Medieval Mayhem – 15th July 2019

We had a trip out to Medieval Mayhem as part of our Little Acorns Intergenerational [...]

Rainbow string painting – 14th July

Vicky sat and showed us how to do string painting this afternoon. We quite enjoyed [...]

Cycling Without Age

Syd and Arthur both chose to go for a half hour ride to Weston Park [...]

Light Cinema – 11th July 2019

We had a very enjoyable trip out to the Light cinema with Vicky, Betty and [...]

Paul Barrie

We had a very enjoyable morning birthday celebration for Marion Kennedy today. Many got up [...]

Irish Tea dance

Sally entertained us with some fantastic Irish and modern tunes at the Philadelphia Club this [...]

Crucible Tea Dance – 9th July 2019

We had a lovely trip out to the Crucible Tea Dance today with Vicky and [...]

Gardening Club

The theme for gardening club today was weddings and we reminisced about our weddings and [...]

Memory Cafe

We had another fun session at the Memory Cafe today. Olga and Nicole came joint [...]

Weekend Walks around Broomhall

This weekend, Marjory travelled in a wheelchair with Tracy and Nicole walking alongside her to [...]

St Marks Church outing

Valerie and Nicole enjoyed the St Marks church service very much this morning. Nicole enjoyed [...]

Tabby Teas Cafe

We had a very enjoyable time at the Tabby Teas Cat Cafe this morning. Some [...]

Cycling without age – 5th July 2019

We were fortunate to have beautiful weather today for out our Cycling without age session! [...]

Lost Chord – 5th July

We had a fabulous time with Julie and Juliet, who sang and played the keyboard [...]

Dementia Is… Exhibition

This year’s SYDCAE exhibition was held at Meadowhall Interchange and not the Cathedral, as in [...]

Songbirds 2nd July 2019

We had a lovely songbirds session lead by Yo. We sang a variety of songs [...]

Little Acorns – 1st July 2019

We had a lovely time with the Little Acorns toddler group this morning. We had [...]

Garden activities. 29th June 2019

  This morning we sat in the shade in the garden as it was lovely [...]

Godly Play

We had this month’s Godly Play session in the Conservatory, on such a beautiful sunny [...]

Cycling Without Age

Clare took Roy and his son Matt for a ride round the General Cemetery, which [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance – 27th June 2019

We had a fantastic time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today! It was a [...]

Buzz

Tracy and Rita took a small group of residents to the Buzz coffee morning today [...]

Ebony

We were very excited to meet Ebony today (Betty’s new PAT dog in the making). [...]

Annie

We enjoyed a very lively birthday celebration for Wendy and Nellie this afternoon led by [...]

Holy Communion Service

We were grateful to Frances who came from St Marks to give us our monthly [...]

Buzz

Tracy and Rita walked a small group (Arthur, Pamela Crossland, Susan and Deborah) round to [...]

Gardening Club

Caroline led a group focusing on the subject of bees. They looked at different plants/flowers [...]

Little Acorns – 17.6.19

We had a special session today! We had Holly from Pyjama Drama come and do [...]

Father’s Day Party – 16th June 2019

We celebrated Father’s Day and Lois’s Birthday with the help of Patrick and his band. [...]

Nicole’s Settling-in Party

Nicole ‘s family invited some of us to her settling in party in the downstairs [...]

Cycling Without Age

We had a fun taster session, taking part in the Cycling Without Age scheme, with [...]

Engelbert Humperdinck

We had great fun reminiscing and listening to Engelbert this afternoon, learning a little about [...]

Irish Tea Dance

A small group of us went to the Irish Tea Dance this month to see [...]

Song Birds – 11th June 2019

We had a very enjoyable Song Birds session, led by Yo. We sat in a [...]

Memory Cafe

We had a lively “musical” Memory Cafe today with percussion instruments and Tracy on the [...]

St Marks Church outing

There was a service celebrating Pentecost at St Marks today and it was a pleasure [...]

Motion exercise – 06.06.19

We had a visit from two young girls who did a variety of activities with [...]

Kevin Kitchen

We had another amazing party time with Kevin Kitchen – celebrating Margaret Saunders’ belated birthday [...]

Pony Therapy – 4.6.2019

Leo, the miniature Sheltand pony, came to see us with his owner.  He was very [...]

Little Acorns – 3rd June 2019

We had a quality over quantity session this morning with the Little Acorns toddler group, [...]

Godly Play

Tracy told the story of Abraham and Sarah in Godly Play today. We enjoyed this [...]

Baking in the Conservatory

Margaret Pashley, Margaret Saunders, Olga and Anne all helped out in the mixing and cleaning [...]

Songs From the Musicals

We had a lovely afternoon listening to Tracy’s record player. We’ve managed to find some [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance – 30th May 2019

We had a lovely time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today. Our regular singer [...]

Showroom Cinema – 28.5.19

We had a trip out to the Showroom cinema with Vicky and Helen. Betty met [...]

Stephen Hill Church

Margaret Saunders and Elsie chose to go along to Stephen Hill Methodist Church in Crosspool [...]

Visit from Dolly and Saffi

Great to have Debbie and her friend visit again with those lovely puppies – now [...]

Gardening Club

We had another exciting Gardening Club session with Caroline which involved being out in the [...]

Buzz

Arthur, Susan and Tricia all had a good time at Buzz today. We chatted and [...]

Song Birds 21st May 2019

We had our very first session of Song Birds music therapy this afternoon, lead by [...]

Little Acorns – 20th May 2019

We had a very relaxed session with the toddler group this morning. There were four [...]

