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We had an arts and crafts session today to start with as Dr Angela brought in some blank male and female figurines for members to colour. The idea would be for Angela to use these figurines to decorate a Christmas tree for the Christmas tree festival at Christ Church Southgate. Members were therefore very busy…

This is the last session unfortunately at Allum Manor. Despite all the advertising it has not attracted many members to this beautiful venue. Lisa has therefore decided to start another new dementia club at a different venue in Borehamwood in the New Year. Although only 2 members attended today, Lisa still made it enjoyable and…

Dementia Club UK joined together with 1st year Pharmacists from Boots Brent Cross today to do a Dementia Awareness Day. We displayed various literature about dementia, the Pharmacists from Boots had designed a pull up banner depicting the Alzheimers bookshelf. At the bottom of the bookshelf are all the memories of your younger days and as…

Today’s session was taken by Annette: “Today’s session went well and Moshe was very good, neither him nor the members were eager to end the session at 4p.m! There were 41 members today and we were grateful to have Volunteer, Melissa and her husband Bob on hand to help. The afternoon was spent creating Christmas…

It was a smaller group today but it was still a very enjoyable and very busy session. Lisa started with a quiz and asked members to make some words from random letters in a wheel picture. The challenge was to first find the 9 letter word and 8 letter word. There was a lot of…

It was Halloween today at the Finchley Memorial Hospital. Lisa decorated the tables with Halloween chocolates and lovely cakes. Members were also given some colouring crayons and a Halloween picture to colour. Everyone got very busy concentrating on their colouring and produced some really lovely pictures. Some examples of the lovely colouring today We also…

The session started as usual with members chatting and enjoying their teas, coffees and biscuits. Simon our Rotary quiz master then distributed a picture quiz asking the members to identify the persons, whose names were related to towns and cities. The members enjoyed the quiz and did really well. This was followed by Chair Yoga…

Members always enjoy attending at the Britannia centre. When everyone was settled with their teas and coffees Lisa welcomed everyone and introduced Mark who was ready to give members a quiz. The questions were a little hard but members always enjoy the challenge. The session followed with celebrating and this was celebrated in the usual…