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Henley Reporter

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10:30AM, Monday 19 August 2024

A PORTABLE multi-sensory activity kit has been donated to the Abbeycrest nursing home in Sonning Common.

The kit, provided by the Reading Abbey Rotary Club, contains a variety of memory games and aids designed to help those living with dementia.

The club had fundraised for kits for four nursing homes after it was successfully trialled in other care facilities.

The AMuSED toolkit was developed by emeritus professor Rachel McCrindle and Dr Esther Olorunda as part of a PhD at the University of Reading, exploring how technology can be used to improve quality of life for people living with dementia.

It is supported by research which shows a link between sensory stimulation and positive changes in behaviour and mood seen in those living with dementia.

Charities

Coffee morning (with cyclists) raises £500 for cancer support charity

Award for Henley vets dispenser for training search and rescue dog

Cycling group which gives lifeline to partially sighted

Friends to travel length of the UK but training hampered by cold weather

Golf club captain raises thousands to keep suicide prevention hotline

Coffee meet

Quiz benefits

Chairman of centre steps down

Larder help

Board backed BBC director

‘We feel more galvanised and inspired to drive transformational change’

Poppy total

Henley salon asks customers to ‘pay what they can’

A fond farewell from the real-life Vicar of Dibley, Sue Morton, after 14 years serving six churches in the Hambleden Valley

A fond farewell from the real-life Vicar of Dibley after 14 years

TV star James Corden abandons plans to demolish and rebuild home

Budget supermarket Aldi reveals further details on planned Henley store

Henley private members’ club bids to expand spa and fitness centre

Fire Brigade Union members fear impact of Henley closure

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Remember When, Maidenhead Advertiser

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Staff are going on strike at three Windsor Forest College Group sites in Berkshire. Striking staff on the picket line outside BCA

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Queensmere shopping centre, Slough The Queensmere shopping centre closing on Saturday 17th January 2026

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Julia Anyanwu has started a fundraiser to get a memorial painted underneath the railway bridge for her brother Sean, who died in a swimming accident in Bray lake aged 16. Maidenhead Railway Bridge, King Street, Maidenhead

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Byran Staples at the Breadcroft Road Allotments. He's concerned that the allotment space is being left to fall into disrepair despite the waiting list. Breadcroft Road, Maidenhead

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Flooded Higginson Park in Marlow

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