The Brolly UMBRELLA DEMENTIA CAFÉS NEWSLETTER WINTER EDITION
The Mornington Peninsula Volunteer Team
Faye and Jo our longest serving volunteers
Better Together By Kirsty Porter – CEO Our volunteers are the heartbeat of Umbrella Dementia Cafés. We are certainly Better Together and we wouldn’t be without them! Every fortnight a team of 34 volunteers across our five cafes set up beautiful dementia friendly environments. They welcome everyone with open hearts, serve, support and connect with their fellow community members who are living with the challenges of dementia. On behalf of everyone who attend the cafes and those who quietly support us, THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS! Twenty-four Volunteers from our Whitehorse cafés and nine volunteers from our Peninsula cafés met for a beautiful luncheon in May & June. We celebrated their wonderful achievements, played games and presented fun certificates.
The power of our volunteering community is alive and well at Umbrella Dementia Cafes and continues to grow! We couldn’t be prouder of our connected teams as we continue to build a greater dementia café community and create better social experiences for everyone who attends each café, especially for those who can’t easily visit in a regular café. There is always something to do in our budding charity beyond helping out in the cafes, especially in the areas of fundraising and raising awareness in our local communities!
In this issue... Better Together
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Appeal for your help.
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Welcome To Our Team
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The Cafes
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Umbrella Café Blackburn The Koonung Café Cafe of Connections Navigator Café – Sorrento Community Centre Friendship Café Celebrating Volunteers Vale Supporting care givers
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What’s Been Happening
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Notices
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Support & Awareness
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Searching for an appropriate Respite or Permanent Care Home Quick National Help Numbers
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If you know someone who believes what we believe, and would like to volunteer, then please invite them to get in touch, we’d love to meet them. xx Kirsty Porter, CEO
Welcome to country Umbrella Dementia Cafés meets on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and the Boon Wurrung (Bunurong) people of the Kulin Nation, Traditional Custodians of the land on which our cafés meet, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd, PO Box 1236, Blackburn North 3130. www.umbrelladementiacafes.com.au. Umbrella Dementia Cafés accepts tax deductible gift donations.