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    SloughBC @SloughBC Slough - 12mo
    Celebrating Carers Rights Day Slough Carers Support hosted a Carers Rights Day event on 21 November at Elite Banqueting Suite and this year’s theme was ‘recognising your rights’. The event aimed to help unpaid carers understand their rights and highlight key resources and support available. More than 100 carers attended the event alongside representatives, volunteers, and partners from the local community. Fourteen local organisations were on hand to provide advice and information to carers on benefit entitlements, carers assessments, and much more, including Health and Wellbeing Slough, NHS support, Adult Social Care, and local carers support groups. The event kicked off with a welcome and introduction by David Coleman-Groom (Executive Director People – Adults (DASS) from Slough Borough Council, followed by talks from guest speakers from the Debt and Welfare team (SBC) and the Carers Lead from CMHT (Community Mental Health Team). An important part of the event was giving carers the opportunity to spend time relaxing with each other in beautiful surroundings, with refreshments and entertainment. A varied buffet lunch with everything from sandwiches to samosas, to freshly made cakes and cookies was served, and The House of Chaat restaurant chefs were also on hand serving delicious Chaat, Bhel Puri, and savoury snacks. Dhol player Karan (from the Dhol Show) kicked off the celebration with his loud and vibrant drumbeats enticing our carers onto the dance floor. This was followed by Sunita from Amina Khayyam Dance Company with her beautiful kathak dance. Finally, a winner of Slough’s Got Talent - singer Roy Armentano performed his captivating prayer for the carers to give them strength on their caring journeys and give them hope for the future. Jane Senior, Director of Commissioning, Slough Borough Council, said: “This was a fantastic event to promote and provide information to carers on their rights. Thanks go to colleagues, partners, local businesses and of course carers for making this such an enjoyable and informative event. We are particularly grateful to all our wonderful Carers Groups whose representatives made the day run so smoothly. “We would also like to thank Elite Banqueting Suite (Slough) for their kind and generous support for the event, DJ Dips (from Apollo DJ) for the relaxing background music, and Jody (from JK Balloons) for the decorations. You can find out more about our Carers Support Service at: https://www.slough.gov.uk/carers/carers-slough/3 .” The Mayor of Slough, Councillor Balwinder S Dhillon, said: “It has been my pleasure to attend this event and meet so many of our wonderful carers who do such an incredible job looking after their family and friends through illness and disability. My thanks also go to Slough Carers Support for organising such an informative and fun event, and continuing to provide ongoing advice, information, and support to the borough’s unpaid carers.”
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    SloughBC @SloughBC Slough - 12mo
    Happy 21st Birthday to Creative Academy! The Creative Academy turned 21 this month, having launched in 2003 as part of the Heart of Slough redevelopment, where its remit was to create training opportunities. The Creative Academy is a unique not for profit partnership between Slough Borough Council and The University of West London, allowing the organisations to re-invest all funds into the programmes to enhance the student experience. Offering a BA (Hons) Dance and BA (Hons) Musical Theatre Performance in partnership with the University of West London, graduates have gone on to successful performing arts careers in choreography, performing and teaching including cruise ships, theatre and film including dancing for Rita Ora, Sean Paul, Jay Sean, X-Factor, VMAs and The Brit Awards. Creative Academy’s professional performing arts programmes have high contact hours and small classes to ensure maximum impact in the creative industries. The team works locally with RIFCO Arts, Slough Music Service, Slough Council for Voluntary Services, Resource Productions, SWIPE and Together As One, and has featured on TV shows Britain’s Got Talent, Got To Dance and Strictly Come Dancing. Currently you can see Creative Academy’s 2019 graduate Tasha Ghouri competing on Strictly Come Dancing with partner Aijaz Skorjanec, this week scoring the first 40 of the season. Their 2015 graduate Georgia Bradshaw has recently finished a West End run of Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger and Joshua Pilmore who graduated in 2014 choreographed Rina Sawayama’s USA tour last year. Their 2017 graduate Molly Southall is launching a fully funded further education performing arts school called Prodigy College of Performing Arts in Slough, in September 2025, providing a real opportunity to support local talent to achieve. The Creative Academy runs several other local projects to increase dance participation including a partnership, Prodigy Dance Studios prodigydancestudios@gmail.com offering acro, ballet and musical theatre, and the Inspire programme with Slough Schools Sports Network & Windsor Sport Network which delivers dance to all local primary and secondary schools. Alongside their spiral dance programme which offers adults with learning difficulties the opportunity to dance weekly in the purpose-built studios at The Creative Hub, Stoke Poges Lane. Plans for the next five years include developing a creative industries support programme, creation space and developing their MUGA (multi use games area) into a performing arts and sports space. The newest programme ‘The Academy’ sees local young creatives curating fortnightly events to showcase their work within their newly refurbished dance studio. George Kirkham, Creative Academy Principal, said: “The Creative Academy has worked with thousands of local people, over the past 21 years, to create performance, employment, and further training opportunities. We are very excited to see what the next 21 years brings, and we are very proud of all of the creative individuals we have supported to achieve their dreams and aspirations.” Cllr Puja Bedi, lead member for education and children’s services, said: “We are extremely proud of The Creative Academy, and would like to wish all students and staff a happy 21st Birthday. Over the years Creative Academy’s students have gone onto some amazing careers and we can’t wait to see what the academy and its students achieve next!” To learn more about The Creative Academy visit: https://creativeacademy.org/
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