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Stapleford Memory Cafe is an organisation supporting people and their Carers living with Dementia.

28/10/2026

Thank you to our two new volunteers, Emma and Izzy who have been busy baking biscuits with Heather for our members to decorate.

Today's session found everyone busy decorating biscuits which will be hanging on the 'Stapleford Memory Cafe Christmas Tree' on display at the Stapleford Methodist Church Christmas Tree 🎄 Festival on the 28th November.

The main theme this year is 'Christmas traditions around the world'. We have decided on:-

'English Christmas Traditions in the 1940s (Wartime)'

Today, in addition to decorating biscuits, we have:-

📰 made paper chains from strips of newspaper
🎁 Christmas tags to hang on the tree
🎈 Baubles made out of used Christmas cards.
💮 Wreaths (made out of card), with seasonal greetings from our members

Thanks to everyone for helping create some really unique decorations for our tree 😊

24/10/2026

Our next meeting is this coming Wednesday, 28th October

15/10/2026

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13/10/2026

I visited Notcutts, Nottingham on Monday to be presented with this lovely festive Hamper for our Christmas Raffle.

❤️Thank you so much Luke and your team for your support and kind donation, much appreciated 👏

13/10/2026

10/10/2026

Our next meeting is this coming Wednesday, 14th October

09/10/2026

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30/09/2026

WORLD SMILE DAY - Part 2

There followed quizzes: -

🙃 Name that 'Sitcom'
🙃 Guess the 'Famous Grin'
🙃 Wordsearch - Comedians
🙃 'Smile' quotes and Facts and photos, mainly of wildlife that guaranteed to make you smile
and of course, plenty of singing...

30/09/2026

WORLD SMILE DAY - PART 1

At Stapleford Memory Cafe we celebrated 'WORLD SMILE DAY', first celebrated in 1999 thanks to Harvey Ball who created the iconic Yellow Smiley ☺️ Face back in 1963.

The aim is to do an act of kindness; make someone smile 😃

Down Memory Lane.... back in July 2025, Sarah Camplin kindly created our very own 'HAPPY TREE 🌳'. A 3D tree, where we hung paper birds, hearts and apples with comments from our members on what made them happy...

😀 Talking to friends and making new friends
😀 Laughing, having fun
😀 Socialising & interacting with people
..and my favourite:-

😀 'I always feel good after a visit to SMC'

Today, we did a similar exercise asking everyone what makes them smile: -

❤️ A nice cup of tea or coffee - Good ale & company
❤️ Sunday Dinner and ice cream
❤️ Rainbows; blue Sky and sunshine: a sunny 🌞 day
❤️ Family: Grandchildren & Great Grandchildren - in particular a Granddaughter getting 80% in spellings!
❤️ being made welcome on our first visit to SMC
❤️ Music and playing the cornet
❤️ Smiling when my partner smiles 😃

There were many more and looked wonderful as you can see from the picture, putting us all in a good mood and 'Smiling!

27/09/2026

We had a lovely afternoon on the River Trent courtesy of Princess River Cruises.

👏 Thanks to ALL the staff for their flexibility, helpfulness and great service x

❤️ Thanks to my volunteers - couldn't have done it without you x

🚘 Thanks to ALL my designated drivers who persevered through diversions and road blocks due to the Robin Hood Half Marathon xx

It was great to get together over lunch. I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday.

Thanks to Councillor Jan Goold who helped fund our wonderful trip 👏xx

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Carnegie Centre, Warren Avenue
Stapleford
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