activity club

Exeter & South Devon Clandestine Cake Club - Christmas bake off event

Event Date: 
26/11/2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue: 
Register on the website and the venue details will be emailed to you

Clandestine Cake Club is all about cake! We bake it, we eat it, and we talk about it. Our club meets in secret locations in Exeter. But this isn’t your average club because with us, you really can have your cake and eat it. Members bake their own cake at home and bring it along to a planned secret location. CCC offers both the social aspects of the Secret Tea Room whilst also encouraging the culinary talents of members. Everyone has the opportunity to display their baking and share and enjoy it with the club. It is free to join, it is not a competition and everybody is welcome. Our CCC...

Home from home for people with dementia

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Thu, 12/19/2013 - 9:01am

A summer holiday home in Topsham for people living with dementia is to offer a specialist activity club over the winter months.

With recent news that the number of people with dementia could triple by 2050, there is an ever more pressing need for facilities that offer support.

Sallie Rutledge opened The Mede four years’ ago to enable carers and their loved ones to have holidays, after her own father in law was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Although at full occupation in the summer months, the bungalow lies dormant through the cold season.

Sallie, a qualified...