Tonbridge Dementia Friendly Community

This section of the website will tell you useful services in the Tonbridge area that you might find useful. It also gives you links to other support services that operate at a national level.

Carers peer support group

Meets on the first Friday of every month at 2pm at the Angel Indoor Bowls Club, Ave Du Puy, Tonbridge. Free car park All are welcome, no need to book in advance.

In Case of Going Missing Form

Download the ‘In Case Of Going Missing Form’ here from Kent Search and Rescue. This document completed and kept in a safe place will be an invaluable time saver if your cared for friend of relative wanders off and is missing. At such a time, when relatives are anxious and distressed, bringing this information to mind may prove challenging.

Download ‘In Case of Going Missing Form’

Alzheimers and dementia Support Services (ADSS)

ADSS Dementia Co-Ordinators provide much needed support across Tonbridge & Tunbridge Wells Boroughs.

https://www.alz-dem.org/

01474 533990

Other cafes and support groups

Cafes and Support Groups. Tonbridge & Malling and Tunbridge Wells

Activities across the Boroughs of Tonbridge & Malling and Tunbridge Wells designed, or suitable for, a person living with dementia.

	MONDAYS
Every Monday	10am – 3pm C.O.G.S at Town Lock Tonbridge contact
1^st Monday of the month	10am Paddock Wood Ramblers wellbeing walk 10.30am Over 65 Peer Support group, Spadework, Spadework, Offham Road, West Malling 2.30pm Time to Talk Café at Spadework, Spade work, Offham Road, West Malling 10am Paddock Wood Ramblers wellbeing walk contact
2^nd Monday Only	2.30pm Arts & Craft Group, Spadework, Spade work, Offham Road, West Malling. Please phone first to book
2nd & 4th Monday of the month	2pm Café at Christ Church Snodland
3^rd Monday	10.30am Young Onset Peer Support Group, Spadework West Malling 3pm Singing group, Spadework West Malling
4^th Monday only	2.30pm Music & Movement, Spadework West Malling

	TUESDAYS
Every Tuesday	10.30 Tuesday Group at Paddock Wood Day Centre. 11.30am at Capel Morris Hall, RBL Aylesford Stretch & Move
1^st Tuesday of the month	2pm Dementia Café at Town Lock, Tonbridge Contact Age UK Tonbridge
2^nd Tuesday of the month	2pm Dementia and Me Craft Club at Town Lock, Tonbridge Contact Age UK Tonbridge
3^rd Tuesday of the month	2pm Dementia and Me Peer Group at Town Lock, Tonbridge. Contact Age UK Tonbridge 2pm Memories Café at Showfields Hall, Rowan Tree Rd Tunbridge Wells
4^th Tuesday of the month	10am Café Town Lock, Tonbridge. Contact Age UK 2pm Dementia and Me at Town Lock, Tonbridge. Contact Age UK Tonbridge

	WEDNESDAYS
Every Wednesday	10am Moving & Music at Trinity Theatre Tunbridge Wells 11.30am Quiet Swim time Tonbridge Pool (Term time only) 1pmSenior Choir at Trinity Theatre Tunbridge Wells 2pm Moving & Music at Oast Theatre Tonbridge 3.30 Senior Choir at Oast Theatre Tonbridge NB Trinity events may change venue during school holidays.
1^st Wednesday of the month	2pm Young Onset Dementia Café at Town Lock, Tonbridge Contact Age UK Tonbridge
2^nd Wednesday of the month	11am Forget me not Café at St John’s Church, London Road, Hildenborough. 2.30pm carers Support Group, Spadework West Malling
3^rd Wednesday of the month	2pm Memory café at Home Instead, Mousehall Lane, Tunbridge Wells. 2.30pm Time to Talk Café at Spadework, Spade work, Offham Road, West Malling

	THURSDAYS
Every Thursday	12pm Dementia friendly Swimming Larkfield Pool (Term time only) 10am Walking Netball at Angel Centre Tonbridge
1^st and 3^rd Thursday of the month	10.30 Musical Memories at Tonbridge Methodist Church. Contact Richard Hill - richardjsm@hotmail.co.uk
2^nd Thursday of the month	2pm Memory Café at East Malling Centre, Chapmans Way, East Malling. ME19 6SD Contact Liz Simpson 07463 222733
3^rd Thursday of the month	10.45am Memory Cafe, Chamberlain Court, Mt. Ephraim,
2^nd & 4^th Thursday of the month	2.30 Bowls Café at Angel Indoor Bowls Club, Ave DU Puy, Tonbridge.

FRIDAYS

Every Friday

9.30am Accessible bowling at Angel Indoor Bowls Club

10.30am except for the 1^st Tuesday Group Paddock Wood.

1^st Friday of the month

2pm Carers group Angel Indoor Bowls Club

1^st and 3^rd Friday

2pm Carers Count café, East Malling Village Hall

2pm Multi Sport. Angel Centre, Tonbridge

3^rd Friday

Starting in January 2023

2pm Pembury Memory Café at Pembury Baptist Church

Romford Road, Pembury

2^nd and 4th Friday

1.30pm Carers group Curran Hall, East Peckham