L4A

We work with older people receiving care across Leicester and Leicestershire

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Patchwork Project

Learning for the Fourth Age is privileged to work with lots of different older people in many different and varied care settings. However, some are very closely located and we have been keen to bring people together from different settings for shared learning activities for a while.

By working closely with the wonderful staff at Harley Grange and Ashlands care homes, we are proud to have brought together residents from both settings to share the craft activities that they had undertaken together and produced a shared piece of work – the patchwork! Plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits were also enjoyed too.

The patchwork project has been led by Anita Barrand with support from volunteers Jean Helps and Dee Lehan-Matthews and staff from both homes. We are keen to explore other ways of helping to bring the outside in and take residents out in going forwards, particularly when we can support people to learn about different people and cultures. Watch this space!

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We’ve been busy…!

We’ve all been super busy recently and are delighted to have had our former colleague and current freelancer back in the fold to curate an exhibition for us, as well as some other work too.

We’ve hired a van, rented a beautiful historic building and ordered lots of different and beautiful printed cards. We’ve been created labels and stickers and finding a cash box. We’ve been organising staff and volunteers to We’ve been traveling around the city and county collecting art works that older people have chosen to submit to our exhibition at the Guildhall to share with the wider public.

All we need now is for you to come along and see the artwork for yourselves, and to spread the word to others you know who may be interested. All of the art that will be on show at the exhibition has been proudly produced by older people receiving some sort of care and support to go about their daily lives – some live in care homes or nursing homes, others live in supported sheltered housing schemes and others live at home. Some of our artists are in their 90s, most are displaying their art for the first time and some have only ever painted, sketched and created art with our charity, Learning for the Fourth Age.

The art exhibition will be held on Tuesday 25th, Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th of April at the Guildhall in Leicester. The exhibition will be open from 11am until 4pm each day and is completely free to view, as well as open to the public. Come along and join us in celebrating the achievements of some of Leicestershire’s oldest learners. 

Examples of some of the artwork that will be on display are below:

 

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Support us

It is our privilege to work every single week amongst older people, carers and volunteers who have the energy, will and ability to create positive change in care. L4A is, however, in need of ongoing monthly donations to support this good work improving wellbeing through learning for some of the oldest people in Leicester and Leicestershire.

If you have some spare change each month that you’d like to make a real difference to the lives of older people, please sign up to give a one off or monthly donation here and know that your money is going to support the valuable work of a small, innovative local charity.

Do you shop online? Almost everyone does these days, even our care home residents! Sign up to Give As You Live for free and with every purchase a small percentage of your shopping spending will be donated to L4A, at no cost to you! Make sure you type in our full name of “Learning for the Fourth Age” to nominate us as your charity – happy shopping!

You can also undertake a challenge for sponsorship, like Rozanna recently did when she raised £180 running the Surrey Half Marathon for us in March. More information here. If you have an idea that you’d like to get sponsorship for, please don’t hesitate to contact any of our staff or email info@l4a.org.uk as we’d love to hear from you.

Thank you in advance for your ongoing support.