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Meet Me in Winter is a demonstration of what’s possible when people unite

REAL PEOPLE. REAL VOICES. REAL FACES. REAL LIVES.

 

Look! We’re in Metro and the Daily Mail!

Meet Me in Winter is a demonstration of what’s possible when people unite – when they share their time, their commitment, their dreams, their stories and their resources to achieve extraordinary things.  It’s a song, a music video, a celebration and an ever expanding community of people….

We want our song to be heard everywhere. We want it to be played on the radio and the video shown on TV. We want to teach it to anyone who’d like to learn it and then sing together.

Carers are asked to give their views

Care views are wanted

PEOPLE who use care services in Central Beds are being asked to pinpoint the priorities for reform on the Social Care System.

Carers look forward to Fridays to have a sing song

Singing groups offer people with dementia, and their carers, a chance to socialise and sing with other people in the same situation. The Alzheimer’s Society runs ‘Singing for the Brain’ groups in England.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epKPyOR0joM[/youtube]

“It seemed to me a way of giving people confidence,”

Chreanne Montgomery-Smith, co-founder of Singing for the Brain

Dementia is a syndrome (a group of related symptoms) that is associated with a progressive decline of the brain and its functions. These include:

  • thinking
  • language
  • memory
  • understanding
  • judgment