Empowered Conversations

26/01/2026

Call out to of people living with in

We deliver communication courses that can help you to stay connected, even when word finding and use gets trickier for your family member.

Our next Empowered Conversations course starts in March, and our next Moving Beyond Words course starts in April.

https://youtu.be/EO_zOw1CTQ8?si=Y6f_UYoI0ffRmFjo

DANCING WITH DEMENTIA Dementia Disco Springboard Oldham Dementia Carers Support Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre Bolton Dementia Support Together Dementia Support

Dementia impacts on word use and understanding. In this short, we ask if we can connect without words? If we can what does that mean for our relationship?

23/01/2026

Lovely Friday event happening at Salford Institute for Dementia.

This will be a welcoming and meaningful event designed to support people living with , their families, carers, and the university and the community. Everyone is welcome.

Please find the Eventbrite link below. Tickets are free, and we would be grateful if you could share the event with your networks and communities.


Age UK Salford and Trafford Aspire Care and Support Salford Health Improvement Older people in Salford Salford City Radio

A friendly memory sharing event with nostalgic items—open to students, carers, community members, and people with memory challenges.

23/01/2026

We’ve just been awarded a grant from The Clothworkers’ Foundation!

We have a dream: that anyone, anywhere in England and Wales, can start their own Dementia Disco to bring joy and music to their local community. Thanks to this new funding, we are making that dream a reality!

We’re using the one off capital grant to upgrade our technology and create a "Run Your Own Disco" toolkit. We want to make it so easy and "light-touch" that volunteers can get started with just a few clicks.

We’ve hired some amazing people to help us get there:

✨ Rebecca Hodgson is building our "behind the scenes" systems so we can support every single new disco perfectly.

✨ Cynthia Ghernati is designing a beautiful, easy-to-use website experience for all our future hosts.

✨ Mark Selby has joined us as our Head of Scaling Up! Mark is a brilliant project manager who will be making sure everything runs smoothly as we grow. Mark will also head up our Scaling Up Advisory Board.

WANT TO JOIN OUR ADVISORY BOARD? 🤝 We're looking for passionate people to join our "Scaling Up Advisory Board." We especially need:

✅ Experience in social franchising or charity growth.

✅ Legal experts.

✅ Most importantly: A person living with dementia to help guide our path.

If you want to help us bring more music and smiles to people living with dementia, please send us a DM or email hello@dementiadisco.org

Let’s spread the word! Please Like and Share to help us find the right people for our board.

21/01/2026

We’re delighted to announce a special dementia-friendly performance of Eric & Ern at The Lowry this March!

Specially adapted for audiences living with dementia, this is a show for all the family – full of Morecambe and Wise’s most loved routines, songs and sketches.

Don’t miss it on Wed 25 March from 1:30 to 2:30PM (no interval).
🎟️Call Lowry Access Box Office to book today on 0161 876 2183
Show details: https://thelowry.com/whats-on/eric-and-ern-xwc6



Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre Springboard Oldham Dementia Carers Group Bolton Dementia Support Together Dementia Support Trafford Carers Centre Age UK Salford and Trafford Carers Manchester Aspire Care and Support Trafford Community News Salford City Radio Salford Now Older people in Salford Salford CVS and Volunteer Centre Salford

This wonderful show evokes memories of times when whole families would huddle around the telly to watch those fantastic Christmas specials.

20/01/2026

Sharing the Sahara memory cafes that run monthly across Bury, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside.

Sahara is a South Asian project of the Alzheimer's Society.

To contact - sahara@alzheimers.org.uk

19/01/2026

Our latest newsletter is here for you to have a read -

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If you want to subscribe to this monthly newsletter, just visit our website -

www.empowered-conversations.co.uk

Enabling people with dementia to live as well as they can by keeping channels of communication and connection open. Empowered Conversations deliver dementia specific therapeutic sessions, communication training courses, a bereavement group, regular webinars and a carers voice group for families and....

16/01/2026

You are invited to see a free play in Manchester by Clare Summerskill which receives its Manchester premiere in March.

‘At Rainbow’s End’ is based entirely on interviews with older LGBT people who have experienced homophobia and transphobia in care settings and when receiving care in their own home.

The play explores and raises awareness of a key issue concerning older LGBTQ+ people who, having perhaps been out for their whole adult lives, are faced with the possibility of having to go ‘back into the closet’ at the point of accessing care in later life.
All three performances (over 21st/22nd March 2026) at Hope Mill Theatre are FREE for community members and those who work in any capacity with older people, including health & social care sector workers.

Each play reading will be followed by a Q&A with the writer, the audience, and informed panellists, and LGBT Foundation projects and expertise will be represented on the panel. (Total length of performance with discussion is 1 ½ hours).

For more information, and to book, visit the following link:

Clare Summerskill presentsAt the Rainbows End21st March 2026—22nd March 2026 At the Rainbow’s End by Clare Summerskill A verbatim play addressing homophobic and transphobic abuse of older LGBTQ+ people in care and receiving care in later life. Presented by members of Artemis Theatre Company. Th...

08/01/2026

Free Dementia Music Cafe meets every Friday at Chandos Sports and Social Club, Chandos Grove, M5, 10am -11.30am.

No musical experience needed and for those living with dementia and their carers.

Contact details are: dssadmin@ageuksalfordandtrafford.org.uk or call: 0161 728 2001.

Dementia Support Service - Age UK Salford
Empowered Conversations

24/12/2025

From all at Empowered Conversations (and sadly we are missing a few from our photo shoot below), wishing you a relaxing, festive period.

Take time to do something just for you, watch that favourite film, start your new book, listen to some great music, eat a mince pie or two!

18/12/2025

It's easy for me to blab on about working for 10 years across offering focused courses and one to one sessions.

But what does that mean? Emma will tell you how this supports her, her mum and her daughter.

14/12/2025

First training ride done in preparation for two very different rides next year, one around France the other from Yorkshire. Beyond soggy ride!!!

Both will be raising a bit of money for Age UK Salford and Trafford

14/12/2025

Bringing some Sunday morning cheer, this lovely song with SpudBros and

It's a great song, I love the positivity, the kindness. What do you think?

One Choir. One Family. One Community. One song to shine a light this Christmas. SPREAD JOY WITH EVERY SPUD. Download the song here: https://sndo.ffm.to/oew6gz SpudBros and Vicky McClure’s Our Dementia Choir are proud to present Brighter Than The Night. This Christmas, we’re raising our voices fo...