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The Mag Meeting: 1st August 2011

2011-08-01T06:24:00.000-07:00

Hi All,
We have talked about some ideas for articles building up to the Olympics.

The Summer issue is at the printers, we hope to have it this week.

We looked at articles for the Autumn issue and we all agreed that everyone in the group will write an article for the next issue.
We are also going to have an Olympics competition.
We also chose the front cover for the issue, in autumn colours.

We hope to see you at the Bolton Roadshow on 13th September, where we will be announcing the winner of our Doctor Who competition!

That's all for now!

The Mag Meeting: June 6th 2011

2011-06-09T05:24:00.001-07:00

Hi All,
We had a very busy mneeting today!

We looked at the new MacIntyre Stories website http://www.macintyrestories.org/ and we were filmed for it!

We looked at everyones articles and we had lots of brilliant ones.

Sui-Ling: "My favourite article was about the Chippendales from Jessica Bull! or as Sarah-Anne calls then the Chipmonks!"

You still have time to enter our Royal Wedding competition, the closing date is 1st July.

We also took a new group photo at the meeting!

We chose a lovely piece of artwork for our front cover that was sent in by Sylvia Gow from Warrington. Thank you Sylvia!

We also discussed the Roadshow that is taking place on 16th June in Worcester at the Worcester Warriors. We hope to see many of you there!

Dont forget to log onto our website to see all of the new articles from the Spring issue that are on there. www.macintyrethemag.org

Hope to hear from you all soon

The Mag Meeting: 28th March 2011

2011-03-28T06:30:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

Hi I am Mary, I chaired the meeting today and I had a new picture taken.
We talked about the spring issue and we have had some lovely articles in.

Hi I am Iain, we didnt get any competition entries it made me feel sad.

Hi I'm Donald, we talked about the Spring issue and we are looking for new article of varied interests. So please send us your articles quick smartish, goodbye!

Thank you!

The Mag Meeting: January 31st 2011

2011-02-04T05:33:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone,
We had our meeting today!We talked about lots of things…mainly about the Winter issue.
We looked at the articles we received; our favourite articles were The Sound of Music Theatre trip from Worcester and Sui-Lings Dick Whittington Theatre trip.
We also liked hearing about a parrot riding a bicycle!!

We picked a lovely colouring competition for the Winter issue…watch out for it! We cant wait to see your entries.

We have had a discussion and are going to look into getting The Mag onto Facebook!

We were going to take new pictures today but some of the members needed to have a shave first!!!

Well done to the competition winner for our Christmas supplement: William Huish from Powys. He will be receiving his prize shortly!

Get writing your articles for The Spring issue..we look forward to seeing them and watch this space for the Winter issue.

The Mag meeting 29th November

2010-11-30T01:16:00.000-08:00

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

2010-10-06T02:28:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-12T07:02:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-05-24T06:55:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-11T05:43:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-04T06:04:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-12T08:28:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-29T04:43:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-22T07:59:00.000-07:00

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

2010-01-25T07:08:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-04T02:15:00.000-08:00

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.

The Mag Meeting; 9th November 2009

2009-11-09T06:40:00.000-08:00

Hi All,

We have just finished todays meeting.

We are making good progress with the Winter issue and have had some lovely articles but we always want more so send them in! Please send them in no later than the first week of December to Sarah-Anne Morgan at Central.

We have had a fantastic idea for the Winter competition linked to Great Interactions, so look out for that!! It's not too late to enter our Autumn Competition, so get snap happy and send us in your photographs and a funny caption.

We are all set for the Milton Keynes Roadshow we hope to see you there at Towecester Racecourse.

We have also set our meetings dates for next year, we just need to get our next years diaries to write them in now!!

We have checked the website and hey Mary sent her first email! Look out for the updates that will be coming soon!

At our next meeting we are going out for our Christmas lunch cos we deserve it!!

Hope to hear from you soon!

The Mag Meeting; 19th October 2009

2009-10-19T06:09:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

We are in the mist of our meeting and thought we would update you all on what's happening.

The Autumn issue has gone to print so we are now discussing the Winter Issue.

Mary Hughes: We would love for you to send in your articles and some winter art work that can feature in the Winter issue and be considered for the front cover.

Sui - Ling Tang: We have discussed our new website and we would like for you to send us in some articles to go onto it. It is colourful with lots of photographs but we would like more articles.

Iain Smith: We would love to hear about your Halloween Celebrations and any Christmas Celebrations that you have prepared. Please send us in articles that can go into the Winter issue we'd love to also see the pictures.

Donald Delmohamed: We really need some photographs or art work that can feature in the Winter issue and be our front cover...so get creating! The more creative the better.

Thats it for now guys, we look forward to hearing from you very soon!

the mag

2009-10-19T01:07:00.000-07:00

Hiya people out there.
Hope you all is feeling good. As you may or may not know it's now to the day a month before our Milton Keynes Roadshow which is on Thurs 19th Nov 09 at Towcester Race Course. For those who never came last yr it's just off the A5 on the London/Watling St Rd. Just head toward the villiage of Towcester and it's before the village if heading from our cent offices. At the roadshow why not come and intruduce yourself the mag team at our stand see the meny articles the mag has to offer and what we are about. You can also give us your view on it and what things you would like use to put in. It donesn't have to be nice things if there is something you would like to change tell us. Plus as well as meeting the lovely mag group you can also take a butchers at the other stalls and there will be session for you to sit in on, Plus a chance to meet others from other service you might not of even know about. It's a chance to share what happing in your service/area with us all there.

Hey you all what you up to right now

2009-07-07T06:59:00.000-07:00

Hey you all, what you up to right now? Oh just putting your feet up I guess well don't do that go have a bar-B-Q and when your done having that write down the recipe on the blogg or send it into us at The Mag. I know we are big healthy lifestyle freaks but it's ok to have a big blow out and have a Bar-B-Q. Also If anyone of you out there in MacIntyre land is going to see the new Harry Poter film you could also do a review for us at the mag. Anyhow people I fly.

The Roadshow is heading to Southampton!

2009-06-23T01:33:00.000-07:00

This week sees MacIntyre's Roadshow heading to Southampton!!

The Mag will be having a stand there which will feature our new banners that were created at our last meeting!

We look forward to seeing you there so you can see our great creative skills!

Welcome

2009-03-23T05:38:00.000-07:00

Welcome to The Mag blog page.
Here you will be able to follow weekly updates from Mag members on their travels around MacIntyre services and beyond.

Please do feel free to contact us with any suggestions or leave a comment beneath our posts to let us know your thoughts.