by Admin | Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
March 23rd, 2020, the world changed as we knew it in Britain. Shops closed, restaurants closed, schools and nurseries closed, churches closed, parks closed, garden centres closed, not to mention many other small and large businesses. A week prior to the full lockdown,...
by Anna Rossi | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
We would like to share our past and present story with you about our Open Wings journey. As with all business ventures right now it is a time of great uncertainty but we remain committed to supporting members who attend Open Wings and beyond. If you know anyone who is...
by Anna Rossi | Dec 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
It has been some time since we released a blog post. There are various reasons for this, the main one being that we are so busy running our service giving all we possibly can give to our citizens to make sure that they have the support they need from us, that...
by Anna Rossi | May 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Opening up on my hearing loss:- Five years ago, I was diagnosed with quite a severe unexpected hearing loss. It was a shock as I thought I was managing but all my family and friends knew I had a problem. Unfortunately I was the last person to believe it until a...
by Admin | Nov 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
Every Friday morning Open Wings is proud to be supporting and working with Music for Everyone to run their Open Voices choir. Every week a group of adults with learning disabilities meet at St Martin’s Church in Sherwood. . Each person attending is a unique...
by Anna Rossi | Jul 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
We are proud to promote to you our up dated website. It now tells a better story of exactly who and what Open Wings is and why it was formed. We hope you like it and if you have any comments that you would like to share about it please feel free to get in touch. ...
by Anna Rossi | Oct 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Our workshop at Rumbletums last week provided us with some ideas about what confidence means to adults with learning disabilities. Being happy Walking big Using hands to communicate Body language Smiling Having friends Feeling important Looking at people Not...
by Anna Rossi | Jan 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Is insomnia good for business? So here I am really late, unable to sleep as I feel too excited about the year ahead. All these plans are buzzing through my brain and I can’t wait to tell my sister, my business partner, tomorrow. We need to establish them...
by Anna Rossi | Dec 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
So the end of the year is upon us and it’s a time to reflect on what has been achieved and what a more appropriate way of doing just that by redesigning our website. We are very proud and excited to announce we have upgraded from just a landing page of...
by Admin | Dec 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
What makes you happy? This is the question I based a learning session around for our health4life course today. Of course there were the standard things that people usually say: money, food, friends etc but all of the attendees wrote a comment or expressed their...
