Raffle Ended – Thank You Everyone!!

It occurred to us that not all of you might be coming down to Hythe before Friday so we would make our raffle tickets available online! We have a slightly clumsy way of doing this on the website as it wasn’t made for this sort of thing! So it means you can only buy 2 strips of tickets at a time, and if you want to buy more than that we would need to ask you to do it in more than one transaction please as otherwise it doesn’t work! Then once you have bought your tickets, we will allocate yours to you and write your name and email/phone number on the back, and away we go! We will drop you an email to let you know we have received your order and that your raffle tickets are ready to go!

We had some great prizes for our Foreman & Jones MacMillan Coffee Morning from:

Momo House - meal for 2
BlueSkyPie – 2 VIP tickets for Grammy Award Winning Amrit Sond gig, come to the sound check and meet all the performers!
RubyRuby – handmade necklace made from vintage buttons and beads
£40 voucher for Bouncy Castle Land
Beautiful scarf from Vestiti Boutique, Hythe
A family membership to Amazing Glazeworth £80
Lonestar Comedy - 2 Free Tickets to their comedy night (& extra friends only £5.00 per ticket)
Humbers Homemade - A voucher for 3 jars of jam, chutney or marmalade
A box of delicious cupcakes from Friday Treats
A bottle of wine worth £10

Martin Whybrow from the Shepway Green Party approached us with regard to our fundraising for MacMillan Cancer Support. Our World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is on Friday 24th September at 11am, and the Shepway Green Party is hosting a meeting entititled:

‘How Green is Hythe. How Green Could it be?’

He had the great idea that we could extend our Coffee Morning to the night before and provide refreshments for this meeting too, with all the proceeds going to MacMillan Cancer Support. We jumped at the chance as it sounds like an interesting meeting and the more we can raise for MacMillan, the better!

The event is on

Thursday 23rd September
Doors open at 7pm
Meeting starts at 7.30pm

What is the Meeting About?

The goal of the meeting is to help to define projects to improve the sustainability of our town. There will be Speakers from Elham and Sevenoaks and you can meet a number of local groups.

The aim is to look at ways to improve the town from an environmental perspective.

Topics of discussion are likely to include:

• improved recycling
• waste reduction
• energy saving
• tree planting
• local food supply
• greener transport
• and how to achieve more sustainable and environmentally friendly developments.

Experiences from Sevenoaks within the Transition Towns Network

Steve Plater will set out the experiences from Sevenoaks within the Transition Towns network. Founded in 2006 in Devon, the network has already grown to include over 300 communities in the UK and abroad. Its goal is to build local resilience against the impacts of climate change and rising energy costs, seizing the opportunity to shift gradually to a better way of community life. Could it be applicable to Hythe?

Elham Environmental group

Chris Jelly from the Elham Environment Group will explain the many inspiring projects that have been carried out in Elham over the last couple of years. What can Hythe learn from this community’s efforts?

Q&A Session

Our two speakers will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion, with the aim of identifying a number of next steps for Hythe.

Hosted by the Shepway Green Party, the meeting is open to everyone and there is no charge. It would be helpful if you could notify the organisers of your attendance beforehand by email or phone so that we can gauge numbers.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Martin Whybrow, Shepway Green Party, on 07787 124794 or martin_whybrow@yahoo.co.uk.

Refreshments will be provided by Jodie and Hayley of Foreman and Jones Integrated Health Practice in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support

You are just going to love us for letting you know that there is an NCT Nearly New Sale at Hythe Bay CofE School, Cinque Ports Avenue, Hythe, CT21 6HS on Saturday 9th Ovtober 2010 from 10.30am to 12pm. NCT members can enter at 10am.

Entrance is by voluntary donation (in aid of NCT Charity)

NCT Nearly New Sales have an excellent reputation for the standard of items you can buy.

Items for sale:

Toys
Baby & Toddler Equipment
Clothes
Home Made Cakes
Refreshments
and much more

To book a table and for more details contact Rachel on 01303 239368 or 07771 813616

On 24th September at 11am we are joining in with the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, held every year by MacMillan Cancer Support.

This year we are lucky to have a representative from MacMillan at our coffee morning to answer questions and talk generally about MacMillan. We are really excited about this.

The respresentative is Tracy Neill who is a Cancer Information Specialist and a local lady. She is ever so nice, so we are really grateful that she will come along and add a bit more ‘oomph’ to our Coffee Morning.

