Celebrating St Valentine's Day
Activity coordinators will be making their final preparations for St Valentine's Day this week. Following on from NATIONAL STORYTELLING...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jan 12, 20172 min read
National Storytelling Week - ‘Telling Stories - All About Me’
As National Storytelling Week heads into its 14th year, many UK care homes, day centres and community groups will become part of the...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jan 9, 20172 min read
Join our successful bloggers
Bright Copper Kettles aims to inspire and inform organisers and facilitators of activities for older people, including those with...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jan 5, 20171 min read
National Storytelling Week
National Storytelling Week was an inspiration of summer in 1999. The first one created in January/February 2000 with a view to becoming ...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jan 5, 20172 min read
Before the 'Jumping Off' point
I feel surprisingly calm and relaxed this New Year’s Day. No resolutions. No recriminations in my head over what I did not accomplish...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jan 2, 20171 min read
Why do I make my dementia gifts?
I like to remember that before he got vascular dementia, Dad was head of my family and had responsibility for all of us, I hated that...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Dec 26, 20161 min read
Polly, put the kettle on!
January is National HOT TEA MONTH. This gives us a great excuse to host lots of tea parties - not that we really need any excuses for...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Dec 16, 20163 min read
Are you a blogger?
"Begin blogging at 80+? Not a lot of people do that! But I did and it has changed my life. Between blogging and the social media a...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Dec 12, 20161 min read
One step back to take two steps forward.
Actually, I'm feeling slightly sorry for myself as I write this. As you know I have spent months building the website, adding new pages...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Dec 8, 20161 min read
What a year 2016 has been
A lot has happened since I was a finalist at the UK Blog Awards 2016. I have been joined by many more bloggers who have written some...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Dec 5, 20161 min read
The Child in your Eyes
The Child in your Eyes We all have that child in our eyes, we all see things sometimes through a child’s eye. How many times have you had...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Dec 1, 20161 min read
How Breezie helped people with dementia to connect to their world
Breezie tablet computers are designed for older users and are in use in the UK, the USA and Australia. The Breezie interface helps people...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Nov 28, 20162 min read
The Empty Teacup Party
This morning I received a post on the Facebook Page @ActivitiesChat, it make me smile, giggle and gave me a general feel good start to my...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Nov 22, 20161 min read
Life is for living and having fun
Sick of hearing about bad care in care homes? Join us as we look at the good things that happen in care homes. Thornbank Residential...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Nov 21, 20162 min read
Life Lessons from Inspirational Older People, part 3
Silverhairs Keith Paterson has built Silverhairs and dedicates his time to providing help and support to older people who have problems...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Nov 18, 20163 min read
BBC Children in Need
DIY SOS takes on towering challenge in Blackpool for BBC Children in Need Nick Knowles, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and the ‘Purple Shirts’...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Nov 17, 20163 min read
Finding the Balance
We spend a lot of time considering the right articles to put in every single one of The Daily Sparkles. Our company slogan is ‘Happy...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Nov 15, 20162 min read
World TV Day
Power of television celebrated by key media alliances on World Television Day Brussels, 21 November 2016 Television is often frowned upon...
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