Awesome Asda in Peterborough donate £100 to PDDCS

Jo Frost, Community Champion hands William Palmer, member of PDDCS, the cheque for £100

Shoppers in Asda Living's store in Peterborough chose PDDCS as the charity to support, voting to donate £100. 

One of our members, 12 year old William, went to meet Jo Frost, Community Champion to receive the cheque from the Asda foundation. 

Andy Palmer, Chairman of PDDCS said: "A big thanks to both Asda and their shoppers for this donation. It'll help pay for hours of football coaching or weeks of toddler group sessions for our smallest deaf kids. 

"Asda have been so kind and welcoming, I'm really looking forward to working with Jo and the store in future."

PDDCS Drummer boy's impro piece

Earlier this month, William and his dad went to see the Graece's production of Iron Man in Ipswich. In addition to viewing a great show, they was fortunate enough to have lunch with Stephen Collins, the lead actor in Iron Man.  To see the outcome of William's request 'to have a bash on the drums' with a trumpet player joining in,  check out the video below. A cool impro piece. Well done William

 

PDDCS member is awarded Parents Player of the Year for Hampton

Last week William won Parents Player of the year for Hampton. William has a clear passion for football. He is a committed player, training weekly with Hampton. This season he has scored 13 goals and was the top scorer for the last two seasons.

Hampton recognised him to be the most improved player last year. He was also selected for East Midlands deaf centre of excellence.

In addition to these sessions William trains at the deaf friendly football sessions that take place each Monday night. As a PDDCS member, William has played at the National Deaf Youth Football Tournament in Reading.

Congratulations William.

Charlie and Ted dazzle Peterborough

Ted meets Jamie McCullough

It was a night to remember for those at the John Clare Theatre in Peterborough's city centre on Friday as Ted Evans and Charlie Swinbourne shared their stories of how they made thier careers in film making, script writing and journalism.

Intertwined with the fascinating and inspiring stories were specially made video clips from Ted and captivating examples of Charlie's film making work including 'My Song' and 'Four Deaf Yorkshiremen'. Ted gave glimpses of his award winning film 'The End' and revealed how he put together the film for the opening ceremony of the London Paralympic Games.

It was revealed at the end of the evening that Ted and Charlie have agreed to work as consultants on a potential PDDCS film project and that two deaf actors have also agreed to come down and help any budding deaf actors or actresses from Peterborough learn how to do it. Add to that PDDCS have also got the support of the BSLBT (British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust) to develop a film in readiness for Deaffest 2013 and everything is in place for PDDCS's first film! Keep an eye on PDDCS news for updates.

I would like to thank Jack Hunt School for their funding of the evening and Teresa Quail for her efforts in organising the night. Finally - thanks to Ted and Charlie for an outstanding evening - it was an evening we won't forget. Poigniantly the evening ended with the final sequence from Ted's film 'From us to you'.

Charlie meets Jamie too - Jamie made his own film and is a potential storyboard creator

Andy Palmer with Ted and Charlie

Charlie asks for Tara Forkin's autograph

Charlie and Ted take the questions at the end (and maybe about The End)

Charlie looks on at one of Ted's captivating custom made clips for the event

In conversation - Charlie looks impressed as Ted tals about his film making roots



Andy shows Ted and Charlie his biceps

TLM

As if by magic ... He's got a winning smile that lad Calum..

Mo shows how to groom the perfect beard.

Ted and Charlie get the attention they deserve from the audience

Calum = cool



Andy: Can we all stop chatting and get on with the show? 

 

Ted, Charlie and some aspiring film makers..

Bergerac

More video appearances coming from PDDCS members! This time in the classic BBC TV series, Bergerac.



Here's the original if you're wondering ..

Family Fun Day images

Happy Girl - Angry Bird: Chloe Peacock show's what on offer

Some of the goodies for sale

Smiler! Daniel Monaf enjoys the colouring

Easy does it .. William Palmer working the clay

Here's a few we made earlier: Some of the kids creations

Focus: Leah Monaf adds to her creation 

Sweet ball of lollipops! All for the kids, all for free!

And the winner is: Chloe Peacock's gymnastics medal haul is incredible

Welcome to PDDCS! Charlene Spires and Anna Baker give a warm welcome

And a one, two, three and four .. Music and the Deaf: Performing arts and warming hearts.

Katie Bocking: Jumps out of planes and plays the cello

Chyanne Golding: Jumps out of planes and plays the Cello. 

Keeping the rhythm: Calum MacDonald on the drums
Thanks to the lovely Kirsty D for the communication support

Chyanne Golding and Katie Bocking. Respect.  

Whack it! William Palmer plays the Indian Drums

Indian Dancing

William, Chloe, Katie, Calum and William dancing

Aw! 

Adrian Fisher shows his boy the ropes...sorry sticks.

The cake decorating area proved very popular .. and colourful

Try and say they don't look awesome .. see .. impossible

Chyanne Golding's invention this - using nail varnish to create fantastic patterns on paper. 

A big screen showed off what PDDCS is about all day long. 

Andy Palmer presents John Cheetham with his specially engraved tankard

And gives him a hug

The crowd look on during the presentation

Andy Palmer presents TQ with a gift to thank her for all her help

Andy Palmer presents Jack Hunt School Head Teacher, Pamela Kilbey with a gift.

Nicola Epathite rewards a youngster for her awesome cake decoration

And she runs away very happy!

Chloe Peacock gets a special mention for all her achievements in the gymnasium

And finally .. Andy Palmer springs a surprise on Nicola Epathite and gives her big bunch of flowers to say thanks for everything she does.