Clydesdale Parkinsons Group

Well done to everyone who took part today 🚶🏻‍➡️👏🏼🩵

Many many thanks to Morrisons Lanark, Tesco Lanark and Kirkfield United for their very kind donations to our tombola and Duck race 🦆

We definitely wouldn’t be as successful a group without the ongoing support of our wonderful local community 🥳

Parkinson's shouldn’t stop you enjoying holidays and outings in the UK or overseas. Lots of people with the condition travel.

Join us next week for an online information session, where Jane and Jim Clifford from Parkinson's Stirling and Clackmannanshire Support Group will share their top tips about travelling with Parkinson's.

🗓️ 21 May 2024
🕖 7.00pm to- 8.30pm
📌 Online via Zoom

This online information session is open to all. For more information or to register, please email Chloe Macmillan ([email protected]) or 0300 123 3679.

Family friends and carers are invited to join us for an upcoming online information session entitled, 'Exploring the psychological and emotional experience of caring for someone with Parkinson's'.

🗓️ 30 May 2024
🕜 2.00pm to 3.30pm
📌 Online via Zoom

Dr Sian Clifford, Chartered Counselling Psychologist, will talk through identifying common themes and ways of coping.

To register, please email Chloe Macmillan ([email protected]) or call 0300 123 3679.

And we are open!!! 💙

Come visit us today for our cake, candy & tombola … and of course the duck race (12pm) 🦆🦆

Prepations are well under way for our fundraiser on Saturday 🦆… the ducks have had a practice run, sweetie bags are made (with the help of one of our youngest members) and the cakes are in the oven!

Come along and join us at Lanark Lifestyles this Saturday for some fun! Home baking, candy stall and bottle tombola from 10am 🍬🧁 🦆

🦆 Come along and join us!! 🦆

Clydesdale Parkinson’s Group are doing something special!!

We are holding a fundraiser on Saturday 27th April at Lanark Lifestyles 🏊🏻‍♀️ to support the running of our group exercise classes, hydrotherapy, group outings and monthly meetings.

We will have cake, candy and bottle tombola from 10am on “The Street” within the sports centre and of course an exciting duck race kicking off at 12pm 🦆

We are holding this within the month of April to boost awareness of Parkinson’s disease and support World Parkinson’s Day which was 11th April when the world lit up blue 💙

Please contact us if you would like any more information!

Lovely to see St Nicholas Church, Lanark lit up blue tonight for World Parkinson’s Day 2024 🩵

The Town House, Hamilton. Making it blue for 2024 🩵

The Town House Hamilton💙

At the Clydesdale Parkinson’s Group January meeting (which also doubled as our Burn’s lunch), Jim Forrest stepped down as our group chairman after an incredible 8 years dedicated service to making us what we are today. We are forever grateful for all the hard work Jim and his wife Jennifer have done for the group and we are delighted to say they are continuing as active committee members going forward.

Jim is succeeded by the lovely Irene Miller, who know doubt will go from strength to strength as our new chairperson. We wish her all the luck in her new role! 🥂❤️

Some photos from the groups recent trip to the Burrell collection 🩵🌳🩵 situated within Po***ck Park which currently houses a beautiful selection of art, sculptures and antiquities.

Another round of big big thank yous to The Innerwheel Club Lanark, the Wilson Family and Ravenstruther Line Dancing for their continued support and very kind donations to our group. We are very grateful and these donations allow us to provide ongoing exercise classes for group members and also helped provide a beautiful afternoon tea at Lanark Golf Club for group members to socialise and have fun!

Join us for an open-to-all online information session on benefits and entitlements.

🗓️ 19 March 2024

🕖 7pm

🖥️ Online via Zoom

David Goldthorp, pictured, will be leading the session. He has been with Parkinson’s UK for more than eight years, working as a Benefit and Employment Adviser.

David will be providing information and updates about some of the benefits to which you may be entitled. This will include information on benefits specifically for people in Scotland and also important updates for some people currently on Working or Child Tax Credits, Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance and some people currently claiming Housing Benefit. He will also cover additional benefits such as Blue Badges, the Motability Scheme, travel and leisure discounts, and more!

While there will be the opportunity to ask questions, we won’t be able to discuss any specific personal circumstances or information in the session.

If you require detailed benefit advice about your specific circumstances, you can also contact our helpline on 0808 800 0303 to be put in touch with our Local Adviser and Benefit and Employment Adviser teams.

To register for the session, please email Chloe Macmillan ([email protected]) or call 0300 123 3679.

We are delighted to share that we have more dates for our online session for people who are newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

These sessions will provide an introduction to the support offered by Parkinson's UK and an opportunity to meet others who are also newly diagnosed.

🗓️ 12 March 2024

🕙 10am to 11.30am

📍Online via Zoom

You can book a place now via Eventbrite 👉 bit.ly/3UZVogz

Further sessions, also listed on Eventbrite, are planned on 12 March 2024 at 6pm, 9 April 2024 at 10am and 9 April 2024 at 6pm. Please note spaces are limited. More sessions are planned throughout the year and details will be published soon.

