by Julie Kay | Feb 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Happy new year to all our members new and old or if you have just stumbled across us for the first time! The new year has brought exciting changes to the Parliament. We have a brand new office base in the Magenta Community House in Bentinck Street, Birkenhead. This...
by Julie Kay | Nov 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Creative Connections meet every Tuesday 1-3pm for a cuppa, biscuits and cake at Charlotte’s Brightside, Molyneux Drive, New Brighton. Everyone is welcome, you can bring a project or join in with ours, we are currently making all sorts of Christmas items.
by Julie Kay | Mar 24, 2021 | direct payments, disability, fibromyalgia
We have a new guest blog each month highlighting disability issues in older people, let me introduce Philip Barton, a very active OPP member. “I have been asked to write a monthly blog about disability issues. Perhaps it would be a good idea to argue in the...
by Julie Kay | Jan 11, 2021 | older people, older people support, Wirral
Happy New Year and welcome to all our new members. Here at OPP we are moving into a new year with a continuation of all our meetings being online and the office still closed up. Our now familiar zoom meetings are proving to be quite popular with a lot of our members;...
by Julie Kay | Sep 28, 2020 | older people, Wirral
Are you as prepared, as you should be? October, is upon us, and before you can blink, we are half way through the month. You will have noticed that it is not so light in the mornings now, and the day seems a little cooler. Low and behold, Autumn is here only to be...
by Julie Kay | Jul 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
We have lived in the same large house in West Kirby since 1965, when we bought it for what seemed a fortune at the time (over £7000) We had two children when we moved in, and had two more soon after. I was on maternity leave and we had a series of lodgers for many...
by Julie Kay | Jun 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Every Thursday morning at 1030 theres a move to the computer and the kettle as we gather on zoom to talk about our week, baking, the news, wirral memories in fact anything can come up! Join us at 1030 every Thursday morning for an informal hour of gossip and fun. We...
by Julie Kay | Jun 8, 2020 | older people, older people support, Wirral
My mother in law lives about ten minutes walk from us. She is 96, lives alone and has very poor mobility – ordinarily it takes the two of just to help her out of the house. She has very little grasp of the reality of her life and is generally self possessed and...
by Julie Kay | May 18, 2020 | older people, older people support, Wirral
Hello folks!It’s been a while but our new slower pace of life has given me an opportunity to catch up with some admin tasks like updating the website ahem which should be done regularly!My days now consist of answering emails, which can be anything from latest...
by Julie Kay | Jul 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
At OPP HQ we have been thinking about the enormous amount of value and enrichment older people bring to any community. Everyone has 168 hours a week to spend and I can tell you that none of our members are still for very long! We have Billy Bones and Rosie Rainbow...
by Julie Kay | Apr 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
How do you occupy your time now you have retired? Sit around watching repeat TV programmes all day? No don’t do that folks enjoy your retirement and give your time to the community, either as a volunteer in the many charities that need help or as an alternative have...
