The Mag meeting 29th November

We had a good and interesting meeting today.

We decided we need a lot more articles from you, guys!
We need more articles about entertainment, different sports, not just football. So if you like tennis or hockey write to us!

We would like to hear more about your hobbies.

Sui-Ling says, she enjoyed today's meeting with everyone.

The Mag Meeting on 4th October

Claire Withers joined us again to ask us for information about The Mag and its members.
She would like this information to be put on the Learning Management System, a website for the MacIntyre staff.

We looked at the articles for the Autumn issue.
We decided we could do with 1 or 2 more articles and some artwork.
Mary is going to write about the Haddon Beats.
Anthony will work on his competition to give people a fair chance.

We talked about the Milton Keynes Roadshow and we came up with some questions for people from Finland who are going to visit the Roadshow.
In the break we looked at information about Finland and listened to the Monty Python's song about Finland as part of our research.

The Mag Group meeting on 12th July

Hi guys!

We had a meeting today.

Claire Withers came to see us to ask for our help with her project. She is going to make a film about MacIntyre that will be shown to new people.

She asked us to pick special stories from past issues of The Mag to include in the film.

Mary and Iain are going to be in the film to introduce the stories that we will pick.

We've had some really good articles for the Summer Issue which will be coming soon.

We talked about Bill Mumford's 25th anniversary.

We are in the process of updating our website so keep an eye on it.

Southampton Roadshow is on 14th July so if you are going to be there - come and see us!

We are very pleased that Ian Cuff joined The Mag group again.

We looked at articles for the Summer Issue and decided which ones to put in. We are hoping to get some more. Donald is very busy emailing people and asking for materials. The deadline for submitting the articles is 21 June.

Our competition from the Spring Issue is still open and you can send your entries until 21 July.

We had a look through The Mag box to see if our Roadshow stand should be made better. We will definitely get a nice photo album to display the photos of celebrities interviewed by The Mag.

Its road show time people on 10/6/10

Hi People its road show time (well bless my soul, that came a long fast). But this time the we are all bound on the good ship MacIntyre for The Wirral. So fokes get ready for Thursday 10th June 2010. It will be good to see all the services from that part of the world there and if you do want to come please see us the people from The Mag who work hard to put together at our stall. Remember its not just our Mag but a Mag for the fokes we support within our services. So pop across and say hello to whoever is on duty at our stall, tell us your thoughts and what you like or don't like and ideas for improvements. Let us know what you think of our new website.

See you at The Wirral or I'll blow a raspberry at you.

Back up our petition to save service 4 to Stony Stratford

For many years the number 4 bus has been running to Stony Stratford. Many of our learners work at the Coffee Shop during the weeks. This service was convenient for the learners to get to and from Stony.

The situation now lies that the number 4 bus is not running over there, which means we now have to change busses and spend much longer getting to the Coffee Shop.

We now have a petition that people can sign in order to let Arriva, the service provider, know that this change is a serious disruption for many of our learners.

We hope that with this petition we can bring this back to normal again.

If you want to you can either sign the petition in the Coffee Shop in Stony Stratford or you can contact Arriva bus company directly.

The contact details for the Coffee Shop are: 01908 568267, stony.shop@macintyrecharity.org

The contact details for Arriva is: 0844 800 44 11.

We would be greatful if you could back this up. Please involve friends and familes in doing this.

Trip to Theatre

Some members of the group went to see West Side Story at MK Theatre. We sat in the Gods, and had Probably the best view as well as paying the lowest price. We went with the Milton Keynes Independent Group. We really enjoyed the Play and Sui Ling brought a program to remember the occasion. Some of the people who attended wanted a copy of the music. Some of the Cast members recieve Support from MacIntyre and some are members of the MK Indie Group. We all look forward to the next trip.

Worcester Road Show 2010

Hi everyone its that time again. 'Are you ready, lets get ready to rumble its road show time at Worcester Rugby League Club on 15th April 2010.' So if you are from one of our services nearby pop up and pay us a visit as perusal we shall be having our mag stall and it will be maned throughout the day. If there is anything you would like to ask us about The Mag or have artwork or articles you would like to hand to us we'd only be too happy to help.

As you may or may not know Agnieszka has join or team for a while, while Sarah-Anna Morgan is away on maternity leave, so why not introduce yourself to her at the road show as she is quite a pleasant woman to talk to.

So until we speak again keep sending your pictures, articles etc into us at our McIntyre's head office in Central Milton Keynes and be sure to leave a comment.

Bye
The Mag team

The Iain's Special

Hi.

It's Iain here.

I would like to tell you about the Mag meeting.

God news, we were all here! We talked about the blogs and the Mag website. We agreed that Donald and Anthony are going to do An Easy Guide to Website and Blog.

We talked about the articles for the Spring issue. The new issue will be available in April.

We picked the winner of the competition but you'll have to wait till the next issue to find out.

Look out, readers, the Spring competition coming your way very soon! Watch this space.

The Mag Meeting; Jan 2010

we had a good meeting we welcomed Agnieszka to the meeting. we had cake because sarah anne is going on maternity leave to have a baby.

david came to talk to us about the mag website and the blog.

we would like our readers to think how they could support the haitian appeal.

The winter issue will be with you soon.

by sui-ling tang

Happy New Year People

Hi everyone, just wanted to wish you a happy New year now that its 2010. But one thing that has been puzzling me is that how do we say the year? is it twenty-ten, two-thousand and ten and what if you could have one wish what would it be and please don't all say The Lottary please. I'd wish for England to win the world cup this summer in South Africa but only after I've put £25 on them to win at 400 to 1. But rest ashore i'll still be working at The Mag and I'll still go to Bangor or Scarbough each year on holiday and eat alphabet spag every day.

Big hugs from person with all the ducks on his desk.