Category: Blog
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Finchley Memorial Hospital – 20th June 2018
Today’s session was led by Eleanor with support from Dr Angela. We started off with a picture quiz of Sports Stadiums in England. It proved quite tricky as there were 10 football stadiums to identify. Top scorer was Pamela who finished well ahead of the opposition. Well done Pamela! We then played two games of…
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Finchley Memorial session 13th June
A full session as usual with 2 new members I met on Dementia Awareness Day at Brent Cross on 25th May. Lisa and Kevin started with a Family Fortunes quiz which everyone enjoys followed with some singing and dancing. The session then followed with Tovertafel which included are Tovertafel ‘buddies’ Karish and Eva our students.…
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Stephen’s House & Gardens Monday 11th June 2018
Today was a hot day and we had quite a few members attend as Stephen’s house is a favourite. Lisa decided today to change the room slightly and move some of the tables to accommodate groups sitting together. Everyone thought it was a good idea. The session started with Mark one of the Trustees who…
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Finchley Memorial Hospital Wednesday 6th June 2018
It was a lovely warm day today and a very busy session as always at the Finchley Memorial Hospital. Lisa welcomed everyone and then introduced Mehdi who came to visit today. Mehdi ‘CEO & Founder’ of Shift 8 Ltd installed Tovertafel at the hospital and he came today to do a second training session to…
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Sha’arei Tsedek Monday 4th June
Today was a very busy session. Lisa introduced a new exercise instructor called Jane. Jane tried various exercises to music with members and they all really enjoyed the exercises and also liked Jane. The session then followed with a special birthday. It was Gilda’s birthday today. Gilda brought lots of fancy cupcakes for members to…
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Hendon Town Hall 31st May 2018
Members enjoyed starting the session today chatting and reminiscing together about holidays they really enjoyed in the past. Lisa then gave members a quiz which was challenging as usual and then the session followed with Tai Chi with Egon. The session followed with various games which everyone enjoy like table tennis and Putting golf and…
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Finchley Memorial Hospital – 30th May 2018
Day after the torrential rain. Members were thankful that today was warm and dry. A very busy session as always. A quiz to start with about advertising slogans. Not so easy but always fun. We celebrated 2 birthdays. Laurie’s 95th Birthday is on 1st June and we also celebrated one of the carer’s birthday Joan…
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St John’s Church New Barnet 29th May
Torrential rain kept some members away today but those that came all had fun. It was lovely to see the tables with some pretty table cloths today. Lisa started the session with some activities of golf and a quiz. Members also like to do some colouring pictures too. It was then time for some exercise…
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Dementia Awareness Day 2018 – Brent Cross
Lisa – the Ageing Well & Mental Health Champion of the Borough of Barnet organised a Dementia Awareness Day at Brent Cross Shopping Centre today. The last few years this was organised in the centre but this year Lisa decided to stand in the balcony area which looks down in the centre. Risom, Lisa and…
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Rotary Club of Northwick Park dinner invitation 23rd May
Lisa was invited by the Rotary Club President of Northwick Park to their dinner meeting as their speaker. It was a pleasure to meet all the Rotary members. Lisa with Past District Governor Helen Antoniou & President Mollie Hacking MBE Lisa talked a little about her career background and when she was Mayor of the…