A Memory-Cafe is where there is a warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their carers), who's new memories may be partial and confusing. The aim is to evoke old memories that are complete and comfortable through, for example, refreshments in china cups, photos and documents from past years, songs and poems and informal talks.
The Easter cafe in Girton was lucky to have a lovely sunny morning. Richard welcomed over 20 customers in to enjoy the delicious fresh cakes and biscuits, coffee and tea supplied and served by friends of the cafe and Members of the Inner Wheel.
The entertainment included a chat by Richard about his early experiences of work in a haberdashers, where the managers were called Sir and inventive practical jokes were common amongst the junior staff. Wendy and Basil sang some tuneful duets and everyone joined in classic songs such as Roll Out the Barrel, My Old man and Rock around the Clock - which Rosemary and Sian attempted to dance to!
A lively selection of poems included Golden Daffodils, Albert and the Lion and Sam, Pick up Tha' Musket - which was greeted with gales of laughter from everyone present.
The lovely Spring flowers were donated by the Graves Nursery, Girton.
The cafe is open 10 - 12am on the first Friday morning of each month.
The next cafe will be open on Friday 4 May 2012.
more Open to All. All Welcome. Covid precautions in place. Organiser Richard de Horsey. The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers).
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Host - Richard de Horsey. Our forty-ninth event. Theme - Birthdays !
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our fifty - first event. Theme - London and the 1960's.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our fiftieth event. Theme - Easter and Springtime.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our forty-eigth event. Theme - Love and St Valentines.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our forty-seventh event. Theme - Pantomime Fun !
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our forty-third event. Theme - WW1
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our forty-sixth event. Theme - Christmas celebrations !
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our forty-second event. Theme - Holidays PLUS a surprise award.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our forty-fourth event. Theme - Harvest
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our forty-fifth event. Theme - Oldies but Goodies, our Guest Entertainers - Girton Operatic.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our fortieth event. Theme - Flowers
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our forty-first event. Theme - Summer Holidays and Folk Songs
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our thirty-ninth event. Theme - London after the War and in the 1960's
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our thirty-sixth event. Theme - Romance and Valentines day.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our thirty-eigth event. Theme - Spring and new life.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our thirty-seventh event. Theme - Our 3rd Birthday!!
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our thirty-fourth event. Theme - Christmas party !
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our thirty-fifth event. Theme - Pantomimes.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Our thirty-third event. Theme - Armistice Day and celebrating with fireworks.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The twenty-ninth event. Theme - The Girton Memory Cafe Film and Quiz ! First activity in the Girton Feast Week !
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The twenty-eighth event. Theme - Shopping in old style shops!
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The twenty-seventh event. Theme - Springtime !
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The twenty- sixth event. Theme - Easter !
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The thirty second event. Theme - Harvest and Autumn.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The thirty-first event.
more Old fashioned fun to listen to and join in with David, Richard, Sian, Tim, Wendy, John, Alan and Marvin.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The thirtieth event. Theme - tbc!
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The twenty-fifth event. Theme - Happy 2nd Birthday to the Memory Cafe!
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The twenty-fourth event. Theme - Valentines Day.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The twenty-third event. Theme - Pantomimes.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). The twenty-second event. Theme - our second Christmas Party !!
more Open to all with memory issues and their families / carers. This is the fifteenth event.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Theme - Autumn and Writing from 1930 to the iPad. The twentieth event.
more A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). This is the eighteenth event. Topic of the day - living through a World War as an evacuee.
more A Jubilee Celebration - open for all, especially those suffering from memory loss and their carers and families. This is the sixteenth event.
more A warm welcome from Richard ! This is the seventeenth event. On the theme of sunny, Bucket and Spade Summer Holidays. Did you hear Richard talking to Christopher South on Radio Cambridge Sunday 24 June 2012 ??
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Theme - The Harvest. This is the nineteenth event.
more Memory Cafe in Girton celebrated its first Anniversary with an excellent turnout.
more The Memory Cafe welcomes All. A warm welcome for people with dementia or other problems associated memory loss (and their families / carers). Theme - Bonfire Night. The twenty-first event.
back A monthly opportunity for those with memory loss and their families / carers to meet over refreshments. Host - Richard de Horsey.