Experience Community invite you to join them for a walk along the Huddersfield Broad Canal this Thursday 2nd July 2015.

they meet at at Leeds Road Sports Stadium at 11am – postcode HD2 1YY.

The walk is approximately 2 and a half hours long and they stop for a break at Aspley Marina pub. Please let them know if you’re coming by contacting Laura Vayro by email to: laura@experiencecommunity.co.uk or visit www.experiencecommunity.co.uk 

You can find out more about their activities at:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ExperienceCommunityCIC

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ExperienceCIC

Northern Ballet invites you to Expressions, a sharing of dance which brings together inclusive dance groups from the North of England.

Yorkshire and Humber Peer Network Event, Personal Budgets and Personalisation.

 **This event is aimed at parents and carers **

With national charity In-Control www.in-control.org.uk

• Date: Thursday 2^nd July
• Time: 10am-12.30pm
• Venue: Textile Centre of Excellence, Red Doles Lane, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD2 1YF

Refreshments will be provided

Learn about Personal Budgets and Personalisation in relation to your family and have your questions answered in this 2 hour informative session, where you can also network with other parent carers in your area.

To book a place on this free event please email hello@yhchampion.org.uk.

Friday 10^th July

FREE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 2015

After last year’s success May Contain Nuts is back, this time in several locations in Huddersfield town centre to celebrate great local independent businesses & their passion for the arts.  (Please note that this festival is a general open event and is not specifically for children.)

2PM | Hoot Creative Arts, Bates Mill, HD1 3DX
The Mardy Gras
Hoot’s Batley based music group, ‘Another Planet’, mutates into a parading augmented kazoo and percussion ensemble with a bizarre take on New Orleans jazz – imagine Louis Armstrong was born in a parallel universe. Join us for the trip, kicking off at Hoot at 2pm & appearing throughout the day between other performances, taking us from one venue to the next.

2:30PM | Coffeevolution | 8 Church St
Original & moving poetry readings from the talented members of The Write Stuff.

4PM | Vinyl Tap | 42 John William St
Hoot’s Guitar Orchestra premieres their Mariachi inspired suite & more.

5:30PM | Café Ollo, The Media Centre | 7 Northumberland St
An opportunity to see an outstanding, thought provoking exhibition of work produced in the first year of Going Sane? Videos, music, installation, poetry, performance, photography and more – for one evening only.

Hoot Creative Arts is a flourishing arts health organisation offering people the opportunity to get involved in music, dance & other creative activities as a way of improving physical & emotional wellbeing.

Going Sane? is a two year Hoot project which places artists with different artforms into organisations across Kirklees, to explore ideas around sanity & madness.www.goingsane.co.uk

The first ever Kirklees Community Sports Awards to recognise and reward those who are involved in sport within our area have been launched by the Huddersfield Examiner, in association with Huddersfield Town Football Club.

They aim to recognise sports teams, individuals and the unseen work done by volunteers in our local clubs and societies.  There are several categories including Disabled Athlete of the Year.

For more information about the different categories and how to make a nomination please visit: http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/you-know-sporting-star-hunt-9444082