Home Instead steps out at Aintree Memory Walk

AS the main sponsor of last weekend's Alzheimer's Society Memory Walk at Aintree, Home Instead Senior Care was delighted to welcome staff from across the region who stepped out at the event.  Representatives from the at home care company's offices in the Wirral, Southport, Northwich, and Chorley were joined by colleagues from Home Instead's National Office in Warrington to help make the event a great success.

Speaking to the assembled walkers at the start of the Memory Walk, Cath Chalton, owner of Home Instead in the Wirral said:- "The benefits of collaborative work between the Alzheimer's Society and our care organisation which specialises in dementia care, along with physicians and other organisations, is crucial in helping people live more independently at home.  Alzheimer's Society's single-minded fight for a better world for people with dementia is to be applauded and it was super to see so many people turn out to take part in the walk in support of this great cause. Around half of our clients are affected by a dementia so we know what a huge impact it has on people's lives. Our support for this event is our way of giving something back and supporting a fantastic charity."

The Alzheimer's Society Memory Walks are a series of fundraising walking events which take place every autumn across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Walks raise money to provide vital support to people living with dementia and help fund research to find a cure.  Home Instead is also the main sponsor of Memory Walks in London, Nottingham, and Bristol.

Sony Award winner Chortle to heads to Southport for a show

THE Sony Award winner, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Chortle Award winner and star of Radio 4 and BBC 2, Tom Wrigglesworth, takes to the road this autumn and one of his stops will be the Southport Comedy Festival  on 21 October 2014. His show will be set around his sell out 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show called:- 'Utterly at Odds With the Universe.'  In turns heart wrenching and hilarious, this exquisite show takes Tom on an emotional journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the poignant and profound relationship with his granddad. The 2 frequently taped themselves interviewing each other and it is in these early conversations that Tom comes to fully understand the influence this man has had on his own life and explores the fantasy of being able to make 'one final interview.'  Expect elegant flourishes of language, twisted logic and whimsical storytelling, courtesy of 1 of the finest and most original comics in the UK. Following the success of his Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated show, Tom Wrigglesworth’s Open Return Letter to Richard Branson, Tom has enjoyed 2 successful Radio 4 series (2011 and 2012) and scooped a prestigious Sony Radio Academy Award in recognition of excellence. In 2013 Tom wrote and performed another new series for Radio 4, Tom Wrigglesworth’s Hang-ups, which has been commissioned for a second series, along with a one off special of Utterly At Odds with the Universe. Tom is also a regular host of Radio 4`s Comedy Club and has guested on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends, Newsquiz, The Unbelievable Truth, The Now Show, Act Your Age, It’s Your Round, The Infinite Monkey Cage and You and Yours, as well as BBC Radio 2’s Out To Lunch and Claudia Winkleman’s Arts Show. He has co-presented on Richard Bacon’s Radio 5 show and is a regular co-presenter on The Rhod Gilbert Show for BBC Radio Wales. On TV, Tom recently co-presented BBC 2`s Engineering Giants and was one of the presenters on BBC2 series Electric Dreams. In stand-up terms, Tom has performed twice on Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live, Russell Howard`s Good News and The Comedy Gala for BBC Three as well as The World Stand`s Up, two series of The Comedy Store and Edinburgh and Beyond; all for Comedy Central.