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Directory of services and activities for people living with dementia

The aim of this directory is to provide information about activities that are available locally for people living with dementia so that they are able to participate within their communities.

Yoga Activities Relaxed seated exercise for all abilities Thursdays 2-3.30pm Central (Newbury) Rugby Club, Henwick Lane, Singing for the Brain RG18 3BN Mondays 10.30am-12pm Phone to confirm dates available Riverside Centre, Rosemoor Gardens, Hill, Phone no: 0118 959 6482 Newbury RG14 2FG Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone no: 0118 959 6482 Memories café Last Friday of every month 10.30am – Chair Exercises 12.30pm in the coffee shop at Winchcombe Mondays 10am Place Care Home, Maple Fair Close Centre, Newtown Road, Crescent, Newbury, , RG14 1LN Newbury RG14 7BH Phone no: Claire Parsons 01635 275400 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone no: 01635 40488/41294 Activity Centre Bingo Audrey Needham House, Tuesday and Fridays 2pm 29 Victoria Grove, Newbury, RG14 7RB Fair Close Centre, Newtown Road, Wednesdays 9.30 – 4pm Newbury RG14 7BH Full day of activities, with care and support, a Email: [email protected] two-course lunch and refreshments Phone no: 01635 40488/41294 Phone no: 0118 950 7914 or email: [email protected] Knit and Natter Wednesdays 1pm Fair Close Centre, Newtown Road, Relaxed Theatre Performances - Newbury RG14 7BH The Newbury Corn Exchange Email: [email protected] Contact theatre for information on performances Phone no: 01635 40488/41294 Newbury Corn Exchange, Market Place, Newbury RG14 5BD Poetry Group Email: [email protected] Every other month from 12.30pm Phone no: 01635 582666 Berkshire Arms, , RG7 5UK Phone no: 0118 959 6482 Relaxed Theatre Performances - Email: [email protected] The Contact theatre for information on performances. Whist The Watermill Theatre, , Newbury, West Thursday 1.30pm Berkshire RG20 8AE Fair Close Centre, Newtown Road, Phone no: 01635 46044 Newbury RG14 7BH Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone no: 01635 40488/41294 East (Calcot) Gardening Group for the Brain - Wednesdays (once a month) Singing for the Brain 1.30pm-3.00pm Tuesdays 10.30am-12pm Nature Based activity group. Middle Farm, Kennet Valley Free , , Carters Green Lane, Ufton Nervet, RG7 4HE Rise, Calcot, Reading, RG31 7YT Phone no: 01635 500 869 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone no: 0773 8752 669. Tai Chi Knit & Natter Wednesday 9.30-10.30am Friday mornings 10.30am -12.00pm Youth & Community Centre, Yarnfest Shop, The Old Telephone Exchange, 23 The Triangle, Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire, Longlane, Hermitage,Thatcham RG18 9QS RG30 4RN. Age UK Berkshire. Phone: Sue Kearney 01635 201660 Phone no: 0118 959 4242 Email: [email protected] Zumba Gold Meet and Eat lunches for all Wednesdays 1.30-2.30pm Mondays 12-2pm Emmanuel Methodist Church, 448 Road, Community Café, Manor RG30 1EE. Age UK Berkshire Farm/Church St, Thatcham RG18 0TD Phone no: 0118 959 4242 £5.00 Phone: Pamela Betts 01635 202263 Email: [email protected] Five A Day Market Garden Every Tuesday 1pm to 3pm From 5th April to 19th July, Cafés The Street, Englefield, Reading, Berkshire. Memory Café RG7 5ES.‘Forget me not’ gardening and art and Monday (once a month) 10.30am-12.30pm craft activity sessions for older people with Newbury Corn Exchange, Market Place memory problems. Free of Charge. Booking Newbury RG14 5BD required as places are limited and are allocated email: [email protected] on a first come first served basis. Email: Contact: Learning team for dates on: [email protected] Phone no: 07939 676 050 01635 582666 West () Memory Café Every 2nd Thursday of the month (except Lambourn Friendship Club April) 2.00– 4.00 pm Thursdays 2.15-4.15pm Best Western Hotel, Cox’s Lane, A4 Bath Road, Royal British Legion Club, Rd, Midgham, RG7 5UP Lambourn, Berkshire, RG17 8QD Email: [email protected] Voluntary contribution Phone no: 01635 500 869 Welcome Wednesdays 2nd Wednesday of each month 1.30 – 3.30pm Alice Bye Memory Café Lambourn Memorial Hall, Oxford St, Lambourn, Fridays 2.00pm - 4.00pm Berkshire RG17 8XP Contact: Alice Bye Court, Bluecoats, Thatcham Sharon Mooney Phone no: 01488 72176 RG18 4AE. Contact: Hayleys Companions on: 07811 065540 Thatcham Thatcham Court Dementia Support Nature Memories Café Memory Café Mondays 10.30am - 12.30pm Last Wednesday of each month 2.00-4.00pm. Nature Discovery Centre, Lower Way, Thatcham Court, Chapel Street, Thatcham RG19 3FU Thatcham, RG18 4QL Phone No: 01635 874381 Contact: Peter Tilling on: 01635 899796 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Singing for the Brain – Common Gracewell Coffee Club Alternate Wednesdays 1.30pm-3.00pm Wednesdays 10.30am - 12.00pm Burghfield Common Methodist Church, Gracewell of Newbury, 370 Rd, Reading Road, RG7 3QA. Newbury RG14 2QH Email: [email protected] Contact: Evonne Burch, Phone No: 01635 Phone no: 01635 500 869 818887 email: [email protected]

