Time for retrospective of Colin Dick’s work I enjoyed reading your feature on Colin Dick; perhaps the city will now, somewhat belatedly, have a retrospective of his work – a contribution to our City of Culture year, perhaps.
Colin’s many paintings of the changing city landscapes, river folk, and local horse fairs, are a valuable record of the area, as well as fine pictures in themselves, and would I’m sure be of great interest to all, not least Cov kids who were ex-pupils of Woodlands school when he was an art teacher there in the sixties and seventies.
Martin Brown
Allesley Park
Volunteers can help
The importance of volunteers in keeping many Coventry libraries open was raised last week (Bob Bannister, Letters page, January 18).
It is not just libraries where volunteers are playing a vital role in the city.
Older volunteers aged 50+ are helping to mentor young disabled people in Coventry who are finishing full-time education and helping them to plan the next stage in their lives and overcome challenges such as a lack of support and funding after leaving school.
Not everyone has access to the advice and guidance needed to plan for the future and this can lead to feeling lonely and unfulfilled or even returning to the care system in the future due to a deterioration of skills or health.
But this does not have to be the case.
The charity Volunteering Matters is running the project and is always keen to hear from older volunteers wanting to utilise their experience, skills and networks to enable young people to make the most of their talents and set achievable goals for the future.
If you have some time to spare and would like to volunteer call 0800 374 991.
John Maxwell, Recruitment Manager Volunteering Matters
Stay safe on internet
Calling all schools… To mark Safer Internet Day on 6 February 2018, the NSPCC and the London Grid for Learning (LGfL DigiSafe) is urging primary and secondary schools across the UK to take part in a free pupil online safety survey.
Findings from the anonymised survey will be used to help develop a better understanding of young people’s online lives via a national academic report, and locally, by returning the data to participating schools.
Schools can sign up in advance to take part in the online survey, which is open from Thursday 1 to Wednesday 28 February.
Designed for pupils across Key Stages 2-4, it covers a range of online safety issues including: Livestreaming Gaming Meeting people online (and then face to face) Sharing – such as personal information, images and videos
More than 22,000 children and young people took part in the previous survey which was held in 2015.
To sign up, and for further information, visit pupilsurvey.lgfl.net