Will you be attending? We hope to see you there

Friday 24th September at 11am

We had such fun at last year’s MacMillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning that we held at Foreman & Jones, Hythe as you can see! —>

Here are some of the beautiful cakes that were made for us to raise money.

We had so much fun, that we thought we’d do it again!

 
So far since we have been in Hythe our patients have raised over £400 for MacMillan Cancer Support – read what they said about us here.  We are looking to top the total from last year’s event, which was £143.

 
So we are holding our next World’s Biggest Coffee Morning on Friday 24th September at 11am.  Just like last year we will be relying on support from everyone in the local area to bring cakes and biscuits and raffle prizes.  We’ll supply the teas and coffees.

 Lovely cakes donated by Friday Treats of Saltwood last year.

We’ll be contacting local businesses for raffle prizes too – if you know anyone who would like to donate something please put them in touch with us here.

Everything you need to know about natural labour, birth and beyond

Tuesday 20th July –  6-7.30pm at Foreman and Jones (112D High St, Hythe, Kent)

Come to meet other parents to be and learn about

• How to reduce your pain in labour
• How to have a more straight forward birth experience
• How to treat the symptoms experienced in pregnancy, naturally.

Jodie has been in practice as a medical herbalist for eight years and sees many patients before, during and after pregnancy and labour.

Cost £10 per person or £15 per couple.

Back in January/February we ran our annual special offer in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. In total this year we have raised over £400. Here’s the info that Macmillan posted of their website. Macmillan website.

Local Hythe business support Macmillan Cancer Support through their first birthday.

Foreman and Jones Integrated Health Practice of Hythe celebrated their first year of business by holding a fundraising initiative in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Co-owners Jodie Foreman and Hayley Jones offered their customers’ appointments for a reduced price of just 10p, during January and February this year, and in return made a request from people who took up the offer to make a donation to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Jodie and Hayley decided to hold the fundraising initiative following the success of their World’s Biggest Coffee Morning event last September. World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan Cancer Support’s largest annual fundraising initiative. This national event sees thousands of people taking part to show support for the cancer support charity and has raised over £50 million since it began.

Speaking of their motivation to hold another fund raiser Jodie Foreman said, “we were so encouraged by the support and success of World’s Biggest Coffee Morning that we wanted to see if we could use the first anniversary of our business as an opportunity to raise more money.”

Jodie and Hayley managed to raise their fundraising efforts by another £143. Laura Kennedy, fundraising manager of Macmillan Cancer Support, said “this was a great initiative by Jodie and Hayley. The money they raised can be put to so many good uses. £25 pays for a Macmillan Cancer nurse for one hour; £18 can contribute to our support and information services for an hour. We are really grateful for their efforts and encourage more people who would like to lend their support to come forward.”

Macmillan Cancer Support are looking for other local businesses to make Macmillan their chosen charity of the year. Anyone wanting to show support for the charity should contact Laura Kennedy on 01622 600050 for more information.

We are building up a nice list of people for our Stress & Anxiety workshop – it’s in just over 2 weeks and we are really looking forward to running it at our practice in Hythe. Anyone who can’t fit into this group can go on our waiting list for future workshops as we will be repeating the workshop again during the year.

Do I have to talk to people I don’t know about what’s bothering me?

People have been asking us whether they will need to share any information during the workshop. Of course, people are more than welcome to tell people the process they are going through or any relevant information they think will help someone else, but no one is obliged to share anything they don’t want to. That just wouldn’t be right!

Surely I have to tell you all the ins and outs of the problem in order for you to help me with it?

Contrary to common belief you do not need to talk over a problem for hours and hours in order to reach a resolution. It is often more about a change of perspective on the issue. Of course sometimes we may choose to talk over a problem with friends and family, because we want to. And this is fine. When it comes to asking trained professionals for help, you will find that it is quite different from approaching a friend to help.

How can you help without knowing what the problem is?

We will be working through processes that help with all sorts of problems, no matter what they are, and we do not need to know what the precise problem is to be able to work on it. This may sounds strange, but you will understand once you see it in action. We are looking more at the processes that you go through when dealing with the problem and changes that can be made there. There are many strategies for dealing with stress – if what you do works for you 100% then there is no need to change anything. If however, you are unhappy with the way things are going then it is time for a change.

