YOUNGER PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA CIO 

UNLOCKING THE JOY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE WITH YOUNG ONSET DEMENTIA AND RESPITE FOR THEIR CARERS

The funding will be used to continue the delivery of the group harmony choir to support people who have been diagnosed with Young Onset Dementia and their families. The project aims to improve ....more

The funding will be used to continue the delivery of the group harmony choir to support people who have been diagnosed with Young Onset Dementia and their families. The project aims to improve wellbeing and quality of life and help maintain speech and language.

Core Funding

UNLOCKING THE JOY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE WITH YOUNG ONSET DEMENTIA AND RESPITE FOR THEIR CARERS

Funding toward a pilot project for people in their 50’s and 60’s that have been diagnosed with dementia can experience activities.

Younger People with Dementia provides support activities and services for people under the age of 65 who have been diagnosed with Young Onset Dementia (YOD) and their families and carers to enable ....more

Younger People with Dementia provides support activities and services for people under the age of 65 who have been diagnosed with Young Onset Dementia (YOD) and their families and carers to enable them to live better with their diagnosis. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to abandon our working week face-to-face activities and revert to an online set of activities using the internet including regular live video workshops, regular telephone contact, pre-recorded content and themed activity boxes to maintain contact with our vulnerable service users. As the lockdown relaxes we are starting up one-to-one garden visits and walks where safe to do so. This is the ongoing work that we would like you to fund. The grant funding will help us to pay for our delivery of services. This includes: covering a proportion of specialist staff, activity and transport costs. As a result of the pandemic we have an estimated deficit of £135,000 as we are unable to raise funds through public challenges and corporate support. The most significant difference this will make is to maintain a service and community for people with no other provision available to them, while mitigating the detrimental effect of isolation on mental health.

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.

This group will develop their project which aims to provide care and support to people diagnosed with young onset dementia, as well as providing support to the wider family unit. The project will ....more

This group will develop their project which aims to provide care and support to people diagnosed with young onset dementia, as well as providing support to the wider family unit. The project will deliver workshops for young people with dementia and separately for their carers. Workshops will include a choir, art sessions, walking, cooking, running, Pilates, shared reading and gardening. The workshops are selected based on current evidence of therapeutic benefit.