Bluebells Day Centre

07/05/2026

Here's an easy way of raising money for Bluebells Day Centre! If you sign up with EasyFundraising and install the app, whenever you make a purchase with a listed retailer (there are over 7,000) the retailer donates to Bluebells Day Centre.

Retailers include lots of big names, like John Lewis, Tesco, Curry's, travel brands like Thomas Cook and Booking.com - you can really build up donations from these companies just by using the app.

If you sign up before May 10th, they'll enter Bluebells Day Centre into a draw to win £2,000!

Help us when you shop with 7,000+ brands. Join now.

09/10/2024

Bluebells Day Centre are delighted to announce Aliquando Chamber Choir Concert in aid of Bluebells

Please come and join us at St Mary's Church, Henley at 7pm on Saturday, November 23rd.

https://bluebellsdaycentre.org.uk/2024/10/09/aliquando-concert-in-aid-of-bluebells/

11/04/2024

The woods around Henley are turning blue! Walk and discover the spring wonder of the English Bluebell, our favourite flower - and help to support Bluebells Day Centre in Henley!
The Bluebells Day Centre is a Henley based charity dedicated to supporting Dementia patients and their families.
https://www.pipstickswalks.co.uk/book-walk/bluebells-for-bluebells-charity-walk

Saturday 4th May 2024 We have teamed up with the Bluebells Day Centre to bring you this special guided walk through the sumptuous bluebell woods in the Chiltern hills around Henley. The Bluebells Day Centre is a Henley based charity dedicated to supporting Dementia patients and their families. Yo

09/04/2024

Saturday 4th May 2024 We have teamed up with the Bluebells Day Centre to bring you this special guided walk through the sumptuous bluebell woods in the Chiltern hills around Henley. The Bluebells Day Centre is a Henley based charity dedicated to supporting Dementia patients and their families. Yo

21/09/2023

Today, 21st September 2023, is . Bluebells Day Centre based in Henley-on-Thames, offers people with Alzheimer's and other types of dementia a safe, relaxed & friendly environment while those who care for them enjoy much needed respite.

As a very small, independent, local charity, Bluebells relies on generous donations. If you would like to donate to, or sponsor, Bluebells, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
https://bluebellsdaycentre.org.uk/contact/

15/05/2023

Long term Bluebells Carer and Local Treasure, Julia Yeo, will be running a Tombola to raise money for Bluebells Day Centre in Market Place this Saturday 20th of May from 10am to 2pm. Please stop by and say hello!

07/02/2023

'She still looks like Mum, sounds like her, smells like her and feels like her but it isn’t her – then sometimes I get these glimpses of the person she used to be.’

Louise Yates, in Peterborough, values what she has – especially ‘scrapbook moments’ with her mum, such as when Marion helped her daughter with the drying up.

‘There’s no point me sitting there doing nothing while you’re busy,’ she tells her. ‘We help each other out, don’t we?’

Louise Yates, her daughter, knows exactly when this conversation took place – in the evening of 22 August 2022.

She can be so precise because it was one of the rare moments in the two and a half years she’s been caring for her mother when the woman she once knew had ‘reappeared’. This had been the first time in two years Marion had picked up a tea towel.

Louise loves these moments and writes down her mum’s words in a scrapbook so she can read them over again, reminding herself of the woman she remembers so well and who so often no longer seems there.

For Louise, the scrapbook is also a silent message to those she believes write people off when they receive a dementia diagnosis. They’re proof that the person of old remains.

‘Dementia is the longest, hardest goodbye,’ says Louise. ‘You’re left with a shell of the person you knew.'

Read more about Marion and Louise’s journey here: https://bit.ly/3lkP5nK

31/03/2022

We are excited to announce that we are teaming up with Pipsticks Walks again this year for another Bluebells for Bluebells charity walk fundraiser on Sunday 8th of May 2022 at 10am.

https://bluebellsdaycentre.org.uk/2022/03/31/2022-bluebells-for-bluebells-walk/