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Busy session at Finchley Memorial
The session today was very busy. I had no volunteers to start with and was therefore grateful for James and Kevin, both carers who offered to help at the beginning. I was very pleased later for the 3 volunteers from Barnet Council’s communication team arrive; Sarah Simmons, Rosie Evangelou & Siama Khan. Volunteers from Barnet…
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Britannia Community Centre
There were only 10 members today but the session was very worthwhile as the carers enjoyed a longer chat and 2 of the carers wanted to talk to me about problems they were experiencing. The session was followed by Tai Chi with James and then activities. Pictures to follow.
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Volunteering Barnet Forum
Lisa recently spoke at a Volunteering Forum on the 20th April at Hendon Town Hall to 30 care home managers and other professionals. She spoke about her recent initiative which was agreed by the Health and Wellbeing Board to provide volunteers with language skills day or night into care homes and other organisations. Lisa identified…
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Family Fortunes and Name that Song
In today’s session Kevin played Family Fortunes with the members as last time which they all enjoyed and also in addition played another quiz naming the song title and artist from a line in a song. Dementia Club UK volunteer Kevin taking a quiz This was quite challenging but fun. Lisa then did exercises and…
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Stephens House & Gardens
This was our first session after the official launch on 13th March. For this session Malcolm the manager of Stephens House and Gardens gave a presentation about the history of Stephens House and Gardens. He gave a very interesting talk with a slide show and also presented on a table several items of memorabilia of…
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Painting Easter Eggs at Finchley Memorial Hospital
Tables setup ready for Dementia Club UK session at Finchley Memorial Hospital In this session members enjoyed painting Easter eggs. They were provided with a kit which included sequins, felt shapes paints and coloured felt tip pens. Members were given the choice to decorate their eggs and take them home, do nothing and take the…
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Passover at Sha’arei Tsedek
Stephen Rabin a volunteer gave a short talk to the members about the Jewish Festival of Passover. He explained that it occurs around the same time as the Easter festival each year. The talk explained that the festival was to commemorate the departure by the Israelites from Egypt as told in the Old Testament of…
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Japanese Culture Day
Today’s session started with a short talk and introduction of our volunteers from the Japan Society, Mrs Kyoko Delaforce, Mrs Hisako Fukushige, Mrs Naomi Ishikawa, Mrs Hiroko Tanaka, Mr Shigeo Tanaka and Mrs Naoko Heckle of the Society. Our special guest, Mr Michael Hodge, incoming Rotary District Governor of London was welcomed and he expressed…
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Arts and Crafts
Today was an arts and crafts session. I showed members how to make flowers out of pink tissue paper and I also showed them how to make a boat out of paper. All members enjoyed making these and using colours to paint their boats. Arts and Crafts at Dementia Club UK The members were then…
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Virtual Dementia Tour
Lisa attended a Virtual Dementia Tour training on a bus which was parked at Barnet House in Whetstone. The virtual tour lasted for 10 minutes and then this was followed by a talk from the trainer explaining how the delegates reacted in the virtual tour. Lisa believes this training is very worth while especially for…