Welcome

We have adopted the Purple Angel Campaign as our main delivery tool. This was started in Torquay by Norman McNamara, a man who has Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Following an incident in a local supermarket, where he was treated very badly, he and a few of his friends began the Campaign.

Why we do what we do

Basically, we are in the education business, our aim is to make Bristol THE Dementia Friendly City of the UK.

We do this by running dementia awareness sessions to any group or individual – for further information please see our What We Do page

There are two reasons why we do what we do:

1. There are 850,000 people in the UK living with dementia, 4500 live in Bristol! Many people do not know what dementia is, they don’t recognise the symptoms and they certainly don’t know how to support people with dementia. People with the condition are also often in denial.
2. The second reason we do what we do is that our Chairman’s wife,  Barbara, has had symptoms of Frontal Temporal Dementia since 1999.

So for them, it’s personal.

We use two main tools to deliver our awareness sessions:

• The Purple Angel Dementia Awareness Campaign. This was started in Torquay by Norman McNamara, a man who has Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Following an incident in a local supermarket, where he was treated very badly, he and a few of his friends began the Campaign.
• Dementia Friends, an initiative introduced by David Cameron’s government in 2012 and delivered through Alzheimer’s Society and Dementia Friend’s Champions.

 

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