Community
St Barnabas Memory Café
Every Thursday, 10.30am to 12pm, in the church — a warm and friendly welcome for all.
Running since it reopened in September 2021, our Memory Café meets every Thursday morning from 10.30am to 12pm in the church. We welcome anyone experiencing loneliness, living alone, or living with memory difficulties — and carers are very welcome to come along too. A local residential dementia home sends regular participants, and we typically gather around thirty-five guests each week.
Our volunteers prepare refreshments and help everyone feel at home. Activities vary from week to week — quizzes, art, gentle fitness, community singing, piano music, and occasional theatre performances by the Questors — and we screen special events together, too.
The Memory Café is followed at noon by a very short, dementia-friendly time of prayer in the church, for anyone who would like to stay.
Coming along
- When: Thursdays, 10.30am–12pm, in the church.
- Contact: Mother Valerie Aitken, 07968 345992.
- Getting here: the E2 and E9 buses stop nearby, and there is street parking.
The Memory Café is supported by Ealing Council’s “Warm Spaces” grant and by charitable donations.