Dementia friendly walking football

[SudburyBee]

The Barnet Walking Football Team
In partnership with
Dementia Club UK Lisa Rutter
Part of & inspired by Forget Me Not FC Mick Geraghty
Sponsored by The Middlesex FA


London Borough of Barnet
Dementia Friendly walking football sessions

On Tuesday February 20th and 27th
at Copthall leisure centre
between 1pm -2pm With a cognitive based session followed by 2-3pm reminiscence and social time in the cafe

We will run the London. Borough of Barnet first ever dementia friendly walking football session

The sessions will be twice a month on a Tuesday
we will run our sessions as part of the FMN FC Group , reminiscing, exercising , playing and having a good laugh - football unites everyone , remembering there's more to the person than dementia

If you have a family member with dementia it’s free for both of you
Email for more details
Barnetwft@yahoo.com

[PurleyBee]

The WFT are absolute heroes!!! to do something like this, that is probably the highlight of someone's week or month having them attend to help and put on classes, as well as everything else they do in the community is fantastic a real credit to the club I hope they are held in the highest regard internally and nationally they deserve some form of award, bravo to all of them.

[beew]

Well done Kevin and the WFT, great work.

[John Hunt]

Good work. Well done all.

[rudebwoyben]

[SudburyBee]

The WFT are absolute heroes!!! to do something like this, that is probably the highlight of someone's week or month having them attend to help and put on classes, as well as everything else they do in the community is fantastic a real credit to the club I hope they are held in the highest regard internally and nationally they deserve some form of award, bravo to all of them.

Thank you it is an emotional experience both exhilarating and draining ! We help the carer have a break , going off with the team playing basketball or other sports in the hall whilst we play soft ball games etc with the dementia members
I was given the funding for 1 year by the Middlesex. Fa and we hope it will be renewed
Regards
Shaun

[DerekRocholl]

What a great initiative. I read yesterday that the Arsenal Community Hub do WFT sessions for people with Parkinson’s and they make a huge difference to the people who take part. It is brilliant to see Barnet WFT doing something similar for people with dementia. Well done to everyone concerned.

[SudburyBee]

Yes arsenal do an amazing job they have the finances to have their own health and well being officers .. as you can imagine our walking football team is not quite in that world , I received a fixed amount from the Middlesex Fa , and partnered with dementia club Uk barnet , we looked for a venue we could afford and Copthall leisure centre stepped up to the mark …
Amazing times

[finchleyman]

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Thank you it is an emotional experience both exhilarating and draining ! We help the carer have a break , going off with the team playing basketball or other sports in the hall whilst we play soft ball games etc with the dementia members
I was given the funding for 1 year by the Middlesex. Fa and we hope it will be renewed
Regards
Shaun
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How much will you need?

[SudburyBee]

I received around £1400 from the Middlesex FA for one years funding that will take us up to our Christmas party and then it’s about reapplying, such a little amount to do so much good

[finchleyman]

We are a charitable foundation and I am sure we can help but we can only give to other charaties. Does Domentia UK help at all as we have a conneciton there?

[SudburyBee]

We are a charitable foundation and I am sure we can help but we can only give to other charaties. Does Domentia UK help at all as we have a conneciton there?

Dementia club Uk is a charity run by ex Barnet mayor and councillor Lisa Rutter they are our partner

https://dementiaclubuk.org.uk/