We’re very happy to offer two different Dementia Cafes for the community!
Our Making Memories Dementia memory cafe at St Mary’s Community Hub is a great opportunity to meet others on Tuesday afternoons for a friendly chat, a cuppa and some fun activities, along with hearing from guest speakers.
We also run a monthly Happy Memories Dementia Cafe in Darnall, with hot drinks, cakes and activities like we have in Handsworth, but which also offers language support for those who need it. Regular language support is available for Urdu and Somali speakers, but we can help with other languages, too.
To help us to manage numbers at both cafes, we do ask that you register with us before coming along – email dwb.enquiries@darnallwellbeing.org.uk or phone: 0114 249 6315 or 07495 548929.
If you’re not sure what to expect from a Dementia Cafe, here’s a short clip of Making Memories attendees playing Beetle together:
And you can hear directly from some of our Dementia Cafe attendees here:
He was animated, engaged and recalling his own history and happy doing it…. The locality of the cafe to his community means he’s been able to rekindle acquaintances with people he knew from his earlier life.
HJ, son and carer of Making Memories Dementia Cafe attendee
We run a separate Dementia group with a focus on music – JoJanGles. This group was started thanks to research work we were involved in with the University of Sheffield. A video about their research, showing our group in action, can be seen here:
Please contact us if you would be interested in coming along to this group, which continues to meet every two weeks.
We also run two carers’ support groups at Darnall Primary Care Centre. For more details about these groups, please click here.