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How you can support us......
Alton, HampshireArticle by: Karen Murrell - Co-ordinator of DFAPeople often ask how they can support our sessions, if they are unable to volunteer to help. Well, its quite simple - providing resources f...
Dementia-friendly AltonPosted: 9 Aug 22 -
It was Pimms o'clock!
Alton, HampshireArticle by: Karen Murrell - Co-ordinator of DFAMint was the theme for our non-alcoholic Minty Chocolate Mocktails made on Sunday in our regular Gardening session with Mick and Josie - we ...
Dementia-friendly AltonPosted: 3 Aug 22 -
Forget-Me-Not Church Service and Tea
Alton, HampshireArticle by: Karen Murrell - Co-ordinator of DFAAmazing Forget-me-not service today at All Saints Church yesterday was attended by over 60 local residents living with dementia - a heart wa...
Dementia-friendly AltonPosted: 3 Aug 22 -
Seed collecting
Alton, HampshireArticle by: Karen Murrell - Co-ordinator of DFABusy seed collecting today at Memory Lane Club - smiles all round - that's what we like to see:) Come and join us on a Wednesday down a...
Dementia-friendly AltonPosted: 28 Jul 22 -
Crafty folk down in the town park
Alton, HampshireArticle by: Karen Murrell - Co-ordinator of DFACrafty folk at the Town park last Sunday at one of our regular horticultural programme sessions - bundle dyeing! Great fun had by all and j...
Dementia-friendly AltonPosted: 14 Jul 22 -
A fun filled Celebration Jubilee weekend
Alton, HampshireArticle by: Karen Murrell - Co-ordinator of DFAA Fantastic time was had at our annual sponsored Forget-me-not walk on Sunday morning - just amazing to combine it with the Big Picnic with ...
Dementia-friendly AltonPosted: 21 Jun 22 -
We are SO Proud!
Alton, HampshireArticle by: Karen Murrell - Co-ordinator of DFASo excited and proud - We have been recognised, in this very special year, with the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. This is an awa...
Dementia-friendly AltonPosted: 3 Jun 22 -
Do you like our special Town Park Bench?
Alton, HampshireArticle by: Karen Murrell - Co-ordinator of DFAHope you like the new bench in the Town Park - installed by Dementia-friendly Alton
Posted: 31 May 22
We do love being creative!
We do love being creative as you can see from our smiles and the fun and useful things we make:) Why not come on down and join us one Wedne...
Busy Gardening in the Town Park
See how busy we've been and check out the flowers in the Sensory Garden - our gardening gang have been at it again yesterday - now the t...
Get your walking shoes ready!
As part of the Queens Platimum Jubiilee celebrations in Alton, we are holding our Dementia-friendly Forget-me-not Sponsored Walk in the Alto...
Queens Platinum Jubilee preparations
We are getting ready for the Jubilee for our groups at the Community centre - don't you just love the detail in the group artwork? As y...
Our crafts are for sale!
Guess what ! For those people who have expressed interest in buying some of the crafts our members make - we are now selling them through h...
A walking we will go!
Wow - what a success our first well-being walk was - the weather was perfect for our stroll around Floodies - everyone was in awe of the bea...
Music and Rodney
Friday music cafe as always - more people came along this last week which was great - including our youngest new member - Rodney the Puppy -...
Off to Battle
Our members enjoyed The Battle of Alton at the weekend, as you can see from the photos. This was a great experience for all.
Thank you Alton Men's Shed!
Look at this lovely bunch - Geoff and the amazing members of the Alton Men's Shed worked hard recently to put up our new fruit cage - th...
Another Birthday!
Always time to say Happy Birthday - this time whilst setting ready for our music session this morning; as usual, 1100 at the community centr...
NEW NEWSLETTER and thank you for supporting us
In addition to posting all our news and events on website and facebook - we continue to produce our quarterly newsletter - to make sure that...
Cat cushions for sale
Raising money for Dementia friendly Alton. Hand made cat cushions...can be made in any colours. All profits to this fab organision. &pou...
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to all ! We've been busy decorating our window at the Alton Community Centre recently and making our gardeners hand-scr...
Getting Floral down at Alton Community Centre
Busy making Spring / Flower Wreaths at Memory Lane Club this week - always good to support our members to be creative and choose their own d...
