Dementia-Friendly Fife
Burnturk and Kettlehill Community Trust aims to make our hall, the community garden and our activities accessible to those with dementia and their carers, and dementia-friendly
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Age Scotland is the leading charity representing older people in Scotland and supporting their rights and interests. "We want everyone to love later life."
Circles Network for independent advocacy to ensure the patient’s point of view is heard when people have contact with professionals for example in health and social care services.
For Fife based service, email: info.fife@circlesnetwork.org.uk
“We specialise in providing independent, professional, issue-based advocacy for thousands of people, mostly those who are affected by disability, chronic long term illness, mental ill health, or by learning, physical and sensory difficulties, brain injury, autism and personality disorder.”
Life Changes Trust is funding the changes we are making to Jubilee Hall to become dementia friendly.
Life Changes Trust is a charity that invests in and supports the empowerment and inclusion of three groups: young people with experience of being in care, people living with dementia and unpaid carers of those with dementia.
See also: Life Changes Trust Fife projects
STAND (Striving Towards a New Day)
The STAND Group formed in September 2019. They are a group of people living with younger onset dementia and their families and friends. They all reside in the Fife area and the group meets in Kirkcaldy.
Congratulations to STAND on being appointedLife Changes Trust local legacy partners in Fife.
See also: Dementia Voices
Mental Health Week
Haiver FM broadcasted from the from Burnturk Jubillee Hall much of the week of 9 to 15 May 2022. Haiver FM is a Fife-based charity that promotes mental health awareness. See more on https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/people/fife-charity-launches-community-radio-station-haiver-fm-3673296
