First of all, we hope you’re all settling back into work, school, college and life after the summer. As predicted, the message board is becoming much busier now the holidays are over and it’s important we keep it fresh and up-to-date. We’ll therefore be deleting all unused accounts at the end of the month, so if you haven’t posted in a while and want to keep your account, please post a quick ‘hello’ so we know you’re still around.

We’d also like to remind you of our rules regarding communications and the provision of personal details. For the safety of all our members we do not allow email addresses to be visible in profiles and we ask you not to share other personal details including IM chat names, phone numbers, personal photographs etc. We have our Table for Two for you to build your online friendships and many of you also have the privilege of Personal Messages. We’re sure we don’t need to explain the reasons behind these safety measures, but if you do have any questions please email Jules@firstsigns.org.uk or further information can be found here.

Lastly some good news – the next edition of our newly named Newsletter, SHiNES will be sent out towards the end of this month. We’re grateful to have Tim on board helping us with our newsletter and it really is a fantastic issue, Autumnal and Beautiful, so if you aren’t signed up to receive our newsletter, now would be a great time to do so by visiting http://shines.firstsigns.org.uk/

We wish you all a healthy, happy Autumn and look forward to seeing you around.

Wedge and Jules