Celebrations

On Friday 12th June I attended Cindy's leaving do, Cindy has been our  director for the past  2 years, and welcome to Simon in his new role as our director  at Diva's cafe . The cafe set out a beautiful spread of food which was delicious,  then Openstorytellers told a story about a man who didn't know how to shiver and told the audience if you want to know  how the story ends to buy the CD!  

People from the office skills and work skills groups made speeches about Cindy, what we have done with her in the past and gave her various gifts to remind her of her time at Openstorytellers, and we welcomed Simon to our team. Everybody enjoyed themselves and Cindy and Simon said thanks for coming.  

It was a  nice gathering seeing people who we don't get to see very often . It was a enjoyable event to attend. 

By Katie 

Warning About Computer Scams by AJ from Making Connections

Last May I had a phone call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft.  He told me my license for my computer, which I know now doesn't exist, had expired and he told me to switch my laptop on and told me to key in certain things to get to the mainframe.  This made it come with some information that he used to coerce me.  He asked me questions about money and about my online banking.  He sent me an email with a link, that meant that he could access my computer by remote control.  He sent something called a lock out virus, that locked me out of my computer.


Alarm bells rang with me and I shut my computer down.  I was on the way out of my front door to go to my local IT repair shop, when he rang back again. My defences dropped and I switched my computer back on, he gave me the password to access it again.  He persuaded me to go ahead as I was afraid my computer would not work without a license. He promised me the new license would clean up all the viruses. He asked me to go into my online banking and with his remote control transferred money out of my account.  He saw all my details, everything. He took £150 from me.
I reported it to the police and the bank fraud team. They proved it was a scam and I got my money back.

My advice is contact your bank straight away if you think it's a fraud. I have got caller ID now so if the number isn't in my phone I don't answer it.  Contact the police or a support worker. I think it's wrong that your details are out there and get sold on. I have made this blog as I've read an identical case in the local paper last week and I want everyone to know.

Openstorytellers A G M

On Thursday 11th May 2015 we had our Annual General Meeting at the Silk Mill in Frome where Cindy and Tim did a power point presentation on the last year at Openstorytellers .
After the break Robin, Clemma and Ruth  also gave a presentation on the work they are doing with the social care training in Somerset.
We also welcome our new director Simon and said goodbye to Cindy Moxham.
The Silk Mill was a very nice building, it was colourful and bright.

Office Skills Open Day Blog

                                                   

What We've Been Working On

We have been working very hard getting everything ready for the Open Day event.

Mark has created a Crossword Puzzle

Mike has created a Wordsearch Puzzle

We are excited to show everybody these games we've created for the Open Day 

We will be thinking of more wonderful activities to show people on the Open Day

We are working on creating Bingo  

We are collecting Exciting Prizes For a raffle

 Mark has been working very hard on his blogging

                                        

Last week the group created some fantastic bright decorations to put up on the day