EVERTON within the Community is delighted to enter a long-term partnership with Christopher Ward, Official Global Timing Partner of Everton Football Club, to fund its long-standing Pass on the Memories programme which helps older folks dwelling with dementia and their carers.
The new three-year partnership with the UK’s main mechanical watchmaker will even see them develop an intergenerational mission centered on time and innovation. Celebrating the previous, current and future by means of a collection of participating and interactive initiatives, the modern intergenerational mission will interact individuals from Pass on the Memories and young individuals from the charity’s E-STEAM mission and assist them share recollections while studying new expertise.
First-team trio Dominic Calvert-Lewin, James Tarkowski and James Garner paid a go to to the charity’s Digital Skills Lab to formally launch Everton within the Community’s new partnership with Christopher Ward and see the brand new intergenerational mission in motion.
Joined by individuals from Pass on the Memories and pupils from Netherton Moss Primary School, the gamers bought caught into an ice-breaker exercise utilizing immersive sensory studying instruments to assist communication, coordination and effective motor expertise earlier than collaborating in a LEGO Education session to build fairground rides, utilizing basic coding and programming while having discussions with the individuals about their recollections of days on the honest in years gone.
British watch model Christopher Ward grew to become the Club’s Official Global Timing Partner in 2022/23 and since then, has displayed a robust dedication to supporting the area people in Liverpool 4 and the encompassing areas by elevating important funds for the Club’s official charity by means of high-profile fundraising actions.
And now Everton within the Community and Christopher Ward have formally joined forces to assist create a brighter future for these dwelling with dementia while additionally serving to to convey recollections to life for young and old.
Launched in 2013, Pass on the Memories helps folks dwelling with dementia and encourages them to share essential recollections and have enjoyable with like-minded folks. The programme offers important respite to the carers the place they’re able to focus on points and share experiences to build extra sturdy social assist networks.
Delivered twice weekly, Pass on the Memories offers a variety of well-being and reminiscence-based actions to assist individuals’ social, bodily and psychological well-being from musical recollections to artwork remedy and thrilling journeys out with the purpose of enhancing high quality of life, decreasing social isolation and supporting cognitive operate and reminiscence recall.
Meanwhile, Everton within the Community’s E-STEAM programme was launched in 2021 to interact and encourage folks, young and old, on this planet of science, expertise, engineering, arts and maths and was developed to deal with the widening expertise hole for young folks and develop expertise reminiscent of important considering and problem-solving.
Everton within the Community CEO Sue Gregory stated:
“In Liverpool City Region, more than 15,000 people are currently living with dementia and our Pass on the Memories programme provides a lifeline to those individuals and their carers. Thanks to the valuable support from Christopher Ward, we can sustain and grow our provision and help to create a brighter future for those living with dementia.
“The intergenerational arm of the new funding will enable us to provide social benefits to both age groups with our older participants learning new skills from those younger, whilst our younger participants will learn about past experiences which will help create new memories and experiences which will last a lifetime.”
Mike France, CEO and co-founder of Christopher Ward, stated:
“Since day one as Everton’s first Global Timekeeping Partner, we knew that Everton’s deep-rooted commitment to their local community meant we were entering a partnership with a purpose beyond purely commercial benefits.
“Everton in the Community’s ‘Pass on the Memories’ programme, as well as important to us at Christopher Ward due to the link to time, is a vital project enhancing the quality of life for people in Liverpool. We’re incredibly proud to be funding this, along with investment in EitC’s E-STEAM programme, to celebrate the past, present and future, as well as give back to the local community.”
The first 12 months of the Christopher Ward partnership will even see Everton within the Community assist convey recollections to life for its Pass on the Memories partnership by means of a historic mission designed to evoke and seize recollections of the previous and current them in a means utilizing expertise of the longer term while additionally celebrating a second in time with a particular mission to mark farewell to Goodison Park.
