WELCOME TO WRAP
Warwickshire Reminiscence Action Project
Charity Number 1135981.
Arden Street
Stratford upon Avon
Warwickshire CV37 6NX
The Trustees of WRAP wish you welcome to our web site.
NEWS UPDATE
Please note our new Logo designed by Ian Greenall
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 .
SEE TRAINING PAGE:- for latest news on training courses:
Friend's Night Out
We are please to announce evening of good company and a gentle river trip up the Avon River. On Friday 18th May 2012, Plus a chance to enjoy a drink and nibbles with other friends of WRAP commencing at 7.00 p.m. We are grateful for the support of Forest Fireworks Limited and Bancroft Cruisers
The cost per ticket (limited to 35) is only £5.00 per passenger.
To book please ring the office 01789 262062.
Our Annual General Meeting is to be held at Stratford United Reform Church Rother Street this year on Wednesday 20th June.
In addition we will be hosting an exhibition of memories we will have collected within the BM Project and to ensure we get the message Older people matter across we are inviting other providers who assisted on the CISP Programme to showcase their skills and services.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 10.00 a.m.until 4.00 p.m
Our guest speaker at the AGM commencing at 2.00 p.m. is the celebrated Erica Brown, who is Head of Research and Development at Acorns Children’s Hospice, Birmingham.
Erica's presentation will be relating bereavement to carers' and their loved ones.who are currently starting or 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.
Come and join us
We would also like other organisations that are supporting carers' to come and join us by putting on a display of what they do and how they can support carers' We have space available and there will be no charge but we will require a booking form to be completed. Please link here for a booking form.
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 use XP together with Excel for a Tuesday morning in the first instance. For further information please telephone the office 01789 262062.
We are also seeking a person who can edit film and produce a short film from our recordings.
Trustee vacancies
WRAP is always looking for like minded volunteers to join the Trustees. In particular we require a trustee that has expertise in Marketing. If you feel that you can contribute and would like further details please contact the secretary 01789 262062
What have we been up to?
Prior to Christmas WRAP have been planning the new work to be carried out with local residential and sheltered housing providers.
This will consist of reminiscence workshops and some filming of individual memories.
We are hoping to link with students from Kineton High School and the Stratford College.
The results of this work will be exhibited in Stratford upon Avon in June 2012.
Dementia Conference - Stratford upon Avon
Wednesday 21st March 2012
This conference organised by Jan Roberts and Stratford District Council was a great success. WRAP had sixty delegates take part in our workshops which was at Stratford Race Course.
for further details on the next event contact Jan Roberts. jan.roberts@stratford-dc.gov...
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.
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.
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.
Sue Parr our trigger bank co-ordinator 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 friend of wrap.
To become 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.