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What's been happening at GEARS+ |
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 At the end of November we had a visit from Greater Manchester Police, East Salford Division. They brought along some new recruits to talk about what it is GEARS+ does and how we can be of mutual benefit to each other.
December saw us having our second Annual General Meeting, the report is available for viewing on this website, the meeting was well attended and the buffet, from Liz's cafe, very well received! Trish Bartlett (CEO) took the opportunity to thank all of the team and the board for their efforts, and also took time to welcome the newer members of the team. 
On Sunday 6th December team member Jonathan Flynn donned a red Father Christmas outfit and got into the christmas spirit by taking part in a 3km jog at Salford Quays in aid of the British Heart Foundation. At 10.45am a sea of red running santas set off, Jonathan completed the run and raised around £50 for the BHF charity. 
December 2009, a staff development day saw the whole team heading off to the beach! The challenge was to make something in the workshop to cook on and then make everyones lunch. After a hefty lunch of chicken kebabs, cheese fondue, bread and soup, Dave Eccleston (Special Projects Co-Ordinator) and Trish Bartlett (CEO) set the rest of the team to work on the beach with a metal detector. There were fourteen pieces of metal to find each with a letter on, once all of them had been found the letters needed arranging. It spelt HAPPY CHRISTMAS! The day was enjoyed by all the team. (More pictures are available in the gallery) The beginning of 2010 saw us welcoming the Salford Advertiser. Reporter Kate Watkins visited the premises at Orchard Street and tried her hand at a variety of things, including plasma cutting. The article was featured in the Salford Advertiser on Thursday 21st January 2010 and all the team were excited to see GEARS+featuring on the front page. |
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 GEARS+ teamed up with international psychic and medium Lorraine Bamford for a fundraising "Psychic Night".
Lorraine is a spiritual medium, who usually works in spiritualist churches, runs events for charity and demonstrates her skills in pubs and clubs. She has had the gift since being a child, things started happening that she thought was normal but didn't happen to other people. She has been working professionally for 10 years and her work includes classes in mediumship and development workshops. She carries out group readings as well as private sittings. The event took place at Eccles Masonic Hall on Wednesday 11th November, thank you to Chris Holt for sorting out the venue and thank you to the management and staff at the Masonic Hall who made us feel very welcome. During the course of the evening Lorraine gave readings to various peolple who attended the event, some of the GEARS+ team were given readings which proved to be very accurate! After a short break to let everybody refill their glasses from the bar Lorraine showed everybody how to talk to the angels. A good night was had by all and the general concensus of opinion was that people couldn't believe how accurate Lorraine was. We hope this is the first event of many in conjunction with Lorraine. |
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Friends of Chernobyl's Children |
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At the end of June, GEARS+ were involved with the second annual programme working with the children of Cherbobyl. GEARS+ worked in partnership with the North West branch of the Hovercraft Club. The day took place at Magnolls Farm in Oswaldtwistle with big thanks to Charlie and Karen for their generosity.  This year two seperate groups of the FOCC came together from the Salford and Blackrod area's resulting in 28 children in total taking part.
Again the day was a huge success and thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended. Activities on the day included hovercraft rides, mudblasters, cycles, quad rides, teamwork games, goat feeding and much more.  Staff and volunteers, although very tired at the end of the day, agreed that it had been a fantastic experience. As a thank you the children sang for us before leaving.
We hope to Maintain our commitment to doing this every year. |
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GMP Dog Unit visits GEARS+ |
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GEARS+ continues to have a good ongoing relationship with the GMP. Officers from the Greater Manchester Police Dog Handling Unit attended Gears+ in May 09 to give a full demonstration of working police dogs in action. The session was interactive and extremely successful with the students asking lots of questions. It highlighted the importance of police dogs and their roles within the force. Working wiith cases such as missing person searches, tracking criminals, locating drugs and explosives, and victim recovery to name a few, police dogs are a valid member of the force. 
A group of pupils from Albion High School attended the session. Two organised drug searches were performed sucessfully and the pupils were given the chance to pet the energetic and friendly dogs and ask the officers any questions. GEARS+ also took the opportunity to incorporate drugs and drink and drive issues within this session, with practical driving simulator sessions. |
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Granada Reports comes to GEARS+ |
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 On 4 March 2009 GEARS+ welcomed Granada Reports and Amanda Peak to one of their Road Safety Sessions. The sessions are based around the "WRECKED" DVD that has been produced by the Greater Manchester Road Safety Partnership to help raise awarenes amongst young people of the dangers that are inhernet in driving and how easily accidents can occur.
Amanda and the crew spent about two hours with a group of students from Pendleton College, she talked about the tragic loss of her two sons and the impact that it has had on her life, that of her family and the family of the passengers who survived the crash. She is now campaigning to reduce the permitted levels of alcohol. The students responded well to her talk and asked lots of questions, some were interviewed by Ashley Derricott from Granada Reports and the piece was broadcast on Wednesday 11 March. In addition to her campaigning and awareness raising Amanda is training to run in the Edinburgh Marathon later this year. If you would like to sponsor Amanda and support Brake, the Road Safety charity the go to www.justgiving.com/amandapeak For more information about the Pre Driver programme or any of the programmes at GEARS+ contact 737 1179 use the enquiry form on our contacts page. |
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