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It’s Show Time at Hendon Town Hall dementia club today. We also had some visitors from Rotary Club of Hendon – The Rotary Club President Eugenia who attended with Rotarians Rita and Francisca. It was also a surprise and a pleasure to see 2 other visitors – Dr Rhonda Cohen and Tija Hubej who were…

Today’s report is from Annette who took the session. “Today’s session went smoothly and we had 42 members in attendance. I based my jokes, quiz and discussions around rail transport and rail stations, following members recent trip to Epping Ongar Railway. I provided a few pictures of rail stations, rail carriages and similar to help…

Today was the official launch of the Dementia Club at St John’s United Reformed Church, which was a great success. Members and other guests attended the party, including members from Friends in Need who attended with their carers. Everyone really enjoyed themselves. Barnet TV also came to the launch party and filmed the event which…

Dementia Club UK had their outing today to Epping Ongar Railway. Members of Dementia Club UK with volunteers of the Epping Ongar Railway All was organised perfect by the Railway. When we arrived we were met by Dean Walton the Railway General manager and station staff which was a lovely welcome. The weather was drizzling…

There were many members today and we also had 2 new members. Lisa welcomed the members and then Mark gave members a fun quiz to do which was challenging as usual. Lisa then gave members a word ‘Television’ and asked them to try and make as many words as they could. Two of the members…

Our new venue is slowly building up numbers. The session started with a quiz from Mark and then followed with Richard showing members some chair yoga exercises and some New challenging stand up exercises. The session then followed with Ronnie and his music entertainment which always gets members up to dance. Thank you today to…

I was delighted to be invited on Wednesday 12th September to speak about dementia and Dementia Club UK by Maria Paschali one of the ladies from the Greek Women’s Philanthropic Association ‘GWPA’. The GWPA which is a registered charity holds it’s meetings at St Katherine’s Orthodox Church at Friern Barnet Lane N20 0NL. Greek Women’s…

We had a very busy session as usual. Lisa talked about various updates and upcoming outings to members whilst they were enjoying their teas and cakes and then she introduced a poem by Ronald Dhal. Lisa told members that as Thursday 13th September is a celebration day for Ronald Dhal (the world’s number one story…

Today was the Jewish New Year so a few of the members were missing. Lisa did a 1950’s quiz which brought back many memories and encouraged chatting amongst members. Annalisa the exercise instructor then came and everyone was ready for exercises. Members have really taken to Annalisa as she makes exercising really fun. Annalisa makes…