## **CAD-Brent Annual Report April 2023 to March 2024** ## **Dementia Hub Project** The Dementia Hubs Team has secured a further 3 years of funding from the Lottery Fund, meaning the good work of the project will continue until at least June 2025. This year the project has gone from strength to strength, building on the firm foundations made during the first 3 years of funding. We have been able to establish ourselves as the leading community resource in Brent for people living with dementia and their families. We are a respected and valued partner to the statutory services, offering families impacted by dementia a lifeline when they most need it. Our well-established referral pathway with the memory clinic ensures we receive regular referrals from the clinical team who understand the benefit and worth of the work we do. Our focus is to improve the life of people living with dementia (PLWD) allowing them to remain living at home as long as possible, and ensuring they have access to physical and mental stimulation. The Hubs Team is experienced and professional, and we are able to draw on the strengths and enthusiasm of our individual team members to create an award winning team. Last summer we were fortunate enough to be given the ‘Team of the Year’ award in the Brent Social Care awards. We continue to support and extend the Dementia Café network in Brent, with 16 active groups accommodating some 350 café guests each week. We are also working with 2 new community venues who are keen to start a dementia café; supporting them to get these new cafés established. The IAG team continue to work from the café settings – ensuring we are able to reach as many people as possible who need our support. In addition to this we continue to source and arrange additional wellbeing activities and training for the café network. This year we have been able to offer First Aid training for carers, Lasting Power Of Attorney workshops as well as some enrichment events from the Royal Albert Hall and the Wallace collection to name just a few. Community events are regularly arranged bringing together café guests from across the network to share stories, light exercise and lunch. These quarterly events are a great way to gather information from our community and provides us with the opportunity to get feedback on services, helping us plan for the future. We will continue to be led by our community, ensuring we keep PLWD at the heart of all we do. Both Danny Maher and Debbie Howe attend the Brent Dementia Steering group and are able to feed back to the group the concerns of the community. This helps statutory services plan for the future with PLWD in mind. We continue to work towards Brent being a dementia friendly borough by offering dementia friends training and reaching out to hard to reach communities, such as the Gujarati community who we recently presented to some 150+ elders alongside the Memory Service. In the last year we have: - received 413 new referrals. - Raised the income of our clients by £474,561.00. - Grown our Whatsapp community to over 200 people. - Offered 192 advice clinics at the de-café venues. Debbie Howe Dementia Hubs Project manager June 2024 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Chcirily Ni4 nie Community Action on Dementia - Brent No lif cinyl 1160552 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from Period slail cl