Events

It was standing room in the Corbridge Village Hall when famous explorer Conrad Dickinson gave his “To Antarctica” talk last Friday night.

The tickets for the event sold out within 14 days, and it was a hugely successful evening, with an entertaining account of Conrad’s expedition to Antarctica with Prince Harry and four wounded servicemen.

The evening raised approximately £1,500 towards our Community Respite Care Bed!

Famous explorer Conrad Dickinson will visit Corbridge to give a one-off illustrated talk on his journey to Antarctica, with Prince Harry and four wounded servicemen.

Conrad hit the headlines when he guided Prince Harry and a group of injured soldiers on one of the most high profile expeditions of modern times.

He is now going to talk about his amazing experience – which included sharing a tent with the Prince – in aid of the Charlotte Straker Project.

Corbridge Parish Hall
Tickets only £10.00; Licensed bar.

To buy tickets please email mike.pottage@charlottestraker.org.uk or ring the Charlotte Straker office on 01434 633 999.

We held a moving Tree of Lights service yesterday at Charlotte Straker House.  Jenny the vicar led the short service and residents, staff and visitors took the opportunity to remember and celebrate the lives of their loved ones.

Thank you to the choir for singing carols, and to our volunteers for arranging mince pies and mulled wine.

In total, 38 remembrance stars have been bought – thank you so much to all those who ordered an engraved star. We hope you will enjoy seeing them displayed on our Tree. Please remember you can pick up your star from our office during our usual opening hours.

Sally, our Marketing Coordinator, carefully hangs all the stars on our Tree

Our finished Tree of Lights

One of the stars hanging on the tree

Jenny, the vicar, led the service.

Our Tree outside Charlotte Straker House.

A close up of one of the stars.

Our residents, visitors and staff ready for the service

Enjoying a mince pie and mulled wine.

Our residents had a wonderful visit to the St. Andrew’s Christmas Tree Festival on Monday.

Our own Charlotte Straker tree won a Silver Award in the competition. Thank you to the judges!

Our residents, staff and volunteers enjoyed a cup of coffee and a mince pie, and loved looking at all the different types of trees – the creativity was amazing!

Our resident Meg points to our entry in the Christmas Tree competition.

Everyone enjoying a cup of tea and a mince pie.

Enjoying a cup of tea.

Having a chat after looking at the trees.

The Corbridge Youth Initiative Christmas Fair,

24th Nov 2018 at Corbridge Parish Hall, 10 am – 2 pm.

Our Crafty Women will have their own stall selling beautiful hand made shawls, cushions, Christmas decorations and homeware. We are raffling a gorgeous mohair shawl in lemon (shown in picture below), hand made by Penny Ely. Raffle tickets are £1 and only available from the Fair.

The Fair will have a raffle, tombola, cake and produce stall, toys and games for children and Santa’s Grotto. Coffees, teas, scones and home made soup available.

Entry is only £1.50 (children free) and includes a Christmas cake raffle ticket.  Please come and support our Crafty Women – all proceeds from their stall go towards the Charlotte Straker Project.

The biggest and the best Gift Fair in Tynedale is back for 2018, and this year is again supporting the Charlotte Straker Project.

The Tynedale Gift Fair will be held at Matfen Hall Hotel on:

• Monday 29th October 2018 3.30pm-8.30pm and
• Tuesday 30th October 2018 10.00am-3.00pm.

Entry £4 on the door (includes a raffle ticket).

Since 2004, the Tynedale Gift Fair has raised an amazing £42,100 for charities in Tynedale, and over the last two years alone has donated over £6,500 to the Charlotte Straker Project in Corbridge. In 2017, the Gift Fair committee donated over £3,000 which helped us buy 17 special purpose nursing mattresses for our residents.

The accessible Arjo bath

This year they have again decided to support the Charlotte Straker Project, to help fund a state of the art integrated bathroom suite for the nursing, residential and respite patients. This brand new bathroom includes an Arjo bath system, with integral tracking and a bath lift to allow our less able residents to enjoy the pleasure of a comfortable reclining bath.

The numerous stalls include everything needed for an unforgettable festive season including gift ideas, furnishings, candles, clothing, tableware, soaps and jewellery plus delicious Christmas food stalls hosted by local producers who will be on hand to offer samples of their products, which includes cakes, puddings, sausages, chocolate, wines, spirits and smoked fish.

The raffle has some fantastic prizes including designer clothing and jewellery, vouchers for dinner at top local restaurants, bed and breakfast at Matfen Hall, plus personal physio, pilates and riding sessions! For the full list of raffle prizes please click here: Raffle prizes 2018. Raffle tickets can be bought from Charlotte Straker House.

We are over the moon that Caroline and her committee have decided that our charity should benefit again this year.

We wish them all the best for this year, and we will certainly be taking some of our residents to Matfen Hall to do some Christmas Shopping!