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Activity Sessions at the St Andrew’s House Care Home

Lead engaging activity sessions at The St Andrew’s House Care Home and share your passions with the residents. You and other volunteers will run sessions helping residents explore their artistic side, working together to bring a little happiness and joy to their lives. These sessions can vary in what materials you bring for the residents to do, painting, doing collages, whatever you love to create with, and also feel best guiding others how to do. If you happen to be musically inclined there is also a piano and electric organ available for performances which the residents love to listen to.

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The days of the sessions are flexible and can be organised on a weekly basis according to whatever is best for the schedule of the volunteers. There is no weekly commitment and any given session is expected to run for an hour.

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Logistics

• Confidence in guiding residents if needed through the chosen activity

• 1 hour long sessions

• Flexible start times of sessions according to volunteers

• Can continue through summer if the volunteers wish

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Directions

Address: St Andrews House, 1 James Foulis Ct, St Andrews KY16 8SY (Near the Morrisons)

BUS:

Take the 90A/91A or 64 or X58 and get off at the community hospital

10-20 minute journey from the St Andrews bus station

Memory Makers

Fancy helping out the Laidlaw Music Centre to run weekly sessions for those with dementia and their carers? Weekly sessions will consist of fun activities that you as a volunteer will help in running. Volunteers will need to have patience and be able to deal with the members of the sessions with a caring and understanding approach. Tasks for volunteers would include helping to set the room up, making refreshments, keeping registers, helping participants around the building, chatting and socialising and joining in with the activities.

Sessions are on Tuesdays at 2-3.30 pm. Volunteers would need to be available to help from 1.30-4pm, and ideally, volunteers should be able to come to every session from the 22nd of October to the 26th of November so as not to confuse the participants involved in the program.

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Logistics

• Weekly commitment on Tuesdays from 1.30-4 pm

• Volunteering starts on the 22nd of October and ends 26th of November