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Beyond Dementia

@beyonddementia.bsky.social
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Wiltshire's award-winning dementia charity, supporting people living at home with dementia and family carers - in whichever way suits them best. Visit us at www.beyonddementia.org.uk

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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Bit of a grey day for the launch our newest community group today - a fortnightly walking group for people living with dementia and family carers in East #Wiltshire. But there'll be good cheer and the joy being together in nature - whatever the weather! beyonddementia.org.uk/community-gr...
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Walking Boots | Beyond Dementia
Join a friendly group, explore nature and enjoy gentle walks as part of our ourdoors group for people with dementia and family carers in East Wiltshire.
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Innovations in Dementia @innov-dementia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In honour of our 400th follower today @librariesconnected.bsky.social here is a fantastic bit of work we were proud to be involved with @readingagency.bsky.social Books and resources around living with #dementia available free at your local #library readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...
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Beth Britton MBE 💚 @bethyb1886.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Do join us for this fab webinar! 👇🏼 I'm hosting and very much looking forward to hearing from (and moving with!) Joe and Tony from Burns Gym. A super, free learning opportunity for everyone #socialcare #healthcare #dementia #ageing #fitness #movement
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We're recruiting a new Head of Comms and Fundraising. Join us in Wiltshire and help shape the future of our lovely charity. www.alzheimerswiltshire.org.uk/head-of-comm... #commsjobs #charityjob
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Head of Communications and Fundraising
A fantastic opportunity to join our award-winning charity in a senior management role.
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
🧠 BRACE invites dementia researchers to a free conference on 20 Nov in Bristol. Talks from @lizcoulthard.bsky.social & Dr Vesna Vuksanovic, posters, and networking from 1–5pm at the BAWA Club. #DementiaResearch #Neuroscience www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/event/brace-...
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BRACE Conference 2025 - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Join dementia researchers at the free BRACE Conference on 20 Nov, 1–5pm in Bristol. Talks, networking, posters, and research into early diagnosis and dementia.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
'It makes you feel useful again.' Huge thanks to Brenda for the warmth, love and generosity of spirit she brings to our community groups in North Wiltshire, and for sharing her #volunteer story @chipptowncouncil.bsky.social
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Dementia care is all about the face-to-face, but sometimes desk research/online tools help people experiencing #dementia and families in #Wiltshire find the extra connections they need. Our online Support Village will always be a work in progress - tell us what we've missed bit.ly/4lY9ut9
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Never too old for a disco! We had a great boogie at #OldSilkWorks first 70s-inspired disco - complete with DJ, bouncer on the door, mocktails and the lovely company of Warminster School kids, who also lent their disco lights. Groovy time had by all! #dementiacare #livingwell
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Many congratulations to Ali Baker who lives with early onset dementia and last week jumped out of a plane to support others affected. Ali, diagnosed at 56, and friends Charley & Hannah skydived to raise £1,600! Read more about Ali's determination to keep doing what she loves best at bit.ly/4a9F8z2
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Huge thanks to everyone who walked or helped out at A Walk to Remember at Bowood House. Sunday was a brilliant day out in beautiful North Wiltshire countryside, raising much-needed funds for dementia care and support. We're doing it all again in September! Please join us 👉https://bit.ly/4l3EYxN
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A spot of line dancing for energy then a first aid session for our North Wiltshire #volunteers. It was lovely to get the team together💕 #volunteer #dementia #Wiltshire
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Dorothy and Joy get stuck in to making #VEDay lunch at #OldSilkWorks, yes Spam and mash is back on the menu for the day 😋 #wartimememories #dementia
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our new memory group is underway in #Warminster. The weekly Tuesday group will be a mash-up of our most popular activities - Music for the Mind, Movement for the Mind, a memory cafe, plus plenty of chat, experience-sharing and mutual support along the way! #dementia #musicforthemind
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Nothing goes to waste at Corsham Memory Shed! An offcut of MDF became a handy notepad to jot down those all-important tea and coffee orders. Our new #memoryshed opens this month in #Calne - can't wait to get busy there too. www.alzheimerswiltshire.org.uk/activities-m... #keepingactive #dementia
Board with names and coffee orders pencilled on itGroup of older men with their coffeesCollection of mugs filled with tea and coffee
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This sounds brilliant - good wishes to everyone involved!
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Some runaway piglets provided extra entertainment at Kennet Muddy Boots group's visit to The Farm at Avebury. An excellent spring trip for the group who love being out 'on location' in Wiltshire.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Another inspiring #UnderstandingDementia workshop! Thanks to everyone who came to Frances' session at Giffords Surgery in #Melksham, part of our ongoing efforts to create #dementiafriendly communities across #Wiltshire. Thanks to @TNLComFund for funding this work.
