Charity, Health & Lifestyle, Wimborne | Posted on February 20th, 2025 | return to news
Knit a Forget-Me-Not for dementia campaign
Wimborne’s Museum of East Dorset is supporting Dementia Action Week 19–25 May with a Forget-Me-Not campaign.
If you enjoy knitting, here is your chance to put your skills to good use.
The Museum of East Dorset is supporting Dementia Action Week which takes place on 19–25 May with a Forget-Me-Not campaign.
The museum would love crocheters and knitters to grab their needles and knit some woollen Forget-Me-Not flowers. These flowers are the symbol of the campaign run by the Alzheimer’s Society and are designed to create a moment each year when everyone comes together to honour and remember people affected by dementia.
The patterns are free and available from the museum’s reception desk, as well as free blue and yellow wool.
The Forget-Me-Nots will be displayed in the museum to support the campaign and highlight the many dementia-friendly programmes the museum offers to the wider community.
These include an innovative Reminiscence outreach project where museum artefacts and objects from bygone eras are used to help bring memories to life for elderly people and especially those living with dementia.
The museum provides dementia-friendly crockery for visitors to its garden café as well as accessory aids including fidget toys to help calm dementia sufferers.
For information of dementia-friendly activities at Museum of East Dorset, please visit www.museumofeastdorset.co.uk.
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