Month: January 2021
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Dementia Club UK – Charity of the year 2020
We are really pleased that Dementia Club UK has won community Charity of the year The Barnet Group Community Awards 2020 We want to thank Dementia Club UK members who nominated the charity to the Barnet Group and especially Helen and Kevin who spoke such kind words in the video above, (at about 15 minutes…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 27th Jan 2021
We had 27 members today. Lisa started the Karaoke session at 2pm and at 2.30pm welcomed everyone. It was a pleasure to welcome 2 new members today, Kathy and Douglas and also welcome Helen from Rotary Club Northwick Park. Lisa reminded everyone to try and watch The Barnet Group 2020 Awards which can be seen…
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Carers zoom meeting – 26th Jan 2021
Carers zoom meeting – 26th Jan 2021 We had 24 carers to this evening’s meeting, Lisa welcomed everyone and gave a brief update about vaccinations and also informing them further about her recent question at Council meeting regarding unpaid carers who should be listed in the first 2 priority groups for vaccination. Lisa had no…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 26th Jan 2021
We had 31 members today which included 4 new members. Lisa welcomed everyone and also informed them about The Barnet Group awards ceremony which is on Thursday 28th January. As Dementia Club UK has been nominated for Charity of the Year award, the results of the winner will be announced on Thursday. Lisa said that…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 25th Jan 2021
Today we had 26 members. Lisa started the karaoke repeat Karaoke session at 2pm and at 2.30pm everyone looked forward for a catch up especially after a weekend. It was lovely to see Sheila a Rotary of Golders Green volunteer. Katie Paine then joined us. She always likes to have a bit of chat with…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 20th Jan 2021
We had 23 members today. Lisa started the Karaoke session at 2pm which is a repeat of Tuesdays. A few of the members including Ava and Lisa had fun showing their pet toys to the camera. The chat session then started at 2.30pm and as usual this is always a good chat. James Le Bec…
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Carers zoom meeting – 19th Jan 2021
We would like to thank Kevin Ziants to chaired this evening Carer’s meeting 22 participants participated in a productive 1 1/2 hours session led by Kevin Ziants. In attendance was Andrew from a Care Home in Barnet and Margaret Coyle, Admiral Nurse, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust. The first hour was taken…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 19th Jan 2021
We had 21 members today and some new members. Lisa welcomed everyone and also gave an update about her meeting at the council in the evening. She told members that she was going to speak at Council to highlight that unpaid carers who look after over 80 year olds are not on the Government priority…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 18th Jan 2021
We had 26 members today. Lisa welcomed some new members and then started the Karaoke session at 2pm. The chat session then started at 2.30pm and Lisa welcomed everyone and introduced the new members. Everyone enjoyed their chat and were ready for their music entertainment when Katie Paine joined. Katie did something slightly different today.…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 13th Jan 2021
We had 26 members today. It was also good to see our volunteers Melvyn and Annette and also Andrew from the Church in New Barnet. The Karaoke session went well and then the chat session followed until 3pm when our music entertainer James le Bec and his partner Joy joined us. James was asked if…