TIME TO GET CREATIVE
Enter our Dementia Friendly Flower
Competition 2020
COVID19
We are pleased to announce we will be running our Dementia Friendly Flower Competition again this year and we are confident this will be a biggest uptake yet.
To download your information pack and flower template please
CLICK on the pdf link below to download all the competition details including your flower template. We look forward to judging your entries. Deadline date for all entries to be received is Friday 3rd April, 2020
PDF Download Link:
forget me not competition 2020 pdf
Dementia Friendly Film Screenings at Beverley Parkway
CORVID19
Screenings are now suspended, there will be NO film on Thursday 26th March, since Parkway Cinema and Theatre is now closed. This suspension will apply until September 2020 and then be reviewed. More information will be given to all our regular attendees including residential care homes and families in the local community in early September. Please watch this space. Thank you for your continued support. Simon Foster
Our next Dementia Friendly Film Showing at The Parkway Cinema, Beverley is “Downton Abbey”…
Date: Thursday 26th March, 2020 and will commence at 11.30. Join us for tea, coffee and biscuits from 10.30 onwards.
The Film Duration is: 2 hours 30 minutes.
“Downton Abbey”… The Story line:The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the king and queen of England soon unleashes scandal, romance and intrigue — leaving the future of Downton hanging in the balance.
March 2020
Dementia Friendly East Riding is very grateful for a generous donation from the Soroptimists International of Beverley & District.
The women`s Soroptimists group work hard to support local good causes and community projects and have chosen our charity specifically after a fundraising afternoon tea event at Tickton village Hall.
Just over £1900 has been donated to support the many community based activities and projects the DFER charity delivers across the East Riding area.
Simon Foster the charity`s ambassador and a volunteer said “This is a marvellous gesture by the Beverley Soroptimists and will help us to secure our medium term future in terms of the activities we are able to deliver to people living with dementia, their families and carers. I would like to thank the group sincerely and wish them well with their own amazing fundraising efforts”
This donation follows one made by The Beverley Lord Mayors charity fund earlier in the month for over £1000.
DFER relies heavily for its fundraising upon the generosity of local voluntary groups and organisations. Thank you all for your kindness.
GREGGS FOUNDATION grant fund awarded
We are pleased to announce that our application for a Greggs Foundation Grant has been awarded. The £1000 will go towards upcoming projects we deliver across the East Riding of Yorkshire. Thank you so much from all the Trustees.
Dementia Friendly Flower Competition 2019 Winners announced…
Congratulations to everyone that entered this years competition. The standards this year were extremely high. You are all winners in our eyes. And we look forward to receiving entries for next years competition.
Dementia Friendly East Riding mentioned at Chelsea Flower Show, 2019.
The Royal Horticultural Society represented at the Chelsea Flower Show 2019 acknowledged that Demential Friendly East Riding got a mention and plaudits when a health professional group, expressed an interest in Dementia Awareness and spoke about our Sewerby Memory Walk (that they were aware of near Bridlington), during there visit to The National Chrysanthemum Society`s display, which featured Bill and Ben and Little Weed! We are proud and privileged to be talked about for our efforts in Yorkshire.
The Chelsea Flower show is set to open on Tuesday – with glorious rainbow gardens, bonsai trees and even Bill and Ben figurines in flower pots. Colourful Chrysanthamuns are displayed like a rainbow by this gardener, while statues of Bill and Ben are added to flower pots
Thank you so much for the Donation…
Simon Foster, our Charity Ambassador receives a donation of £1025 from the Worshipful Ladies Lodge No. 329 Driffield
We would like to thank all the ladies from the Worshipful Ladies Lodge No. 329 Driffield who attended our Dementia Friendly Screening of Mary Poppins this week specifically to donate us with a huge cheque for £1025. Our charity could not survive if we did not receive such generocity from the public. Thank you so much and we hope you all enjoyed the screening.
This is what the local Beverley Life and Bridlington Free Press had to say about the launch of the Dementia Friendly Memory Walk Garden that opened on Thursday 25th April 2019…
New Dementia Friendly Garden opened
Situated near Ward 8 at Castle Hill Hospital our Dementia Friendly Garden space has been designed with a Wizard of Oz theme. Developed with the assistance of many people to give sensory prompts to people who might visit. Enhanced by the presence of an Amy moth, purchased and donated by John Hillaby, it is a striking example of how a largely unused space can be enhanced and given purpose. If you would like us to help you develop a garden then use our contact page to get in touch!
Cutting the ribbon
John Hillaby with Kerry Wheeldon and the Amy Moth
CURRENT VACANCIES …
We are currently looking to appoint the following as Trustees to Dementia Friendly East Riding.
Fundraiser
General Administrator (Minute taker)
Policies and Governance expert
People affected by dementia (Current charity trustees feel this is very important to have this experience within the group)
Volunteers (to support the delivery of projects across the East Riding).
For further information on both vacancies please contact us on email: info@dementiafriendlyeastriding.org.uk
