M&S Dalton Park Murton Outlet

We are very busy Community Hub and run a variety of activities for all ages. Women's & Men's CREE/Youth Club Jnr & Snr/Mother & Toddlers/Karate Club/Bowls Group/Lunch Club/Disability Group & Keep fit Zumba. We do alot of work with young people. We would like to run monthly event which will be a mixture of intergenerational fun days and workshop/pamper days. These will give the beneficiaries an opportunity to experience an entertaining day with people of all ages as well as time to enjoy doing something different with people of their own age. They will benefit from shared experiences that will help to break down the age barriers. As attendees become more familiar with the Community Centre, we will introduce them to other activities going on in the Centre and support them if they would like to attend. During School holidays we provide packed lunches with Arts pack as parents struggle with food during these periods Shotton has a high population of both elderly and young people and the aim of this project is to provide activities to help bridge the gap between young and old. This will encourage intergenerational engagement and rekindle community spirit. Many of our elderly residents feel isolated and are apprehensive about engaging with younger members of the community. By holding the weekly sessions in a safe and friendly environment with people there to support them, the elderly will be able to interact with different age groups without feeling insecure. The events will focus on fun for all, regardless of age, and show that people of all ages can enjoy the same activity in different ways. These activities will begin to form strong links between the two age groups and start to break down the preconceptions about each other. The regular organised contact with each other will have outreaching consequences in their day to day lives as they will identify with a shared enjoyable experience and feel safe. As a grass roots regeneration organisation, Shotton Partnership has made many improvements to the quality of life within our community. We are open for new members, especially young people who will continue making a difference.

The RNLI is a registered charity that has saved lives at sea for over 190 years. It provides a 24 hour on-call service which covers Search and Rescue requirements out to 100 miles from the coast of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It also provides a seasonal beach lifeguard service (from approximately Easter to October) on over 200 beaches around the UK. The RNLI also has six Flood Rescue teams on standby 24 hours a day which are able to deploy within 6 hours of a request for assistance. The RNLI is independent of Government and relies on voluntary contributions and legacies for its income. We have 236 lifeboat stations and 444 lifeboats, both on station and in the relief fleet. We have 4,800 lifeboat crew members, mostly volunteers and over 140,000 lives have been saved since 1824. The busiest stations on the north east coast last year were Tynemouth and Sunderland. In 2014 a lifeboat rescued someone every hour throughout the year and a Lifeguard assisted someone every half an hour throughout the year. And if you were wondering how much the service costs to run, it is nearly £5 every second, or £145 million each year! Durham Branch, RNLI is based in Durham but covers a wide geographical area including Durham, Bishop Auckland, Spennymoor, Newton Aycliffe, Seaham, Washington and as there is no Branch based in Newcastle, we also cover much of Newcastle. Nowadays we concentrate mainly on store collections and flag days. We have 19 of our own events already scheduled for 2015 and so far since the beginning of 2002 we have held over 230 fundraising events locally. We also work closely with other branches, guilds and stations to help them with their fundraising events where possible. Our fundraising events have contributed to Durham Branch raising over £130,000 in that time. Probably over £100,000 of that has been donated in coin – if you imagine 100 buckets completely full to the brim with coins, you can begin to visualise what that looks like! We had a spectacularly successful year in 2014 with 22 fundraising events of our own, helping other branches guilds and stations with another 12 events, and raising a total of over £15,700. In January 2015 we were honoured to be advised that we were one of four Regional Winners from the whole country (out of 1,100 branches and guilds) in the Branch category of the 2015 RNLI National Supporter Awards, which is tremendous national recognition for all the wonderful help and support we get locally.

The RNLI is a registered charity that has saved lives at sea for over 190 years. It provides a 24 hour on-call service which covers Search and Rescue requirements out to 100 miles from the coast of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It also provides a seasonal beach lifeguard service (from approximately Easter to October) on over 200 beaches around the UK. The RNLI is independent of Government and relies on voluntary contributions and legacies for its income. We have 238 lifeboat stations and 444 lifeboats, both on station and in the relief fleet. We have 4,800 lifeboat crew members, mostly volunteers and over 146,000 lives have been saved since 1824. The busiest stations on the north east coast last year were Tynemouth and Sunderland. In 2014 a lifeboat rescued someone every hour throughout the year and a Lifeguard assisted someone every half an hour throughout the year. And if you were wondering how much the service costs to run, it is £6 every second, or £200million each year! Durham Branch, RNLI is based in Durham but covers a wide geographical area including Durham, Bishop Auckland, Spennymoor, Newton Aycliffe, Seaham, Washington and as there is no Branch based in Newcastle, we also cover much of Newcastle. Nowadays we concentrate mainly on Community Presentations and fundraising with Betty's 5p Pots. We also work closely with other branches, guilds and stations to help them with their fundraising events where possible. Our fundraising activities (over 650 events, activities and Community Presentations since 2002) have contributed to Durham Branch raising over £550,000 . Betty's 5p Pots are currently supported by some 170 local businesses, groups and organisations and have raised over £270,000 of this. Because of the local success, the RNLI has rolled it out as a national fundraising method - including our amount, the total raised nationally is now over £650,000. Durham Branch is a multi award winning fundraising branch, with our Hon. Secretary receiving 12 awards for his fundraising, including being shortlisted for Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year (2017 National Fundraising Awards); Winner - Volunteer of the Year (2019 North East Charity Awards); receiving his 40 year RNLI Long Service Award and being awarded a British Empire Medal in the 2024 New Year's Honours List.