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The Caraway/Portswood Dementia Action Group programme for week beginning Monday 25 March 2024, for across Southampton!

WHATS ON THIS WEEK!

Brought to you by… Caraway

ISSUE #1.19:  22 March 2024

Dear Friends,

Please Note:  Bitterne Park Memory Cafe will be merging with St Denys Memory Cafe, the last session Bitterne Memory Café at Ascension Church will be 27th March 2024. Please see full details here!

You can now view the latest Memory Cafe Activity Programme – April 2024

Here is the weekly line up for this week…

With love,
Caraway Dementia Action Group

  Advance notice of MAST Mayflower performance of “On The Beach”
This is an interactive sensory experience for 6 – 8 people living with dementia and their carers, spaces for the Caraway Community are available FREE on Wednesday 10th April at 11.30 & 14.30.Please book here!
Find out more here!
Monday 25 March
NEW Sholing Memory Café: Church Hall attached to St Marys Church, St Monica Road, Sholing, SO19 8ES, from 1pm until 3pm.  Join the Sholing Team for movement with Senior Saints in the Community, suitable for all living with dementia, their carers and anyone concerned about their memory, always with a warm welcome, a smile, a laugh, a cup of tea and cake!

You can contact hosts – Rev. Dave Hendra, Caraway Chaplain for Dementia by email caraway@caraway.uk.com, or telephone 07535 164014 and Sarah Cole, Social prescriber 02380 425406.

Singing By Heart: Hedge End Salvation Army, White’s Way SO30 2GL, from 11.00-12.00 with sandwiches and cake or biscuit and drink after.  Singing by Heart is an hour session singing a mixture of Christian songs and well-known secular songs that people with dementia will know and be able to interact with. It includes a Bible verse before each song and a online prayer after each song and ends each session with The Lord’s Prayer. It isn’t a memory café but any after activity such as light refreshments will afford the opportunity to engage fully with our volunteers.

Veg out Café @ October Books:    October Books, Portswood High Street, SO17 2NF, from 12-3pm for Vegan food, pay as you please.

Bereavement Café:  Make & Brew Café, St James Road, SO15 5HE, from 2-4pm. Offering support and chat to anyone recently bereaved.

MHA Lordshill Friendship group:  Lordshill Community Centre, Cromarty Rd, Lordshill, Southampton SO16 8LX, from 10am—12pm, costs £3.

Music for the Mind – Songwriting:  Planet Sounds (opposite the Co-op), 40 Terminus Terrace, SO14 3FE, from 1.30-3pm. SoCo Music Project presents a free fun and social Music-Making Session for all abilities.  Places are limited for more details, please email mark@socomusicproject.org.uk.

Mayfield Nursery – Walking Group:  Mayfield Nursery, Weston Lane, Weston SO19 9HL, from 11am-12 at Mayfield Nurseries Entrance. Feel the benefit of the outdoors and connecting with nature in a supportive environment.

Mayfield Nursery – Gardening for Dementia:  Mayfield Nursery, Weston Lane, Weston SO19 9HL, from 1-3pm. Where we will be working at Mayfield nurseries ‘hands on’ with plants. Feel the benefit of the outdoors and connecting with nature in a supportive environment.

Tuesday 26 March
Music for the Mind – Vocal & Instrumental:  Planet Sounds (opposite the Co-op), 40 Terminus Terrace, SO14 3FE, from 1.30-3pm. Music Leaders are Katy Hooper and Hayley McDonnell will explore mindfulness, meditation techniques through singing inspired by sounds and rhythms from around the world. SoCo Music Project presents a free fun and social Music-Making Session for all abilities.  Places are limited for more details, please email mark@socomusicproject.org.uk.

KES @ Avenue St Andrews:  Avenue St Andrews Church, The Avenue, SO171XQ, from 2.30-3.45pm. Multi-generational club providing activities and Friendship, brought to you by Communicare working in partnership with King Edwards VI School and Avenue St Andrews Church.  Suggested donation £3
Musical Moments:  Snowdrop Place Pavilion Road, Hedge End, Hampshire, SO30 2ZS, drop-in from 2-3.30pm. An afternoon for family, friends, carers and those living with dementia where you can enjoy a safe, relaxed afternoon with an emphasis on using music to enjoy and an opportunity to ask questions and share concerns with others.

Wednesday 27 March
A BIG Farewell to Bitterne Memory Café:  Ascension Church, Thorold Road, SO18 1HZ, from 2.30-4.30pm.  Join the the Bitterne Park Team for the last session at Ascension Church for a music & movement session with FolkActive and Easter treats.  All are welcome whether diagnosed or not, do come along and meet with others going through similar experiences over tea, coffee, cake and friendship.

 

Wednesdays @ Holy Saviour Bitterne:  Holy Saviour Church, Bursledon Road, SO19 7LW.

  • Omega Café:  Drop in anytime from 10 until 12. Free tea, coffee, cake, and chat.
  • Armchair exercise:  Starts at 10am for about 25 minutes. Led by a qualified instructor; light exercise whilst still sitting! Donations welcome.
  • Omega Lunch: At Midday. Normally soup & roll but on the 2nd Wednesday of the month something a bit more like a soup, ploughman’s or jacket potato. Donations welcome.

Meeting Place @ October Books:  October Books, Portswood High Street, SO17 2NF, between 2.30pm to 4.30pm.  This is an intergenerational community drop in event, with painting, puzzles, board games and cream tea!

Thursday 28 March
Lordshill Memory Café:     Lordshill Church, Lordshill District Centre SO16 8HY, from 1.30-3pm.  Join us this week for a special Music and Movement session with FolkActive, and for the usual  coffee / tea and chat of course.
Thursday Cuppa:  St Mary’s Church, Sholing, SO19 8ES, from 10-11.30am
Friday 29 March (GOOD FRIDAY)
Please check directly with the venues if these sessions will continue on the Bank Holiday

Coffee and Cake:  St Denys Church, Dundee Road, St Denys, SO17 2ND, from 1.30-3pm.

 

Singing for Wellbeing @ Hebron Court:  Hebron Court, 46 Rollesbrook Gardens, Southampton SO15 5WB, from 11am – 12.

Fish and Chip Friday @ Mayflower Court:  62-70 Westwood Road, Southampton, SO17 1DP, from 12pm

Saturday 30 March
Southampton Park Walk:  Meet @ the Hawthorns Café, SO15 7NN.  Meeting at the café on Southampton Common at 9am.  The meet point is by the start of park run between 2 oak trees close to hawthorns but not outside it, look for the steward in high vis jackets labelled “Park Walker”.  All Welcome! For a gentle 5km walk around the Common, many go to Hawthorns Café for a coffee and chat after.
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