FREE COMMUNITY WEBINAR 🚗
To be held.

📅 Saturday 27 July
🕙 10:00am
⏱ Duration: 1 hour

Summer is the season when many of us travel further afield to visit family and friends, enjoy a day out, or take a well-earned holiday.

For many drivers, these journeys involve unfamiliar roads, busy tourist areas, motorways, roadworks and higher traffic volumes. They may also mean driving for longer periods than we are used to during the rest of the year.

At the same time, warmer summer weather can create its own challenges, including driver fatigue, dehydration, and sunlight glare.

In this practical and supportive webinar, we will share advice to help you prepare, travel safely and confidently, and arrive relaxed.

Topics include:

✅ Preparing yourself and your vehicle for longer summer journeys
✅ Planning safer and less stressful routes
✅ Driving safely on motorways
✅ Managing fatigue, concentration and hydration
✅ Using sat nav and journey planning technology effectively
✅ What to do if you breakdown

🌟 Join over 4,000 drivers who have attended our webinars.
99% would recommend our webinars to family and friends.

Reserve your free place: https://tinyurl.com/268zmnjr

Fancy a cuppa and a chat about your future?

Join the NHS for a relaxed coffee morning and discover:

• Exciting NHS careers
• Adult Education courses to boost your skills
• Friendly advice and support to help you get started

For full details, please utilise the link below.

NHS Coffee Morning 2503NAP

Are you aged 60 and over?

Would you like to be part of your local history?

Come and be a part of history by sharing memories of your local area.

The venue is at Gloucester Library Lab

Appointments are available Every Monday in February

Please note that booking essential

For further information and how to book an appointment, please use the link below.

Roots and Reflections A4 Poster GL

The Trustees are pleased to announce that during 2025, Managing Memory Together and the Gloucestershire Older Drivers Forum were incorporated within GOPA.

We welcome the two organisations and look forward to working together.

The joining of the three groups ensures  a stronger force dedicated to providing advice and support, alert to the needs of older people whilst committed to improving the quality of life for older people.”

Gloucestershire Older Persons Association and Long Table invite you to celebrate at the Old Department Store 29.35 Market Place, Cirencester.

1st October between 11am and 3pm

For further information please see below

One Gloucestershire is facilitating a DEMENTIA ACTION DAY  

This is being held on TUESDAY 26^TH AUGUST, 11:00am – 2:00pm
at Newent Library, High Street, Newent, GL18 1AS

for further information and the last Dementia Action Week report for 19th to 25th May 2025, please use the links below.

Dementia Action Day Poster – August

DAW Report 2025

Gloucestershire Hospitals and Gloucestershire Health and Care are offering a free group workshop to learn tools for living better after a cancer diagnosis.
Topics covered will include fatigue, stress, diet, exercise, sleep
and fear of recurrence. Meet others living through similar
experiences and ask cancer specialists the questions you want
an answer to.

To be held Monday 11th August:
09:30 – 12.30 (3 hours)
Location:
Wellbeing Centre, Longfield Hospice,
Burleigh Lane, Minchinhampton GL5 2PQ

for further information please utilise the link below.

Take Control workshop poster CMYK.pdf

Inclusion Gloucestershire is launching an exciting new project to support disabled adults (18+) across the county in gaining the skills, knowledge, and confidence to travel independently or with support.

They are inviting referrals from individuals who could benefit from:

· 1:1 Travel Training – Personalised, practical support to learn specific journeys with a travel trainer who will accompany the person on public transport until they are confident to travel alone.

· Companion Journeys – Support people who don’t think they want to travel independently but could travel with the support of a companion to appointments, events, or social outings (travel support only).

· Workshops – Group sessions (8+ people) offering practical travel skills and confidence-building.

· Paid Travel Trainer Roles – A fantastic opportunity for disabled individuals who already travel confidently to support others and earn as they train.

This project is open to Gloucestershire residents aged 18+ who identify as disabled or experience barriers due to a long-term health condition.

For more information, referrals, or to put an application in to become a trainer, please see their website: https://www.inclusiongloucestershire.co.uk/travel-training-project/

If you would like us to attend any events, meetings or speak to potential referrals/applicants, please get in touch with thier Coordinator oliviae@inclusion-glos.org

For further information please utilise the link below.

Inclusion Gloucestershire Travel Training Leaflet

The NHS is holding a

In The Community
INFORMATION DAY
Drop-in from 11am until 3pm on Sunday 18th May
@ The Hindu Community Centre
64 Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AY

For further information please use the link below

NHS In The Community – 18.05.25 [Poster.V2]

GOPA has produced a new  Do you Know About Dementia information and support guide.

To download a copy of the guide, utilise the link below.

FINAL DEMENTIA CARD2025