Tenby’s Mayor recently told members of the town council that progress on gaining the resort ‘dementia friendly’ status had been held up by the pandemic.

At a recent meeting of the council, Mayor, Clr. Mrs. Sam Skyrme-Blackhall and her Deputy, Clr. Mrs. Tracey Evans had been making ‘excellent progress’ and believed that the town had only been about three weeks away from being able to declare Dementia Friendly status before the first lockdown had put everything on hold.

It was now felt that we they were in a position to get things moving again.

The Mayor had recently connected with Sherry Evans of PAVS who is involved with the Memory Café. She said that a couple of meetings had been held which were most productive.

The Mayor explained that there was now a new person in charge of this project at PAVs and the emphasis was now on people rather than just following a list of things that businesses needed to do, which made the project far easier to accomplish.

“The project is now more about what each organisation or business can offer and how they can make a difference in their own environment,” said the Mayor.

“It could be something very small, for example, just changing fonts on menus or creating a sensory area and I’m delighted at the number of businesses that have already pledged support,” she stated, adding that she now felt that TTC were now in a position to submit an application towards Dementia Friendly Tenby status.