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Christmas Party
Saturday 11th December 2010,
11:30pm - 2:30pm, Shaw Ridge Primary School, Ridge Green, Shaw, SN5 5PU.
Father Christmas will be visiting
to hand out presents and Music Bugs will be entertaining us with songs
and dance.
There will be Christmas food for the children, Rudolph luck dip,
raffle, name the reindeer competition and refreshments including delicious
home made cakes. This year we have invited Jo MacKnight, a Swindon based
photographer, to attend to take formal photographs - you can choose to
have just the children or the whole family. The photographs will be
available in time for Christmas making a lovely Christmas presents.
If you want Father Christmas to hand out a present to your child,
please provide a present, maximum £5 spend, ensuring the present
is wrapped and clearly marked with your child's name.
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Entrance is £1 per child for Members and £2per child for non members.
RSVP with name and ages of children
to suzanne.howard@which.net

Completed Events
Pottery Painting - Monday 16th August 2010
Q Ceramics will be holding a pottery painting
session on Monday
16th
August 10:00 – 12:00 at
Shaw Church*(see calendar for address).
Unglazed mugs, plates, tiles, cookie jars etc are decorated using
paint brushes or sponges.
Babies and young children can still join in by using painted hands or feet
prints instead. Alternatively,
why not try a clay impression of a hand and foot.
All items are then glazed and fired in a furnace to make items
useable. Prices start from £6.50
and 10% of sales go towards STORM funds. These make excellent mementos or
unique presents.
Collection is one week later from Q Ceramics at Blooms Garden Centre, J16
of M4
As it is the school holidays,
please invite family friends and their children to come along and join in
the fun

Swindon Twins OR More Summer Teddy Bears’ Picnic
Saturday 24th July 2010, 11:30am – 2:30pm
Wanborough Village Hall & Garden
(3 miles from Great
Western
Hospital.
Free car parking at The Harrow pub opposite)
Special Guest - Children’s Entertainer Marc Dominic
Marc's
shows include lots of audience participation, magic, puppets (Dekkland the
Baby Dinosaur is a must-see!) and balloon modelling - no boring balloon
model dogs, what about a 3 foot high pink panther or a large motorbike?
Not to mention juggling, plate spinning, magic tricks and other fun stuff!
Children will get the chance to help Marc with his tricks.
Marc will be presenting 2 hours of entertainment including a 40
minute show. Marc Dominic is a member of
the Magic Circle
Free
Bouncy Castle, Raffle ~~ name the Teddy
competition,
Children’s games, Delicious homemade
cakes & refreshments for sale
Don’t
forget to bring your Teddy and your picnic
Entrance
is £1.00 per child for STORM members, £2.00 per
child for non members,
all children welcome ( you don't have to be a twin!)
Adults and babies under 6 months are free

