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.

Craft Activities Wednesdays 1.30pm Fair Close Day Centre, Newtown Road, Central (Newbury) Newbury RG14 7BH Email: [email protected] Phone no: 01635 40488/41294 Singing for the Brain Mondays 10.30am-12pm Yoga Starts 12th April; Closed 31st May & 7th June; Gentle seated yogic exercises ends 26th July. Thursdays (3 x month) Starts 14th April, Riverside Centre, Rosemoor Gardens, ends 14th July 10.45am -12.15pm Clay Hill, Newbury, RG14 2FG West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Email: [email protected] Newbury, Berkshire. RG14 5AS Phone no: 01635 500 869 Email: [email protected] Voluntary contribution Phone no: 01635 500 869 Voluntary Contribution Chair Exercises Mondays 10am Whist Fair Close Day Centre, Newtown Road, Thursday 1.30pm Newbury RG14 7BH Fair Close Day Centre, Newtown Road, Email: [email protected] Newbury RG14 7BH Phone no: 01635 40488/41294 Email: [email protected] £3.00 per person Phone no: 01635 40488/41294

Bingo ExperTeas Tuesday and Fridays 2pm Sharing expertise between clients, carers Fair Close Day Centre, Newtown Road, and professionals Newbury RG14 7BH For dates call Beechcroft on 01635 292070 Email: [email protected] (ask for Carol Brindley) Phone no: 01635 40488/41294 Beechcroft Older People’s Mental Health £2.00 per person Service, Rookes Way, Thatcham, Phone no: 01635 292070 Knit and Natter Wednesdays 1pm Gardening –New Horticultural Leaf Fair Close Day Centre, Newtown Road, 3 times a week, each session is 3 hours Newbury RG14 7BH Parsons Close, Braunfels Walk, RG14 5NQ Email: [email protected] Frank Knott. Email: [email protected] Phone no: 01635 40488/41294 Phone no: 07722566515 £27.88 per person per session Relaxed Theatre Performances - Relaxed Theatre Performances - Thatcham Bingo Club The Newbury Corn Exchange The Watermill Theatre Cafés Monday and Fridays Contact theatre for information on performances Contact theatre for information on The Laburnum Centre (Age UK), Stirling Way Newbury Corn Exchange, Market Place, performances Central (Newbury) (off Sagecroft Rd), Thatcham, RG18 3FW Newbury RG14 5BD The Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury, Phone no: 01635 864584 Email: [email protected] West Berkshire RG20 8AE Phone no: 01635 582666 Phone no: 01635 46044 Memory Café Monday (once a month) 10.30am-12.30pm Meal on Wheels Newbury Corn Exchange, Market Place Newbury RG14 5BD and Meal Support East (Calcot) Other areas Email: [email protected] Phone no: 01635 582666. Free Oakhouse Foods Singing for the Brain Singing for the Brain - Purley Phone no: 0845 643 2009 Tuesdays 10.30am-12pm Mondays 2.00-3.30pm West Berkshire Memory Café Start 12th Apr; Closed 31st May & 7th Jun Start 11th Apr; Closed 2nd & 30th May, Every 2nd Thursday of the month (except Wiltshire Foods Kennet Valley Free Church, Carters Rise in 1st & 15th Aug, last session 22nd Aug April) 2.00– 4.00 pm Phone no: 0800 077 3100 Fords Farm, Calcot, Email: St Mary The Virgin, Extension Church Hall, Best Western Hotel, Cox’s Lane, A4 Bath [email protected] Purley RG8 8BJ. Road, Midgham, RG7 5UP Phone no: 0773 8752 669. Voluntary contribution Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Day Care Centres Phone no: 01635 500 869 Phone no: 01635 500 869 Tai Chi Voluntary contribution A day care centre is a place providing care Wednesday 9.30-10.30am and recreation facilities for people with Tilehurst Youth and Community Centre Reading, Singing for the Brain – Burghfield Lunch/Tea/Other Clubs dementia. They can enjoy a variety of RG30 4UU. Age UK Berkshire. Common activities and the centre can also provide Phone no: 0118 959 4242 Alternate Wednesdays 1.30pm-3.00pm respite for the carers. Starts 20th April Zumba (Gold) Fair Close Day Care Centre Burghfield Common Methodist Church, Monday- 12:00pm, Tuesday to Friday: Wednesdays 1.30-2.30pm Reading Road, RG7 3QA. 11.45am and 12:40pm Central (Newbury) Emmanuel Methodist Church, 448 Oxford Road, Email: [email protected] RG30 1EE . Age UK Berkshire Phone no: 01635 500 869 The Laburnum Centre (Age UK), Phone no: 0118 959 4242 £5.00 The Phoenix Resource Centre Voluntary contribution Wednesdays (once a month) A purpose built centre with excellent Stirling Way (off Sagecroft Rd), Thatcham, facilities with a calm atmosphere. Situated in Five A Day Market Garden RG18 3FW Gardening Group for the Brain - the South of Newbury. Provide craft Every Tuesday 1pm to 3pm Phone no: 01635 864584 From 5th April to 19th July, Ufton Nervet activities, IT courses, reflexology and The Street, Englefield, Reading, Berkshire. Wednesdays (once a month) Blands Court aromatherapy sessions. The centre has a RG7 5ES. 1.30pm-3.00pm Wednesdays and Fridays sensory room and an optimusic room. ‘Forget me not’ gardening and art and Nature Based activity group. Middle Farm, Burghfield Common, Reading, RG7 3BZ The centre also provides Pets as Therapy craft activity sessions for older people with Green Lane, Ufton Nervet, RG7 4HE Phone no: 01189 833 664 sessions. memory problems. Free of Charge. Booking Phone no: 01635 500 869 Address: The Phoenix Resource Centre, required as places are limited and are allocated Email: [email protected] Theale Tea Club Newtown Road, Newbury, RG14 7BH on a first come first served basis. Email: Thursdays 2.00-4.00pm Phone no: 01635 520150 [email protected] Phone no: 07939 676 050 Poetry - Midgham The Kirby Room, St Luke’s Church, Englefield 20th May and 22nd July 12.30pm Road, Theale, Reading, RG7 5AS Fair Close Day Centre Berkshire Arms, Midgham, RG7 5UX Phone no: 01189 303 125 Fair Close Day Centre is an Independent West (Lambourn) Phone no: 01635 500 869 Charity set up to encourage, promote, and Email: [email protected] Hungerford Tuesday Club organise direct services appropriate to the Friendship Club Every 2nd Tuesday of the month needs of individual elderly people or groups Thursdays 2.00-4.00pm 2.00 - 4.15pm of elderly people. Address: Fair Close Day Lambourn Methodist Church, Chapel Lane, British Legion Hall, 20 Church Way, Centre, Newtown Road, Newbury, Lambourn, RG17 8YA. Phone no: 01488 72825 Hungerford, RG17 0JU RG14 7BH Phone no: 01635 40488/41294 Voluntary contribution Phone no: 01488 682037

