STOKE Bishop Primary School has been honoured for creating a dementia awareness culture by visiting care homes, forming intergenerational friendships, hosting Singing for the Brain groups and other activities, including a tea party.
The efforts of children and staff earned them the Barbara Award at the third Bristol Dementia Action Alliance awards ceremony.
They received the accolade from Radio Bristol’s Joe Sims and BDAA founder Tony Hall, from Westbury, after whose wife Barbara the award is named.
Dementia awards
Actor and BBC Radio Bristol Breakfast presenter Joe Sims hosted Bristol Dementia Action Alliance’s third annual Awards Ceremony.
The event celebrated the amazing work that organisations, groups, businesses and schools have been doing to raise awareness of dementia throughout the city.
Winners received Bronze, Silver or Gold awards – many returning to try to achieve the next level up.
This was the second year that schools and children’s groups aimed for The Barbara Award named in memory of founder Tony Hall’s wife Barbara who lived with dementia for over 20 years. The Barbara Award winner was Stoke Bishop Primary which has created a dementia awareness culture throughout the school by visiting care homes, forming intergenerational friendships, hosting Singing for the Brain groups and other activities at the school, including a tea party.
BRONZE
Avonmouth Community Centre
Deaf Dementia Club
Doynton Memory Café
Sea Mills Community Initiative
SILVER
Age UK Bristol
Alina Homecare
BNP Paribas LLP
Bristol Zoo Project
Carers Support Centre
Lovell Place Care Home
We Care Home Improvements
GOLD
All Saints Clifton
Alive Activities
Autumn Years Community Care
Avon & Somerset Police
Barcan+Kirby
Best Life Companions
BRACE
Bristol Brunel Lions
Greenway Community Practice
Harold Stephens
Home Instead Bristol North
Wessex Water
Westbury Baptist Church
Individual – Inspector Stuart King for Dementia Safeguarding Scheme
