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Green Pathways for Life aims to enhance the lives of people living with dementia, using conservation and wildlife activities to boost confidence, transferable skills and emotional, social and physical ...
Nature & wildlife workshops for people with dementia - art, gardening & more!
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Summary
Can you help us run nature and wildlife inspired creative activities to help people with dementia get active outdoors? Opportunities on a Mon, Tues and WedDetailed description
Our Wild Memories groups provide opportunities for people living with dementia to get active outdoors. This has proven health benefits, including specific positive impacts on the symptoms of dementia.
We are always looking for volunteers:
- Monday afternoon (Mells Walled Garden, 2-4pm)
- Tuesday morning (Frome, 11-1pm)
- Wednesday afternoon (Frome, 2-4pm)
Typical activities include gardening, nature conservation, and seasonal arts and crafts, tea drinking and biscuit munching, seed planting, willow weaving, clay modelling, felt making, foraging, outdoor cooking, bird watching and song listening, silly games, poetry, painting, drawing, nature walks, meditation, wood work, and anything else we can think of!
Volunteers can bring their own ideas as well, we can get the materials through the project.
Volunteers gain experience in delivering sessions, in supporting people, in community engagement, and nature conservation. We will discuss what you specifically wish to get out of your volunteering experience.
What we will provide to volunteers
💸 Reimbursement of costs🤝 Extra supportAbout Froglife
The project focus is on engaging with people with dementia living at home, with mild to moderate dementia or memory loss symptoms. We also encourage anyone supporting these individuals to attend our sessions, to enable people with dementia to attend our activity sessions safely, and with an additional aim to support the wellbeing of informal care givers.
As lockdown eases and group sessions are once again possible, we are looking at restarting our outdoor sessions. We have guidelines and strict safety procedures in place to keep our staff, volunteers and participants safe.
Re-establishing the confidence of individuals in returning to outdoor group activities is a challenge during this time, but it is also highly important. The support of a willing volunteer activity assistant would be fantastic.