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Dementia Friendly Facilities in the Tandridge Area – Updated

New facilities for people with dementia and their carers are available in the Tandridge area.  Supported by the Alzheimer’s Society, “Singing for The Brain” sessions are being established in the Lingfield and Oxted areas.

In Caterham, a new free Memory Café has opened on the second Tuesday of each month at the Douglas Brunton Centre in Caterham.  This will provide support and signposting for people with dementia and their carers.

Michelle Elliott from the Good Care Group told Si Clarke about the new facility.

For more information, contact Michelle Elliott on 07872 506709 or email Michelle.Elliott@thegoodcaregroup.com.

Please note:  the day and time of the café has changed since the interview took place.  Please see the Memory Café link below for full details.

thegoodcaregroup.com/news

memory-cafe-2017

 

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Annie Whitmore talks to The National Trust

A new review says unsettled weather patterns have affected bee and butterfly numbers

The National Trust has published its yearly weather and wildlife review.

Our presenter Annie Whitmore spoke to the Trust’s nature and wildlife specialist Matthew Oates about the highs and lows of 2016 as well as what’s on offer for visitors to National Trust places in Surrey.

Image by Peter Young, National Trust
Image by Peter Young, National Trust

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Cutting hay at harvest time at Blaenglyn Farm in the Brecon Beacons National Park, South Wales. ©National Trust Images/Paul Harris
Cutting hay at harvest time at Blaenglyn Farm in the Brecon Beacons National Park, South Wales.
©National Trust Images/Paul Harris
A male Common Blue in August at Ravenroost, Wiltshire. The Common Blue is found in a variety of grassy habitats particularly where the larval foodplants can be found in sunny sheltered positions. ©National Trust Images/Matthew Oates
A male Common Blue in August at Ravenroost, Wiltshire. The Common Blue is found in a variety of grassy habitats particularly where the larval foodplants can be found in sunny sheltered positions.
©National Trust Images/Matthew Oates
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Daryl’s Atlantic Row – Sabine’s update

Sabine Grainger
Sabine Grainger
Merstham born, DARYL FARMER, now living in Forest Row, set off on a “Christmas Atlantic Row” on Wednesday 14th December, sailing from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua in the “Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge”, planning to arrive in March 2017.
  
  
  
  
 

Daryl is raising funds for two charities close to his heart, the “Peter Andre Fund” and the “East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service (WRAS)”.

SABINE GRAINGER, Daryl’s partner, called in to her local community radio station, Uckfield FM, recently to give a progress report, and spoke with their presenter, Peter Suter.

Full details of Daryl’s challenge can be found in our news story HERE.
and
http://www.rowers-ark.com/

You can sponsor Daryl through his “just giving” page https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/atlanticsolo2016
or at
https://www.gofundme.com/rowers-ark

You can follow Daryl and the race progress at https://www.taliskerwhiskyatlanticchallenge.com/race-tracker/

Audio courtesy of Uckfield FM

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Susy Radio Licence Renewal

We are pleased to announce that Susy Radio’s licence has been officially extended for another five years until 2022.  

Susy came on air as a fully licensed community radio station in July 2012 following many years of occasional broadcasts. Susy Radio’s Programme Director Geoff Rogers had this to say.

Chairman Alan French said the extension of Susy Radio’s licence reflects so well on all who have been involved with Susy Radio from its beginning to the present day, and made it the great community radio station it has become today.

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Santa Gets New Trousers From Elf Service

Photo shows:  Father Christmas, also known as Colin Stiff, with staff at the Pendleton Unit, East Surrey Hospital.

A Senior Nursing Assistant at East Surrey Hospital helped Father Christmas when he recently came to the Hospital as an outpatient.

Father Christmas who is also known as Colin Stiff, a retired policeman from Salfords, told Samantha Barrell at the hospital that he had been burgled.  Among other items, his red velvet trousers from his Santa suit had been stolen.  Nursing Assistant Samantha began a social media campaign to find some replacement trousers and some were donated the following day.  

It appears that Santa got his new trousers from the Elf Service!