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A FANTASTIC GOLDIES DAY OUT

11/6/2018

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A FANTASTIC GOLDIES DAY OUT
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Hundreds of our ‘Goldies’ headed for Port Talbot and the Princess Royal Theatre on Tuesday November 6th for our very special Goldies Day with a WW1 theme. This day was made possible with the support of the Big Lottery Fund in Wales and the Heritage Lottery. It was a day of songs and smiles with our Goldies Cymru session leaders led by Rachel Parry on stage leading the sing-alongs, the Ukulele Nights and the brilliant Central Primary School children on stage in the morning singing songs and reciting poems from 100 years ago.
 
Everyone was treated with a 45 minute performance on stage in the afternoon of the Armistice Cantata. This of course is the Goldies Award-Winning project from the children at Thornhill Primary School, Cardiff. Winners of the Education Category in the 2018 National Lottery Awards.
 
Another memorable day for Goldies Cymru and huge thanks to everyone including the team at the Princess Royal Theatre, together everyone contributed to a very special day as you will see from our pictures taken by Bill Savage.
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Press Release - Goldies launch Memory Cafe

11/1/2018

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PRESS RELEASE
 
Thursday November 1, 2018
 
The Golden-Oldies Charity was founded in Bath by Grenville Jones in 2007. Initially there were four daytime Sing&Smile sessions for older isolated people in Bath and Keynsham Community Rooms. Now, 11 years on, there over 160 sessions across England and Wales (Goldies Cymru) reaching out to thousands of people.
 
As the work of the charity has developed, session leaders have come forward to support the Goldies ethos. There are now over 60 freelance leaders from Bradford to Cornwall and Swansea to Southend.
 
As new sessions have been added many have in partnership with organisations supporting adults with learning difficulties. There has also been an increasing number, year on year, of attendees who are adults living with dementia or early stage Alzheimer’s. 
 
On Wednesday November 14 in the City of Bath where Goldies first started, a new pilot project will be launched. This will be a Memory Café at St Michael’s Church, in the centre of the city, financially supported by St John’s Hospital and working in partnership with St Michael’s Church and BaNeS Dementia Action Alliance.
 
Grenville Jones explains;
 
“Everyone is welcome at a Goldies session but as we have grown in recent years we have noticed that more and more people attending the session are in the early stages of dementia, a major issue and growing concern in society today. 
 
“This, our first Memory Café, is specifically designed for people living with dementia and their Carers to attend. The sessions will take place at St Michaels opposite Waitrose on the second Wednesday of every month and we hope that people across Bath & North East Somerset will spread the word to everyone who may be affected by dementia and who they feel could benefit from attending. 
 
“The songs have been specifically chosen and it is our hope that this will be the first of a number of Memory Cafes that the Golden-Oldies Charity will open in the years ahead. We are indebted to St John’s Hospital for their support of this new programme and the community spirit of Rev. Roger Driver and everyone at St Michaels.”
 
The Memory Café at St Michael’s in Bath takes place from 11.00am until 12.15pm and will be led by Steve Lawrence. Everyone is welcome and with the café open in the church, and there’s the chance to stay on for lunch after the session.
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Goldies with Sir Cliff Richard has made remarkable progress since it started in 2007. Last month it received the accolade of Education Category winner in the prestigious National Lottery Awards, a WW1 schools intergenerational programme led by Grenville Jones and featured on BBC1. 
 
Last weekend its popular Goldies Cymru session in a Cardiff library was also in the spotlight on ITV and Scottish TV when a film was shown during an X Factor break and seen by millions.
 
For further details of the work of the charity, its sessions and projects, see www.golden-oldies.org.uk
 
ENDS
 
Press enquiries to Grenville Jones on 07778 282934.
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The Goldies Charity is generously supported by The Edward Gostling Foundation (2025), The Garfield Weston Foundation and the Julia Rausing Trust 
Golden-Oldies Charity Ltd -  a company limited by guarantee
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