The Mayor of Barnet turned on the Christmas lights at Brent Cross Shopping Centre and some members of Dementia Club UK helped with bucket collections for the Mayor of Barnet charities. We are grateful that Dementia Club UK is one of the Mayor’s charities.
Justine recently celebrated her 50th birthday and instead of receiving presents she asked her party guests to donate money to her chosen charity Dementia Club UK. We are very grateful to Justine for creating a fund raising page for the charity. Lisa thanked her at today’s session at Sha’arei Tsedek and gave Justine some flowers and chocolates.
Elaine and Louis gave up their Saturday to sell jewellery at Hampstead Market. They gave all the profits to Dementia Club UK. Lisa thanks them both for their commitment and time for doing this.
Cllr Lisa Rutter won the Local Trust Community Collaborator Award at the prestigious Guildhall in the City of London.
Annette one of Dementia Club UK’s long standing volunteers organised with Fr Tony Convery to invite Lisa today to St Edward the Confessor church in Golders Green.
Lisa spoke at 2 services, one at 10:30 & 12:15 about Dementia and the help Dementia Club UK can provide to dementia sufferers, their carers and their families.
We sold some donated costume jewellery to the members as early XMAS presents which proved to be popular. Today was also a Halloween theme. There was singing and dancing.
Daniel Tendler with his assistant Oz from Blue Valley Florists at 159 Brent Street, NW4 4DH came today to give us a demonstration on how to arrange an artistic table piece.
We also celebrated Pandelis’s 80th birthday, his wife Sylvia brought a huge Chocolate Cake and also lots of Greek savories.
