We welcome new volunteer lunch helpers. At our lunch sessions you would help to welcome our members as they arrive from 11.45 onwards. You would set the table, hand round tea and coffee, sandwiches, fruit and cakes, chat with members and afterwards help to clear up after lunch. From 1pm you would help members to participate in the session's planned activities. We have a rota of lunch helpers, two helpers per session, arriving at 11.30 and leaving at 2pm.

Our Trustees are the Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, and four Elected Members. As a Trustee you would need to understand the duties and responsibilities of a charity trustee and would be encouraged to part of our friendly team, participating as a volunteer Lunch Helper if possible. All Trustees stand down at the AGM each year and may be nominated for re-election; a ballot may be held. Trustees are automatically members of the executive committee which meets about 5 times a year, normally at 2pm after the lunch session.

We enjoyed singalong and dancing with Healthy Generations

Singalong and Dancing September 2021

Singalong and Dancing is back!

On Thursday we enjoyed the return of Healthy Generations – leading our session of singing and dancing.

Storytelling with Chris from InterAct Stroke Support

We enjoyed our September session of Storytelling with Chris. Look out for our next Storytelling session on October 14^th. If you would like to join our lunch sessions contact the Club Secretary

Kathleen retires as Treasurer

Jane, Club Secretary, presenting Kathleen with flowers. Kathleen became a committee member, then Stroke Club Treasurer in 1998, after a fellow member of St Mary’s Church in Islington heard she had retired, having worked as an accountant. For over 20 years Kathleen helped provide our weekly lunches in Mary’s Community Centre. Kathleen remembers the Club marking the Millennium in 2000, when the award of a grant enabled the hire of coaches with wheelchair facilities for awaydays in Clacton and Eastbourne.

Stroke Club AGM 2021

Welcome back after the summer break! Come for lunch on Thursdays!

Come along to our friendly lunch sessions – every Thursday 12noon to 2pm – for a sandwich lunch and conversation in our spacious and well-ventilated meeting room. If you would like to visit for the first time please contact our Club Secretary to book your place or to enquire on behalf of a friend or relative.

Restarting our lunch meetings

Wearing face coverings at our post-lockdown restart

Nine members enjoyed a successful Covid-safe lunch at Mary’s Community Centre last week. Places for our weekly Thursday lunch meetings must be booked – existing members only – contact the Stroke Club

Thank you to Islington Council’s Community Chest

Our successful application to Islington Council’s Community Chest for a grant for core funding will pay for our lovely meeting room at Mary’s Community Centre for the next twelve months

During this time of coronavirus restrictions, we are keeping in touch with our members and prospective members by phone and email. And we continue to welcome enquiries.

We enjoyed a hands-on demonstration of the benefits for stroke survivors of the Alexander Technique – led by Sheila, member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique

Alexander Technique demonstration February 2020

We enjoyed jokes, stories and conversation led by Chris from InterAct Stroke

Storytelling and conversation February 2020

Volunteering with us

Would you be interested in joining as a volunteer helper or Trustee? We are a small, friendly team, enthusiastic about helping stroke survivors and their carers.

Lunch Helper – you would welcome members as they arrive, chat and get to know them as you hand round tea, coffee and sandwiches

Trustees – we are seeking new Trustees interested in supporting stroke survivors and their carers

DBS checks will be required for all Trustees and Lunch Team Leaders and Helpers