Completed Events
Easter
Eggstravaganza Saturday
27th March 2010 2 - 4pm
FREE Indoor bouncy castle
~~ Easter Egg treasure hunt ~~ games, crafts
with Mummy ~~ make an Easter basket with yummy chocolate egg,
face painting ~~ tattoos ~~ raffle ~~ Name the Bunny,
Easter bonnet/hat competition (bring your decorated bonnet with you),
story-time ~~ songs, delicious homemade
cakes & refreshments, Entrance is £1 per child
for STORM
members & £2 per child for non members
Pottery Painting Workshop - Monday 15th February 2010
Q Ceramics will be holding a pottery painting
workshop on Monday 15th
February 10:00 – 12:00
at Shaw Church*(see calendar for address).
Unglazed mugs, plates, tiles, cookie jars etc are decorated using
paint brushes or sponges.
Babies and young children can still join in by using painted hands or feet
prints instead. Alternatively,
why not try a clay impression of a hand and foot.
All items are then glazed and fired in a furnace to make items
useable. Prices start from £9.50
and 10% of sales go towards STORM funds. These make excellent mementos or
unique presents.
Collection is one week later from Q Ceramics at Blooms Garden Centre, J16
of M4
Christmas Party
Saturday 12th December 2009,
12:00pm - 2:00pm, Haydon Centre. Father Christmas will be visiting
to hand out presents and Baby Boppers will be entertaining us with songs
and dance.
Please provide a present for your child - maximum £5 spend
ensuring the present is clearly marked with your child's name.
Entrance is free for Members' twins, with siblings £1 each child.
Non members' twins £2 per child. RSVP with name and ages of children
to karen.walker66@tiscali.co.uk
Toybox Creche Christmas Party
Monday 14th December 2009
10:00 - 12:00. The Toybox Creche is holding their annual
Christmas Party for STORM. Entrance is £4 per family
(instead of £2.50) and includes a Christmas present from Santa for each
child, party food and drinks and face painting. Tickets to be
purchased in advance to allow presents and party food to be bought.
Terry Ferris Photography - Monday 17th August 2009
Terry will be available to take portrait photographs
Monday 17th August 2009
10:00 – 12:00 at Shaw Church*. This
is an excellent opportunity to include older siblings or even grandparents
in a group family portrait. The portrait pack is fantastic value at £23
and contains 10 photographs: 2@10”x8”, 2@8”x6”, 2@5”x4”, 2@3.75”x3” and
2@2”x2.5”. Extra prints, key rings
and fridge magnets are also available.
Proofs will be available to view before ordering and payment is on
collection. 10% of sales will
go towards STORM funds.
Pottery Painting Workshop - Monday 10th August 2009
Q Ceramics will be holding a pottery painting
workshop on Monday 10th
August 10:00 – 12:00 at Shaw Church*.
Unglazed mugs, plates, tiles, cookie jars etc are decorated using
paint brushes or sponges.
Babies and young children can still join in by using painted hands or feet
prints instead. Alternatively,
why not try a clay impression of a hand and foot.
All items are then glazed and fired in a furnace to make items
useable. Prices start from £9.50
and 10% of sales go towards STORM funds. These make excellent mementos or
unique presents.
Collection is one week later from STORM or Q Ceramics at Blooms Garden
Centre, J16 of M4
Summer Teddy Bears' Picnic -
Saturday 1st August
2009 - Indoors at Lydiard House
The theme of this year’s summer picnic is all about Bears – teddy bears,
polar bears, koala bears, Rupert, Pooh, Paddington and others.
The picnic will take place on
Saturday
1st August 11.00 - 2:00 at Lydiard Park in front of Lydiard
House OR
If it
is
raining we will still have
the picnic and all of the events but we will
move indoors at Lydiard
House. 'We have booked the "Education Room" located
in the stable block opposite the Lydiard House Conference Centre.
The stable block is only 100 yards from the cafe/play area. The
Conference Centre is attached to left hand side of Lydiard House and has
its own car park. This is signposted Lydiard Park Conference
Centre and St Mary’s Church and is reached via the Lydiard Park
driveway off Hay Lane / Tregoze Wayoor
This family event has been a great success in
previous years giving an opportunity for family and friends to join in the
fun and at the same time for STORM to raise some much needed funds.
Bring along a picnic.
There will be a very
special (furry!) guest, teddy bear goodies and pocket-money games for
children and parents alike. Entrance
is free for members’ twins and triplets. A nominal fee of £1 per
sibling or additional child will be charged to help towards covering our
costs.
If you are free why not come along to join in the fun?
Terry Ferris photography - 3rd November 2008
Once
again Terry Ferris has been booked to take yet more brilliant photos of
our children. He'll be at Shaw Church on 3rd November
2008. As usual prints will be available within a couple of weeks,
so easily in time to make great Christmas presents for Granny's & Aunties
CHRISTMAS PARTY
After the amazing success of last years party, STORM have booked this
years event on Saturday 13th December from 12-2pm @ Haydon Centre. Invites
to STORM members will follow nearer the time, so get it in your diary
early as the kids will love it.
PS
Father Christmas has already said yes to his invite!!

Mum's Night Out
The next Mum's night held
on Friday 4th April by Virgin Vie raised a fantastic £28 for STORM funds.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
WOW, what a fantastic party!! This
years Christmas party was a huge success with 50 children attending. We
also had a visit from Father Christmas and were entertained by 'Creative
Kids' who not only kept all the children amused for an hour giving Mum's &
Dad's a few minutes peace, but did a brilliant job of facing painting
those kids brave enough to join in. A great big thank you goes out to our
new committee member Leanne (& her Mum) who organised all the food and
even managed to cater for 3 children with special dietary needs as well.
Follow this link for photos

SHOPPING NIGHT
A huge thank you to Jo
for all the hard work she put into organising the shopping night which was
yet again a fantastic success which funds in excess of £100 being raised
by commission from the stall holders. We also raised £60 in raffle tickets
alone on the night.
The raffle was drawn on
19 November, results to be announced at the Christmas party and will
posted on the web site afterwards
Terry Ferris photography
As Terry was so
popular last year, we've already booked him for later on this year.
Initially we've booked him for June and October in time for Christmas.
MUM'S NIGHT
OUT
Nicola hosted a fantastic night for us Mum's on behalf
of STORM. Body Shop came along and treated us all to a hand massage and
gave us the opportunity to try out samples of their wonderful products.
As a reward for
spending over £250 we had the opportunity to get addiitonal gifts free
which will be used later ni the year as raffle prizes to help us raise
funds to pay for speacial meetings and of course the Christmas party

SUMMER PICNIC
The summer
picnic's held at Lydiard House was as usual a
resounding success. We picked a great day as the weather held out for us
which was such a bonus considering how bad its been this summer!!
 
