DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUPS FEBRUARY 2020 (1)

TOWN NAME LOCATION CONTACT MEETINGS

Beccles Forget-me- Public Hall, Jenny Shepherd, Event Co- Sessions 1st Tuesday in the Not Smallgate, Beccles ordinator month and 3rd Monday in the NR34 9AD month 2pm-4pm. Meeting 01502 714828 or 07528 free, tea/coffee + cake £1.50 373117

Yvonne: 07752 959868

Bury St Gatehouse Dettingen Way, Bury St 01284 754967 For support Group information Edmunds Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 contact 01284 754967 3TU

Bury St Dementia St Nicholas Hospice 01284 766133 Sessions 1pm-4pm over 4 Edmunds Positive Care, Hardwick Lane, weeks (in collaboration with Living Group , Hospital) Suffolk IP33 2QY

Eye Memory Elizabeth Court, Julia 07912 222295 3rd Monday of the month 2- Lane Elizabeth Way, Eye 4pm IP27 7HP

Felixstowe Creative Opportunity Fiona Palmer: 07515937045 £2.50 10.30am-12.30pm Moments Group, Felixstowe Academic Grounds, ‘different techniques of Maidstone Road, crafting…’ Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 9EF

Felixstowe Memory Salvation Army, 07526216667 Sessions every Friday 11-2pm Lane Cobbold Street, Organised by Sally Gallant, Dementia Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 Felixstowe Action Alliance – Support 7EL NOT Salvation Army Group (1pm lunch available in Oasis Café run by church)

Gt Musical Gt Blakenham Parish Tracy 07757 809297 Singing group for accompanied Blakenham Memories Room, Mill Lane, Gt people with memory loss Blakenham, IP6 [email protected] 0NJ

Hadleigh Together Hadleigh Pool & Jill Mason Every Tuesday 2-4pm Tuesdays Leisure, Stonehouse Road, Hadleigh, Suffolk 01473 823470 (Hadleigh IP7 5BH Dementia Action Alliance)

Halesworth The Pear Tree Centre Suffolk Alzheimer’s Office 2nd Tuesday of each month Carers Group C/O Cutlers Hill Surgery between 10.15am and Road 01502 514712 11.45am Halesworth Suffolk IP19 8SG

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01284 766433 Haverhill Haverhill Haverhill Arts Pat on 07704901353 Every Tuesday 11am – 2pm £2 a week. Dementia Centre, Town Meal provided at menu prices Group Hall, High Street, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 8AR

Haverhill Haverhill Club Camps Road, Every 1st and 3rd Thursday in the month. Haverhill, People with dementia are asked to be (St Nicholas Suffolk CB9 accompanied by carers. Drop in from 2 to Hospice 8HB 4pm Care)

Haverhill ‘Memories Haverhill Bowls 01440 821491 Fridays weekly 10.00 to 15.00. £10 per are Golden’ Club, Manor head includes lunch Day Club Road, [email protected] Haverhill. CB9 0EP

Ipswich Fish ‘n’ Chips St Augustine’s Every 2nd Friday of the month 11.45am – Friday Church Hall, Maureenhowes@headway 3.15pm (Headway) suffolk.org.uk Road, Ipswich £6.50 includes Fish & chips, biscuits, tea IP3 8TH 01473 712225 and coffee

Ipswich Fish ‘n’ Chips Castle Hill Maureenhowes@headway Every 4th Friday of the month 11.45am – Friday URC, Dryden suffolk.org.uk 3.15pm (Headway) Road, Ipswich IP2 6QF 01473 712225 £6.50 includes Fish & chips, biscuits, tea and coffee

Ipswich Ipswich Greenfinch 01284 766433 1st Wednesday of each month 10.30am- Dementia Church, 12noon Friendship Greenfinch Group Avenue, Ipswich IP2 0SQ

Ipswich Memory Café Taste Owen Thurtle Every 1st and 3rd Monday afternoons 2- Community [email protected] 4pm Café, Woodbridge Road, Ipswich

Ipswich Memory Lane The Meeting M: 07759 587425 Make contact for details. £1 entrance fee Café Place, E: memorylaneipswich includes tea and coffee Community @ntlworld.com Centre,

Limerick Close, Ipswich, IPI 5LR (Whitehouse)

Ipswich Friday Whitehouse Louise Bernard Fridays 10.30 am – 2pm Friends Baptist Church, Dementia Waterford 01473 345350 £2.50 per person + £4 per person for 2 Café Road, Ipswich, course lunch Suffolk

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01284 766433 Ipswich New Skill Wolsey House, Kym or Nick “The New Skill Centre, based in Ipswich is Centre 2 - 5 The Drift, T: 01473 290276 dedicated and passionate about Road, E:[email protected] providing training and support activities Ipswich, Suffolk o.uk IP3 9QR to disabled individuals (including people Web:http://www.newskillce with dementia) allowing them to ntre.com enhance their everyday life.”

