Dementia Friendly East Riding

It was with great pleasure that we can now confirm that we officially received our Bags for Life public vote award from Tesco Beverley Community Champion Dave Ryley and store manager Gavin Haslam, thanks to the public vote of the residents of Beverley for our Dementia Treasured Memories Hunt. More information to follow around the launch of the memories hunt in the very near future... Thank you so much once again to everyone that voted for us.

Well done to the staff and volunteers for becoming Dementia Friends as part of our mission to make East Riding more dementia aware. Well done everyone.

Dates for your diary....

We will all be extremely proud to meet with Dave the Beverley Tesco Community Champion this coming Friday 14th June, at Treasure House in Beverley, to receive our bags for life cheque for £4000 as voted for by you the local public again a huge thank you from us all...

A huge thankyou to everyone who voted during the public vote for the Beverley Bags for Help Community projects we are all extremely grateful and have already begun preparing our Beverley Awareness trail more to follow shortly .....

Well done to the East Riding Council Sports Play and Arts Team that all participated in a Dementia Awareness session delivered by Dementia Friendly East Riding that’s 16 more Dementia Friends made today well done all and thank you for attending 👍

Thank you to everyone that entered this years Forget-me-not Flower Competition and for your continued support to our charity... Many congratulations to all this years winners... well done everyone.

Just to remind everyone the Celebration of Caring Service Wednesday 29th May 2019 2 pm All Saints Church Market Weighton supporting Market Weighton Carers Group, Together We Care group and the Dementia Activity group. Can you all please pass this on to your communities. Many thanks Barry Sedgwick

We are pleased to announce our next Dementia Friendly Cinema Screening at Parkway Cinema, Flemmingate, Beverley will be "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" on Thursday 18th July, 2019... We look forward to seeing you there.

We were extremely proud to here that our efforts regarding our Sewerby Hall and Gardens Memory Walk received a mention at this years Chelsea Flower Show, 2019.
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Our travelling exhibition reaches Parkway Cinema Flemingate Beverley today along with the screening of Mary POPPINS Returns Happy Dementia Action week

Our travelling Exhibition continues around East Riding today as part of Dementia Action week today we are at the Arts Centre, Pocklington from 10am.

Dementia Action Week Day 2... Some useful information:

Dementia Action Week 20-26 May 2019... Let's make a difference... #DFER #DementiaAwareness #DementiaFriendlyEastRiding http://dementiafriendlyeastriding.org.uk/ news

Come and visit our touring exhibition throughout Dementia Action week which represents a colourful depiction of entries and prize winners for this years Dementia Friendly East Riding Flower competition 2019. Well done to all those that one prizes and for all the fantastic entries and very high stands for this year. We hope you enjoy the exhibition tour. The venues are as follows:

Dementia Action week commences on Monday 20th May, 2019. We have a travelling display of all our entries and winners in this years Dementia Flower competition we will be posting over the weekend the schedule of where the displays will be throughout the week. Worth a look some fantastic decorating made it extremely difficult to judge our record entries this year. Huge thanks to Sandra Burley (Trustee) who has worked extremely hard as ever to manage the competition promo and entries and has developed an very thought provoking and eye catching display for public viewing around the East Riding this coming week...more to follow shortly.....!

We are extremely grateful for all the publicity we are receiving regarding our Memory Walk at Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Bridlington- https://bridlingtonecho.co.uk/bill-ben-me mory-walk-at-sewe…/

Beverley Life and the Bridlington Free Press have published some welcome advertising of our Memory Walk for Dementia in partnership with Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Bridlington...