The fantastic 'Growing Old Gracefully' exhibition, assembled from oral history interviews held with a vast array of people (service...

Our service users previously had the opportunity to head to Eastside Community Heritage's archive to put together resources for a...

We held 4 more reminiscence sessions from late March to early May, at SubCo and the Trinity Centre in East Ham. Our service users enjoyed...

Shapla organised and delivered a day of sessions and a historical presentation, to enable the elders to reflect on what SubCo means to...

We were joined in the Eastside office by 3 students on placement at SubCo, and SubCo's project officer working with us on Growing Old...

We started with 8 participants in the session of whom three individuals shared their stories and interacted more.  We had the pop star...

10 participants attended the session. The first activity was to identify pictures of pop stars from the '60s and '70s, which we thought...

The session started off with the A to Z activity with 13 participants.  They started off steady then it got a little difficult as they...

We were joined by an absolutely incredible 25 service users and 8 staff for a day of reminiscence and pampering. The exhibition was...

A wonderful evening with SubCo - great food, great music, and a very positive atmosphere. It was also exciting to be able to unveil the...

The Memory Cafe welcomed six service users and two SubCo staff members. We were thinking about summer and sharing our memories of...

It is an incredible experience to go to a SubCo party for the first time. The room was decorated so colourfully and beautifully, and...

We enjoyed a wonderful Memory Cafe session with seven service users and one member of staff. We shared refreshments and chatted about...

It's been lovely to see the memory quilt progress over seven workshops. The SubCo elders have enjoyed getting creative in realising the...

We were joined by four service users and a member of staff on our second multimedia training session. The group discussed the advantages...

With a group of three staff members, five service users, and a carer, we thought about how we could make a video to promote our 'Growing...

Another really good turnout and positive reception at our second reminiscence session. As I couldn't make it, the session was overseen...

This reminiscence session was the first opportunity for the volunteers to put what they had learnt about oral history and reminiscence...

We had another wonderful session, with a group of twelve enthusiastic volunteers (five SubCo staff and seven service users), this time...