Group of six men and women smiling and holding 'I understand more about dementia' signs. Pictured indoors in a GP surgery premises.
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Sarah Tyler @sarah-in-wiltshire.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Devizes Town Band spring concert is 2 weeks away and I'd love to see you there from my place in the band, on bass clarinet. We are raising funds for @alzheimerssupport.bsky.social and that's another great reason to come! Tickets are only £10, get yours here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/devizes-town...
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Dementia Community @dementiacommunity.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🎨 The 2025 Dementia Community National Art Competition is open! 🖼️ We invite people living w/ #dementia & carers to submit paintings, drawings or sketches: buff.ly/zWu7hSz 🎟️Tickets for the Creative Dementia Conference (3/6, 2025, Bristol): buff.ly/PHcYzKN
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Yesterday we celebrated and wished a happy retirement to our longstanding head of day care Grant Newton. He has led our four day clubs with vision, compassion and an unwavering belief in the person behind the #dementia. Wishing all the best for a happy retirement, Grant, Higby and Dottie 💕
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We're starting TWO new weekly groups for people living with #dementia in #Wiltshire this month 🎉 Singing, exercise and conversation at Warminster Memory group bit.ly/3QWFPTJ and a chance to revive practical skills at Calne Memory Shed bit.ly/4jiRPLp #keepingactive #community
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Lovely to meet the spring lambs this week! Being out in nature is a tonic for all but especially beneficial for people affected by #dementia. All thanks to everyone at The Piggery for making members of Kennet #MuddyBoots group so welcome🌱🐑
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Our dementia advisers provide personalised support, advice and guidance to people affected by #dementia in #Wiltshire. And they get out to groups too, meeting the people we support more informally and having some fun together. Here's new adviser Kelly getting stuck in at #MovementfortheMind 🤸‍♂️
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Huge thanks to @wiltsfreemasons.bsky.social who are giving £60,000 to #OldSilkWorks club over the next 3 years! And lovely to welcome John, Des and Paul to found out what the donation means to club members, staff and volunteers. bit.ly/4hw7xkO
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Thank you Wiltshire Freemasons
Wiltshire Freemasons have donated £60,000 to support Old Silk Works club for three years.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We support 2,500 people affected by dementia every year. We know how our amazing staff bring happiness and empowerment, reduce isolation and restore dignity. So we're proud to be part of #ProvidersUnite day of action. It is time for change, for investment and for policy makers to #ValueSocialCare
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Good luck to everyone at #ProvidersUnite march today, including our own senior manager Monique Bentley. Social care matters - it brings joy, security and comfort to the most vulnerable, but Government actions are putting our sector at risk. Social care is a right not a privilege! #WeValueSocialCare
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If you are interested in dementia and the thoughts, concerns and rights of people living with dementia please follow @innov-dementia.bsky.social - wonderful resource and place to share 😊
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
More creativity from members of our art group in Chippenham 👏🎨
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Sobering reading from @dementiacarers.bsky.social A national strategy for unpaid carers, including routine contingency planning, is so urgently needed.
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The Living well with Dementia (LivDem) post diagnostic course @livdemcourse.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We are very pleased to be able to announce that our next training programme will run over four Wednesdays starting on 5th March 2025 and ending 26th March 2025. The four sessions will run between 11:00 – 13:30GMT with a short comfort break.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Our latest #intergenerational partnership kicked off with a skittles match between #OldSilkWorks members and the Year 6s from Princecroft primary who will visit the club each week. Fab to see the generations connecting!
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We recruiting a full-time Carer Coordinator to work with unpaid carers of people with #dementia in #Wiltshire. It's an exciting new role within the Carers Together Wiltshire partnership, helping carers to access services, support and advice. Apply or find out more at bit.ly/4jiowcE
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Carer Coordinator
A Wiltshire Carers Together role, providing support, guidance and advice to unpaid carers in Wiltshire. Full-time, hybrid working.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Great resource here - thank you @madlinsudn.bsky.social 😊
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
'My journey with dementia had begun long before my official diagnosis'... Ali Baker on coming to terms with early onset #dementia @gailgreg.bsky.social @bethyb1886.bsky.social @dementiacommunity.bsky.social @reminduk.bsky.social www.alzheimerswiltshire.org.uk/blog/i-wont-...
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'I won’t let dementia win'
Ali Baker is determined to live life to the fullest following her recent diagnosis of early-onset dementia.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Our groups in #Wiltshire this week. Keeping active and making new connections are so important and lovely to see everyone again after the break. www.alzheimerswiltshire.org.uk/this-weeks-e...
