Oaktree Club
About the Oaktree Club
The Oaktree Club is a social group and registered charity, for people with mental health difficulties who live in the borough of Weymouth & Portland in Dorset, run by its members (a form of self help group)
We meet once a week on Friday evenings at the Cross Roads Centre, next door to the Admiral Hardy Pub, on Chickerell Road.
If you would like to come along on a Friday evening we start at 6:30pm and club finishes at 9:00pm.
The Oak Tree Club,
The Cross Roads Centre,
Chickrell Road,
Weymouth,
DT4 0QU.
We hold regular events throughout the month including, trips to the cinema, bowling evenings and Sunday lunches. We also have day trips away, to Parks, Museums, Cities and Towns.
There are many benefits of being a club member, including making new friends, having a regular social outlet at the beginning of the weekend and also activities / events occurring normally once a week.
For people who have not been to the club before, we have a range of activities which are available on a Friday night, including a meal, bingo, socialising and a raffle drawn at the end of the night which all members are entered into. There is plenty of tea and coffee to oil the wheels, and cards, board games and chess for those that wish to play.
"The Oak Tree Clubhouse Project" is the official title of the Oak Tree Club.
Summer BBQ
During the summer we had barbeques nearly ever other week. On this occasion we had to move under cover because of rain. Cheddar & Wells September 2010
In September the Oaktree spent a beautiful sunny day visiting the shops at Cheddar Gorge, which are mainly laid out for the tourists to buy some homemade Somerset wine and cheese. The bus dropped us all off in a carpark near town where we all invaded the local loos and then we walked up the bottom part of the gorge and found a fish and chip cafe for some lunch. After this we split up into smaller groups and wandered all over the quaint little shops. Meanwhile Adam and Jon C walked up Jacob's Ladder, which was a foot path up the side of the gorge, with a tower” viewing platform” at the top. After a couple of hours in Cheddar, we boarded the minibus for a journey to Wells. The City of Wells with its fantastic old cathedral. We went to the cathedral first, but as I had been to visit the cathedral some years ago, Diane and I split up from the rest of the group, and went off around the shops on our own. Thankfully for the invention of the mobile phone we were able to get lost, and then meet up with the rest of the group. We all managed to sit down and have coffees, and enjoyed this small but beautiful city, with the distinct washed drains in the main street.
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