Warwickshire Reminiscence Action Project

Charity Number 1135981.

The Chapel Stratford Hospital                                                   

Arden Street

Stratford upon Avon                          

Warwickshire CV37 6NX

The Trustees of WRAP welcome you to our web site.

NEWS UPDATE

Mike's Birthday event raised £125.00

Stratford Rotary donate £200.00 to WRAP

Rotarian Iain Kelso meets up with WRAP

and helps with the purchase of a white board and easel.

Carers' information and support programme

for carers' who are caring for a person living with Dementia,

commencing on 9th of May 2013 There will be ten places available

and the programme will be free! See our Training page for details

                     

 

 Cares' week is coming and WRAP will be hosting a Showcase event at the Stratford CIvic Hall

                          on Tuesday 11th June

To be part of the event please book your place by ringing Mike Strophair 01789 262062  or E.mail  wrap1@hotmail.co.uk

Carers Week 2013 takes place from Monday 10 to Sunday 16 June.

Carers Week is a UK-wide annual awareness campaign. Its aim is to improve the lives of carers and the people they care for. It does this by:

Raising the profile of the role of caring in the national, regional and local media and encouraging groups and organisations to take part and organise events and activities.

• Helping the public identify themselves as carers and access the support, advice and information they need.
• Celebrating and recognise the contribution the UK’s 6.4 million carers make to the people they care for and their communities.
• Highlighting the challenges of caring and campaigning for sustainable funding for services and support for carers and the people they care for.

This year the theme for Carers Week is Prepared to Care? Every day at least 6,000 people start caring. Becoming a carer can impact significantly on a person’s life – it takes time, energy, can leave you isolated and can be costly

For further information contact Mike

                          

 

One of our Trustees Michelle Scott who is terrified of spiders is spending the night in a haunted house in Stratford and Michelle reckons she will be more scared of the spiders that the ghosts............... You can see how much Michelle raised for WRAP by clicking on the Mydonate logo which will take you to her page.

News Update:- Michele completed her night of adventure in the dark and has spooked up over £390.00 for WRAP. ..

More fund raising news:-

 

Stratford Town Council opened the Town Hall as part of the Heritage Week-end in October and Raised £430.00 for WRAP. A big thank you to the Coffeee bar team who raised the money.

NEWS FOR WRAPPERS.

Following on from the Carers Information Support Programme (CISP) a group pf carers who have joined wrap as friends decided to continue meeting to support each other on the Dementia Journey.

The began meeting at the "Food of Love"  cafe in wood street Stratford upon avon opposite the Shakespeare Birth Place.

Following a couple of meetings they decided to call themselves the Wrappers. In response to this initiative WRAP have adopted the new name and re-badge friends of WRAP to the WRAPPERS and the newsletter sent out to friends is now known as the WRAP.

The Tramway Halloween fireworks display on Sunday 28th October

Raised £52.00 for WRAP a big thank you to all those who braved the rain

 

                                                                              

 

     Wrappers River Trip a great success.

      Sparklers to finish with.....                 

 

 

OLD NEWS:-            

WRAP Grand Raffle 2012

Please click here for the winners.

The Trustees would like to thank the following  organisations

www.stratfordoaks.co.uk; www.stratfordarmouries.co.uk;

The old Thatch; Holiday Inn stratford upon Avon;

City Sightseeing Stratford upon Avon.; peditank Limited; Stratford Garden Centre:

Stratford Fancy Dress; Tesco;

Forestfireworks.co.uk; meeteatdrink old Tramway; Bancroft cruisers

Wednesday 20th June WRAP Annual General Meetingt took place at

The Stratford upon Avon United Reformed Church hall

Rother Street   Stratford upon Avon .

    We participated in National Carer's week by staging a SHOWCASE Event at the same venue

We had 17 stall holders attend and the cafe was run by Age Uk volunteers.

                                    

        see below for details of the programme for the day

ORGANISATION THAT PARTICIPATED

            offering their services to the community of South Warwickshire

      

SEE TRAINING PAGE:- for latest news on training courses:

Our Annual General Meeting was held at Stratford United Reform Church Rother Street this year on Wednesday 20th June.

In addition we hosted an exhibition of memories that have been collected within the BM Project and to ensure we get the message Older people matter across we invited other providers who assisted on the CISP Programme to showcase their skills and services.

The exhibition was open to the public from 10.00 a.m.until 4.00 p.m

Our guest speaker at the AGM was the celebrated Erica Brown, who is Head of Research and Development at Acorns Children’s Hospice, Birmingham. 

Erica's presentation was relating to bereavement associated with carers' and their loved ones.who are currently starting or are on the dementia journey.

Holding on and Letting Go

Caring for a person with dementia is often very demanding, particularly when it involves trying  to ‘hold on’ to a past relationship whilst experiencing a loved one distancing  themselves cognitively and emotionally.  Many carers liken the experience to grieving.

 It is vitally important that we acknowledge the stress that we feel and that we give ourselves opportunities to re-charge our batteries so that we are able to re-new our resolve to continue caring.  The talk aims to help  carers reflect on their own needs.

Erica Brown is Vice President of Acorns Children’s Hospices and Principal Research Fellow in palliative care at Coventry University.  She has longstanding experience as a senior manager in schools and universities and she has lectured and published nationally and internationally about the impact of adverse life experience.  Erica is a trained bereavement counsellor and has recently been made Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of her work. 

 Joining WRAP

Our Extensive resource centre with 32  themed boxes all containing artifacts from the past

are available for the same price as last year.

To join WRAP costs just £38.00 per annual membership.

