Cornwall Memory Cafe Network

The Cornwall Memory Cafe Network is a finalist in the Dementia Care Awards, in the Dementia Friendly Community Project category! 🎉We have Cym from Launceston Memory Cafe, and Pauline from Liskeard Memory Cafe attending the awards ceremony tonight on behalf of the network for a glamourous evening in London. What a wonderful way to celebrate the amazing work of the memory cafes! Good luck 🥳

Free Courses for Carers: Invaluable work of Promas | Learn more🎙🙌

Join our podcast host, Anna Lempriere, as she interviews Jenny and Bernie from Promas. Promas CIC (Community Interest Company) offers a range of free courses written and designed with the help of carers to help manage your caring role, access social events, and much more.

Check on disAbility Cornwall's YouTube for full episode: https://youtu.be/yhp14Xq9nEw

Discover the family model of care where 95%+ of Promas team members have been carers themselves. They provide a council and coaching support line for emotional, psychological, and all sorts of support and signposting. The biggest benefit is reducing carer stress.

Being a carer is often stressful and isolating, especially when caring for a loved one. Promas CIC creates an incredible, warm, loving, inclusive, and informative community to help carers feel supported, learn new skills, and know they're not alone.

📌 Check out our growing podcast where we discuss all things dementia and memory loss with our amazing host and Memory Cafe Wayfinder, Anna Lempriere 💫

Find out valuable information 👉:

Cornwall Memory Cafe Podcast | DISCOVER Voices Welcome to the Cornwall Memory Cafe Podcast! Hosts and Cafe Network Wayfinders Anna and Jules discuss the Cornwall Memory Cafe Network here in Cornwall and how it is a safe welcoming community for people with dementia and memory loss, their family and thei...

🧐Did you know we have a Cornwall Memory Cafe Podcast?

In our recent episode, our Cornwall Memory Cafe Wayfinder and podcast Host Anna Lempriere interviews the two fantastic Admiral Nurses Caroline Ellis and Sarah Arundell, both part of the Integrated Admiral Nurse Service with Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and Dementia UK. They discuss the important work Admiral Nurses do in Cornwall. NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Learn more about dementia and memory loss care with our podcast, and subscribe to DISCOVER Voices, a YouTube funded by our partners at disAbility Cornwall & IoS: https://youtu.be/30s5SmDsu6k

Join Alzheimer's Society in inviting your politicians to Dementia Action Week events in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Join in inviting your politicians to Dementia Action Week events in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Let's make dementia a priority and remind decision makers why it can't remain the UK's forgotten crisis

One of our supporters is running a sponsored 5k in Plymouth on the 28th April to raise money for Alzheimer's Research UK. Click on the link to donate!

Sponsor Logan online Logan is taking part in Plymouth 5k 2024 and is raising money for Alzheimer's Research UK. Visit their fundraising page to sponsor them online.

Join Carnon Downs Memory Cafe at their Easter Coffee Morning this weekend! Saturday 23rd March, 9:30am- 12:30pm

Brilliant opportunity to join the team!

🙋‍♀️Want to work in your community? Become a Cornwall Memory Cafe Network Wayfinder

🍃 Memory Cafe Wayfinders provide holistic and personalised support, facilitating access to information, services, activities, therapies, and practical assistance at 43 locations (countywide) and in peoples home environment. They collaborate closely with locality Dementia Support Workers, Dementia Advisers, and the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Programme, ensuring timely connections to community resources to support people to live safe and well in their homes and communities.

📌- Salary:
£22,816 pa (Band 3 NHS) for 2 x 37 hour posts. (Based in North & East Cornwall & Mid Cornwall)

£13,566 pa (Band 3 NHS) for 1 x 22 hours post, this is pro rata the full-time rate. (Based in West Cornwall)

-Working as a member of a great, dynamic and focused team, within an Investor in People Gold Standard Organisation
- Training and development opportunities
- Generous annual leave allowance of 31 days in the first year and increasing year on year until a maximum of 43 days.
- Great facilities and free parking at our offices
- A day off on your birthday.
- A great work life balance culture.

We are a friendly and supportive team of people with diverse backgrounds, highly motivated to drive change and improve the lives of disabled people, their carers and families. We take a flexible approach to supporting each member of our team to reach their full potential. These roles are part of a new community dementia collaborative in Cornwall, bringing together the strengths of four organisations: Cornwall NHS Foundation Trust, Memory Matters, Alzheimer's Society, and Disability Cornwall & Isles of Scilly.

💡Full job description and our application form: https://www.disabilitycornwall.org.uk/opportunities/dc-jobs

🙌 Want to work somewhere with a great work-life balance culture and make a difference in people's lives? | As part of a new exciting community dementia collaborative, we are now looking for 2x Dementia Adviser 👇

The Dementia Adviser aim to provide holistic and personalised support for people living with dementia and their carer/family to access what they need, at the right time, in terms of information, and connecting to services, activities, therapies, and practical assistance.

