providing.
So please watch this space and if you can help, please get in touch and let us know
how.
And you know – this service we provide takes a lot of hard work to run, and I would
like to take this opportunity to publically thank some very dedicated people.
Our manager, Liz
Our brushing painting teacher, Peter Millward
Our ESOL teacher, Jennifer Liau
Our ESOL teacher, Gerda Weaver
Our Talks interpreter, Jenny Hong
Our Tai Chi Teacher, Winnie Chen
Our Administration Assistant, Sarah
And our office assistant, June & Susan
Well done all of you, I personally see the work that you do and really appreciate your
efforts.
Please give them a round of applause for their efforts.
The other people that contribute to the Association but whose efforts frequently go
unrecognized are our committee.
Consultant: Mrs Maryvonne Hands
Vice Chairman: Mr KK Yau
Secretary: Mrs Gerda Weaver
Treasurer: Ms Li Sau Man
I would also like to thank them for their support.
What can we expect from next year? Well as well as working on the funding and
supporting members in their day to day lives, we will be laying on various activities,
as you can see.
 Feb – New Year Celebration, April – Central Park, May – Sheffield/ Leeds/Lincoln,
June – Trip to Lakes District/Cardiff, July – One day trip Cambridge, Aug –
Mapplethorpe/Skegness, Sept – AGM/Mid-Autumn Festival, Oct – Turkey/Spain,
Dec – Christmas Celebrations
Finally I wish everybody good health and a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Thank you
for coming.

Nutrition
Healthy Cook & Eat Housing Talk
(Candice Lau)
Starts 11-11-09 Wednesday 4 Nov 09 (Wednesday)
12.30 - 3.15pm Talk: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

If you are interesting in the above Luncheon: 12:00 pm

course, please register with the Elderly: £1.50 Adult: £2.00
office in advance.
Elderly Birthday Party – Free lunch
for elderly birthday & free gift.

At least 8 people register with us will

hold the above party.

Please let us know one week in

advance. Many thanks.
 Activities November 2009

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

NCWA NCWA NCWA NCWA

10:30 - 11:30 10:30 - 11:30 Tai Chi Chinese Painting

ESOL 10:30—11:30 From 9th Sept 09
ESOL 11.00 am - 12.30pm
Admin fee: Starts: 8-9-09 Peter Millward
Admin fee:
Elderly: £10/yr
Elderly: £10/yr Adult: £20 per/yr
Adult: £20 per/yr Non-member:
Non-member: £3 extra /lesson
£3 extra /lesson (Starts: 15th September 09)
(Starts: 21st September 09)

Gerda
Jennifer Liz/Sarah Liz/Sarah

12:00 - 3:00
Chat, Games
10:00 - 4:00
11:30 – 13:30 Computer/Internet

Interpreting Course

Toast and noodle 10:00 - 4:00 Toast and noodle

Computer/Internet

Toast

Help yourself Help yourself Liz/Sarah Help yourself

 Thursday Friday Saturday

NCWA NCWA NCWA

10:00 - 3:00 10:00 - 3:00

Computer/Internet Elderly Meeting
Computer/Internet
Activities

VOLUNTEERS
Liz Liz/Sarah

12:00 - 3:00 12:00 - 3:00

Chat, Games Chat

Mandarin
classes for
beginners
(Suspended)
Games

2:00 - 3:00 10:00 - 4:00

Elderly Meeting Computer/Internet
Chinese Newspaper arrives
noodle on Friday. You are
welcomed to collect it.

Help yourself Liz/Sarah Volunteers