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00:00Hey, great. So we've been here today looking around the Plaston Farm Community Centre.
00:03And yeah, just wondering your impressions of the building and how you think it's going to be a good fit for the dementia.
00:07Well, first of all, I'd really like to thank Siobhan from the Dementia Resource Centre and the Alzheimer's Society
00:13for showing myself and Andrew Pates, the MP for Peterborough, around.
00:17I think that it's wonderful that we can continue to provide a service for this very vulnerable group of residents within our city.
00:24And actually, it's an example of how our council and the administration is putting services where they matter
00:33and also to make the wider communities across the country see that Peterborough really is offering services
00:41in the way of patients who have dementia and people that have dementia and ensure that they're looked after.
00:47So this actually is really an example of good practice to other councils and authorities throughout the country.
00:53So I'm incredibly pleased with the variety of rooms that are here and the offering that it has.
01:00So I really hope that this actually comes to fruition and very optimistic about what I've seen today.
01:05We've seen a lot of potential to offer a lot of services, a lot of services that have been offered,
01:09maybe some potential new ones for service, which is unique for Peterborough, isn't it?
01:13It's very unique to Peterborough. I know that obviously this has been a journey
01:17and I think that we've always got to look towards positivity.
01:20And actually, the fact that this has a community element to it.
01:24So next door, there is a club that's been running.
01:26We've very kindly had the runners of those clubs that have been with us today.
01:30And there are ideas evolving all the time about how these two communities can work with each other
01:35and how this can grow.
01:36So incredibly pleased about what we've seen today.
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02:09It's been really brilliant to get a chance to come and see the community centre here,
02:29meet with the Outsider Society, with the Boxing Club and understand how this space may be
02:34used so it can become a real community hub and asset for us.
02:37One of the unique features of Peterborough is that we have this Dementia Resource Centre
02:42which provides a space for carers and those with dementia and in the nearly a year I've
02:47been an MP I've met with the Outsider Society in Parliament, I've met with some of the users
02:51really understanding how I could help and it's brilliant to see particularly with councillor
02:56Shabina Khayyam and the work of the council not forcing through a change that users were
03:01unhappy with but taking a step back, listening to people and really working together.
03:06I think this could be a real benefit for Peterborough but it's a real sign that when the council
03:10works together with communities we can get something that's a real win-win for everyone
03:14involved.
03:15It's a real good example of getting community buildings back into use and say different
03:19groups which you know on the face of it don't have a lot in common but they can both you
03:22know come together for a share good for everyone.
03:25Yeah look I think everyone knows money's tight, there's got to be some choices councils make.
03:29If you can bring together a great community space like this, a bit of money from the council
03:34to get it going and match up a boxing club and a dementia club I think that's going to
03:38be a brilliant way of having something that can be used in the daytime but also used at weekends
03:42and evenings as well.