Dementia Friendly Venues Charter Webinar
The world's first Dementia Friendly Venues Charter for cultural spaces to ensure that each Londoner affected by dementia has access to them.
Date and time
Location
Online
About this event
The Alzheimer’s Society is inviting you to a webinar to find out more about the Dementia Friendly Venues Charter – a new partnership with the Mayor of London. In this session, you will find out more about the Charter and signing-up process, and find out more about taking steps to become dementia-friendly. We also want to use part of the session to get your feedback on the draft Charter framework as we want to develop the Charter collaboratively with you.
The Alzheimer’s Society is running this webinar on a series of dates in July with all 3 sessions being the same, just spread across 3 different dates to meet your availability. You will only be required to attend one.
Dementia in the Capital
Almost 70,000 people aged 65 and over are estimated to be living with dementia in London. They can experience memory loss, differences in sight perception, restricted mobility and be hypersensitive to noise levels, making visits to cultural spaces stressful. The COVID-19 Pandemic has exposed inequalities in the way older and vulnerable communities are supported within the community. This is particularly true for those with complex needs such as people living with dementia.
A new charter to support people living with Dementia in public venues
On May 18 2021, The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan launched the world’s first Dementia Friendly Venues Charter for cultural public spaces in a drive to ensure that every Londoner with dementia and their carers has a dementia-friendly cultural venue on their doorstep.
This new Charter provides a framework to help cultural venues across London better support people with dementia and their carers by becoming dementia friendly and will enable people with dementia and their careers to have safe access to arts and culture in their local communities.
In partnership with you
The Mayor is determined to make London the first dementia-friendly capital city in the world and is working in partnership with Alzheimer’s Society to deliver Dementia Friendly London a partnership with more than 350,000 Dementia Friends, over 1,000 dementia-friendly organisations and 25 boroughs accredited or working towards Dementia Friendly Community status.
Why should I attend/sign up?
Organisations that sign up to the Charter also become part of a Dementia Friendly Arts and Culture Network, delivered by the Museum of London, to share best practices. They will be able to access guidance and materials to help staff and volunteers become Dementia Friends and Dementia Champions, as well as new advice and support from Alzheimer’s Society to help them become more dementia-friendly.
Registration for this event is now open. Please register using the links on this page. You can sign up for any session and we will send Zoom links straight to your inbox a week before the webinar begins.
Access notes
This event will be in English.
Automatic captions will be enabled in Zoom. If you require a live palantypist and/or a British Sign Language interpreter please let us know so we can arrange for this.
If you have any access needs you would like us to be aware of for these sessions, including any visual impairment (so we can ensure all visual information is available in the audio), or alternatively have questions about the event, please email us at fred.kawesi@alzheimers.org.uk
We look forward to seeing you there!
This event is open and completely free to all, but we particularly encourage and welcome attendance from cultural and creative organisations.