The 4RDA Blog
Progress to Date with Parish and Town Councils
28/1/2025
Just to keep you up to date with everything that is happening with my new role. We are still preparing the ground work but interest in what we are trying to achieve is growing from communicating with the parish councils in the 4RDA area.• Attended Rattery PC meeting (14/01/25) and agreed to follow up after they have considered it at their February meeting.
• Other parish council meetings booked:
Shaugh Prior (05/02/25)
Ugborough (12/02/25)
Ringmore (18/02/25)
Bickleigh (27/02/25 TBC)
Kingston (20/03/25)
Harford (07/05/23)
• Ivybridge -I have been invited to attend their annual town meeting on 17/03/25 to talk to residents and councillors about how the town can improve it’s work towards being dementia friendly.
• Modbury-I am waiting to hear back from the chair re: a date to attend a meeting of the dementia friendly working group they are planning.
• South Brent- I have previously supported Susanne Archard and Cllr Guy Pannell with a walk round of the village and advice on dementia friendly signage which a neighbourhood officer has now agreed and will be working on the design of. Currently awaiting a date for a meeting with Susanne to discuss lending some more support to South Brent to become dementia friendly.
• I have started researching community groups, businesses, schools, churches and other organisations to approach to offer support to become dementia friendly in the various parish areas.
• In a similar vein to the information pack for parish councils, I plan to work on developing some guides for other organisations wanting to work towards becoming dementia friendly e.g. retailers, churches, community groups, GP surgeries, schools etc and possibly develop window stickers/certificates for them.