This means for example:

• Do you become introverted when you have a problem and keep it to yourself? Does this work for you? Or do you find yourself going round and round in circles, thinking you are going mad? For some people, keeping a problem to themselves works for them, for others it doesn’t.
• Do you need to resolve a problem in your head before you can even bring yourself to speak about it with others? Or do you need to talk about the problem out loud? For some people, talking about the problem that stresses them is good for them – they can work the problem and a solution out simply by talking it through. This can sometimes surprise the other person when they come up with a solution for you as they have heard everything you have said about the problem, but by that point you are already over it!
• Do you try to kid yourself that everything is ok when it isn’t? Does this work for you?

Stress can be a part of daily life for many people, and of course things happen from time to time that can completely knock us for six, and we wonder how we will ever pick ourselves up again. And think back to the past to a time where you wondered if you would ever get over a problem, and you did. So it can happen again.

We wonder what happens for you when you are experiencing a problem that stresses you? Some of the common feelings people have are:
• Tightness in the chest
• A sinking feeling in the stomach
• Palpitations or a tight chest
• Feeling sick
• Loose bowels or constipation
• A feeling of overwhelm
• A loss of interest in daily life
• Isolation

Why not attend our Stress and Anxiety Workshop and learn about what can be changed to alleviate these feelings……..

Check back soon for part 2 of this blog

Learn how to address Stress with Foreman & Jones, Hythe

In her recent newsletter our friend and colleague Katherine Simpson of JDS HR wrote about sickness absence -

‘ The latest survey from the CIPD says that sickness absence costs employers £692 per employee every year. If you have 50 employees that’s £34,600 every year. The number of employers reporting an increase in stress related absence, particularly in non-manual jobs, continues to rise with the CIPD reporting a 27% increase in stress related absence in the previous 12 months. In difficult economic times this is likely to keep rising.’

Why not send your Staff on our workshop to help them manage their response to stress in better way?

Printable information here:

Workshop Stress – a Natural Problem, A Natural Solution a4

Join us at Foreman & Jones for this 2-hour Stress and Anxiety Workshop between 6.30pm and 8.30pm on Thursday 8th April. Our aim at Foreman & Jones is to help our local residents in Folkestone, Hythe and surrounding towns in Kent to be able to cope better with stress and anxiety, drawing on our combined 25 years in practice using herbal medicines, hypnotherapy, NLP and reflexology.

What we hope you will gain from this Stress and Anxiety Workshop

• A new perspective on stress and anxiety whether this be through work or home life
• Feel more able to cope with the symptomes of stress – and understand how to prevent the symptoms arising in the first place
• Feel better in yourself – greater wellbeing, more relaxed attitude, taking things in your stride
• Understand the steps you can take moving forward to make this a problem of the past
• Be better company for your colleagues at work (!)
• Enjoy life once again

During this workshop you will:

• Learn about how stress affects the human body to give you a greater understanding of why we feel the way we do when we are stressed
• Learn how stress affects the body
• Pinpoint the main area of your life in which you can make changes to make a positive difference
• Decide action steps to help you make this difference
• Make a plan for a more relaxed future

If you would like to find out more, contact us using the form below and sign up to our newsletter where we can keep you informed.

Investment: £10.00 per person

Next Workshop Date: Thursday 8th April
6.30 – 8.30pm

Join us at Foreman & Jones for this 2 hour stress and anxiety workshop.  Our aim at Foreman & Jones is to help our local residents in Folkestone, Hythe and surrounding towns in Kent to be able to cope better with stress drawing on our combined 25 years in practice using herbal medicines, hypnotherapy, NLP and reflexology.

During this workshop you will:

• Learn about how stress affects the human body to give you a greater understanding of why you feel the way you do
• Learn how stress affects you
• Pinpoint the main area of your life in which you can make a difference
• Decide action steps to help you make this difference
• Make a plan for a more relaxed future

What we hope you gain from this workshop 

• A new perspective on this problem
• Feel more able to cope with stress and its symptoms – and understand how to prevent it arising in the first place
• Feel better in yourself
• Understand the steps you can take moving forward to make this a problem of the past
• Be better company for your loved ones (!)
• Move on with your life and enjoy it

If you would like to find out more, contact us using the form below and sign up to our newsletter where we can keep you informed.

Investment: £10.00 per person 

We look forward to seeing you then

Jodie & Hayley

Foreman & Jones

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