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First Steps Women's Centre maintain an allotment at Nunnery Hill in Dungannon Park. A place to come and be at one with nature, get your hands dirty and enjoy a cup of tea after a good days work!
We hope to have an experienced gardener for a number of weeks to advise us on the best plants and herbs to grow begining in September 2022. Would you be interested? If so, please contact Ingrid on (028) 8772 7648.
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Our Flavour of the World Ladies were cooking Indonesian Style last week! Here is what was on the menu:
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Our CYT class with the direction of Sinead from Flowers by Arrangement, made these beautiful bouquets!
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The Creche have been very busy this Autumn!
In September the children were settling back in and "Getting to know you" and in October they were preparing for "Hallowe'en and Harvest!"
Looks like lots of fun!
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AmazonSmile customers can now support First Steps Women's Centre in the Amazon shopping app on iPhones and Android phones! Simply follow these instructions to turn on AmazonSmile and start generating donations.
- Open the Amazon Shopping app on your device
- Go into the main menu of the Amazon Shopping app and tap into 'Settings'
- Tap 'AmazonSmile' and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the process
If you do not have the latest version of the Amazon Shopping app, update your app. Click here for instructions.
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Our ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students are learning about the different cultures of their fellow class mates.
Today we are learning about East Timor. Class students Sonia da Costa and Arsenia Guterres are proudly displaying their national costumes.
Looking fabulous ladies!!
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Our ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students are learning about the different cultures of their fellow class mates.
Today they are learning about Lithuania and Rita Brazeviciene and Sarema Kieziate have kindly dressed up for the day!
Looking fabulous ladies!
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Women's Aid (Mid Ulster Contact No 028 8676 9300)
Practical and emotional support is provided to women and children affected by domestic and sexual violence who choose to remain at home or in a community setting through a floating support service.
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Following a donation of £35,000, Asda Cookstown General Store Manager, Peter Beckett, and Asda Cookstown Community Champion, Janice Gibson, were delighted to attend the recent opening of the refurbished First Steps Women’s Centre in Dungannon on behalf of the Asda Foundation.
Aimed at transforming the lives of local women, the First Steps Women’s Centre provides educational and training support, alongside health and well-being services. As a direct result of the donation from Asda, the centre was able to improve the on-site facilities for service users through an extensive refurbishment project, including extending its childcare facilities.
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ABANDONED MILL MAKES WAY FOR NEW NATIONAL LOTTERY FUNDED FIRST STEPS WOMEN’S CENTRE
A women’s group in Dungannon has transformed an abandoned mill in the town with the help of National Lottery funding, creating a facility which is set to help improve the lives of women living in the Mid-Ulster area, and those newly arrived to the community.
First Steps Women’s Centre, an organisation which has worked for twenty years with women to help enhance their life prospects, is celebrating the launch of the new facility having received £350,000 in funding from the Big Lottery Funded Space & Place Programme.
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It was lovely to welcome the Space and Place people here today.
After tea and scones and an update from Project Manager Yvonne Corbett they had a wee duke at our on-going renovation work which they are kindly sponsoring.
As you can see they were all well impressed!
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News Release 13 February 2018
First Steps Women’s Centre in Dungannon is the latest local group to benefit from Asda Foundation support following a donation of £35k.
Aimed at transforming the lives of local women, the First Steps Women’s Centre provides educational and training support, alongside health and well-being services.
As a direct result of the donation, the centre is able to progress with a building refurbishment project, which will allow it to extend its childcare facilities for service users.
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First Steps Women’s Centre (FSWC) recently launched the Women Towards Education & Employment Programme – a three year programme part-funded by Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) and the European Social Fund (ESF).
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