Our regular events are designed and led by people living with dementia in Nottingham.
Save the date for our 2024 annual event
Join us for a day of music, words, creativity, and reflection on living with dementia.
When: Wednesday 11th September 2024
Time: 10am registration for a 10.30am start, 3.30pm finish
Where: Thurgarton Village Hall,
Bleasby Road, Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire NG14 7FW
View map of venueIt has good transport links via bus and train to Nottingham City centre which is just 10 miles away.
On the NCT 26 bus route from Victoria Centre (view map) – get off at Corner Croft bus stop on Nottingham Road (view map) & walk for five minutes
Booking required, booking details available soon.
For more details:
Tel: 0115 7484220 – Please leave your name & number
Email: [email protected]
Our 2023 event: Reflecting on Living with Dementia: Don’t Dismiss Us
Our 2023 event took place in September in Woodthorpe, Nottingham.
Listen to an interview on BBC Radio Nottingham about the event, produced by Maria Rubio. (C) BBC 2023
We were joined by members of our craft group, started during the pandemic as well as people from our independent peer support groups: craft, drop-in and walking groups. They demonstrated some of the regular activities we enjoy.
We also shared the results of recent research involving people affected by dementia.
Our project – Dementia Notes from Notts, involves people thinking about their experiences living with dementia in Nottingham and creating useful resources to share with others.
Our project – Dementia drop-in is a monthly city centre drop-in group where people have conversations over lunch to share experiences. It is on Third Wednesday of each month.
Our project – Dementia Health Walks: monthly relaxed strolls in Stonebridge City Farm and around the lake in Highfields Park on first and second Thursday of each month and enjoying conversations after lunch in a the cafe.
Friends for Life – an independent peer support group that we helped establish and is now run by volunteer facilitators with a broad membership.
Presentations from past events
This is a presentation explaining learning from Life with Dementia project called Navigating Empowerment: Learning from people living with dementia as they develop, design and deliver educational events.
It was prepared by Dr Jane Rowley, the Project Manager.
(You may need to download Acrobat Reader to view this pdf file).
Photos from past events
Here are a few pictures from our first ‘What Matters to Me – Life with Dementia’ event held at Nottingham Racecourse in 2018. George Rook, one of our core advisory group who planned and led the day, is conspicuously absent because alongside leading and presenting he also found time to take all these photos.
This is a gallery of photos where the next photo will show after a few seconds, or you can use the arrows at the side of the photos to go to the next or previous one. You can see a larger version of the photo by clicking or pressing on it.
Read the 2018 project report
You can read the summary report of the 2018 project here.
want to know more?
If you would like to know more please get in touch with us:
Email Dr Jane Rowley, the Project Manager at [email protected]