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Some very sad news…

Rest in peace Richard, we will miss you

The picture shows Richard with Susan (right) and Miranda (left) at
Richard’s Working Together retirement party in May 2018. 

Richard Geuter, founder of Working Together and great friend to many, sadly passed away at home yesterday after his brave battle against a long illness.

Our love and thoughts are with Susan, Thomas and Daniel and sister Miranda.

The family has asked to be left in peace for the time being. In due course we will all come together to celebrate Richard’s life and give thanks for his legacy.

As founder of Working Together Ludlow Richard dedicated much of his life to supporting those with learning difficulties and disabilities, creating positive opportunities and encouraging inclusivity within our community.
Richard’s work remains an inspiration to us all and we will continue to build on his strong foundations.

Rest in peace Richard, with much love from your Working Together family

20/02/2020

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Service Announcement

Coronavirus (Covid-19):19/03/2020

Dear members, parents and carers, volunteers, staff and trustees

Following the most recent government guidance and in order to ensure we take our responsibilities seriously in seeking to minimise the spread of Coronavirus, we have made the decision to close the physical doors on Working Together activities from 3pm on Friday 20th March until further notice.

At Working Together we always think of our members, volunteers and staff as one big extended family and staff that are able to will continue to work from home, planning and preparing a whole host of new and exciting activities and opportunities for when we will be able to re-open the doors.

Whilst we may not be able to be together in the same rooms for a while there are lots of different ways we hope to keep in touch.

We are working out ways to offer virtual activity sessions, through video and digital communications – we will be looking into ways we can try to share cookery and craft activities in our own homes, setting up virtual Sewing Bee, Writers, Sports, Youth and Diversity Clubs – and sharing Working Together messages through our phones, tablets and laptops.

We would encourage members and their families to think about drawing pictures and writing letters as ways of keeping in touch in the coming weeks, perhaps creating a new Pen Pal network.

We will also endeavour to continue to offer support to families and will keep telephone contact available and our social media and website up to date whenever we can.

We understand that this could be an anxious time, but at Working Together we hope to find new ways and create new opportunities to support our members from a distance until we can all be back together again.

If you have any questions or concerns at this time please get in touch and we will do our best to help.

Nigel Bishop, Interim Manager
Working Together (Ludlow) Ltd
Rockspring Centre, Sandford Road, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 1SX
Email: manager@workingtogetherludlow.co.uk
Mobile: 07896 415643, Tel: 01584 318925
Registered Charity No. 1147358. Company No. 7982400

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Coronavirus 17/03/20

Coronavirus (Covid-19) Letter: 17/03/2020

Dear members, parents and carers, volunteers, staff and trustees

At working Together Ludlow we are regularly reviewing our service provision in the light of the government’s guidance on Coronavirus (Covid-19).

Following today’s Cobra meeting and subsequent press conference by the Prime Minister we have taken the following decisions:

  • Sports Club, Youth Club and Diversity will be cancelled with immediate effect until further notice – in line with the government’s advice to avoid social gatherings.
  • Rockspring Day Service will remain open at this time for those who are not considered to be in the high-risk groups or those that are not self-isolating.
  • The Café at Rockspring will be closed to drop in customers

We ask that all members, staff and volunteers follow the government guidelines on self-isolation for 14 days if they, or a member of their household have a new and persistent cough and/or fever.

At this time we will continue to invoice Shropshire Council for day service provision – in line with agreed contracts and whilst we await any further guidance from the local authority.

We would like to thank members, parents and carers, volunteers and staff for their continued support and co-operation at this very challenging time for everyone.

With daily government briefings now in place we will continue to review our position in the light of any changes to national guidance – or that of Shropshire Council.

Please be assured that we will always put everyone’s wellbeing at the heart of any decisions we make.

Details of guidance can be found at:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-governmentresponse

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Reaping The Harvest…

To the wonderful members of Ludlow Baptist Church...

On behalf of Working Together, our members, staff and volunteers would like to express our heartfelt thanks for the overwhelming amount donated at this year’s Harvest Collection.

Donations like this, really help support Working Together in our work based and learning skills centre at Rockspring. We have decided to invest the £1,000.00 in developing and refurbishing a new Café and are aiming to open officially in the Spring of 2020. We will be offering delicious afternoon teas and hope we can really engage with the local community now we have more space and members.

Simon Lambourne – Minister of the Baptist Church Ludlow said:

“Once a year Ludlow Baptist Church has a harvest collection for charities both local and international. This year we felt we wanted our collection to be invested in a local charity. As Simon (Minister) is a trustee of Working Together, we decided to collect our money for this wonderful local initiative.
We raised over £1000!
Our friends at Working Together are a dream to partner with.
We love them!”

A fine Harvest for Working Together…

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Islabites for Islabikes…

Working Together Ludlow were delighted to be invited to cater for 150 guests at Islabikes Grand Opening to celebrate their recent move to Lower Barns Business Park.

WT members worked incredibly hard to provide a feast of delicious food including, Tarka Dal, pakora with a spicy dressing, vegetarian sausage rolls, pizza bites, warm crusty rolls and a vast of scrumptious cakes to make your mouth water…

We are incredibly proud of our team who made everything from scratch from our facilities at the Rockspring centre. WT provide weekly lunch orders for Islabikes and the staff always look forward to their Wednesday orders…

We are aiming to provide more of our food to order service in 2020 to existing and new customers, and hope you will enjoy our new buffet and food to order service menu that we will be promoting in the next few weeks with our delicious Autumn and Winter offers…

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Celebrating Lottery Success with or new CE!

Working Together Celebrates Lottery Success with a new Chief Executive!

Yvette and the Working Together team enjoying the sunshine at the Rockspring Centre

We are a local charity supporting adults and young people with learning disabilities and have appointed a new Chief Executive following a successful grant application to the National Lottery Community Fund.

Yvette Thorman joined the team at the beginning of August after a rigorous recruitment campaign. Yvette will lead operations at the charity’s new home at the Rockspring Centre in Ludlow.

Richard Geuter, the founder of Working Together retired at the end of 2017 and since then Nicola North has been voluntarily holding the baton on behalf of the Working Together Trustees. The Community Fund grant has enabled the charity to appoint a new Chief Executive with responsibility for implementing its forward plan for a sustainable future.

Yvette said, “I’m delighted to be appointed as the new Chief Executive for Working Together Ludlow. This post will enable me to bring my business expertise together with my passion to enable and support people with learning disabilities. I am very much looking forward to working with all the members, their families and carers, staff and volunteers and the trustees at Working Together Ludlow to take the charity forward.”

Roma Jackson, Chair of Trustees said, “We’re very pleased to welcome Yvette to Working Together. We are hoping to grow the charity over the next 3 years to welcome more members and offer a wider range of opportunities for people with learning disabilities. It’s an exciting time for Working Together and we would like to thank National Lottery players and the Community Fund for approving our grant request to help us on our way.”

If you would like to find out more, or to contact Yvette please phone 01584 318925 or email yvette@workingtogetherludlow.co.uk

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