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Greenfield House Resource Centre Hungerford Day Centre A purpose built, modern resource centre with A small, vibrant resource centre with a warm excellent modern facilities. Serving Tilehurst, friendly environment and experienced caring staff. Theale, Burghfield, Pangbourne and the Situated off the beautiful Hungerford common surrounding areas. Provide group and and a short walk from the town centre. Provides individual activities like games, crafts, activities, computer sessions, trips out, cooking, gardening, IT courses and cooking. crafts, flower arranging, jewellery making and Address: Greenfield House Resource many more. Centre, Highview, Calcot, Reading, Address: Hungerford Day Centre, Ramsbury RG31 4XD Phone no: 0118 943 2074 Drive, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0EE Phone no: 01488 682601

Other Services Other organisations which can offer support Hairdressers Fair Close Day Care Centre, Newbury Phone no: 01635 551808 Alzheimer’s Society Support Services Hungerford Resource Centre, Hungerford Dementia Support - Mandy Bulleid Phone no: 01488 682601 Phone no: 01635 500869 Befriending Service - Phone no: 0118 957 1183 Foot Care Service Happy Feet at West Berkshire Community Young People with Dementia (Berkshire) Hospital, costs £19.00 per visit, and a kit YPWD (Berkshire West) was set up in 2012 requirement of £11.50. and they provide a range of support and Phone no: 01635 503503 ancillary services to younger people with dementia (those diagnosed below the age Chiropodist of 65), and to their families and carers. Fair Close care centre, Newbury. Phone no: 0118 949 5286 Phone no: 01635 551808 Email: [email protected] Reflexology West Berkshire Therapy Centre Hand and foot massages and other The Therapy Centre specially accommodates treatment, Address: Hungerford Resource users with physical and mental limitations Centre, Hungerford. Phone no: 01488 682601 (including dementia) who would find it extremely difficult/impossible to use conventional gyms. This EasyShop gym is equipped with power assisted exercise Taking grocery shopping orders by telephone or equipment and there is usually a physiotherapist email and placing them with local supermarkets on site. Your exercise can be supervised. on your behalf for home delivery. There is a Address: The Frank Hutchings Hall, Harts Hill, small charge for this service. Thatcham, RG18 4QH Phone no: 01635 522255 or Email: Phone no: 01635 864561 [email protected] Email: [email protected] West Berkshire Libraries Reminiscence Collection Befriend West Berkshire Themed boxes to aid reminiscence through Trained volunteer befrienders matched to touch, small, vision and sound. people aged 50 and over. Phone no: 01635 519827 Phone no: 01635 49004 Email: [email protected]

Last updated May 2016 This directory has been coordinated by West Berkshire Council. If you would like your organisation to be included or to provide feedback, please email [email protected]