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This week's events at Alzheimer's Support
Our regular community activity groups for people living with dementia in Wiltshire, updated weekly.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Merry Christmas from Roger, support worker Georgie and Coco the cat 😘
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Dementia Community @dementiacommunity.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Our next webinar, Holidaying with #Dementia, is on 14 January, 2025 at 2-3pm. Speaker: Carol Sargent Attendees will gain strategies to create enjoyable getaways and embrace new experiences. Book For Free: buff.ly/49WhwOf Our Webinar Schedule: buff.ly/3Bvsm13
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Huge thanks to everyone who has donated so far - it means a lot to have your support and every gift has twice the impact so even more valuable to our work. Double donations are live until Christmas Eve!!
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
'I love going to #ScotsLane. It’s a break from the boredom of home, a joyful place where I meet new people, a new bunch of friends given to you.' Derek on how the #Salisbury day club has made life easier for him and his wife Monica. #dementia #community www.carechoices.co.uk/blog/dementi...
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Jon Sparkes @jonsparkes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Expressing concerns on BBC over the increased National Insurance costs coming for charities delivering vital public services for disabled people. Need: - fair pay for social care - Government fully funding services - fundamental review of adult social care funding www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Services will close over National Insurance rise, Mencap tells BBC
The charity is one of a number of care organisations warning they will have to axe vital services.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It's absolutely the right decision, but we're so disappointed Bath Christmas Market is called off tomorrow due to #StormDarragh. We had the charity chalet for one day only, to sell gifts handmade by volunteers to raise essential funds. Now what to do? Few pics of past years to cheer us up!
3 volunteers at the charity chalet with bunting and giftsTwo volunteers in bobble hats behind with the charity chalet from 2019Another year another volunteer mans the stand with a selection of gifts laid outA male customer browses the Alzheimer's Support charity chalet at Bath Christmas Market
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Dogs are a daily presence in our day clubs in Wiltshire, but it's not often we are visited by a donkey. Needless to say, a hit! Huge thanks to Kelly's Donkeys and dear, patient Dermot 💕 #animalassistedactivities #dementiacare #OldSilkWorks
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ReMind UK @reminduk.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Welcome to ReMind UK, an independent charity delivering expert diagnosis, research and support for people affected by dementia. We're focused on brain health, early diagnosis of the disease and researching better treatments. In other words: getting ahead of dementia. Find out more: www.reminduk.org
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We rely on fundraising and are thrilled that, thanks to the generosity of our charity partners, donations will be doubled this month! Any gifts will have twice the impact this #Christmas so please support us if you can🙏🎅 bit.ly/4givCeG #dementia #Christmasappeal #doubledonations
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Double donations this December
Every donation will be doubled thanks to the generosity of our charity partners. So your gift will have twice the impact.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Congratulations to Phil Horton and Susan Dixon, who have each clocked up 20 years as support workers. Thank you for making life richer for people affected by dementia, for always seeing the person first and for continuing to be be such an important part of our team 💙
Phil and Susan standing together
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Dr Jules Montague @julesmontague.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Coming up at 9.45, our BBC Radio 4 show is being repeated this month. Dementia: Unexpected Stories of the Mind is a five-part series about rare dementias. Extraordinary interviewees, remarkable stories. #frontotemporaldementia #dementia #neurology @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Members of our Memory Shed were commissioned by Corsham Town Council to make bird and bat boxes, with extras to sell for funds at Bath Christmas market. Fab example of a proactive local council working with us to help retain skills, build friendships, support nature and do some good 😊
Memory Shed member painting part of a bird boxFinished bird boxMemory Shed member being supported to use more complex tools
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We're on the BBC explaining what the autumn budget means for our #dementia #charity in #Wiltshire. BBC News - Wiltshire charity 'will cost £200k more to run' after Budget - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wiltshire charity 'will cost £200k more to run' after Budget
Alzheimer's Support Wiltshire says it is facing higher costs following changes in the autumn Budget.
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Beyond Dementia @beyonddementia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Good read on the benefits of volunteering alongside people with dementia. And love the positive photo ❤️ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A new start after 60: I became a ‘hummingbird’ for people with dementia
When Ann Thomas-Carter retired, she lost her sense of purpose. Then she began volunteering in a care home and found six hours could fly past in six minutes
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Gail Gregory @gailgreg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My latest blog, you are welcome to read and share😊 
Sleep is supposedly a natural part of life, well it was until dementia struck! dementiaalzheimers.home.blog/2024/11/18/d...
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Diary – Sleep or lack of
Monday 18th November 2024 Sleep is supposedly a natural part of life, well it was until dementia struck! Recently I have been doing pretty well with sleep, but for some reason over the last week, I…
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