Herald - Issue 425

Page 44 • The HERALD • 23rd June 2022 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SPECIALISTS v Join us for Southampton Dementia Festival FREE ENTRY Saturday 16th July 12-5pm St James’ Park, Shirley SO15 5SD LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Showcasing opportunities for people living with dementia and their carers to continue to live well in Southampton. Sponsored By Portswood Dementia Friendly Action Group Let us help you make life easier Contact Waterside Home Help today to find out how we can help you and your family. We offer a range of home help & companionship services: ● Cleaning ● Laundry and bed changes ● Carpet Cleaning* ● Shopping and errands ● Transport to appointments ● Companionship ● We will match you with a fully trained, insured and DBS checked helper to suit your individual needs. ● The same helper will visit you at the same time each day, week, fortnight or whenever required. ● We do not provide personal care, therefore our rates are considerably lower ● From £16 per hour (*please ask for prices) Call us today on 07565 428139 Or email us on: info@watersidehomehelp.co.uk Visit our website: www.watersidehomehelp.co.uk WE CARE, YOU CARE SOUTHAMPTON DEMENTIA FESTIVAL Following two years of lockdown the Southampton Dementia Festival Committee is pleased to announce that the city wide festival will be going ahead in 2022. e aim of the festival is to raise awareness and understanding of this terrible illness that a ects the individual and their family o en over a number of years. In Southampton and district there are a number of services in place and this event will highlight services that can support the person living with dementia and their carer. e Festival takes place over two weeks in July starting with a launch event at May eld Nursery, Weston on Saturday 2nd July . Refreshments, cra activities and live music will be on o er from 12noon to 5pm. Over the following two weeks there are a number of events, a picnic, a cra session and a seated yoga session. e festival culminates on Saturday 16th July with a larger event at St James’s Park Shirley from 12noon to 5pm. At this event there will be many stalls, live music, a tea tent, information about dementia and services available locally, an awareness session about dementia, face painting and toys for small children. Go along and take the family to learn more about how one can live well with dementia in spite of the real challenges for both the su erer and their family. To be part of the build up to the festival please visit the Facebook page to see entertainers and events as they are announced: facebook.com/SotonDementiaFestival/ ere are still a few spaces for stalls so please contact Rosemary Kirk: rosemarykirk25@gmail.com if you would like a stall on Saturday 16th July. For more information about the festival please contact Katherine Barbour, Chairperson, portswooddag@gmail. com or call: 07763 863360. Sundial Cottage was invited to go on the Solent Dolphin, and wasn’t it a splendid trip. Sundial Cottage has never been on the Solent Dolphin before and we all loved it. We really brought the weather with us. e Solent Dolphin is a charity run boat, which is always in much need of donations. Sundial Cottage wouldn’t have got to experience such a fun, well planned and well organised trip without organisations such as the Solent Dolphin. As a dementia specialist home we have to keep coming up with new and engaging ideas to support our residents in the most rewarding ways. Safe to say the sailing on the Solent Dolphin was a successful day out. e crew is made up of volunteers and the trip is all free, the crew is huge consisting of over 100 volunteers. Like so many things, the Solent Dolphin had to change the trip a lot due to the pandemic however the sailing season has now started and all restrictions are li ed. e trip now can o er more seats on the boat, a chance to go up to the front of the boat to meet the crew and you can even get a hot drink and a biscuit, much to our delight. One of our residents was a keen sailor and had been looking forward to the trip for months from initial booking. We are so grateful to local run groups like this. We are proud to be apart of the Waterside community. Sundial Cottage sails on the Solent Dolphin by Activity Support Staff at Sundial Cottage Residents enjoying their day trip on the Alison McGregor