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across all of our Alive Projects and Events.
CAF at the Allotment
As part of this year’s Celebrating Age Festival, Alive’s dementia-friendly allotment is running an open…
World Alzheimer’s Day 2022: Stories from our Dementia Meeting Centres
To commemorate World Alzheimer’s Day and this year’s theme of ‘Know Dementia’ and the focus…
Wishing Washing Line™ West grants its first wish!
Brian, a care home resident at Innisfree Residential Home in Weston-Super-Mare, wrote into the Wishing…
Stanley’s Garden
Alive ran the first session at a new community garden last week in Worle, Somerset….
Alive and The Get Growing Trail 2022
Keep the weekend of 17th – 18th Sept free because, once again, Alive’s Community Gardens…
Recent Updates from our North Somerset Meeting Centres
“Clevedon Meeting Centre is the highlight of our week” “It’s worth every penny.” Members from…
Summer Note from our CEO
The sun is shining, and it feels like summer is finally well and truly with…
Tea & Tech: Summer Update
Tea And Tech has been roving around North Somerset this year, setting up in village…
June Volunteer Update
From gardening socials to a new marketing volunteer joining the team, here are our latest…
BME Elders ‘Evergreens’ Group Celebrates Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
The Evergreens group paid homage to Her Majesty with a celebration fit for a Queen…
Meeting Centre member describes sessions as “golden moment” of their week
Clevedon Dementia Meeting Centre attendees’ daughter shares heartwarming words of thanks The daughter of two…
Alive wins national awards and is nominated for Bristol award
We are so pleased to announce that on the 4th of March 2021, we won…
Webinar: The Benefits of Community Gardening For People Living With Dementia
For Dementia Action Week, Alive and Brace are running a webinar on the benefits of…
Bristol Growing Network X Allotment
Some fun reasons to get involved with volunteering for us We recently took part in…
Teleconference Calls Commence to Connect Gardening Group
As members of the Alive Lawrence Weston Community Gardening Group can’t meet up together in…
Keeping intergenerational links alive
Following the challenges of COVID-19, Alive were thrilled to restart our intergenerational activities again, in…
Accessing Technology as a Tool for Engagement
Alive’s amazing CEO, Isobel Jones, was invited to chat all things tech with the wonderful…
#OneGoodTurn
In August Alive Activities received funding from The National Lottery Communities Fund, the Department of…
Gardening sessions return to the community
Alive are delighted to be able to support people, in the community of Lawrence Weston,…
Help us crowdfund for our allotment toilet!
Alive has been gifted an allotment by the kind people at Charlton Road allotments in…
Supporting you in Activity
Care Homes have worked so hard through the recent pandemic in caring for their residents….
Bristol Support hub – charities come together
We are so pleased to be involved in a collaboration of local charities to form…
Alive and direct!
Free online activity sessions via zoom… These strange times have bought many challenges to us…
