Author: Dementia Care

Bradbury House Day Centre
January 2019 Newsletter

We were happy to welcome back the Lollipop Pony company this month for a wonderfully calming visit. Lollipop Ponies are a family run company with over 15 years experience of looking after and caring for ponies. It was a lovely unique experience that gave our staff and clients hands on contact with these lovely animals.
We had the pleasure of meeting both Tinkerbell and Angel who were both very gentle Shetland ponies who we would love to have back again soon.

We continue to get weekly visits from the fantastic and uplifting Make Some Noise organisation. Kristy and Chris incorporate music and dance to offer weekly exercise sessions that help to improve our clients physical and mental wellbeing. It’s great to relieve stress and lift the mood. Regular exercise is important in the elderly for reducing risks of falls. Adding any amount of movement and activity to your live has tremendous benefits. It’s a really popular session with all our clients.

Take a look above at some of the things we’ve been up to over the last month……..

Sing a Long
Our wonderful volunteer Ann Bateman who’s an ex-primary school teacher from Stafford has been coming to us every Friday morning for many years. We enjoy blasting out songs old and new. It really makes a great atmosphere here in the Centre.
This week Ann and her friend Erwin joined us. It was a great session. Everyone that could got up on their feet for a impromptu dancing session and a lot of singing.

Happy Birthday
We want to wish both our lovely friends Kitty and Anne brilliant birthdays and hope that you get truly spoilt!
Many Happy returns from all of us here at Bradbury House Day Centre.

YOGA
Clients enjoyed a calming and relaxing visit from our friends Jenny from Holistic Horizons. Jenny normally delivers hand, back and shoulder massages to our clients but this month she introduced us to the healing powers of Yoga. Jenny has practiced Yoga for many years and seen the healing benefits it can bring. It was such a popular class, clients were asking Jenny to come back and do more. Jenny will now continue to deliver both Yoga classes and hand, back and shoulder massages to our clients.

BIG KNIT 2019
We managed to post our first load of over 2,000 innocent smoothie hats this month. We want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who sent them in. We will receive 25p from each Hat made and that will come directly into supporting Bradbury House Day Centre.
PLEASE KEEP KNITTING!!!! We still have plenty of time till the next dead line. For more info call 01785 607060 and ask for Gemma

Sewing Bee!
Our talented Bradbury Ladies have been busy perfecting these beautiful sewn flowers to make up our soon to be cascading flower wall. More pics to follow and we cant wait to show you the final master piece .

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