Empowered Conversations

07/05/2026

Our research trial is live, if you live in Greater Manchester and care for a family or friend with dementia living at home then Empowered Conversations might be the communication for you!

If you've benefited from the course, then please share with others.

Thank you

Age UK Salford and Trafford Age UK Bolton Age UK Manchester Age UK Bury - The Jubilee Centre Age Friendly Salford Springboard Oldham Dementia Carers Support Together Dementia Support Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre Bolton Carers Support Age UK Tameside Trafford Carers Centre Trafford Community News Salford City Radio Salford Now Home Instead - Rochdale Age UK Stockport Educate Stockport Older people in Salford Greater Manchester Older People's Network Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership

05/05/2026

We’re live — thank you for the early support!

We’ve launched our campaign and already raised £505 thanks to 10 supporters. Your support will help us deliver more support for families affected by dementia in Salford and Greater Manchester. Help us get to the next milestone: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/empoweredconversationscic

Donate £5–£25 or share with a friend: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/empoweredconversationscic

Empowered Conversations support families affected by dementia, offering communication courses, one to one therapeutic sessions and groups.

04/05/2026

Last week, Amanda and I travelled down to Coventry for the Dementia Community Awards. I'd nominated Empowered Carers, in recognition of the great work they do. This unique approach in supporting family caregivers makes a huge difference to the lives of families affected by dementia.

Our work focuses on keeping people well within their caring roles, delaying, and in some cases preventing, the need for full time residential care.

We didn't win, but we spent time with some brilliant friends, we got to see Rachel Yates Hoyles and then Beacon Dementia and Wellbeing pick up their well earned awards.

Together Dementia Support

01/05/2026

It's been a busy old time for the Empowered Conversations team. On the 14th April we incorporated Empowered Conversations CIC with support from Martyn (shown below) Salford CVS and Volunteer Centre Salford.

The team are incredibly grateful for the support provided by Age UK Salford and Trafford over the last 5.5 years and we will continue to work in partnership to enhance the support available for families affected by dementia.

We have some of the funding in place, but really need your support to get a full website overhaul, get a few new laptops, some leaflets and promotional material to reach even more families affected by dementia in Greater Manchester.

If Empowered Conversations has helped you and your family and you can donate to this Crowd Funder to help us get up and running, that would be amazing. If you can't afford to give us any money but you can give us some of your time to share your story on a short film to help this funding campaign, that would also be amazing!

In anticipation of you being wonderful, many thanks

Emma and Amanda

Empowered Conversations support families affected by dementia, offering communication courses, one to one therapeutic sessions and groups.

14/04/2026

Personal care and dementia - support for family carers
Monday 27th April 2026, 2-3pm

Presenters: Jennifer Bray, Research Assistant, and Thomas Morton, Research Associate, Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester

Description: Hear from the Association for Dementia Studies about the resources they co-produced to support family carers as part of their ‘Crossing the Line’ project around personal care and dementia. You’ll find out about the research behind the resources and get a flavour of the range of resources freely available to family carers via their dedicated new website, including short video clips from carers sharing their own experiences.

Learn about ‘Crossing the Line’, a project that offers free, co-produced resources to support family carers who are providing personal care

01/04/2026

Empowered Carers offer one to one dementia focused therapeutic support for family caregivers.

Based on the New York University Caregiver Intervention, this supports families to live as well as they can with a dementia diagnosis.

This keeps people well within their caregiving role.

This keeps families together for longer.

The flexible online or phone sessions offer space for carers to pause, reflect, identify their own solutions, think about their own self care and prepare for the next change that dementia may bring.

I've said all of that, just to say a huge thanks to the Empowered Carers team, the work you do really does change lives.

So I nominated you for a Dementia Community Award and you've been shortlisted!!

25/03/2026

What a treat, a dementia friendly performance of Eric and Ern at The Lowry!!

This was the culmination of 5 years working with the Lowry team to increase accessibility for families affected by dementia. The whole team was brilliant, the volunteers worked incredibly hard to make sure that people were welcomed, supported to the theatre and had a lovely visit. Eric and Ern even came on late to allow latecomers to get to their seats!

We've spotted a few improvements to make but people had a brilliant time. We had people in from all over Greater Manchester, from care homes, from Together Dementia Support, from Aspire Care and Support, from the Age UK Salford and Trafford day centre.

A group from Ashton shared how great it was to come along to the theatre for a , their group sat at the front and laughed and sang throughout.

Somebody else with dementia told me that it had been a real treat to visit, another person shared how she had visited The Lowry when it first opened with her husband, 25 years ago!

A huge thanks to everyone who supported, promoted, came along and especially to the wonderful people at The Lowry.

18/03/2026

Call out for blokes that care - A Dementia Adventure Conversation about Men and caring happening Monday 30th March, 12pm - 12.30pm.

Very long link below:

Join us every month on Facebook for Unpacking Dementia, our new monthly series where Ruth tackles some of the topics we deal with everyday.

18/03/2026

This looks amazing. Really excited for the performance of Eric and Ern next week.

It's an absolute sell out and is the culmination of several years of commitment from the Lowry team to increase accessibility for families affected by dementia!

Together Dementia Support Age UK Salford and Trafford Aspire Care and Support Salford Institute for Dementia Springboard Oldham Dementia Carers Support Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre Bolton Dementia Support

17/03/2026

🧔 Men’s Health Community Event – Free to attend

Join us at Pendleton Gateway on Wednesday 18 March (10am–1pm) for a relaxed event focused on men’s health.

💪 Fitness circuit
💬 Health lounge with professionals
🤝 Support from local wellbeing services

Take a little time out for your health – everyone welcome.

16/03/2026

We offer caregivers of people with dementia communication courses to support them to stay connected with their family member.

Courses are offered to family caregivers across Greater Manchester, UK.

Courses offer a space to pause, think about how dementia has changed communication (along with roles, relationships, families, life!) and try out some different approaches to improve connections.

Self-care is an essential course element that runs throughout all 6 sessions.

Courses are facilitated by people with lived experience.

Courses help carers to think about the small changes they can make around communication.

They can help people to accept their life with dementia.

Courses provide opportunities to meet and stay connected with others in a similar position.