Latest News from the Princes Centre

Published: 04 April 2024

The Easter season has been a happy time for our clients with various theme related activities including baking Easter bunnies, making Easter cards, decorating Easter bonnets and other craft work. Hunting for Easter eggs was a popular activity too. The clients also celebrated St Patrick’s Day by dressing in style.

Other activities included a new counter game for the education group and learning about the stages of life of butterflies, scrabble, cooking pizzas, decorating a trifle, jumping frogs and singing. Using the Tiny Tab, a table computer with apps of all types of activities and games, has been a huge success with something for everyone on it. Activities involving a little more exertion included golf, carpet bowls, balloon tennis and gardening and some mobile clients were taken for walks, visiting the library, and going out to lunch to celebrate a client’s birthday. One group enjoyed a visit to the Dementia café in Speen and enjoyed playing games there, talking to new people and having tea/coffee and cake.

The new office area is almost complete with new carpet and furniture and is looking good. There’s a bit more sorting to do but the office staff are now settled in and enjoying the extra room. The new conference room is looking good too and will be used for training purposes, meetings and the trustees’ monthly meetings. The old office and stationary cupboard will be used for storing larger items used for client activities. The pathway surrounding the downstairs area has been upgraded and is now safe for the clients to use. We plan to purchase a small table and some chairs to place out there for the clients to use on warm days.

We recently received a lovely donation from ‘The Buffalos’ and are grateful for all donations, large and small which help us to enhance the environment of our two centres and the activities of our clients.

If you would like to support the Princes Centres in any way or if you or your loved one would like a free taster of what we have to offer, please contact our manager Kim on 01844 345105 or Mags at Bourne End 01628 52702.