Jacob & Arabella's
Dad took this photos above by climbing the big tree. Seemed a good idea at
the time until 10 sets of twins tried to copy him!!
 

EASTER SPECIAL
At the meeting on 2nd April held at
Toothill Church we held an Easter special meeting with activities,
including an egg hunt, biscuit decorating and creating magnets. It was
thoroughly enjoyed by all. As it was such a success, we hope to put some
more events like this into the STORM diary!

CHRISTMAS PARTY
Saturday
9th December at Haydon Centre,
Thames Avenue Near Morrisons
supermarket, between 12 and
2pm for STORM members and
siblings. Entertainment, a visit from a man in a red suit
laden with presnts, and food will be provided by the club

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING NIGHT
The
shopping night was held on Thursday 9 November at the Haydon Wick
Working Men's Club. As with last year, there was a
selection of stalls including Chocoholics, Virgin Vee, Mini IQ,and lots of
lovely hand made cards and toys plus much more.
The event raised over £170 for STORM. So a big thank you to everybody who
attended.

AGM
We are required to hold an
AGM, so this will take place on Monday 18th September, during the normal
Monday morning session at ToyBox Junction. More information will be sent
out to members nearer the time.

SUMMER
PICNIC
Held on 16th July on
the lawn outside Lydiard House. Photos to follow...!

SPONSORED TODDLE WADDLE
Following the success
of last year's event, we decided to enter the Barnardos Sponsored Toddle
Waddle again, with infants (in buggies) and toddlers doing two laps of the
Outlet Village on Monday 5 June. 75% proceeds to Barnardos, and 25% to
STORM. Some toddlers dressed up, good fun was had by all and hopefully we
raised some much needed cash for a good cause.
Photo Gallery

TINY
TALK BABY SIGN LANGUAGE
Sarah kindly arranged
for Tiny Talk to visit to demonstrate some baby sign language at the Baby
Corner session on Monday 12 June. They run courses which are available to
help communicate with your pre-talking baby. See our Links page for their
website details.

PAMPERED CHEF
There was an evening
with the Pampered Chef, kindly hosted by Jill in Priory Vale, on Monday 24
April.

MUMS'
NIGHT OUT!!!
A Mums' Night Out was
held on 19 May at the Marriott Hotel. Run by Funky Mamas, this was a great
night out for all those mums who are secret divas, who want to have a
dance round their handbags!

USBORNE BOOKS
A viewing of Usborne
Books was held at the meeting on Monday 15th May.

ETERNAL PRINTS
Sarah-Jane, a local
twin mum, and her colleague Sheryl came to two Monday meetings to take
fingerprints from the children, which will memorialised in gold or silver,
and used to decorate beautiful jewellery or keepsakes. For more
information, visit her website at
www.eternalprints.com

Presenters at the Creche sessions
We have been
fortunate to have a demonstration of Baby Massage at the Baby Corner, plus
Kidz Klub Adventure Videos, and Chocoholics come to visit us.

Babies' and Children's Christmas Parties
The Babies' Christmas
Party were held at ToyBox Junction on Monday 12th December, and the
Children's Christmas Party on Monday 19th December.
Photo Gallery

Teddy
Bears' Picnic
Our annual Teddy
Bears' picnic was held on Sunday 10th July at Lydiard Park from 11:30 am.
Click here for the photos

Mums'
Night Out
The first Mums'
Night Out was held on Friday 1st July at Jill's house in Priory Vale.
Kate from Daisy
Chains kindly brought along a wide range of clothes from 3 months to 6
years, and many bargain clothes and some toys were snapped up by those
present. An excellent start to our social meetings and a good time was had
by all. Many thanks to Jill for hosting the event which raised £16 towards
STORM funds.

Sponsored Toddle In Aid Of Barnardo's And Storm
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On Monday 20 June, members of STORM held a
sponsored toddle around the Outlet Village in aid of the Barnardo's
charity with STORM also benefiting from 25% of the monies raised.
STORM funds have been boosted by about £50 as a result of the children
toddling and Barnardo's by about £200 - so well done, and thank you to
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The
Re-Launch Party !
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The first event to be held by STORM was the
Re-Launch party on Monday 6 June at the ToyBox Junction crèche,
between 10am and 12pm. Refreshments were provided courtesy of ASDA
Walmart. Raffle with prizes donated by local businesses. Event was
covered by local media. See the photo
gallery of the party!
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