AWARD-WINNING Wellington-based charity Reminiscence Learning is celebrating after securing a £51,306 National Lottery community fund grant to ensure it can keep supporting carers and those with dementia in the coming months.

The charity provides vital lifeline services for people with dementia and their families and the Covid-19 lockdown and restrictions has seen a demand for support increase, while fundraising activities have been severely curtailed.

Reminiscence Learning chief executive and occupational therapist Fiona Mahoney said the National Lottery money would make a huge difference for the charity: “This grant will ensure we can continue to provide services and help us to remain sustainable over the next six months.

“We’re now in our 17th year and we’re proud to have our home in Wellington. We’re extremely grateful to the National Lottery, the Government and the National Lottery players in Somerset for their support.”

Reminiscence Learning provides a range of specialist services including respite sessions, activity days, events and activities as well as care training, focusing on dementia, reminiscence and the provision of dementia-friendly activities, including twice-weekly carers groups.

Clients include individual carers, volunteers, NHS professionals, nursing homes and business owners who want to make their staff dementia-aware.

More information about the charity and the services it provides is available online at www.reminiscencelearning.co.uk or by emailing [email protected] or phoning 01823 668676.

For the full story see this week’s Wellington Weekly News.