Easterhouse Phoenix Centre and Scottish Cycling have teamed up together to deliver a Parkinson’s Cycling Group. With a fleet of adaptive bikes, the group offers the opportunity to cycle in a safe and supportive atmosphere.

The next session is on 4 March 2024 at Easterhouse Sports Centre, 1-2pm and 2-3pm.

Book a place online here 👉 bit.ly/3UYXhtH

For more information please email [email protected] or call 07827307627.

Clydesdale Parkinson’s Group would like to thank Foundation Scotland for their support and funding to help with the continued cost of many of our physical activity sessions available to members.

We have thus far been able to fund continued hydrotherapy sessions, including a physiotherapist to attend, fitness studio hire and instructor fees for our twice weekly exercise classes and purchase games equipment.

Without their support, we would not be able to support the physical and mental health and the wellbeing of our members and their families living with Parkinson’s disease.

Some more photos of our lovely Coronation afternoon tea 🫖🎂🤍

Well … what a glorious afternoon tea had by all at the Clydesdale Parkinson’s Group 🫖🥪🍰 to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. Another fantastic group event enjoyed by everyone who came 💙

Many many thanks to our committee for organising, people helping in the lead up to the day, on the day helpers, and around 100 group members and their families for such a fabulous event! Definitely one to be remembered!

Also many thanks to St Nicholas Church for use of the church hall, and to Forsyths bakers for our lovely cake 🎂!

If anyone has anymore photos they would like to add, please send them in via Facebook messenger.

Lovely visit from submariner Callum Forrest and Lt Robbins from Royal Navy HMS Vengeance to present our group with a cheque from fundraising while out at sea.

Many thanks to you and your shipmates for the ongoing support to our group!

Crew of HMS Vengeance fundraised £2,500 for South Lanarkshire Charity, Clydesdale Parkinson’s group.

The group was set up by James Forrest when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2018. To begin fundraising for the group his submariner grandson became the boats unofficial barber, charging shipmates £5 for haircuts.

🔗https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2023/april/28/20230428-kind-act-of-vengeance-as-submarines-crew-help-lanark-group

Hamilton Town Hall doing their bit for

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The Town House in Hamilton looking awesome illuminated in blue this

Knowledge about the role of the protein, alpha-synuclein, in Parkinson's has greatly advanced over the last 28 years.

Today, as we celebrate International Women’s Day, we take a look at the pioneering research done by Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini and her team. Since 1998, Parkinson's UK has funded many of her research projects into alpha-synuclein at the University of Cambridge.

Read about the key discoveries she has made along with other researchers in our blog and what they mean for the future of potential treatments for Parkinson's.

Check out the blog here 👉 prksn.uk/3ynDR5e

It’s a new month … and the start of spring awakening ☺️

Why not try something new?

Research into bacteria in the gut reveals how they potentially cause and affect progression of Parkinson’s Results from a large study show how changes in certain bacteria may play a part in the development and progression of Parkinson’s.

If anyone can share their story with Chris, it would be much appreciated :)

Thinking back to when you or your loved one was diagnosed with Parkinson’s...

Chris Holmes (Community Development Programme Manager) would like to hear people’s reflections about:

• How you felt when you heard about the diagnosis

• What you needed immediately after hearing the diagnosis

• Did you access what you needed?

• Did you know what you wanted and needed immediately after your diagnosis?

If you are happy to respond to Chris’s questions, please email her at [email protected] by 15th February 2023, or if you would prefer a chat, her phone number is 0344 225 9860.

If you could include whether you are a person with Parkinson’s or a family member, when the diagnosis was received and your approximate age bracket, that information would be useful.

Many thanks and please share.

Happy Burns Night from all at the Clydesdale Parkinson’s Group.

As always, a Iovely Burns lunch was enjoyed by the group at Lanark Golf Club last week. Thanks to all involved in making it another great afternoon!

“O Tam! had’st thou but been sae wise,
As taen thy ain wife Kate’s advice!
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,
A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum;
That frae November till October,
Ae market-day thou was na sober;
That ilka melder wi’ the Miller,
Thou sat as lang as thou had siller …”
Robert Burns.

Very insightful blog from Brian, discussing some of the non-motor symptoms of living with Parkinson’s disease.

Remember it’s ok not to be ok, and there is always help and support available. Parkinson’s UK in Scotland have advisors available to chat to on 0808 800 0303.

“I was not convinced I would ever publish this blog, but now that some months have passed and I am much more like my old self, I have decided to share this as it may help others who are or have been through similar experiences.”

Brian Carson, pictured, who lives with Parkinson's, has published a new blog post entitled ‘Is it OK to not be OK?’

Low mood, anxiety and depression, all non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s, affect lots of us and it is easy to think we are struggling alone. It can also be hard for some of us to talk about our mental health.

Brian charts his own experiences from last year, feeling down, and how he came to be in a better place by the end of 2022.

You can read the blog post from Brian here: bit.ly/3X7AkCB

Remember, if you do need support, you can talk to our advisors on 0808 800 0303.

Happy new year to you all when it comes. May 2023 be happy & healthy.