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We’re very pleased to present an all new way to support boom saloon’s work: become a member today and you’ll directly fund our community projects. As a thank you, our members can enjoy a series of member perks, as listed below, which include exclusive content downloads, discounts and events. This initiative is driven by the requests of our global community to further their engagement with our movement; we hope you can join us and enable us to continue inspiring and empowering others as we nurture a wealth of incredible potential around the world.
Our community projects use creativity to inspire and empower those facing challenges. To date, they have allowed us to work with a range of extraordinary talents and, together, begin to tackle challenges including forcible displacement, homelessness, substance abuse and dementia. Shaped by the methodology of Asset Based Community Development, they sit at the core of boom saloon and are our reason for existing. Having largely self funded our projects to date, we’re delighted to bring our members into the fold and enable you to directly better the life of another for just £5/ month.
As a thanks for supporting this vital work, our members enjoy the following:
1 in 2 of us will be directly affected by dementia in our lifetimes; it is currently the leading cause of death in the UK. In spite of this, the general public are largely unaware of the dementia journey and how this can look for an individual following diagnosis.
Many people with dementia feel their voice is taken from them and their true lived experience is rarely recognised or appreciated amidst a plethora of sensationalised headlines, medical jargon or scaremongering.
Within this landscape, we collaborate with people with dementia and, together, play with words to give voice to their experience. We then share these words across our print publications, online features, newsletters and events – centring lived experience and using this to increase empathy and understanding in wider society too often presented with a flattened, singular narrative of dementia focussed on incapacity, loss and inability. Our work redresses this, unlocking and showcasing what people with dementia can do before sharing this to rewrite the narrative by centring lived experience.
At this pressing time, please support this vital project by purchasing from our shop or becoming a boom saloon member, with our thanks.
