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Yorkhill Children’s Foundation – Helping sick kids get better! The day will consist of a martial art demo and various dance performances ranging from Tap, Ballet, Modern, Cheerleading, Street Dance & Break Dance it is sure to be an amazing show with something for all to watch and try out. It’s an excellent opportunity to become involved, watch, take part and help raise money for an amazing cause. You can contact Principle Instructors William & Lee-Anne for further details about the demo day or information on how to become involved in classes available from 3yrs old through to youth and adults classes. Thank you for your time and support For more information contact One Dance Studio  

PAISLEY DEVELOPMENT TRUST RENFREWSHIRE WITCH HUNT 1697 Vacancy for Costume Co-ordinator Paisley Development Trust are looking for someone aged between 18 and 25 years old and who has been unemployed for six months or longer to be group liaison co-ordinator on costume for the Renfrewshire Witch Hunt 1697 project. The post is for six months. We will require various groups and individuals throughout Renfrewshire to be costumed and co-ordinated in preparation for their participation in a one day re-enactment event in Paisley on 9 June 2012. The group liaison co-ordinator on costume will be required to run a drop-in shop where costumes can be stored and where people can make their own costumes leading up to the event. We are looking for someone who has an interest in co-ordination and community arts work. The successful candidate would need to be self-motivated, have good organisational skills, be able to work on own initiative as well as be part of a larger team. Please apply to: Liz Gardiner Executive Director Fablevision 3rd Floor 7 Water Row Govan Glasgow G51 3UW 0141 425 2020 07702 961 301

Over the last couple of years, Senscot has kept a link to 'Social Enterprise Venues' on our homepage. We're glad to hear that our friends at Community Enterprise have taken this a stage further and developed a bespoke website (work still in progress). The intention will be for all info to be held on the new site. Not only will it be a handy guide to the best social enterprise venues around the country - it'll also be a great way of ensuring that we're generating business between one another. See,’ http://www.senscot.net/view_art.php?viewid=11867

Renfrew based freight company, Advantage Worldwide (UK) Ltd have been working with seafood companies from Shetlands to the Borders since 2009 , ensuring fresh produce gets from nets to plate in record time worldwide.  Their perishables customer base, ranging from small trawler companies to organisations based in US, Far East and Mainland Europe support Scottish economy by providing daily shipments of fresh delicacies such as Langoustine , Lobster and Scallops, arriving to the international markets and restaurants often the same evening they are flown from our fair shores. Advantage Worldwide (UK) Ltd will also be in attendance this year at Fishing, Aquaculture & Seafood Expo in SECC 22nd- 24th March -   The 25th anniversary of the annual UK fishing expo has broadened its reach to cover every sector of the seafood industry. As well as supporting fresh food supply chain , the company also provide on site , consultancy and distribution services to a number of local companies , who export and import products from fabric to toys , fresh ...

  Ladies’ Night on Friday 24th February 2012, 7.30pm - 11pm (Over 18's only) Beechwood Community Centre, Shortroods Road, Paisley. All proceeds donated to The Vanessa Riddle Appeal .   Lots of lovely stalls, many with handcrafted items, as well as prize raffles. No bar, but… you can bring your own bottle! :-) Tickets £2.50 each available by emailing AngieHeaney@me.com or call 07946 169220 Donations of prizes for the raffle will be very welcome. If any local businesses would like to help this excellent cause, please contact me as above.   If you can't attend & would like to donate you can do so here: http://www.justgiving.com/Angie-Heaney      

Classes tailored for the youngest Martial Artists. Motivational and based around learning, discipline and good manners with balance, co-ordination, hitting pads and having fun being the main aims here. For more details contact One Dance Studio  

This class offers a great opportunity for the budding young dancer to build a solid foundation which aids development through all styles of dance. Covering Barre work, adage, allegro, centre practice and routines, this class provides a fun way to improve posture, technique and performance.  Pointe work is available for more experienced dancers. The class adapts as the dancer’s ability and development grows. Grade and award examinations are offered through this class. For more information go to One Dance Studio

Walk through Paisley Town Centre any weekend night and you can't help being drawn in by sounds of acoustic music coming from its many bars or clubs.   Follow us down the musical cobblestones way back to where it all began ..... ‘1957, the Beatles and Bob Dylan are in their heyday and can be heard all over radios in the town, particularly at Garry Drive, Foxbar where 10 year old Gerry Rafferty soaks up his musical influences as he gets ready for another school day’. Gerry went to St Mary's Primary and later St Mirin's Academy and openly admitted his early years in Paisley influenced his songwriting and particularly his early lyrics. Gerry said: "Where you come from and where you spent your formative years has an effect and influence on you". Long before KT Tunstall and Sandi Thom made themselves household names via You Tube, another musical buddie put Paisley on the Acoustic Map - Carol Laula's rise from a young unknown to a household name in Scotland was phenomenal. She first captured the attention of the media, when in 1990 her independent single, “Standing Proud”, was chosen to represent Glasgow in its year of culture. Of course, lets not forget Paisley's other acoustic son, the illustrious Paolo Nutini, whose music reaches a worldwide stage and who has appeared in many a Hollywood movie soundtrack - born and bred on our fair cobbles , Paolo ...

Hello All, I’m raising money for The 2Simple Trust in support of Vanessa Riddle, who is 11 years old & from Loans, in Ayrshire, she urgently needs life saving treatment only available in USA. You can read her story here: In Feb 2009 our then 8 year old daughter Vanessa, was diagnosed with Stage 4 (High-Risk) Neuroblastoma, a very rare, aggressive and difficult to treat form of childhood cancer. Fewer than 100 children in the UK are diagnosed with neuroblastoma each year, most of which are below the age of 5 and generally have a better prognosis as the older the child is the worse the prognosis is. Since Feb 09, Vanessa has undergone many different treatments at Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow, these include; 12 rounds of High Dose Chemotherapy, two 7 hour surgical operations, the removal of one of her kidneys, a stem cell transplant, Radiotherapy, Retinoic Acid treatment and Immunotherapy treatment……all of which was agonising to watch as parents never mind to have to endure as a child! Having undergone all this difficult and often very painful treatment the fact remained that due to a high relapse rate the long term prognosis for Vanessa's survival remained very poor with less than a 40% survival rate. All the same, Vanessa finished her treatment at Yorkhill Hospital in Aug 2010 and was given the all clear. In Dec 2011 after routine scans, Connie and I were given the devastating news that Vanessa had relapsed. She ...

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