News and Updates

Our South Glos Meeting Centre recently had a trip to Oakham Treasures to enjoy their unique collection of memorabilia from … Continue reading Oakham Treasures Trip

South Gloucestershire Meeting Centre members spent time decorating a Christmas cake and biscuits at their Wednesday session this week. The … Continue reading South Gloucestershire Meeting Centre Get In The Xmas Spirit

At the beginning of December, one of the BME groups Alive has been working with, the Golden Agers, held a … Continue reading Golden Agers Hold Bring-And-Buy Sale

CQC ratings play a big part in all of our lives. Whether you are trying to improve your rating or … Continue reading Alive on Demand could help with CQC ratings!

Alive would like to send a huge and heartfelt thank you to everyone that supported our Christmas Fundraising Bazaar at … Continue reading Christmas Fundraising Bazaar at the Bristol Dementia Meeting Centre

Our CEO Isobel was recently invited to be a speaker at two Caring UK Conferences in late October. One in … Continue reading Alive CEO Isobel Jones invited to speak at Caring UK Conferences

After winning a prestigious ‘Dementia Care’ award at the Markel 3rd Sector Care Award in March, our dementia-friendly allotment in … Continue reading Alive’s dementia-friendly allotment featured on Gardeners’ World this month

As part of this year’s Celebrating Age Festival, Alive’s dementia-friendly allotment is running an open afternoon to reflect on how … Continue reading CAF at the Allotment 

To commemorate World Alzheimer’s Day and this year’s theme of ‘Know Dementia’ and the focus on post-diagnosis support, we wanted … Continue reading World Alzheimer’s Day 2022: Stories from our Dementia Meeting Centres

Brian, a care home resident at Innisfree Residential Home in Weston-Super-Mare, wrote into the Wishing Washing Line™ West last month … Continue reading Wishing Washing Line™ West grants its first wish!

Alive ran the first session at a new community garden last week in Worle, Somerset. We’ve been consulting with David … Continue reading Stanley’s Garden

Keep the weekend of 17th – 18th Sept free because, once again, Alive’s Community Gardens are taking part in this … Continue reading Alive and The Get Growing Trail 2022

“Clevedon Meeting Centre is the highlight of our week” “It’s worth every penny.” Members from Clevedon Christ Church Meeting Centre … Continue reading Recent Updates from our North Somerset Meeting Centres

The sun is shining, and it feels like summer is finally well and truly with us. I hope you are … Continue reading Summer Note from our CEO

Tea And Tech has been roving around North Somerset this year, setting up in village halls and running drop-in sessions … Continue reading Tea & Tech: Summer Update

From gardening socials to a new marketing volunteer joining the team, here are our latest volunteering updates Volunteering with Alive … Continue reading June Volunteer Update

The Evergreens group paid homage to Her Majesty with a celebration fit for a Queen With themed decorations, cakes decorated … Continue reading BME Elders ‘Evergreens’ Group Celebrates Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Clevedon Dementia Meeting Centre attendees’ daughter shares heartwarming words of thanks The daughter of two of our Meeting Centre attendees’ … Continue reading Meeting Centre member describes sessions as “golden moment” of their week

We are so pleased to announce that on the 4th of March 2021, we won two national awards at the … Continue reading Alive wins national awards and is nominated for Bristol award

For Dementia Action Week, Alive and Brace are running a webinar on the benefits of community gardening for people living … Continue reading Webinar: The Benefits of Community Gardening For People Living With Dementia

Some fun reasons to get involved with volunteering for us We recently took part in this year’s Get Growing Trail. … Continue reading Bristol Growing Network X Allotment

As members of the Alive Lawrence Weston Community Gardening Group can’t meet up together in person at the moment, we … Continue reading Teleconference Calls Commence to Connect Gardening Group

Following the challenges of COVID-19, Alive were thrilled to restart our intergenerational activities again, in October this year. There has … Continue reading Keeping intergenerational links alive

Alive’s amazing CEO, Isobel Jones, was invited to chat all things tech with the wonderful Hilary Woodhead, NAPA’s Executive Director. … Continue reading Accessing Technology as a Tool for Engagement

In August Alive Activities received funding from The National Lottery Communities Fund, the Department of Sport, Media and Culture and … Continue reading #OneGoodTurn

Alive are delighted to be able to support people, in the community of Lawrence Weston, to get growing again! We … Continue reading Gardening sessions return to the community

Alive has been gifted an allotment by the kind people at Charlton Road allotments in North Bristol. Over lockdown, a … Continue reading Help us crowdfund for our allotment toilet!

Care Homes have worked so hard through the recent pandemic in caring for their residents. Alive and The Bristol Dementia … Continue reading Supporting you in Activity

As part of the Support Hub, at Alive we are able to offer small groups of older people time to … Continue reading Telephone reminiscence

We are so pleased to be involved in a collaboration of local charities to form a new Support Hub to … Continue reading Bristol Support hub – charities come together

Free online activity sessions via zoom… These strange times have bought many challenges to us as a charity. Financial, logistics … Continue reading Alive and direct!