We are raising money for Woodland View Nursing home, Lightwood, Sheffield which provides care for people with complex dementia who require specialist support. Dementia is a subject close to our heart as our mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s back in 2017

We would like to raise money to provide the residents more facilities and opportunities for entertainment and fun activities.

Firstly the home would love a professional karaoke machine as the residents love to sing and dance. Chris Scott, the Unit Manager said “one thing we have been discussing is a karaoke machine so staff can sing along with residents as music is a great activity for people with dementia…”

We would love to be able to provide this and much more!

Meaningful activities are of the utmost importance to those living with dementia. Dementia can cause people to withdraw from activities and social interaction. Keeping dementia patients actively engaged in everyday activities and cognitively challenging tasks is beneficial for both body and mind and, in some cases, it can even slow the progression of the disease.

Please help us to support the great work that the staff at Woodland View do by donating what you can.

We will update everyone with the total raised and what you were all able to achieve with your generous donations and love. As is so beautifully expressed in the account below… ”Love is what remains”.

”Some things are so deeply engrained into us that they are beyond the realms of mental capacity, or cognitive ability. People like to pathologise dementia. They talk about how the person ‘dies’ before they are actually dead. And in some ways that is true, the coherent version of the person you knew morphs into someone different. But this different person, the person they become, is still woven together with the essence of who they were, their core is still there. 

Having seen my mother through every stage of the condition that eventually claimed her life, I know for certain that her selfhood remained. Even when words failed her. Even when mobility was lost. Even when the world made less and less sense to her. She was still Jacquelyn. Still Mum. Brave, fiery, resilient Mum. 

Before Mum lost the ability to talk, I was visiting her one day and told her I loved her, she whispered back “me love you too. You’re my little girl”. And that is what is left when all else begins to fade. Love. Love is what remains.”

Laury - Daughter of Jacqueline