Angela Kershaw

Angela Kershaw is an Activity Organiser at Sycamore Day Centre based at SycamoreHall/Home

At last!! found a suitable photograph of myself.

Angela Kershaw signing in. As you can see I'm nearly always carrying a camcorder or camera.

About myself. I am married to Brian with a family of three sons and eleven grandchildren.

I am employed by North Yorkshire County Council. I work at Sycamore Hall Day Centre along with Liz Allen, activity organiser see The1950s and mum to Lucy one of our favourite visitors. You will find letters from Lucy in our newsletterALeafFromSycamore and she also has her own web page Lucy.

My career training was in the Hotel and Catering industry as a Chef and then Chef patissier in high quality hotels and restaurants until family came along. I have worked on and off in the caring profession for many years (including Day Care Organiser at High Hall) with a break to run my own garden nursery. The nursery was very successful but when an opportunity arose for me to work at the New Day Centre at Sycamore Close I welcomed the challenge and returned to work at High Hall.

A little while ago (June 2004) we were chatting at the day centre and came up with the idea to produce our own newsletter. One of the reasons being, to keep people informed of the new developments that are taking place at Sycamore Close. We have now published our seventh bi-monthly magazine.

Not very long ago (September 2004) we got chatting again and wondered if it were possible to produce a web site that would serve the local community.

I had a word with my manager who had a word with her manager and the answer was, good idea.

I am very lucky that I have a son JohnKershaw who designs and builds web sites. I had another of my little chats with him and lo! and behold! he set up and is host for our web site free of charge. I have been given fast track lessons on strange computer languages and I can now edit a web site confidently, knowing that if I get into difficulties, John will be around to sort things out.

The web site is now up and running.

The content is for service providers, users, friends and families in upper Wensleydale.

January2005 The web site is forging ahead.

We are now delving into HighHallHistory and are finding it fascinating.

Ever used a micro-fiche machine. If you can't read maps very well or you don't understand clockwise you could find them a bit tricky.

Left Right or is it Right Left?

June 2005

The web site is progressing steadily.

We now have a comprehensive account of the BainbridgeExtraCareHousingScheme at Sycamore Close in photos and text.

Day Centre members are now getting their own web pages and adding photos and information.

We have an up to date Noticeboard of what is going on at High Hall and Sycamore Close plus check out the Latest page.

We also have advertising sites for local business and local organisations.

New web site

Have now started to develop www.thedales.org.uk. We are taking it steadily so we get the content exactly right.

Basically this site is for people living working and visiting the Yorkshire Dales. The site now has over 360 pages (November 2005).