📅 Workshop 13: Song, Memory and Wellbeing | 🕚 Friday 23 January 2026, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | 📍 St Michael's Church Hall, Aughton As part of 'Ageing Better with an Active Mind', we are delighted to invite you to an interactive workshop exploring how songs and singing support memory, wellbeing, and social connection. This session will bring the latest research directly to the community and has been co-created with u3a UK (The Third Age Trust) Aughton & Ormskirk, ensuring it i

📅 Workshop 12: Creative Writing and Wellbeing | 🕚 Friday 21 November 2025, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | 📍 St Michael's Church Hall, Aughton On 21 November 2025, we held our 12th Ageing Better with an Active Mind workshop, exploring the relationship between creative writing and wellbeing. This engaging session invited participants to reflect, write, and connect through storytelling. Led by Liverpool-based author Emma Morgan, the workshop focused on the theme of home. Through guide

📅 Workshop 11: Tea Ceremony & Wellbeing | 🕚 Friday 24 October 2025, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | 📍 St Michael's Church Hall, Aughton On 24 October 2025, we held our 11th Ageing Better with an Active Mind workshop. This time we explored the health and wellbeing benefits of the tea ceremony. The Edge Hill University Confucius Institute introduced us to the history and philosophy behind this ancient practice, as well as the properties of different teas. From green to black tea, we d

📅 Workshop 10: Movement for a Meaningful Life | 🕚 Friday 6 June 2025, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | 📍 St Michael's Church Hall, Aughton...

📅 Workshop 9: Reading and Well-being  | 🕚 Friday 14 March 2025, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | 📍 St Michael's Church Hall, Aughton The ‘Ageing...

As part of our Healthy Ageing with an Active Mind  workshop series with u3a UK (The Third Age Trust) Aughton and Ormskirk, we had the...

Ageing Better with an Active Mind launched their seventh workshop on Friday 26th of April 2024 in St Michaels, Aughton. The workshop,...

Ageing Better with an Active Mind launched their sixth workshop on Friday 26th of April 2024 in St Michaels, Aughton. This workshop was...

The fifth workshop of the Ageing Better with an Active Mind project was launched on Friday 1st December 2023. Mr James Hewison led a...

Ageing Better with an Active Mind launched their fourth workshop on Friday 3rd November 2023 in Aughton. This insightful workshop,...

The last workshop of the Ageing Better with an Active Mind project series was launched the Friday 11th of November. This workshop covered...

Friday 21st of October, Ageing Better with an Active Mind launched the second workshop of the series. The “Physical activity and active...

The first workshop of the Ageing Better with an Active Mind project was launched last Friday 30th of September with the collaboration of...