📌 Salary: £22,816 per annum (Band 3 NHS) Based at our Head Office in Hayle.
- Working as a member of a great, dynamic and focused team, within an Investor in People Gold Standard Organisation
- Training and development opportunities
- Generous annual leave allowance of 31 days in the first year and increasing year on year until a maximum of 43 days.
- Great facilities and free parking at our offices
- A day off on your birthday.
- A great work life balance culture.

The Dementia Adviser will work closely with the locality Primary care Dementia Practitioners, (working within the Primary Care Networks) assisting with their case load of people and connect and refer into community ensuring the right support, right place at the right time, with the aim of supporting people to remain in their own home and communities for as long as possible.

💡For the FULL job description and to complete our application form, please follow the link: https://www.disabilitycornwall.org.uk/opportunities/dc-jobs

Congratulations to Dr Lisa Burrows on her placement! Alongside her research work, she also volunteers at a memory cafe, and is a steering group member of the network. Wishing her all the best from the network team!

Dr Lisa Burrows Head of Clinical Academic Development in our South West Clinical School has been awarded a place on the prestigious NIHR Senior Research Leader (SRL) Programme for Nursing and Midwifery. Successful in securing one of fifteen places across England, the SRL programme supports the development of nurses and midwives as future research leaders at a local, regional, and national level. Lisa is a mental health nurse, specialising in dementia care and clinical evidence specialist.

Lisa said, “I am delighted to have been awarded a place and will use my time on the programme to develop research priorities and engagement opportunities for mental health nursing teams across our Trusts and contribute to the growth of the Clinical School vital infrastructure to support more widely the nursing, midwifery and allied health professions clinical academics of the future.”

Are you a Dementia carer who can't leave their cared for?
Then this course is for you, as you can bring your cared for with you, to be looked after in the same building but different room by Memory Matters . We all come together for lunch.
Learn about your coping strategies and meet other carers.
Book your place now by contacting Promas 👍👇

Help if you can.
Thank you

Urge the Chancellor to make the adult social care system a priority Join urging to prioritise a robust, 10-year plan for adult social care in the Spring Budget. Quality care is a lifeline for the 900,000 people living with dementia today that can't be ignored

The Cornwall Memory Cafe Network hosts the first and only Young Onset Dementia Memory Cafe in Cornwall! A monthly meet up for people living with young-onset dementia and their loved ones to socialise, connect and have fun with a range of activities planned for 2024. Watch this space to find out what we get up to! 🎨

Did you know there are many forms of Dementia? 💜
Our podcast hosts and Cornwall Memory Cafe Network Wayfinders Anna & Jules talk to Newquay Purple Angels Ambassador Lynn Bartrip-Kay as she speaks passionately about the Purple Angels and their mission to create a dementia-aware community through workshops and awareness sessions.

📲Watch/Listen now: bit.ly/44kMcnN

Lynn works tirelessly to spread awareness of the disease, frequently operating dementia awareness workshops in Cornwall for businesses and everyone that wants to come along. Lynn talks about her own experience with having loved ones with dementia, she reads an extremely poignant poem about the illness and the power of music for people with memory loss, and how above all else, music can bring back some memories and emotions.

📲Or stream on any device on any provider:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xygg5miwsz4zZaqhxQFz2
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cornwall-memory-cafe-network-podcast/id1700672848
Google: bit.ly/3qMfbTO

Purple Angels was co-founded by Norman McNamara a resident of Torbay, Devon, UK who was diagnosed with dementia at only 50 years of age. Whilst out shopping one day he was rudely spoken to by a shopkeeper and decided to change the way people see dementia and treat others. The organisation has now grown to operate globally with over 1000 ambassadors!

To find out more about the Purple Angels in Newquay, go to: www.newquaypurpleangels.com

To find out about our Cornwall Memory Cafe Network, visit: www.cornwallmemorycafes.co.uk

A brilliant project we've been involved with: I'm Still Here! A series of 6 weekly creative workshops for people with early onset dementia and their carers.

Drums4Fun CIC provided two very different percussion experience workshops for 'I'm Still Here' a Support Group for people living with early onset Dementia and their partners. Friday 23rd June was a sensory story session where we accompanyed storyteller extraordinaire Henry Austeick using our unique Soundbeam 6 system. Henry took us on a journey through India experiencing the sounds and smells of this exotic country, hosed by Penryn based arts space, The Fish Factory. On Friday 30th June we were based in the beautiful surroundings of the a Penryn based community garden project, Loveland. The 1980's music theme included music from Aztec Camera, The Buggles, The Eurythmics, Adam and The Ants and many more! A small but beautifully formed group of enthusiastic people enjoyed experimenting with our full range of percussion. Many thanks to Jessica Voke for organising and to Kirsty Dexter of Cornwall Memory Cafe Network and Francis Baring from Cornwall Community Foundation for joining in!

