Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include accociation football (known as soccer in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes".

https://www.mkdons.com/

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Bradbury House

Camphill Milton Keynes is thrilled to announce the grand unveiling of it's new accessible home – Bradbury House!

As people will all know, Camphill Milton Keynes revealed big plans to build new homes for adults with learning disabilities and autism three years ago when it began fundraising for the first £3.3 million. It’s been a long journey, but Camphill Milton Keynes  will soon welcome new residents to the innovative home.

Bradbury House is a testament to the best in quality, sustainability, accessibility, and community engagement. Clad in stone from Corby, it has heat source pumps, an air handling system, and solar panels, reducing its draw on the earth’s resources and creating sustainable energy for better long-term running costs.

Planning for long-term housing provision, Bradbury House is innovative and adaptable. It benefits from hoisting to assist people who require support moving from their bed to their bathroom, a passenger lift, fall-and-rise washbasins, and a kitchen worktop to allow standing and seated individuals to access facilities.

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Ice Hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance, and shoot a vulcanized rubber hockey puck into the other team's net. Each goal is worth one point. The team with the highest score after an hour of playing time is declared the winner; ties are broken in overtime or a shootout . In a formal game, each team has six skaters on the ice at a time, barring any penalties, including a goaltender. It is a full contact game and one of the more physically demanding team sports.

https://www.mk-lightning.co.uk/

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Camphill Milton Keynes Staff Awards 2025

Our community was invited to vote for their favourite staff member. Nominations were open for several months and peer-nominated, meaning residents and staff could nominate colleagues and/or people that they personally admire at Camphill MK.  

Award Finalists, Winners & Categories

1. WINNER Ewa – Creative Lead – a group or individual who has supported and inspired the residents through a creative project
   
2. WINNER Terri – Impactful Project(s) – recognising a piece of work that has had a huge amount of impact within the community
   
3. WINNER Victoria – Support Worker (under 12 months) – a member of the care or workshop team who is new to Camphill MK and has made a real impact on the team and residents they engage with
   
4. WINNER Anke – Support Worker (12 months+) – a member of the care or workshop team who has been with Camphill MK for more than a year and continues to make a real impact on the team and residents they engage with
   
5. WINNER Csilla – Trained Staff – someone who has completed training and applied it back into their work, demonstrating how the investment into them can benefit the wider team/residents
   
6. WINNER Norman – Volunteer of the Year – an individual who supports Camphill MK in an unpaid role
   
7. WINNER Sue – Warmest Welcome – a member of staff who adds warmth to their community with a warm welcome across the site
   
8. WINNER Tom – Residents Choice
   
9. WINNER Hanne – Going Above & Beyond – selected by the CEO for someone considered exemplary at their role and within the community

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Watches of Switzerland

Watches of Switzerland is a British retailer of watches. The company headquarters is in Braunstone, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Watches of Switzerland was founded in Ludgate Hill in 1924. During the late 1970s Theo Paphitis, the entrepreneur, worked as a sales assistant at the Bond Street Watches of Switzerland store in London.

The business was acquired by Ratners in 1988 and then sold on to Asprey in 1992. In December 1998, Mappin & Webb managing director, Judith Pilkington, acquired Watches of Switzerland from Asprey, together with Mappin & Webb.  Both companies were acquired by Bauger Group in November 2005. Baugur grouped both companies with fellow British jeweller Goldsmiths under the Aurum Group.

Baugur became insolvent in 2010 and the group was under the control of Landsbanki before coming under the control of Apollo Global Management in 2013. The group was briefly known as Aurum Holdings before re-branding itself as Watches of Switzerland Group in advance of an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in May 2019.

The company operates 221 stores in the UK, US and Europe, spread across the Watches of Switzerland, Mappin & Webb, Goldsmiths, Mayors and Betteridge brands. This includes 96 dedicated mono-brand boutiques in partnership with Rolex, Omega, TAG Heuer, Breitling, Tudor, Audemars Piguet, Sieko, Bulgari and Fope.

https://www.watches-of-switzerland.co.uk/

Alex Fox

Valentine's Disco

These are photographs of residents of Camphill Milton Keynes going to a Valentine Disco at the Chrysalis Theatre.
Why do we celebrate Valentine's Day?
It originated as a Christian feast day honouring a martyr named Valentine and through later folk traditions, it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.

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