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It was Halloween today at the Finchley Memorial Hospital. Lisa decorated the tables with Halloween chocolates and lovely cakes.

Members were also given some colouring crayons and a Halloween picture to colour. Everyone got very busy concentrating on their colouring and produced some really lovely pictures.

We also had a presentation today. Richard Turner from Action Loss Hearing attended to talk to members about the importance of making sure their hearing is checked out. People with hearing problems often feel very isolated and this can also lead to early onset dementia as you become very disoriented. Members were grateful to receive Richard’s talk and Richard also offered to give members a Hearing test. The hospital provided a quiet room on the second floor so that Richard could do the Hearing tests. There were quite a few members who wanted the test.

The session then followed with Halloween Bingo and again this was enjoyable as it was different. Each number that Lisa called was a Halloween shape which had to be coloured by members. The first table to make a line were winners.

It was then time for some quiz questions and Mark our quiz master was ready with some chocolate quiz questions. Questions like What is the name of the 4th Planet. The answer was Mars which is also a chocolate. Members enjoyed the quiz.

It was then time for some singing and as usual the members enjoy. This also included our usual 3 favourite songs which members always get up and dance to.

Lisa finished off the session with a bit of advice for members to make sure they are careful if answering their doors tonight when Trick or Treat callers could also be burglars using this opportunity.

The session started as usual with members chatting and enjoying their teas, coffees and biscuits. Simon our Rotary quiz master then distributed a picture quiz asking the members to identify the persons, whose names were related to towns and cities.

The members enjoyed the quiz and did really well. This was followed by Chair Yoga exercises by Richard, our yoga teacher. The colourful beanbags were used during this session and again this resulted in a very enjoyable atmosphere.

The yoga session was then followed with James Le Bec our musical entertainment. James sang some old-time favourites which members enjoyed listening to and joined in singing followed with some dancing. James is well known for his music quiz using a large dice which becomes challenging amongst members and very enjoyable.

James asked the members to identify the singers before throwing the dice. The members did very well and managed to get more points than the other clubs. Everyone left with a smile.

Thank you to our church volunteers making teas and coffees, setting up the venue and making the necessary preparations for the sessions; Dorothy and Andrew.

Thank you to our Rotarians from Barnet; Jim (President), John, Malcolm and Simon. Many thanks to our Doctor Rebecca Hatjiosif. Also, thanks to Lisa, Chairman of Dementia Club UK, for her continuous support to make the Dementia Club at St John’s Church successful.

Members always enjoy attending at the Britannia centre. When everyone was settled with their teas and coffees Lisa welcomed everyone and introduced Mark who was ready to give members a quiz. The questions were a little hard but members always enjoy the challenge.

The session followed with celebrating and this was celebrated in the usual DCUK fashion.

It was then time for some dancing as Moshe attended and as always Moshe always gets people up and dancing. Pam and John enjoyed doing the Jive and Tita was given the microphone by Moshe to sing an Italian song which happen to be Tita’s favourite song.

The session as usual was very enjoyable. Thank you to Mark for his help during the session.

The programme for 2018 – 2019 has just been published this can be downloaded as a PDF from our site.

It was full house today as members were excited to see Elvis. Lisa started off with quiz questions about Elvis to get members prepared for the Show.

Pete Webb who acts as Elvis then walked into the room in his light Blue Elvis glittering suit. The excitement from that moment to the end was electrifying. Pete was fantastic in every way with his voice as Elvis and also his body moves singing some of the favourite Elvis great hits.

We had a new volunteer today – Timothy who was very helpful during the session helping Melvyn our other volunteer. It was also a lovely surprise to see Jennifer one of the carers that used to attend with her mother Joan.

Everyone had a really amazing time today and can’t wait for me to book Pete again.

Today’s report is from Justine who led the session at Sha’arei Tsedek Synagogue in Whetstone:

“Our members were served tea, coffee and lovely biscuits & cake at the start of our session and were happy chatting to each other. Justine Khedoory then did a short quiz which everyone participated in.

After a short while, a lovely lady called Jane did some fun exercises with our members which everyone thoroughly enjoyed!

This was followed by a lively session of entertainment provided by the very talented James LeBec. James sang a variety of popular songs to which many of the members and helpers danced. It was great fun! The atmosphere was fantastic!

One of our members, the lovely Chrystalla was celebrating a Special Birthday today, so we all sang Happy Birthday to her! After James left, the members continued to chat and there was also table tennis, mini golf & darts! 30 members and carers attended the session with the assistance of five helpers from the synagogue who were:- Justine, Stephen, Judy, Keith & Caroline and Mark one of the charity Trustees.”