What a joy to welcome audiences from Memory Matters and Cornwall Memory Cafe Network to the gorgeous Mediterranean Biome Eden Project.

A journey from Cornish sea shanties to Cypriot folk music with the wonderful Louis Bingham Music(and birdsong accompaniment!), as part of Nature's Way - Social Prescribing Programme social prescribing programme.

Our May newsletter is out now! Check it out by following the link below, and don't forget to sign up for future newsletters at the bottom of the page
☑ Network news: Eden Project Concert
☑ Sensory Trust walks
☑ Cornwall Dementia Conference
☑ Carers events by Promas

CMCN May Newsletter On the 11th May, members of local memory cafes (St Austell, Sticker & Wheal Martyn), and Memory Matters groups attended a brilliant concert held in the Eden Project, in association with Live Music Now & The Eden Project & Memory Matters. In the Mediterranean Biome, with the sun high in the sky, we ...

Today (20 March 2023) Healthwatch Cornwall publishes its report on what it’s like to access support from health, social care and voluntary sector services in Cornwall for people living with dementia or memory loss (suspected dementia) and those who care for them.

http://ow.ly/Vzxv50NmhRi

Dementia UK NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Cornwall Memory Cafe Network Healthwatch England

Our March newsletter is out now! Check it out by following the link below, and don't forget to sign up for future newsletters at the bottom of the page

☑ Exciting cafe news
☑ Admiral nurses at Dementia UK
☑ Cornwall Dementia Conference
☑ Cost of living events
☑ Mindfulness sessions by Promas

CMCN March Newsletter Wadebridge memory cafe were recently awarded a Highly Commended in two categories this year at the Cornwall Heritage Awards! They were nominated for a brilliant afternoon entitled 'Mixing Memories', where they made Christmas puddings, explored an objects loan box from the Royal Cornwall Museum, and....

Time is running out for pensioners to secure their £150 Warm Home Discount this winter ❄️

We are urging people to check if they, or any of their family members they have are not missing out on another £150 Warm Home Discount payment this Winter to help with heating costs.

If you claim for pension credit now and are successful, the claim can be backdated for up to three months. The latest you can make a claim to be in with a chance is Friday, November 18.

The DWP will open a Warm Home Discount hotline later this month to let households confirm or query their eligibility.

https://www.gov.uk/the-warm-home-discount-scheme

Winter WellbeingWith winter approaching, we want to learn more about what concerns you may have about the approaching colder season.We will use this information to help shape both ours and others support services, around what you want and need... Winter Wellbeing - Web Survey Tools

We've launched a dementia and memory loss survey with The Memory Cafe Network. If you're a carer for a relative, family member or friend with dementia or memory loss (suspected dementia) we would love to hear from you.

Take our survey about your experience of services and support in Cornwall.

www.bit.ly/dementia-survey

Cornwall Memory Cafe Network updated their information in their About section.

Interesting content from the latest magazine

https://email.alzheimers.org.uk/5D66-FNTZ-1754EE0D6717517D3K6GRED5D179E6FB526C7E/cr.aspx

Drawing on yesterday, changing tomorrow – Dementia together magazine Tracey in Somerset, whose husband was diagnosed in his mid-50s, is challenging the perception that dementia only affects older people.

It's vitally important to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.

Please only leave home to exercise once a day or to shop for essential items.

Keep a safe distance at all times and wash your hands regularly.

Thank you Cornwall - together we'll get through this 💙

Around one in three people with Covid-19 don't have any symptoms, so will be spreading the virus without knowing.

Stay at home and follow the guidance to stop the spread.

⚫ Wash your hands
⚫ Wear a face covering
⚫ Keep your distance

Cornwall Memory Café Network
Supporting Memory Cafés in Cornwall

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
to be held on Friday 29th January at 10am
on Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84126754368?pwd=NmU0bEdKN3VjeE9wQ0NjK0Zka3JoUT09
Meeting ID: 841 2675 4368
Passcode: 643790
We do hope that you and or members of your Memory Café can attend the forthcoming AGM from the comfort of your own home! It will be a great chance to catch up with cafes around the County, and hear what the board has been up to on your behalf. It will also enable your café to ensure that they have attended at least one Forum meeting this year. For some it will be the third this year!
As the work of the network expands, yes even when our precious memory cafes are unable to meet in the ‘usual’ manner, the board is looking for additional willing people to join the board. The more board members we have the more skills we have, and the more man(/woman) hours to make a difference. The Cornwall Memory Café Network’s main focus remains to support our cafes. The experience of the last nine months has highlighted the need to have a more influential voice within Cornwall and beyond representing those who are living with memory loss or caring for someone with memory loss.
Please have a conversation with your committees, and if you can possibly find the time to consider joining the board we are sure you would find it both interesting and rewarding. Your greatest ‘skill’ is your interest. If you would like to nominate someone to the board, with their permission, please email me [email protected].
If you would like to be nominated please ask a colleague to do it for you.