Jan 2018

Launch of Reminiscence Café .

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After the successful pilot for a dementia café we opened The Reminiscence Café, still in Central Methodist Church Hall and continued to provide dementia friendly activities and outings as well as being a social gathering for those in the community who are socially isolated or lonely. The Reminiscence Café has now moved into the AB&D Centre and is now called The Thursday Lunch Club. See ‘Our Lunches’.

2017 – 2019

Rossendale Heritage Listing Project.

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This project saw us working with the community to identify heritage assets in Rossendale and place them on a register which will afford them some protection against future loss. It included historic and heritage talks about Rossendale and even though the project has been completed the community can still nominate heritage assets to go on a register.

Sept 2017

Pilot Dementia Café

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This café ran for 16 weeks in Central Methodist church hall to asses the need for such a resource. As well as a café with a simple, healthy menu we also provided dementia friendly activities. It was a successful pilot at the end of which the attendees did not want it to close.

June 2016

Viability study to find CAST a new home.

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This project assessed a local building and its ability to accommodate all our planned community activities, office needs etc. Unfortunately the building needed a lot of repair work and the owners were not prepared to share the cost of the work required.

October 2016

Cook n Eat with Dementia

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This is a cooking project in which we take 5 mobile kitchens to out to groups to run on site cookery courses. We have run courses with Inspire and with people living with dementia and their carers.

2014

Bacup Past and Present.

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  A health and well-being project focussing on memories of Bacup and how to preserve them through memory box workshops. This project saw two open days in the AB&D Centre where people shared their memories of living in Bacup and 6 week long memory box workshops where people were encouraged to save their precious memories as lifetime reminders in later years.

2015

Building a Preservation Trust for Rossendale

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A Heritage based project creating the charity Valley Heritage, Rossendales only building preservation trust. This project brought in funding to create and train a community group capable of bringing in funding and expertise to save our heritage buildings. Valley Heritage now work with many organisations and RBC to save, repair and repurpose our heritage buildings.