This directory is provided for information purposes to the public. Anyone who relies on this information does so at their own risk. Lunch/Tea/Other Clubs The Phoenix Resource Centre A purpose built centre with excellent Fair Close Centre facilities with a calm atmosphere. Situated in Monday- 12:00pm, Tuesday to Friday: the South of Newbury. Provide craft activities, 11.45am and 12:40pm IT courses, reflexology and aromatherapy sessions. The centre has a sensory room and The Laburnum Centre (Age UK), an optimusic room. The centre also provides Wednesdays (once a month) Pets as Therapy sessions. Stirling Way (off Sagecroft Rd), Thatcham, Address: The Phoenix Resource Centre, RG18 3FW Phone no: 01635 864584 Newtown Road, Newbury, RG14 7BH Phone no: 01635 520150 Blands Court Wednesdays and Fridays East (Calcot) Burghfield Common, Reading, RG7 3BZ Phone no: 01189 833 664 Greenfield House Resource Centre A purpose built, modern resource centre with Tea Club excellent modern facilities. Serving Tilehurst, Thursdays 2.00-4.00pm Theale, Burghfield, and the The Kirby Room, St Luke’s Church, Englefield surrounding areas. Provide group and Road, Theale, Reading, RG7 5AS individual activities like games, crafts, Phone no: 01189 303 125 gardening, IT courses and cooking. Address: Greenfield House Resource Tuesday Club Centre, Highview, Calcot, Reading, Every 2nd Tuesday of the month RG31 4XD Phone no: 0118 943 2074 2.00 - 4.15pm British Legion Hall, 20 Church Way, West (Hungerford) Hungerford, RG17 0JU Phone no: 01488 682037 Hungerford Day Centre Meal on Wheels and A small, vibrant resource centre with a warm friendly environment and experienced caring Meal Support staff. Situated off the beautiful Hungerford common and a short walk from the town Oakhouse Foods Phone no: 0845 643 2009 centre. Provides activities, computer sessions, trips out, cooking, crafts, flower arranging, Foods Phone no: 0800 077 3100 jewellery making and many more. Address: Hungerford Day Centre, Fairclose Centre Drive, Hungerford, Berkshire, Meals on Wheels service Monday to Friday RG17 0EE Phone no: 01488 682601 Phone no: 01635 40488 Day Care Centres Other Services A day care centre is a place providing care and Hairdressers recreation facilities for people with Fair Close Centre, Newbury dementia. They can enjoy a variety of Phone no: 01635 551808 activities and the centre can also provide Hungerford Resource Centre, Hungerford respite for the carers. Phone no: 01488 682601 Central (Newbury) Foot Care Service Happy Feet at West Berkshire Community Fair Close Centre Hospital, costs £19.00 per visit, and a kit Fair Close Centre is an Independent requirement of £11.50. Charity set up to encourage, promote, and Phone no: 01635 503503 organise direct services appropriate to the needs of individual elderly people or groups of elderly Chiropodist people. Address: Fair Close Centre, Fair Close Centre, Newbury. Newtown Road, Newbury, RG14 7BH Phone no: 01635 551808 Phone no: 01635 40488/41294

