Medway Neuro-Cafes
MNN has joined: wHoo Cares CIC/ Medway Community Healthcare/ St Augustine’s Church/ Bread of Life cafe in Strood, and Medway Adult Education to open cafes to provide support & reduce isolation. To view and download a copy of the MNN Neuro-cafe flyer, please click HERE.
Please see below for details of the following Neuro-cafes and Neuro-Information Stalls:
1. Walter-Brice Centre, Neuro-Information Stall: monthly manned stall on the first Tuesday of the month, 10am to Noon.
4. St Augustine’s Place of Welcome, Neuro-Information Stall. 192, Rock Road, Gillingham, ME7 5PW. Manned stall on 4th Wednesday of month, 9 to 11am. Light refreshments and activities including crafts provided by Medway Adult Education; look out for the MNN banner.
Please see below for details of the following Neuro-cafes and Neuro-Information Stalls:
1. Walter-Brice Centre, Neuro-Information Stall: monthly manned stall on the first Tuesday of the month, 10am to Noon.
Next Walter-Brice stall: Tuesday 1 December 2026.
2. Bread of Life Neuro-cafe, 17 Darnley Road, Strood ME2 2EU: Monthly on the fourth Tuesday of the month, 10am to Noon. Next Bread of Life Neuro-cafe: 24 November 2026.
2. Bread of Life Neuro-cafe, 17 Darnley Road, Strood ME2 2EU: Monthly on the fourth Tuesday of the month, 10am to Noon. Next Bread of Life Neuro-cafe: 24 November 2026.
3. Jasper's Neuro-Cafe, Rochester Community Hub (first floor), Eastgate, Rochester ME1 1EW. First four Fridays of the month, 1pm to 3pm.Hosted by a rota of charities. It's next open on 20 November, hosted by MNN Rare Conditions. For more information please see this FLYER
4. St Augustine’s Place of Welcome, Neuro-Information Stall. 192, Rock Road, Gillingham, ME7 5PW. Manned stall on 4th Wednesday of month, 9 to 11am. Light refreshments and activities including crafts provided by Medway Adult Education; look out for the MNN banner.
Next St Augustine's stall: Wednesday 25 November 2026.
We also promote:
a). Brainstormz! CIC Neuro-cafe, founded by Sue Bulpin, open to people living with all neurological conditions – Saturdays from 1.30pm at Hook Meadow Community Centre, King George Road, Walderslade, Chatham ME5 0TZ .
b). Rochester Dementia Memory Café on 4th Friday of month at St Peter’s Church, Delce Rd., Rochester ME1 2EH. To see dates for 2026 please click HERE .
We also promote:
a). Brainstormz! CIC Neuro-cafe, founded by Sue Bulpin, open to people living with all neurological conditions – Saturdays from 1.30pm at Hook Meadow Community Centre, King George Road, Walderslade, Chatham ME5 0TZ .
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Brainstormz at Rainham Healthy Living Centre, Second Monday of the month, 10am to 11.30am. Join Lee & Sue for a support and friending group for those with ant neurological condition, including Functional Neurological Disorder. Next meeting 9 November and then on the 23 November 2026.
b). Rochester Dementia Memory Café on 4th Friday of month at St Peter’s Church, Delce Rd., Rochester ME1 2EH. To see dates for 2026 please click HERE .
Medway Neuro-cafes are working in association with the Person-Centred Neuro-Sciences Society's Tonbridge Neuro-cafe
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Launch of the Bread of Life Neuro-cafe, 24 October 2023
The storms ceased just in time to give us a fine Autumn day on which to launch the MNN Bread of Life Neuro-cafe. The venue for this new Neuro-cafe is provided by John Western and his Bread of Life bakery and cafe at 17, Darnley Road Strood, ME2 2EU.
The Mayor of Medway, her Worshipful Cllr. Nina Gunung, and the Deputy Lieutenant of Kent Brigadier Peter Gilbert were guests of honour, please click HERE to see the programme.
The Mayor has produced an excellent photo-compilation of the event and this can be viewed by clicking HERE.
A short video of the launch event has been prepared and this can be viewed by clicking the picture to the right.
The next Bread of Life Neuro-cafe will be held on 25 August 2026.
1. Walter-Brice Centre Information Point and Stall
This Neuro-Information Point is located at the Walter-Brice Centre, Tilley Close, Hoo, ME3 9AE. it is held on the first Tuesday of each month, see the flyer for more details.
Next Walter-Brice Neuro-Information Stall: Tuesday 3 November 2026.
26 September 2023
2. Bread of Life Neuro-Cafes
Located at 17 Darnley Road, Strood, ME2 2EU: Next Bread of Life Neuro-cafe, Tuesday 24 November 2026.
Join us for a free coffee and a cake or pastry and let's get to know each other in this quiet, friendly cafe. We have a wide range of information on local neurological support services. If you have a particular condition that you would like to discuss it would help if you could let us know using info@medwayneuro.org.uk. We will try to arrange for an appropriate charity or support group representative to be present.
