New Horizon took a lovely summer walk in our trendy t-shirts!!!! to our local park to mark this years Hello how are you campaign. The theme for us was conversation, connection and the power of connection. We talked about how do we connect? And how important is it to connect? How do we feel when…
EVE Connects Quiz
Great buzz in the centre today for the EVE Connects online quiz! We had a lovely morning with lots of laughter and thrilled to say we placed on the podium! Looking forward to the next quiz! Thanks to all the organisers of today’s quiz. Looking forward to the next EVE Connects event!!!!
World Earth Day
To mark world earth day on April 10th we asked for volunteers to join in our a garden clean up in New Horizon. It was a very productive morning and it was our way of taking some small steps to help contribute to clean up our environment. We will be taking on to do plenty…
100 days of walking
Hail rain or snow we have been continuing with our daily fitwalks! Thankfully we have been lucky with the weather on our walks lately. Here’s some lovely photos we took on our route as we took a moment to admire all the flora and fauna in our local community
Some delicious recipes coming your way soon…..!!!
We have been busy here in new Horizon with our dish demos. It’s a great way to share some delicious recipes but also a great way to learn about home cooking. Recipes are on the way!
Green Teams ‘re-use’ theme 24th April
We took a walk to Tallaght village to have a rummage and a ramble around our local charity shops! We used our green team theme ‘re-use’ as an opportunity to highlight the benefits & share ideas of what we can reuse at home but also what we can do to contribute to reusing household items…
Cinema Outing
On Friday the 19th of April we had a social outing to the cinema in the Square. The venue is called Movies at The Square. We went to see the Amy Winehouse film called ‘Back to Black’. It was a good film to see with a great story behind it. It was nice to meet…
WRAP @New Horizon
We are delighted to be collaborating with Crumlin Mental Health team OT dept in the roll out of WRAP level 1 here in New Horizon, a fantastic blend of participants from the community and New Horizon taking part in WRAP over the next few weeks every Wednesday. Facilitators Karol & Jenny got off to a…
Alternative Ways of Seeing , Rua Red Expo followed by collaborated workshop with New Horizon , see link for
From a participants point of view……… “Hi my name is Sophie and I took part in this group. First we went in to the Exhibition and the we took part in a workshop which was really nice to do. It was very enjoyable and we felt it was so relaxing, there was no pressure. I…
New Horizon Green Team
Our Green Team is in full swing here in New Horizon! As a centre we have been actively working on being more environmentally conscious and looking at changes we can make both as a service and changes we can make as individuals and in our homes. We have a visual board up and running in…
Trip to Kildare Village
We took a roadtrip from Dublin to Kildare Village yesterday! For some of us, we had never been before, so we were eager to have a look around and do some shopping!! Overall it was a good experience, it was nice to try somewhere new, nice to discover some of the deals and nice to…
EVE Connects: Bowling
New Horizon took part in the EVE connects bowling last week. The Bowling marked the first of many EVE Connect events to come over 2024. We have two people from New Horizon represented on the EVE connects committee so it was wonderful to see all that hard work pay off for such a well turned…
CATCH trip to our local charity shops in Tallaght Village
We took a nice scenic walk through the village of Tallaght! Where we spotted this lovley historical mural in the centre of the village. Which sparked our interest to look up a little more information on it. The mural is a picture of two local blacksmiths in Kelly’s Forge- a nodd to the heritage of…
Mexican Chilli
Last week our dish demo was a Mexican Chilli. Christopher was our demonstrator. It is one of his favourite dishes to cook. It is a healthy and cheap dish to make. We used tinned tomatoes, puree, minced beef, chilli powder, herbs and it was served with basmati rice.
Baking for St. Patricks Day
We baked some queen cakes for our St Patricks Day celebrations. We got the receipe from the Odlums website (www.odlums.ie). It was an easy recipe to follow and we put on our own green icing that we made using icing sugar and water.
Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
On Tuesday the 5th of March Danielle from Sheaf House I.P.S service came out to have a talk with us about employment. It was very intereseting to know what options are available to us. The majority/catchment area doesn’t cover this particular service so we plan to look into what other IPS there is available to…
Heart Health at Work
Here at New Horizon we contiune our fitness and health programme. We are very lucky to have our own gym space here at the centre. It is very good for the mind and the body. Karol gives good workouts using light weights and circuit routines. She keeps us on our toes! We really enjoy it.
Vegetable Green Thai Curry
We made a Green Thai Curry last Thursday in our Dish Demo group. It was good to learn new cooking recipes. We chose the recipe from the Safefood website. It was vegetable Green Thai Curry. We all had a taste and it was lovely.
Trip to Collins’ Barracks.
A group of us from New Horizon visited the museum last Tuesday morning. We took the luas from The Square in Tallaght. We are very lucky to have this mode of transport in our locality, it takes us from Tallaght to the city centre in about 30 mins. This was my first time to visit…
Dish Demo
We introduced ‘Dish Demo’ to our timetable last month. This involves demonstrating and cooking a favourite dish. So far we have experienced chicken curry, homemade chicken goujons, hidden veg sauce in pasta, pasta and cheese sauce, scrambled egg, poached egg, omelette, pancake, courgette and potatoe soup , pineapple cake and macaroni and cheese. The group…
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