Gentle Activities Booklet
The group produces an activity leaflet advising on gentle activities taking place in and around Congleton which people living with Dementia and their carers may be interested in attending, click the link below to view the latest Summer 2022 leaflet:
Dementia Games Swap Shop (inside Congleton Library)
A variety of games and activities suitable for people living with dementia, are available for loan or can be swapped for games and activities in good condition. Items for swap should be complete especially jigsaws which should be no more than 250 pieces with easy to handle pieces. Just ask one of the library staff for access and guidance.
Working Towards a Dementia Friendly Congleton
Many people in Congleton are working hard to make the town a Dementia friendly place where people living with dementia can live well. A group set up in 2018, under the auspices of Congleton Partnership to help people and businesses become aware of the needs of people with dementia, to publicise and create more events that welcome people living with dementia and can cater for any additional needs they have.
Since 2018 over 1,000 people in Congleton have attended an awareness course and have become a Dementia Friend. Anyone can attend one of the free awareness sessions, and Congleton’s Dementia Friends Champions are happy to run a session in any location for groups, organisations, friends and families. If you can get a group of 5 of more people together in Congleton – we can provide someone to run the session, tel 01260 270350. Sessions last around an hour.
Many Businesses in Congleton have gone a step further. In addition to their staff attending an awareness session they have also taken actions to make their premises better for people living with dementia. These premises have a Dementia Friendly Congleton Sticker in the window. We congratulate the following on their efforts to become more dementia friendly:
- Bear Grills
- Chris Hamriding Estate Agents
- Congleton Lions
- Congleton Veterinary Centre
- Eaton Bank Academy
- Innovations, High Town
- Musical Moments
- The Old Saw Mill
- Three Way Travel
- Wild and Wild
- Butters John Bee
- Congleton Library
- Congleton Museum
- Co-op Funeral Care
- Gather of Cheshire
- Lawton House Surgery
- New Life Church
- The Castle Inn
- Top Nosh
