Lisburn Community Dementia Care

11/07/2025

11/07/2025

Our summer party in June got off to a great start. The theme “Lets Get Wild”. We were delighted to welcome 4 new members and their carers/family. We started the day with some fish and chips from John Dory’s followed by some ice creams.
After lunch we all enjoyed a lively session with Marcella and her tribal drums. There were drums for everyone as well as a variety of percussion instruments. All in all it was an extremely active session with everyone taking part.
A big thanks to Marcella who was a great support to us all.

20/06/2025

A huge thankyou to Ann the Tesco Community Champion from Lisburn Bentrim Road. We were able to donate books for the stores secondhand book stall for the month of March. This is the second year Tesco have given our group a slot and we are delighted to receive a donation of £347.21. Marie, one of our volunteers checked how things were going with the stall every week, tidying books and adding new ones so a great big thankyou to her as well. She can be seen collecting our donation from Ann in the store.

12/06/2025

In April we had a visit from Mac who works with Sport Changes Life Charity. He was super engaging with everyone, loads of laughter and competitiveness as our three teams competed in our first ever Boccia taster session.
A huge thank you to Sport Changes Life for facilitating this. Everyone had a great time and we hope to see Mac back again soon.

14/05/2025

We welcomed Geoff Hatt back to our group in April. Geoff is a talented musician and great fun for everyone. We all love a singalong as well as some action songs. A favourite for us is “Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines” which generates lots of laughter. We also managed to fit in some dance moves. A brilliant day for everyone.

14/05/2025

14/05/2025

World War 2 was the theme for our March activity. We had a visit from Stephanie Lyness @ Timesteps who brought with her some memorabilia from the war. It was most interesting hearing about experiences from that time from the blitz to air raid shelters, rationing etc. Our folks found the session very interesting and informative, a number of them having lived through the 1940’s.

14/05/2025

A huge thank you to Lucie from the Island Arts Centre for providing an artist for our February painting session. We had a great day with Susan who was just brilliant with everyone explaining different ways of painting etc. She took a lot of time going around all our folks no one was left out.
Everyone was well engaged with the session and produced some lovely canvasses. All in all a very successful day.