Keynsham & Saltford Dementia Action Alliance has now been running Music for the Mind sessions since May 2017. Covid stopped us for a while from March 2020 and we only got back to our regular twice a month sessions in February 2022. Since 2017 we have had over 130 sessions and they have all been free of charge for our dementia friends and their carers. We have had fantastic support from so many organisations, businesses and local individuals. Without their help and the hard work of all our volunteers, we could not have done it.
The list below shows who has sponsored us over the last two years. 2023 was a quiet year for donations probably because it was our first full year after Covid. 2024 was our best year ever as far as income was concerned and a big thanks to them all.
During 2024 we applied successfully for 2 grants. We received £2,500 from a local organisation Quartet Community Foundation who do great work in our area and are based in Bristol.
Music for All is a national charity which was set up to promote music as a medium to help people particularly those living with dementia. We were unsuccessful with a first attempt as so many organisations applied but then later in the year more funding was made available and our second application was successful for £1,000.
Funding received in 2024
Grants received from: (3 in total)
Quartet Community Foundation £2,500
Music for All £1,000
Waitrose £800 (donation)
Donations from the following: (17 in total))
An anonymous donation (£1000)
Keynsham CAMEO Ladies Group
Pam Jones
Keynsham Good Afternoon Choir
Rachel Seaborne from a 24 sponsored walk with her local Bath residents (£593,43)
Meryton Place Care Home
Keynsham & District 41 Club
Les & Margaret Herbert (D/D)
CAMEO (two donations)
Bristol Lions
Rotary Club of Keynsham
Homeavon House in Keynsham
Meryton Place Care Home (2 donations)
Margaret Day
Money from collection tins at MftM sessions
Tim Blowers from Bath half marathon in March 2025
Other donations (£139.49)
Donations in memory of: (2 in total)
Joan Brunton
Geoff Woodburn
Grants received from: (2 in total)
Keynsham Town Council £950
Waitrose £718 (donation)
Donations from the following: (5 in total)
Keynsham Good Afternoon Choir
Saltford Hall Sunday Afternoon Club
St Monica’s Trust
B&NES, Councillor’s funds
Les and Margaret Herbert (D/D)
Donations in memory of: (2 in total)
Danny Matthews
Tom Jones
Previous support
The Coventry Building Society kindly agreed to join us as a community partner. We trained all their staff to be Dementia Friends and their refurbished premises in Keynsham High Street is dementia friendly
We previously received grants from the following:
Keynsham Town Council
Saltford Parish Council
Waitrose (via their green voucher scheme)
Tesco (via their Bags for Help scheme, blue voucher scheme)
St John’s Foundation, Bath
Wales and West Utilities Ltd
Wessex Water
Santander
A number of local organisations have nominated KDAA to be their Charity of the Year. This includes:
Keynsham Baptists Women’s League
St Keyna’s Townswomen’s Guild
Keynsham Rotary Club
Saltford Golf Club Ladies section
Chewton Keynsham Church
Keynsham Walking Football
St Luke’s Ladies Group, Brislington
The Keynsham Bowls Club and the Saltford AM Women’s Institute nominated the KDAA to be their Charity of the Year for 2019.
We also received donations from several local groups some of which resulted from the group having a talk on dementia delivered by one of our own Dementia Champions. The groups are:
Keynsham Timber and Hardware Ltd
Tripp’s Art gallery, Keynsham
Homemakers Keynsham Baptist Church
St John’s Keynsham
Queen’s Road Ladies Group, Keynsham
Kingfisher Lodge Care Home in Saltford
Saltford Sunday pm Tea Party Group
Keynsham Clinic (from a raffle)
Union Chapel, Combe Down
Whitchurch Women’s Institute
Whitchurch Ladies
St John’s Wives Fellowship
Keynsham Baptists Women’s League
Keynsham Women’s Institute
Holiday at Home Group, St John’s
St Andrew’s Ladies
St Augustine’s Wives and Friends
Keynsham Chapter
We have also received a couple of funeral donations in memorium to Mrs Norma Dawson who lived in Kingfisher Lodge and attended a number of our Music for the Mind sessions, and Mr Tom McHenry.
Thanks also go to:
Keynsham Chapter
St Luke’s Ladies Group, Brislington
A big thank you to everyone. Without you we wouldn’t be able to provide the support we give to those living with dementia and their carers in Keynsham and Saltford.
A special thank you to the Keynsham Dial-a-Ride team who do a great job for us. They go to a couple of local care homes to bring residents to our Music for the Mind sessions.
Making Keynsham and Saltford dementia friendly 