This is a bakery as well as a cafe and some months we plan to offer a cookery class to cook our own refreshments!!
3. Jasper's Neuro-Cafes, at Jasper's Community Cafe, Rochester Community Hub, Eastgate, Rochester ME1 1EW - (Term-time only). The Cafe will then open weekly, Fridays 1pm to 3pm, with the following charities hosting:
1st Friday of month: Parkinson's UK
2nd Friday: FASD Awareness
3rd Friday: Rare Conditions
4th Friday: Dystonia Society
5th Friday: No Neuro-cafe
For more information Email: info@medwayneuro.org.uk
For more information Email: info@medwayneuro.org.uk
Next Jasper's Neuro-cafe is on Friday 20 November 2026, hosted by MNN Rare Conditions.
Information Stalls
Please click on the image to the left to see a video of the general scene at the launch: stall holders and the band in a room adjacent to Jaspers cafe. We would like to thank the stall holders for supporting this launch and help make it a success.
5 in the Bar: You Don't Know Me
Led by Tony Ellingham, aka Dorian Gray, this band serenaded us with this song, made famous by Eddy Arnold. This splendid band had a CD of their work for sale in aid of Parkinson's UK and Prostate cancer.
5 in the Bar: Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
The band closed their act with this song. Many thanks to Tony and the 5 in the Bar band for supporting the Launch of Jaspers Neuro-cafe.
Medway Neurological Network would like to thank Medway Adult Education, notably Dan Mace (Programme Manager for Community Learning) and Lara Dix (Programme Coordinator), for their help in setting-up Jaspers Neuro-cafe.
We are very grateful to Jaspers Community Cafe for offering to host the neuro-cafe.
The launch was covered by the Kent Messenger and was published in the 23 January edition, click HERE to see the article.
Jaspers Neuro-Cafe Launch17 January 2020Opened by the Mayor of Medway Cllr. Habib Tejan. Click on image below to see video.
4. St Augustine's Neuro-Cafe
St Augustine’s Place of Welcome. 192, Rock Road, Gillingham, ME7 5PW.
Meets on 4th Wednesday of month, 9 to 11am. Light refreshments, and activities including crafts provided by Medway Adult Education; look out for the MNN stall.
Next Neuro-cafe: Wednesday 1 December 2026.
Brainstormz! Neuro-CafeOpens every Saturday afternoon at Hook Meadow Community Centre.
This neuro-cafe is delivered by Brainstormz! CIC. It is held Hook Meadow Community Centre, King George Road, Walderslade, Chatham ME5 0TZ every Saturday afternoon from 1pm to 4pm.
Brainstomz! Is a neurological group for all types of neurological conditions; we support the family and the person who has the condition. It is run by people who has neurological issues so it by life experience thåt we can support our members and understand how they feel. Our member see us on our good and bad days, so they know it is ok to come to our group. We understand that just coming out the house for a cup and chat can make the difference. Each one of the group is very different and also your time with us is not just about your condition, unless you want to be. It your time, so we build it around what you like. If you want painting, we do paint; it is about you not your condition.
Also, at Rainham Healthy Living Centre on Mondays, every other week, 2pm-4pm
And at Balmoral Gardens Community Healthy Living Centre every other Thursday from 29th October, 11am-2pm.
If you want more information call or text Sue on 07563 884 366
Rochester Dementia Memory CafeNext open on: 28 November 2025
Meets every 4th Friday of the month, 1.30pm to 3.30pm at The Parish Centre, St Peter's Church, Delce Road, Rochester, Kent ME1 2EH. Please clickHERE for the flyer giving future datesIf you have dementia, are caring for someone with dementia or have someone within your family or community who has dementia - then come along to your local Memory Cafe. Come to meet others in a similar situation - have a cup of tea and a chat and share information and experiences. Friendly volunteers will be on hand to provide information and support and health care professionals make regular visit.
Grain Village Carnival & Fete, 21 July 2018
To the right you can see the Medway Neurological Network float, promoting the Hoo Peninsula Neuro-cafes, as it arrived at the Grain Fete. Representative from each of the 4 cafes helped decorate the float and then ride through Grain, singing the Medway Neuro-Cafe song at the top of their voices.
Many thanks indeed to the Swain Group for providing the lorry, along with driver Lee.
Medway Skylarks, wandering minstrels at the Grain Fete.
After the carnival the somewhat hoarse songsters aboard the float joined the rest of Medway Skylarks to form a band of wandering minstrels at the Fete. To the left you can see a video of us singing 'Oh, What a Beautiful Morning'. It was in fact an extremely hot afternoon!!
See under the Skylarks tab a practice performance of the Neuro-Cafe song, that was especially written for this event.
Many thanks indeed to Trish Vella-Burrows for leading the choir and John Cornwall for accompanying on guitar.