About
A Dementia Café was run in Daventry by the Alzheimer’ s Society until they lost their funding from Northants County Council. The Volunteers and Carers decided that it was too important to lose the cafe and they formed a committee to consider a way forward. This was the birth of Daventry and District Memory Café in April 2017.
To start with things were a bit ad hoc, for example, our early cafes were held in the iCon Cafe, to whom we will always be grateful, as they did not charge us except for the coffee we drank, but as we grew in confidence and started approaching local businesses for help, we received enough sponsorship to enable us run the Demcafe firstly at the Abbey Centre and currently at the Daventry Methodist church.
We are always looking for new volunteers if you have time that you think you can devote to supporting those suffering with dementia then please contact us for further information.
