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Four Rivers Dementia Alliance

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The Four Rivers Dementia Alliance is a group of town and parish councils in South West Devon, and other interested organisations working together, to promote dementia friendly communities.

The Parish Councils are Bickleigh, Shaugh Prior, Cornwood, Sparkwell, Harford, South Brent, Rattery, Diptford, North Huish, Ringmore, Ugborough, Modbury, Kingston, Ermington, Yealmpton, Brixton, Holbeton, Newton & Noss, Wembury, including Ivybridge Town Council.

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June 2026 - The Busy Times Have Continued Through This Month

1/7/2026

• In Ivybridge, I carried out some more dementia friendly premises assessments: One of the Ivybridge Town Council Offices (02/06/26) and one of the Watermark (This was done over two dates i.e. 08/06/26 and 15/06/26 due to the size of the building) with Councillor Crystal Cao. As always, I will be typing up reports for these with recommendations.

• I also re-visited some of the businesses in the town to offer them the choice of two initial dates for their staff to attend a dementia awareness session-the first one of which was held on 29/06/26.

• I attended a parish council meeting in South Brent (15/06/26) and gave a presentation about how they could continue building on the work they have already carried out, to become a dementia friendly parish. They have a provisional plan in place but will be discussing this further at a future meeting.

• I attended an Erme and Yealm Caring Alliance meeting (24/06/26) and gave an update on the work of both Four Rivers (4RDA) and Dementia Friendly Parishes Around the Yealm (DFPY).

• I continued co-facilitating the fortnightly carer’s group at Tumbly Hill Wellbeing Hub in Kingsbridge (02/06/26 and16/06/26) with Suzi Garrod (CEO and Dementia and Palliative Care Lead).

A few other things in the pipeline are:

• I will continue visiting businesses in Ivybridge with Cllr Crystal Cao (This will be an ongoing piece of work) and I will be delivering another dementia awareness session which is open for any businesses to attend (13/07/26). I have also been asked by three businesses in the town to deliver a dedicated session for their staff teams- One of these is booked for (05/08/26) and I am in the process of arranging dates for the other two.

• The work supporting Tumbly Hill, Kingsbridge will continue.

• Alongside DFPY colleagues, I will be meeting with a delegation of students and their lecturers from Nanfang University in China (28/07/26) as part of a summer school in partnership with the University of Plymouth, to talk about the work of 4RDA and DFPY.

• When time allows, I will continue with writing dementia friendly information guides for different sectors -Currently, this includes doing more work on the mini-guide for funeral directors.

Nanfang College, Guangzhou and University of Plymouth Sign MoU to Strengthen Collaboration

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