New Memory Cafe in Portishead

 

PORTISHEAD Rotary Club took another bold step in benefiting the community with its new Memory Café, which opened on September 6, in Slade Road.

 

The fortnightly event provides a meeting place for dementia sufferers and their carers to remember the past and reminisce over old times.

 

Visitors, together with a sprinkling of Rotarians, began by looking over advertising material from the 1930s, a ration book, a Coronation glass and old money, which led to a school desk game of coin football.

 

With free refreshments a-plenty, the afternoon rounded of with table skittles and a sing-song led by Phillip Baldwin.

 

Rotary vice-president Jim Christopherson stressed how beneficial it is for the person with dementia or the carer to collect together reminders of their shared memories in a 'memory box'.

 

The café is open next on Tuesday, September 27, from 2pm-4pm in the Jubilee Day Care Hall, 31, Slade Road. For further details call 01275 399878.

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