Category: Friends Group

A 1970s themed poptastic show from our man of many costumes. Who remembers Lena Zavaroni from the 1970s?

Jamie dazzled us with his exotic outfits. He has been entertaining the group since June 2018 and is as popular as ever.

David’s group of clay modellers are progressing their designs.

The room was rocking to familiar tunes.

I enjoyed my visit to the group and the chance to meet Reflections’ friend Gwen (the Pearly Queen of Royal Greenwich).

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 11th April at 1pm. Mark will entertain us with his second visit to the group.

Please note: in our uploaded photos we blur the faces of all group members. You do see the faces of our wonderful volunteers.

Tony warmed us up on a cold day.

Another great sing-a-long.

Amongst Tony’s tunes were “My Guy”:

“O Boy” and Blue Suede Shoes”:

Gyda was helping create more paper art.

David’s potters were busy pottering.

There was much singing and dancing.

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 28th March at 1pm. Jamie will entertain us.

Please note: in our uploaded photos we blur the faces of all group members. You do see the faces of our wonderful volunteers.

Another excellent performance from Vikki.

Some very familiar tunes had the group singing along.

You can hear (and see) more of Vikki here.

Gyda encouraged some colourful artwork and David enabled some members to create interesting clay tiles.

The singing and dancing continued until the close of play at 3pm.

Janet brought in some of the books from our carers’ library and Helen, our Reflection’s librarian, managed the lending.

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 14th March at 1pm. Tony will entertain us.

Please note: in our uploaded photos we blur the faces of all group members. You do see the faces of our wonderful volunteers.

Valentines Day. The sun was out and the group enjoyed some rousing tunes with our favourite multi-instrumentalist.

The boogie boogie bugle boy of Shrewsbury House.

Here is Julian singing “Reet Petite”:

You can hear Julian’s tunes here.

The Valentine’s word search was popular, accompanied by a cuppa and a snack.

You need to get your knees up! The volunteers are very keen on exercise.

Julian’s tribute to Frank Sinatra is here:

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 28th February at 1pm. Vikki will entertain us.

Please note: in our uploaded photos we blur the faces of all group members. You do see the faces of our wonderful volunteers.

A New Year’s Rock ‘n’ Roll party.

Buddy Holly, John Lennon and Nancy Sinatra all sang for us.

Here is Jamie singing “Rock around the clock”, “Jailhouse rock” and “Shake rattle and roll”:

You can hear more of Jamies’s tunes here.

Gyda’s craft for the day was Chinese New Year bunnies, for the Year of the Rabbit.

A packed room enjoyed Jamie’s “Dedicated Follower of Fashion”. We were delighted it was our biggest turn-out since before lockdown.

“The Locomotion” was a popular choice for a conga line.

Fans of Jamie may see his latest panto role here:

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 14th February at 1pm. Julian will entertain us.

Please note: in our uploaded photos we blur the faces of all group members. You do see the faces of our wonderful volunteers.

A new entertainer for the group.

He went down a storm. You can listen to a sample of Mark singing “Sweet Caroline” here:

You can hear more of Mark’s music here.

In the first hour group members had a chat and exercised their brains with word-searches and other fun activities. The nibbles helped things along.

Gyda and David encouraged the crafters with new ideas.

Everyone joined in the entertainment, whether standing or sitting. Mark is in there, raising the roof with joyful tunes. It was lovely to see so many people at the group despite the cold weather.

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 31st January at 1pm. Jamie will entertain us with his New Year’s Rock and Roll dance party.

Please note: in our uploaded photos we blur the faces of all group members. You do see the faces of our wonderful volunteers.

A positive and healthy New Year to everyone.

Tony gave us his favourite tunes for us to sing and dance along. Hear more of Tony’s songs here.

Janet, Pearl, Marilyn, Dot, David, Mary, Helen, Tony and Jen – I took the photos and forgot to do a selfie : (

Everyone enjoyed the fun activities as usual.

Some of the group may have been warn-out by the festive season, but quite a few managed a dance or three.

Christabel and May from The Memorial came to visit us and we welcomed back Janice from the Carers Centre. They all had a chat to the members and managed a couple of dances.

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 17th January at 1pm. We have a new singer – Mark – who will entertain us.

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Please note: in our uploaded photos we blur the faces of all group members. You do see the faces of our wonderful volunteers.

Santa joined us for the afternoon.

Vikki gave us a suitably lively Christmas party set. The traditional Twelve Days of Christmas, with actions, was enjoyed by all.

We are very grateful to Tina (Vice President, the Kent Spiritual Teaching Group) and Gwen (the Greenwich Pearly Queen) who presented Reflections with generous donations.

Reflections provided a light lunch for our members (excellent food, including home made mince pies, from Emma’s Pantry at Shrewsbury House – thank you Emma and Kelly). Then it was on to the serious business of dancing and singing with Vikki.

Santa and his helpers joined in with the fun.

We thank all our volunteers who have done a great job again this year. They send best wishes to you.

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 3rd January 2023 at 1pm.

Tony will be with us next time.

You may now nominate Reflections as your charity when you buy items on Amazon. Click here for more information. It does not cost you (or the retailer) anything and Reflections will receive 0.5% of what you spend.

Please note: in our uploaded photos we blur the faces of all group members. You do see the faces of our wonderful volunteers.

Julian warmed us up with another top quality show.

The tunes were very varied and the audience sang and danced along (some sat and danced).

Dot and Jen were in seasonal spirits.

Plenty of dancing and singing kept everyone in the groove.

As 2022 is coming to an end we want to thank all the wonderful people who have made donations to the Reflections charity this year. Your help enables us to run the charity and makes a real difference. Thank you.

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 6th December at 1pm.

The always popular Vikki will be here to entertain us.

You may now nominate Reflections as your charity when you buy items on Amazon. Click here for more information. It does not cost you (or the retailer) anything and Reflections will receive 0.5% of what you spend.

I suspect Jamie had been to his costumier…

We enjoyed a wide variety of 60s top tunes..

New members were put to work making their own name badges.

There was enthusiastic dancing, but some of our volunteers were ready to surrenderer after an hour of frantic Twisting, doing The Mashed Potato and The Locomotion.

Julian will join us at our next session.

The Reflections Friendship Group is next at Shrewsbury House on 22nd November at 1pm.

You may now nominate Reflections as your charity when you buy items on Amazon. Click here for more information. It does not cost you (or the retailer) anything and Reflections will receive 0.5% of what you spend.