WELCOME TO WRAP.
Warwickshire Reminiscence Action Project
Charity Number 1135981.
STOP PRESS.
Donation from Statford upon Avon's former Mayor.
Mayor Jenny Fradgley has kindly made a donation of £250.00 to WRAP's funds in acknowledgement of the inovative work we undertake in the community. Jenny has raised funds for voluntary organisations in the community over the last year of her office. This is a great surprise and a very welcome addition to our funds.
Thank you Jenny for thinking of us.
Old News
Trustees vote to close office at Progress House from Friday 30th July 2010.
Warwickshire Reminiscence Project (WRAP) has moved from Progress House to a temporary location. The decision to move has been taken in order to find more cost effective premises elsewhere, now that our present rental contract at Progress House is coming to an end.
We would like to reassure you that we will be continuing business as usual, loaning Trigger boxes out to our existing clients, continuing our existing work training reminiscence volunteers and spreading the word about the benefits of reminiscence therapy.
Our current telephone number will soon not be available, so please contact WRAP on mobile number 0770 414 7316, which has an answering service. Please use this number to arrange return of, or to request, a Trigger box and for all other WRAP business. If the phone is not answered, please leave a short message and contact details and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Obviously it will be trickier trying to run the charity on a business as usual basis until we have found alternative permanent premises, so please bear with us in the interim, but please do continue to use our services as usual as we can be flexible to fit in with your requirements.
Our registered address as a charity remains the same (Comet House), but this is not the postal and administrative address. Should you need to send anything in the post to us, please continue to use the Progress House address as we will collect post from there regularly, until we are able to give you a new postal/administrative address. We can still be contacted via email, wrap1@hotmail.co.uk, which remains the same.
We will keep you updated on our progress in establishing new administrative arrangements and contact details, but in the meantime please contact us on 07704 147 316 for further information and help.
Thank you, in advance, for your assistance and patience.
Kind regards
The Trustees of Warwickshire Reminiscence Action Project
However, We still intend to introduce you to 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 living with dementia.
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.
TRIGGER BANK
We have a selection of triggers mostly themed in boxes for loan. To join the trigger bank it costs £28.00 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.
Sally Batchelor our trigger bank co-ordinator will look forward to meeting you. or you can telephone 01789 262062.
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 friend of wrap.
To become a friend send ten pounds 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.