Merry Christmas

This will be the last post of the season from the dove staff who will be finishing on Friday until the 5th January. It's been a busy year, we've made lots of new friends, and it's been a pleasure to see new learners gaining confidence and skills that will improve their employment prospects. A big thank you to all the tutors who do much more than teach and a Merry and Peaceful Christmas to all who have visited the centre this year. We look forward to seeing you all in the New Year. Nadolig Llawen and Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

Christmas wishes

Its the final week of term at DOVE, hope everyone has a peaceful christmas and a happy new year. We will see you all back at the start of the new term in January 2009.

Our new Christmas tree!

Thanks to Marian and her learners who came up with the idea for a Christmas tree with a difference. Instead of everyone writing each other Christmas cards, we can instead pay 50p and add a greeting to the tree for everyone to enjoy, all proceeds will go to a charity of the Return to Learn class's choice. What a wonderful idea!

New Site

The newly modified Dove Workshop website is all but finished and looks really good. I love the colour of the frame and the little purple doves! I hope it gets used by lots of people in the community and everywhere else too! This is an ideal opportunity for people to communicate to one another and to practise their IT at the same time! Have fun peeps.....

It's Friday!

It's been a busy day today, we have 2 IT classes running, a Stained Glass class and our cafe staff have been busy serving people passing on their way up the mountain to watch the Welsh stage of Rally GB. The nursery staff have booked Santa to visit the nursery on the 19th before he gets really busy and Gill's homemade mince pies are flying out the door (not literally).

DOVE's Christmas Carol Concert

On Tuesday 2nd December we held a Carol concert at the centre, Onllwyn Male Voice Choir led the singing and we had 70 members of our community in the audience singing along. The concert was a great start to the Christmas season and I am sure everyone really enjoyed listening to the choir, eating Gill's freshly baked mince pies and drinking Lorraine's famous mulled wine. A big thank you to all those who came along and supported the event we hope to see you next year.

Dove's new blog

I am really glad to see that this blog will be available to all who access our re-vamped website. I'm looking forward to reading the comments of our users and all the other people who will be eagerly reading about what's going on in the local community! Bring it on......

Welcome to the DOVE Workshop Community Blog

The blog has been added to our new website to give you the opportunity to chat to DOVE Workshop staff and to each other. We hope you will share your experiences as a learner, talk about your community and support your fellow learners. We would also like you to be able to have the opportunity to have a discussion with staff members if you so wish. The blog will be read daily by a member of DOVE's team and posts will be responded to. We eagerly await to hear from you....