This directory is provided for information purposes to the public. Anyone who relies on this information does so at their own risk. Reflexology Newbury Community Car Scheme Hand and foot massages and other Volunteer drivers assisting elderly and infirm treatment, Address: Hungerford Resource people to appointments covering Newbury, Speen Centre, Hungerford. Phone no: 01488 682601 and Stockcros, , Donnington, Three working days notice required small agreed EasyShop contribution required. Office open Monday to Taking grocery shopping orders by telephone or Friday 10am to 1pm. Phone No: 01635 49004 email and placing them with local supermarkets on your behalf for home delivery. There is a Home Help Plus service small charge for this service. Help with general housework, washing/ironing or Phone no: 01635 522255 or Email: shopping. Phone No: 0118 9594242 [email protected] Email: [email protected]

West Berkshire Libraries Reminiscence Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service Free Collection Home fire safety checks, Themed boxes to aid reminiscence through Phone Free 0800 587 6679 touch, small, vision and sound. Email [email protected] Phone no: 01635 519827 Email: [email protected] Other organisations TiM Friends which can offer support free befriending service for Mortimer West End, Ufton Nervett, Contact: Alzheimer’s Society Support Services Bev French. Phone no: 07748 686615 Dementia Support - Mandy McDermott Email: [email protected] Phone no: 0118 959 6482 Email: [email protected] Befriend West Berkshire Befriending Service - Phone no: 0118 957 1183 Trained volunteer befrienders matched to Young People with Dementia (Berkshire) socially isolated and lonely people aged 50 and YPWD (Berkshire West) provides a range of over. Contact Simone Foster support and ancillary services to younger people Phone No: 01635 49004 with dementia (those diagnosed below the age of Email [email protected] 65), and to their families and carers. Phone no: 0118 949 528 Email: [email protected] Newbury & Thatcham Handybus Regular weekly shopping trips - typical trips West Berkshire Therapy Centre contributions about £3 for local journeys. Social The Therapy Centre specially accommodates users with physical and mental limitations outings and group trips also arranged. (including dementia) who would find it extremely Phone No: Trevor Lisseman 01635 37111 difficult/impossible to use conventional gyms. Email [email protected] This gym is equipped with power assisted exercise equipment and there is usually a physiotherapist West Berkshire Village Agent Scheme on site. Your exercise can be supervised. Home visits available to discuss local services Address: The Frank Hutchings Hall, Harts Hill, and recommend ways to improve social Thatcham, RG18 4QH Phone no: 01635 864561 wellbeing Email: [email protected] Phone: Gill Comley 01635 581001 Email: [email protected] National Dementia Helpline Phone No: 0300 2221122 Newbury Shopmobility Age UK Berkshire Dementia Support service Town Centre loan of electric scooters manual Phone No: 0118 9594242 and powered wheelchairs. Email: [email protected] Rates £3 per day plus £10 yearly membership and free parking when using this equipment Phone No: 01635 523854

Last updated October 2017 This directory has been coordinated by . If you would like your organisation to be included or to provide feedback, please email [email protected]