Each resource available encourages memories using the five senses

By Joining WRAP you can borrow a box or item for up to 21 days before you need to return it.

Items can also be borrowed and returned on a weekly basis as the resource centre is open every

Tuesday from 9.30 until 4.30 in the afternoon.

You can book your request by telephone enabling you to collect or exchange with a minimum of fuss and time.

If you wish to have more information please telephone 01789 262062 .

New Partnership

WRAP are currently working in partnership with the British Museum of Folk Law on producing memories of bonfire night, the mop and street fairs, Whit sunday celebrations and the river Avon.

Already we have discovered that in Stratford upon Avon before the town had a swimming pool there was a mass swim down the river from the old bathing place to the bridge on the Bancroft. WRAP will be working with Bancroft gardens residential Home,The Methodist home Cedar Lawn; St Joseph's Home stead Trust and the NIcol Unit at Stratford Hospital.

This project will be recording on film some of the participants stories.

So watch this space for more reminiscences.

Stratford Hospital (Nichol Unit).

Since the refurbishment of the Nicol Unit WRAP have been training members of the nursing team in Reminiscence therapy to Open College Accreditation level 3. By using the WRAP resource library the staff can find a resource to promote memories in a variety of those they are engaging with.

The Nichol unit will be linking with WRAP's training packages that are available for staff and volunteers.

It is hoped that a patients stay in the Nichol Unit will be a stimulating experience and improve their well-being. For further information on this project please contact liz.gould@swft.nhs.uk 

or Mike at wrap1@hotmail.co.uk

By moving into the old Chapel on Stratford Hospital Site near the Nichol Unit we can cater for the units needs.

We are open Tuesdays 9.00 until 4.30 p.m So pop along and meet us.  Visitors can park free for 15 minutes. ample time to pick up a resource you want to borrow.

 

Vacancies:-

Volunteer vacancy

We are looking for a volunteer that can provide WRAP with some fund raising ideas and asist us with our publicity.

The office is open every Tuesday morning.

For further information please telephone the office 01789 262062.

Trustee vacancies

WRAP is always looking for like minded volunteers to join the Trustees. In particular we require a trustee that has expertise in Chairing meetings . If you feel that you can contribute and would like further details please contact the secretary 01789 262062 

WRAP Newsletter Re-recruits editor and producer Colin Sheldon. Colin who has developed WRAP's Newsletter over the last 18 months is back on board.

I am pleased to say that he will continue to produce our newsletter.

We are about to give the newsletter a new name The WRAP. The idea  came from a group that have formed themselves since participating in one of wRAPS Cisp courses. They have had the idea of calling them selves the WRAPPERS. So we are adopting the idea and Friends of WRAP will now be known as WRAPPERS. If you have any comments on this please get in touch with Colin.

If you have any articles you would like to contribute please contact Colin via the office 01789 262062.

Reminiscence Therapy.

W.R.A.P is a limited company by guarantee that has recently acquired Charity status and become a centre for the Open College Network. Our objectives are to promote Reminiscence therapy work and to provide on going training for people working with older members of the community and carers who work alongside people on the dementia journey.

Additionally we aim to provide reminiscence therapy training for carers and volunteers who work in schools through the community.

We will also carry out projects on intergeneration work within schools  linking them to community groups.

 We also wish to establish a centre for the development of reminiscence work in Warwickshire.

What is Reminiscence?.............................

Reminiscence work or therapy is excellent at developing well-being in people. It is an enjoyable experience, It brings people together to discuss a  memory or memories of events that have been shared by those participating. Holidays, work, family, the war, festivals and the seasons, are some of the themes that can be used to reminisce.

All memories are assisted by the six senses. Touch smell, taste,sound and sight, and physical action.

Our trigger boxes are full of items that use the five senses to promote memory recall and the enjoyment of discovering something from your past that had not been seen for a long time.

Resource Centre and Trigger Bank

We have a selection of triggers mostly themed in boxes for loan. To join the trigger bank it costs £38.00 per year. You will be able to loan each trigger box for up to 21 days. We have a choice of 32 boxes all themed and including artifacts that will stimulate the five sense. The trigger bank is open every Tuesday from 10.00 a.m. until 3.30 p.m. in the afternoon.

Lorna Ellis our admin assistant will look forward to meeting you. or you can telephone . 0770 414 7316

If you are interested in supporting WRAP, we would welcome you to become a member of one of our committees and encourage you to attend our next meeting please telephone for date and time.

Alternatively you could just become a WRAPPER.

To become a WRAPPER and a friend send £10.00 together with your name address & post code to our secretary. In exchange you will receive a copy of our newsletter and invites to attend at a discount our organised events some of which are social occasions.

Sometime in the future we are intending to open a centre of excellence for reminiscence, which will be a centre for well-being and provide an Alzheimer’s café together with a trigger collection that will encourage interactive displays. There will be themed rooms depicting triggers that can be borrowed for group work. We hope that the building will be a period building that will reflect the 19th and 20th Century. We wish to preserve the history of Stratford upon Avon and the surrounding countryside and how it contributed towards the war effort in both wars.  To do this we would need a building and lots of money. If you have those items and would like to donate them please speak to our secretary.

WRAP has been funded by
NATIONAL LOTTERY “AWARDS FOR ALL”,
STRATFORD UPON AVON TOWN TRUST,
STRATFORD DISTRICT COUNCIL
WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL.
FOREST FIREWORKS CHARITY BIKE RIDE.

Shakespeare Lions

Bancroft Cruisers

The Heart of England Community Foundation.

Stratford River Festival

Meeteatdrink ( the Tramway Inn)

Waitrose