Singing along
Enjoying the singing and friendship at our weekly Music Cafe on a Friday morning - such a pleasure to host this. No singing Friday for next...
What a beautiful day at our Allotment
What a beautiful day - spent an hour at the allotment getting things ready with our helper Trigger - still lots of tidying to do - but broad...
Busy morning at our Allotment
Geoff (cat in the hat ) from Dementia-friendly Alton was busy at the allotment on Sunday morning with Bob, David, ( Ray and John - not in ph...
Happy St Patricks Day from us
Happy St Patricks Day from us - to be sure !
Time to sow our sweet peas
Keeping busy as usual - thanks to the weather we could sow our sweet peas this week. Why not come and join us on one of our gardening sess...
Any excuse to have a special cake!
Any excuse to have a special cake!!! We love to celebrate the birthdays and anniversaries of all our members each week - never too old to s...
Beautiful music enjoyed by all
Such concentration as our members enjoy the beautiful music of Debbie Mellors recently - what a wonderful afternoon.
Such fun at our Panto
Well that was a really laugh, we had such fun ....... Oh yes we did!! At our Wednesday Meeting this week we really showcased what we do as ...
Memory Lane Sing-a-long on Fridays
Memory Lane Sing-a-long is growing !! We will now have music every Friday morning at the Community Centre from 1100-1215 - at our Memory Lan...
Sunday companionship
Just look at the happy smiles at our regular Sunday meets in Alton Town Park....... This happy photo says it all !
Scottish theme of the day
Photo gallery from our Scottish Day this week. Do get in touch if you'd like to join us at future events.
Can you help us improve by completing this Survey?
We always try and do our best, but if you have any input and would like to help us and those you care about do please take part in this Deme...
Another Creative Day
Another creative day at Dementia-friendly Alton yesterday - with the crisp and frosty weather we were inspired to recycle bottles thrown out...
Getting together come rain or shine
Despite the weather we have still been getting out and about with our members already this year. It felt good to be enjoying the sunshine w...
Santa visits our Christmas Party at the Legion
The first of our Christmas celebrations this year - Festive Activities at the British Legion - Santa popped in of course, while the members ...
And the winner is.........
And the winner is ......... Congratulations to the winners of our yuletide raffle prizes. First prize went to Liam one of our newest volunt...
Follow your heart
Getting 'arty' as we 'scrapbook' at the Allen Gallery this afternoon - came across this lovely verse we thought you might li...
Come on down!
Do join us tomorrow, Saturday 4th December 2021, between 10-2 in Alton Market Square for the Yuletide festival - pick up our latest newslett...
An Arty Sunday, also joining Timeless Reflections for Tea at Vokes Club
Another lovely Sunday afternoon on this crisp autumn day - first the regular Sunday afternoon group met at Allen Gallery and got 'arty&#...
Tree decorating time
Our members were busy yesterday decorating the tree with their hand- made decorations and making their own wrapping paper with block paintin...
Where did you get that hat?!
So excited to be making Christmas decorations for our tree at the Memory Cafe this week, as well as trying on hats as we practiced one of ou...
Time to disco
https://fb.watch/9vbMWhNKry/ Well it was disco time at the tea dance one day this week - with the ladies dancing round handbags whilst the ...
The Lazy Wind
How lucky we are that Toby and the amazing team at the Allen Gallery are allowing us to relocate our Sunday afternoon catch-ups to the Galle...
Bulb Lasagne anybody?!
Another busy Wednesday at Alton Community Centre with Dementia-friendly Alton and friends - so this week we made Bulb Lasagnes for our membe...
Volunteering with Dementia-friendly Alton
'Volunteering with Dementia-friendly Alton' If you enjoy spending time with others whilst engaging in fun activities such as crafts...
Remembrance Day - never forgotten
Remembrance Day was aptly spent at The Alton British Legion Club for our monthly Legion Legends session today. Dan from the British Legion ...
Helping with the litter picking this week end
Happy to do our bit with the litter picking this weekend - great to join in with the Towns' efforts to look after our beautiful environm...
Another fantastic tea dance at the British Legion
Another fantastic tea dance at the British Legion. Thanks as always to Geoff and Michelle from
Dementia-friendly Alton