Weston Park May Fair

We had a very exciting time at the Weston Park May Fair this year. We [...]

Buzz Coffee morning – 15.5.19

We had a lovely walk to St Andrews church hall for the Buzz Coffee morning [...]

Crucible Tea Dance – 14.5.19

her daughter Julie, Betty our volunteer, Vicky and Elsie. We started off with a picnic [...]

Memory Cafe

It was a beautiful day for our journey to the Jesus Centre with some going [...]

Kevin Kitchen

We celebrated Marion Peck’s 97th birthday with a visit from our special friend, Kevin Kitchen. [...]

St Marks Church

It was a lovely sunny day for our weekly church outing. This week we went [...]

Table tennis 7.5.19

Vicky bought a table tennis kit this morning and set it up for us this [...]

Little Helpers

We had a group of 15 children and their mums from the Muslim community come [...]

Celebrating Doris Day – 2.5.19

We had great fun today listening to a record called “Pajama Game” from a Doris [...]

Balloon Volleyball 30.4.19

This afternoon Vicky and Debra set up a volleyball net in the main lounge, blew [...]

Memory Cafe – 29.4.19

We had fun at the Memory Cafe today. Pamela Crossland won the Alphabet Game, much [...]

Stephen Hill Church outing

Tracy took Margaret Saunders and Elsie in taxi today to Stephen Hill Church. They enjoyed [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance 25.4.19

We all had a lift to the Jesus Centre for the tea dance today. Julie [...]

Buzz 24.4.19

We had a very chocolatey time at Buzz today. We mixed cornflakes and chocolate to [...]

Lost Chord 23rd April 2019

We had a gentleman called terry and a lady called Liz come to perform for [...]

Easter Party

We had a fabulous fund-raising Easter Sunday event with glorious weather so many of us [...]

Easter Activities Saturday 20th April

Vicky bought an Easter table cloth that you colour in. We enjoyed sitting and colouring [...]

Godly Play

Tracy finished off the “Faces of Easter” story to a packed-out audience. Great to have [...]

Dolly and Saffi

Lillie’s daughter, Debbie, brought in two very young puppies today – Dolly and Saffi (only [...]

Sheila’s Birthday Celebration

We had a wonderful afternoon, listening to some lovely familiar folk/childhood songs performed by Sheila’s [...]

Buzz

We had a good time at Buzz today and basked in the lovely sunshine on [...]

Millenium Galleries

We had a very enjoyable trip out to the Millennium Galleries with Vicky and Helen. [...]

Memory Cafe

We had an excellent visit to the Jesus Centre Memory Cafe with six residents, staff, [...]

St Marks Church Service

Tracy took along Valerie Loft and Olga to the St Marks Palm Sunday Service. We [...]

Matt and Shonagh

Matt came to see his father today and very kindly brought along his flute and [...]

Irish Tea Dance

We had a fabulous afternoon at the Irish Tea dance. Good to have our new [...]

Little Acorns Toddler Group- 8th April 2019

We had a special toddler group session this week. Vicky invited Ruth from FunDrum to [...]

Gardening Cub

We had a very interesting Easter Gardening Club today, making Easter wreathes and chatting together [...]

Russ Weaver – 5.4.19

We had a very enjoyable birthday celebration for Marjory with many of her friends and [...]

Standing At The Sky’s Edge – 3rd April 2019

We were very impressed with this dementia friendly performance based upon the Sheffield story of [...]

Crucible Tea Dance – 2.4.2019

Vicky took Elsie and Anne to this month’s Crucible tea dance. We met Betty and [...]

We had another enjoyable time at the Memory Cafe today. We were talking about Spring [...]

Mother’s Day Tea Party – 31st March 2019

We enjoyed a lovely time in the conservatory today and were pleased to see so [...]

St Marks Mothering Sunday Service – 31.3.19

We had a lovely trip out by car to St Marks Church today for their [...]

Paul Barrie – 30.3.19

We had another fantastic joint birthday celebration for Pam and Syd with Paul Barrie and [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance – 29th March 2019

We had a great turn out at this months Tea Dance! We had our usual [...]

Cycling without Age – 27th March 2019

We had a very enjoyable trip to Western Park with Vicky and Rita. We took [...]

Lost Chord – 26th March 2019

We had two wonderful musicians come to visit us this evening to play for us. [...]

Little Acorns Toddler group – 25.3.19

We enjoyed our time with the Little Acorns toddler group this morning. We had four [...]

Godly Play – 22.3.19

Tracy led another interesting Godly Play session this month, with “The Faces of Easter – [...]

Flower arranging – 22.3.19

St Mary’s Church, Bramall Lane, kindly donated buckets of flowers (daffodils, roses and tulips) to [...]

Buzz Intergenerational Event – 21.3.19

We were invited by the Buzz team to attend one of their regular intergenerational events [...]

Memory Cafe – 18th March

We had another uplifting time at the Memory Cafe today with some walking and some [...]

Beki Austin – 16th March

We had a fabulous 90th birthday celebration for Margaret Pashley today. Beki sang a variety [...]

Paul Barrie – 9th March

We had another fantastic visit from Paul Barrie to help us celebrate two birthdays – [...]

Visit from Louis – 7th March

It was good to see Louis (Deborah’s dog) and see how much he has grown [...]

Odeon Cinema – 7th March

We had a fantastic time at the new Deluxe Odeon cinema in town today at [...]

Memory Cafe – 4th March

We had a good Memory Cafe event with a special Guess the Smell game. Olga, [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance 28th February 2019

We had a fantastic time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today!. We didn’t have [...]