A DATING service for people with learning disabilities which has introduced 15 couples and arranged more than 100 dates, is looking for funding to continue.

Mates ’n Dates was launched in October 2007, and now has almost 250 members across Oxfordshire.

Guideposts Trust, based in Witney, co-ordinates the service on behalf of Oxford Learning DisabilityPartnership Board, the Ridgeway Partnership and the charities Kingwood and Style Acre.

Mates ’n’ Dates co-ordinator Hannah Wolstenholme, 30, said: “We have chaperoned 68 dates so far this year, and many have led to further dates and even relationships. There are 15 couples we know of who have found love and many more who have made great friends, and that’s what it is all about.”

Mates ’n’ Dates recruits members, aged 18-80 through day centres, charities and word of mouth, and organises social events like barn dances, bi-monthly speed-dating and a ball. Nearly 80 people attended the last speed-dating event.

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You got proposed to, you picked the caterer, the flowers, the song - all you need is that perfect wedding dress. If you didn't like a single dress you saw, it is time to define what it is that you are looking for. Here are different types of wedding dresses - pick the one that goes best with your style and personality. You should also look for a dress that will be appropriate for the type of wedding you are having. A dress perfect for a beach wedding might not be appropriate for a formal wedding, and vice versa.

Here are different wedding dresses to help you pick the one that is perfect for you:

Increasing numbers of American brides are thinking about doing something that used to be unthinkable -- getting married in a bold red gown.

Not that red is a stranger to marriage. Hardly. Red plays a major role in Chinese, Hindu, and some Muslim weddings, and was a popular choice in medieval times. But for modern Westerners? Yes -- we too are starting to marry in red. At least some of us.

It's been happening more and more in Europe over the past decade. Maybe that's because Europe recalls long stretches of time when wedding gowns weren't white. For eons, a woman simply wore her best dress -- one she could certainly use again -- although to keep luck on her side she might gravitate to certain colors and avoid others. With all the choices, it was harder to keep the good colors straight, so the folk world offered a poem with a few fortunate outcomes and many poor ones:

First off I’d like to give some credit to the dissenting women who are capable of remaining civil.

I respect the voicing of any civilized opinion here even if you already know that many others Men like myself would disagree with it. But because I believe in Free Speech I also believe that we are better Men for addressing some of your points because I am certain that untold millions of other women believe what you do as well.

And I have no problem holding up the TRUTH I know to yours.

In most of the various posts some of you Feminist have been quite “passionate” (and I’m being very diplomatic with this description) with the belief that we Men are advocating the “disempowerment” of women in order to make ourselves feel “empowered”. You are quite mislead by buying into this very old Feminist accusation that any Man who looks outside of his own country to find a relationship is actually a “Weak Man” who needs a “Weaker Woman”

So let me set the record straight and examine the “LOGIC” behind this.. And If you dissenters are capable of rational thought then I promise that we will break apart some nasty little cornerstones of your Ideology.

A growing number of Western men have woken up to the fact that there is a terrible war, waged against themselves and their families, we strive to create and develop ..

Until now, many of us rightly pointed our fingers at feminism as a major source of erosion against the very foundations of family and society.

Feminism has indeed created a 40-year rein in the destruction of which greatly succeeded in degrading our freedoms as men, and thus the future of attaining happiness, which we are working so hard ..

TRUE pursuit of happiness can only be found is the greatest realization in marriage, we commit ourselves .. and ultimately the children who we raise ...

One of the things I love about Russian girls, how naturally playful and coy they can be.

Its certainly something that springs forth from their soft but electrifying femininity.

And this "electricity" is the most remarkable of causality in human physiology.

Expansion of students skipping heart beats, and dry swallows all the usual symptoms were observed some of the most irregular ladies in the world.

Exemption contributes to the West. Even a short time ago, it was mainly young men who attended night clubs and bars on a regular basis. However, now you can not see the good women out there. Most of them go to nightclubs for some other reason than just to meet someone. They go there to dance, to get some drinks and a nice chat.


In Russia there are now almost as many restaurants, bars and nightclubs, such as in the West. Girls and women also visit these places, although there are still fewer women than men. For this reason, many palaces of entertainment offering free entry for girls and sometimes present in each of them with a glass of champagne to maintain a balance between men and women.


Despite the effort spent on the field, the number of girls in places like that is relatively small. In Russian they are called "hangouters". This is a special kind of woman. It is unlikely to meet with them on dating sites, because they hardly know how to use a computer, and then sometimes can barely read and write. The remaining girls go to clubs twice a year for no more than a few friends to celebrate a birthday or birthday of their own.

Have you ever wondered why so we are glad the beauty of nature? Why animals and plants seem so beautiful? Everything in nature is effective and is not affected, otherwise he would not be able to live. Hippopotamus, which seems so heavy and clumsy, was faster than in its natural state than one can be, and it's really beautiful. Meanwhile, a legless and slippery snake moves so beautiful and fast that we could do, but I wonder how he manages.


 The very idea of beauty inseparable from rationality. It is rationality that makes us create lovely cars and stylish ocean ships and admire the men and beautiful women, muscular body shape. Inextricable link between rationality and beauty is a rule for all living things and the main indicator of quality. That is why in our desire to be selected by the opposite sex, we try to look attractive. 


 All bread is baked in the oven, so people differ in their natural form. Some of them are naturally thin, others hard. But the fashion changes from time to time and presses its standards for all. How can I find some of its measures for the beauty and attractiveness? Where is the border between shortweight, average weight or overweight? Or how is it? Of course there is. The only measure, because it is still defined by rationality or, roughly speaking, health care, energy and mobility.