Kentford Monday Gracewell of Christine: 01638 598959 Memory Meet Kentford, or Up Jeddah Way, [email protected] Newmarket, o.uk Suffolk CB8 8JY

Lavenham Coffee, cake Tenterpiece 07922 850082 2nd Wednesday of each month 10.30 to and chat, help Common 12.30 and Room, occasional Tenterpiece, visits from Lavenham, Associated (next to the Professionals. Church)

Lowestoft Love Talking 01502 442810 Every Thursday 10.30am – 12.15pm Sport Library, Clapham Road [email protected] ‘Join us to share your memories of great sporting South, o.uk events through photos, films and conversations…’ Lowestoft NR32 1DR

Lowestoft Morrisons North Quay 01502 587877 2nd Tuesday each month 10am – 12noon Café Retail Park, in the customer café. Peto Way, Lowestoft, ‘Come and join us for a chat – drinks and Suffolk NR32 cake provided’ 2ED

Lowestoft Remember Lowestoft Deaf Pauline Mia 07376 797082 Every Tuesday 11.30am – 2.30pm. Me Club Centre, 50-52 Blackheath ‘We offer tea and coffee and a selection of affordable Road, lunches’ Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 7JG

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Martlesham Fish ‘n’ St Michaels Every fourth Thursday of the Chips Church [email protected] month 11.45am to 3.15pm Friday Centre, The (Headway) Drift, 01473 712225 £6.50 includes Fish & chips, biscuits, tea and coffee IP5 3PL

Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Suzan Whymark 07920 439377 11am-12noon every Thursday Dementia Day Centre, Group Fred Archer Way, Newmarket CB8 8NT

Newmarket Shine a All Saints Robin Hardy 01638 669361 3rd Monday each month 2pm- Light, Church, 4pm Dementia Newmarket Support CB8 8ES Group

Stowmarket Alive ‘n’ Red Gables, Mark: 07460336063 or 01449673947 13.15-15.15 Refreshments Singing Ipswich Road, provided IP14 1BE A wellbeing singing group available to anyone over 65 years young, including people living with, or affected by, any degenerative brain disorder.

Stowmarket Stowmarket Stowmarket Email Chris Brooks [email protected] or Tuesdays & Fridays Mornings Community Rookery, Carol Pybus carol 10am-12noon; Afternoons 2pm- Hub Community [email protected] 4pm £3 a session, carers free Bowls Group, inc. tea and biscuits. Finborough Road, “We are inviting people living with Stowmarket, dementia, those recovering from Suffolk IP14 strokes, the visually impaired and those with all types of disability to 1PN join us’

Stowmarket Stowmarket Redwoods, Mark 07460 336063 or 01449 673947 4th Wednesday each month Demetria Red Gables, 10am,-12pm Cafe, Ipswich Road, Dementia Stowmarket Friendly IP14 1BE Harmony Based Singing Group

Stowmarket Living Well , Led by cardiac Rehab Trainer, Bob To book a class: 01449 674980 Classes Leisure Halls (After free trial, £3.90 per class) Centre, Stowmarket ‘This class is for less able people with a mix of ’30 minutes activity 5 days a week’ chair based and standing exercise. Appropriate for all abilities and dementia friendly’ Community transport ‘Connecting communities’ 01449 614271

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Sudbury Sudbury, The Bridge Telephone: 01787 313691  DECAF Bridge Project Every Monday 11am – 3pm Project Bradbury Email: [email protected] Café Courtyard  FORGET ME NOT 20 2nd & 4th Thursday 2pm-4pm Gainsborough Street, Sudbury Suffolk CO10 2EU Suffolk Suffolk Supporting https://suffolkfamilycarers.org/ Click on the link to access Family family carers information on groups and all Carers caring for services on offer. someone with a physical or mental illness and/or disability. Suffolk Suffolk Different Sue Gray 03001116000 MIND areas in [email protected] Young Suffolk on a Dementia monthly basis Network

Woodbridge Woodbridge Woodbridge In conjunction with Deben Rotary Club Last Wednesday each month Memory Town Football – see website 10.30am – 12 noon Café Club, Fynn Road, Woodbridge IP12 4DA

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