This is the Memory Cafe schedule (July 2024 to October 2024):
Category: PVDAG
Pewsey Vale Dementia Awareness Group
PCAP Community Memory Cafe Poetry Day
Memory Day Literature Works
Heather Holcroft-Pinn, Projects Officer www.literatureworks.org.uk and Claire Coleman joined us for the September PCAP Community Memory Café in Pewsey at the Bouverie Hall. We listened as Heather recited some well known and not so well known poems. Following a reviving cup of tea, the group then talked about being Lost then Found. Then the magic happened. We would like to thank Heather and Claire for their time. We hope to see them again next year.
Lost and found – a poem by the Community Memory Café Group Pewsey.
Sasha got lost on the way to this social.
Worse if it was for an interview!
We’d all feel anxious, pressured, stressed.
Some of can’t remember our left from right,
but Phyl says “I’m so old I’m very used to my left and right,
we’ve been together a long time.
We’ve all got memories of getting lost.
When Natalie was eleven, she had to find her way
to big school by the 3A bus, and back again
at the end of the day. She was all on her own,
“who do I ask? I can’t find the bus.”
At long last she found a man with books under his arm.
He knew it was the second bus stop.
When I got home they said
“where have you been?
Sasha once, when she was young, fell asleep
on a bag of royal mail on the train.
She went up and down the track all night
from London to Bristol!
Sue got lost in a forest, in Belgium.
It was in bright sunlight,
but she didn’t find her way back
until it was dark, lit only
by starlight.
Once Violet came out from the shops
and got in her husband’s white van.
A stranger looked at her.
She had got into the wrong van!
“It wouldn’t have been so bad
if he had been good looking.”
The old-fashioned way is to ask someone.
So when Fanny was lost she asked a lady walking her dog
if she knew the house she was looking for.
The lady replied “I’ve only lived here 37 years
and I don’t know where it is. Who lives there?”
“When I told her, she knew exactly where it was.”
Jo picked the wrong way at a crossroads
when she and Mum were on their way
to Singing for the Brain.
Mum says “stop panicking, I’m O.K.
I’m fine. You’d never make me
feel uncomfortable.”
Dawn says getting lost on purpose,
picking a direction with no destination in mind,
is the most fun you can have on your own,
because she has a smart phone.
In the end we can all find our way,
by asking a friendly person,
by the art of map-reading,
or by asking the App
“What Three Words.”
This tells us that where we sit
in Bouverie Hall
is “perfumed testy spiders.”
That’s us!
Created by the Pewsey group on 20th September 2021
PCAP community Memory Cafe canal boat trip with Bruce Trust July 2021
PCAP Community Memory Cafe Canal Trip 2021
We had chosen the hottest day of the year for our much delayed Canal Boat trip for our Community Memory Cafe members. July 19th 2021 proved to be very hot indeed.
We set off around 10-30 having loaded up with food and drinks as well as frozen flannels provided by one of the carers attending, which proved to be brilliant for cooling off in the midday heat.
Our Crew from the Bruce’s Canal Boat Trust worked very hard doing the locks and keeping us chugging along. I think they lost a few pounds along the way.
We sat back and enjoyed watching the world go by at a slower pace for a change. Swans with cygnets, herons, and ducks were seen. Alas no Kingfisher but by midday the heat was intense and we cooled off with strawberries and cream.
We made liberal use of the flannels for those who had spent too much time on deck earlier on and one or two had a go at steering the narrow boat.
Our thanks go to the Marlborough Lions Club who funded this trip a year later than planned. We look forward to another trip in 2022 when this group will again sit back and enjoy a trip on the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Click here to download the PDF report.
Brain Health News – September 2015
The September 2015 copy of Brain Health News from the Pewsey Vale Dementia Awareness Group.
This contains latest local and national updates and news.
Please send any feedback to pcap@hotmail.co.uk
Just click here: Brain Health News for Sept 2015 or download the file by clicking here.
Brain Health News – July 2015
The July 2015 copy of Brain Health News from the Pewsey Vale Dementia Awareness Group.
This contains latest local and national updates and news.
Please send any feedback to pcap@hotmail.co.uk
Just click here: Brain Health News for July 2015
PCAP Policies
Policies adopted by PCAP are listed below:
- Download the Safeguarding Code of Conduct
- Download the Safeguarding Policy
- Download the Confidentiality Policy
- Download the Data Protection Policy
- Download the Equal Opportunity Policy
- Download the Health & Safety Policy
- Download the PCAP Whistleblowing Policy
- Download the Privacy Notice
- Download the Volunteer Health & Safety Policy
Pewsey Vale Care Cafe
The first Pewsey Care Cafe (Memory Cafe) took place on Tuesday 16th June at the Scout Hut in Pewsey. It was great fun and full of introductions as people got to know one another over a cup of tea, cake and biscuits. We talked about life, news, how to make the perfect cup of tea and what the group would like to do in the coming months – so lots of ideas for us to work on.
The Care Cafe is a monthly cafe for those with dementia and their carers and is being run by the Pewsey Vale Dementia Awareness Group (PVDAG), part of PCAP. It is for anyone who lives in the Pewsey Community Area and its immediate surrounds.
A real community initiative, the Cafe couldn’t have happened without the efforts of the members of the PVDAG, the support and generous donations as a result of our foray into Crowdfunding and the donation (every month) of refreshments by the Pewsey Spar Shop.
The full list of Care Cafe dates can be found here.
For more information about volunteering or attending the Cafe, contact pcap@hotmail.co.uk.
Brain Health News – May 2015
The May 2015 copy of Brain Health News from the Pewsey Vale Dementia Awareness Group.
This contains latest local and national updates and news.
Please send any feedback to pcap@hotmail.co.uk
Just click here: Brain Health News for May 2015
Brain Health News – March 2015
The March 2015 copy of Brain Health News from the Pewsey Vale Dementia Awareness Group.
This contains latest local and national updates and news.
Please send any feedback to pcap@hotmail.co.uk
Just click here: Brain Health News for March 2015
Dementia Awareness Project
What is Dementia Awareness and why is it important? Lots of information here from Dawn Wilson at WfCAP on why we all need to get involved.