Category: Blog
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Chelsea Square
We had a nice email from Ruth Schwalb from Chelsea Square about a blog post on their company website and she has sent us the link. The blog goes on to say how much the volunteers enjoyed themselves on 27th April and has a number of photos of the session. Click on the link below.…
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Finchley Memorial Hospital 10th May
Today’s session at the FMH we had 4 staff from Barnet Council Volunteering. We had; Caroline Thornton, Brendon Steinhardt, Katie Wood & Pawan Dhande. They interacted with all the members helping throughout the session. I was very grateful for all their help. Serious darts playing The session was very busy. We did some singing with…
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Mayor of Barnet’s Gala Dinner
The Mayor of Barnet’s Gala charity event was on Thursday 4th May at the RAF Museum. Mayor of Barnet, Cllr. David Longstaff welcomes everyone to his Gala I am very grateful to the Mayor for choosing Dementia Club UK as one of his Mayoral charities during his year. It has certainly helped to raise more…
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New table layout at Finchley Memorial
I was surprised to hear today that the hospital porters are not allowed to set up the round tables any longer. I bought the round tables because I wanted to create a café atmosphere. It was very convenient when the porters were setting them up before. The round tables will no longer be used now…
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Consultant Neurosurgeon visits Dementia Club UK
Busy session at Hendon Town Hall today with our special guest Anne Mitchener This was a very busy session as members were very keen to meet our speaker – Anne Mitchener a consultant Neurosurgeon at The London Clinic. Anne talked about the new drugs that were recently announced saying that the research is happening in…
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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…