Future Social Events
This is your chance to voice your opinion at the YRA AGM on 23 Sept. Please note, our December Xmas Social Event date, start time and pricing to be confirm.

We are still unsure if Pluto Café will stay open during the Winter months. Watch this space for any updates.

Membership Renewals for 2025/26 NOW due
The annual membership fees will remain at £3 per household. Fees for 2025/2026 are due by 1 October 2025. If there are any changes to your details please update and submit the renewal form together with you membership fee, enclosed in an envelope, to any committee member at 4 or 21 Yaverland Close, 7 Meadow Way, and 92 Culver Way. Renewal forms on page 5 in the August Newsletter

The Herbert Protocol “Safe & Found” Scheme
The Herbert Protocol is a national scheme introduced by the police in partnership with other agencies which encourages carers and loved ones to compile useful information which could be used in the event of a vulnerable person going missing.

Carers, family members and friends can complete in advance, a form recording all vital details, such asmedication required, mobile numbers, places previously located, a photograph etc. In the event of your family member or friend going missing, the form can be easily handed to the police to reduce the time taken in gathering this information.

The Herbert Protocol initiative is named after George Herbert, a war veteran of the Normandy landings, who lived with dementia. George Herbert died whilst 'missing', trying to find his childhood home.

More info can be found here. https://www.wightsar.org/herbert Leaflets are also available at the Sandown Library. And we hope to have some at our YRA AGM for those that do not have access to the internet.