Category Archives: Regional Gathering Reviews

In April 2024, we decided to merge the Regional Gatherings for London and the South East, and host a joint get-together at The Science Museum in London.

In July 2024, Caring Matters Now held its North East England regional gathering at the beautiful Newham Grange Country Farm in Middlesborough.

It’s a long way to Tipperary!  Or is it? As we were planning our annual support event for Dublin Zoo in October this year, we had a brainwave to host another gathering somewhere else in the country. Ireland’s not that big and with our positive “sure it’ll be grand!” attitude, we embarked on hosting two…

Following the success of our Ireland Regional Gathering to Tayto Park last year, we wanted to choose another venue which would have lots of activities to offer for our members and their families. Jungle NI offered a multi activity package with the opportunity to challenge a Rodeo Bull, bounce on bungee trampolines, pedal on the…

We had a great time at the NW and N Wales regional gathering at Farmer Ted’s in April. The children had plenty of things to do, from shows, tractor rides, petting the animals, slides, outdoor play areas, maze, jumping pillows, etc. The weather was very kind to us and we all gathered for a lovely…

On Saturday, September 10, we were delighted to welcome our families from all over Ireland to Tayto Park to celebrate of the 25th birthday of Caring Matters Now UK and the 1st birthday of Caring Matters Now Ireland.

On a bright, sunny Sunday in September, we held the South-East Regional Gathering at the Hop Farm in Paddock Wood.

This year, the East Anglia and London gathering was in Hyde Park at Diana’s memorial fountain we had a lovely warm day and had a picnic lunch, where we all gathered together to meet familiar and new faces to share our stories with drinks and ice creams

On Saturday 2nd October, we were delighted to host the first in person Ireland regional gathering since the start of the pandemic. We planned the event early in the year for Dublin Zoo as it was an outside venue, optimistically hoping that any restrictions would be a thing of the past by October, but alas, it was not to be. (Another time, Dublin Zoo!)

This year, the North West and North Wales gathering was at Formby National Trust, where we got to have a picnic lunch, walk around the famous pinewoods- den building and completing a nature scavenger hunt, and to top a fantastic day off, we had had an ice cream from the van at the end! Thankfully, the…