Friendship – Laughter – Happy Memories – Social Fridays!
Get that Friday feeling every Friday at this free, friendly social group from Age UK Northumberland at The Swan Centre, Berwick.
Berwick Social Fridays follow on from the success of the sessions at The Round House and Azure Garden Centre.
Sessions take place on Friday mornings between 10.00am and 12.00pm and you can get as involved as much as you like or simply have a cup of tea and a chat.
Activities include:
For further information about start dates call: 01670 784 800 or visit: www.ageuk.org.uk/northumberland
Alzheimer’s Society’s Side by Side service has a real focus on empowering people affected by dementia. Volunteers support people living with dementia to identify their own personal talents, strengths and capabilities and help them to maintain fulfilling relationships with their peers and the wider community. Volunteers encourage people with dementia to get out and about, be active, retain old activities and take up new interests where possible.
This might be anything from taking part in a local activity and accessing universal services such as public transport, employment agencies to visiting museums, cinemas, pubs, and participating in everyday leisure pursuits.
We know that not every person with dementia will wish to be active within the community, so Side by Side volunteers will also support people with dementia who wish to take part in dementia specific activity/groups or maybe want to engage in hobbies or leisure pursuits in their own home.
The primary aim of Side by Side, however, will remain to encourage and support people with dementia to remain active within their communities.
Our volunteers are fully trained and supported by a Side by Side Coordinator.
The outcomes of the Side By Side service are to ensure:
The Northumberland services covers all of the county.
If you would like to access the service or require any further information please contact the Side by Side Coordinators on:
01670 813255 or email sidebysidenorthumberland@alzheimers.org.uk.
This is one of a series of free events for older people in Northumberland, from Ageing Well in Northumberland. The event is a chance to meet local organisations offering advice and information on staying well and keeping active. Call in for a cup of tea or coffee and have a chat about local events and activities, volunteering opportunities and keeping fit and healthy.
For more details about this event please email: jbell@activenorthumberland.co.uk
This is one of a series of free events for older people in Northumberland, from Ageing Well in Northumberland. The event is a chance to meet local organisations offering advice and information on staying well and keeping active. Call in for a cup of tea or coffee and have a chat about local events and activities, volunteering opportunities and keeping fit and healthy.
For more details about this event please email: lrobertson@activenorthumberland.co.uk
This is one of a series of free events for older people in Northumberland, from Ageing Well in Northumberland. The event is a chance to meet local organisations offering advice and information on staying well and keeping active. Call in for a cup of tea or coffee and have a chat about local events and activities, volunteering opportunities and keeping fit and healthy.
For more details about this event please email: alison.byard@morpeth-tc.gov.uk
This is one of a series of free events for older people in Northumberland, from Ageing Well in Northumberland. The event is a chance to meet local organisations offering advice and information on staying well and keeping active. Call in for a cup of tea or coffee and have a chat about local events and activities, volunteering opportunities and keeping fit and healthy.
For more details about this event please email: ellenwalton@haltwhistle.org.
This is one of a series of free events for older people in Northumberland, from Ageing Well in Northumberland. The event is a chance to meet local organisations offering advice and information on staying well and keeping active. Call in for a cup of tea or coffee and have a chat about local events and activities, volunteering opportunities and keeping fit and healthy.
For more details about this event please email: kstorey@activenorthumberland.org.uk.
The first of this year’s Stepping into Spring Roadshows from Ageing Well in Northumberland kicks off in Ponteland. This is a free event for older people, packed with local organisations offering advice and information on staying well and keeping active. Call in for a cup of tea or coffee and have a chat about local events and activities, volunteering opportunities and keeping fit and healthy. The Healthwatch Northumberland team will be at this event so come and say hello and pick up a giveaway or two!
For more details about this event please email: veronica.jones@northumberland.gov.uk.
What is Disabled Access Day?
Disabled Access Day is all about trying something or somewhere new, whether that’s a local museum or gallery. This year the event will take place on Saturday 16 March and we’d love you to get involved and visit somewhere new with your friends or family. There are lots of exciting events, activities and offers going on across Tyne & Wear, from British Sign Language (BSL) tours to discounted entrance fees to facilitated activities.
What is Happening and Where?
The Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle
A guided tour for visually impaired people, people with physical or learning disabilities, their friends and families. The tour will take place between 12.00pm and 1.00pm and is called Newcastle Story, which depicts the city’s history from Roman times right through to the Victorian age.
A BSL interpreted tour will take place for people with hearing loss, their friends and families between 2.00pm and 3.00pm around the Destination Tyneside Exhibition which looks at the insightful stories of people who have made Tyneside their home.
Free places for these events can be booked by calling: 0191 277 2313 or via email: robert.latham@twmuseums.org.uk. Places must be booked by Wednesday 13 March,
There is also a drop-in Circus themed craft session for families with children with disabilities from 11.00am to 1.00pm in the Play + Invent space. This will include clown hats, balancing clowns, circus lights and squirting flowers. Just turn up, no booking required!
GNM:Hancock, Barras Bridge, Newcastle
A BSL interpreted guided tour of The Natural Northumbria Gallery will take place between 11.00am and 12.00pm where you can discover what makes the North East region special in terms of the animals and plants.
A guided tour for visually impaired people, people with physical or learning disabilities, their friends and families will take place between 1.00pm and 2.00pm around The Natural Northumbria Gallery where you can discover what makes the North East region special in terms of the animals and plants.
Free places for these events can be booked by calling: 0191 277 2313 or via email: robert.latham@twmuseums.org.uk. Places must be booked by no later than Wednesday 13 March.
There will also be some drop-in sessions for family activities for children with disabilities.
The first session is ‘Story Time’ between 10:45am and 11.00am where you will meet the Great North Mouse and Georgina.
The second session is ‘Fishing for Clues’ between 11.00am and 12.00pm. Using our magnetic fishing rods fish clues from our ‘pond’ to help you discover objects around the gallery.
The third session is ‘Scribbles & Sketches’ between 1.00pm and 3.00pm. This is a drawing challenge for all ages. Pop along to Natural Northumbria Gallery to meet some of the handling collection, then have a go at drawing, tracing or colouring some of them.
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