Remembrance Sunday 2024 with Home Instead Lancaster
Join Home Instead Lancaster this Remembrance Sunday 2024 in remembering all who served. Local parades across Lancaster and learn how our Care Professionals can support clients
As Remembrance Sunday approaches, Home Instead Lancaster is committed to ensuring that our home care clients, particularly older adults in Lancaster, Morecambe, and Garstang, can participate in this day of reflection and tribute if they wish.
Remembrance Sunday is an important time to come together as a community to honour those who served and sacrificed in both World Wars and in more recent conflicts.
We support many of our clients who wish to, with companionship and care, to enable them to mark the occasion in meaningful ways, and remember their personal experiences, memories or family stories.
Remembrance services in 2024 across the Lancaster area
Remembrance Sunday, this year is on 10 November, will see a range of services across the Lancaster district, and everyone is welcome to join in these acts of remembrance. For many older adults, these ceremonies bring back personal memories or recall loved ones who served in past conflicts. Attending or engaging in these traditional services is a way to feel connected to a shared history, and honour those who gave so much.
– Lancaster: The day begins with a service at the Priory Church at 9:15 am, followed by a procession through Lancaster’s city centre to the Town Hall. The official Garden of Remembrance service will begin at 10:50 am, providing a moment for quiet reflection.
– Morecambe: A procession will form at The Platform, setting off at 10:40 am towards the cenotaph on Marine Road for a service and the traditional two-minute silence.
– Carnforth: Here, a procession will leave the council offices on Market Street around 10:25 am and head to the war memorial for a remembrance service from 10:50 am to 11:30 am.
To ensure that attending these services is accessible to everyone, Lancaster City Council has kindly suspended parking charges at its Nelson Street car park in Lancaster and Bay Arena car park in Morecambe.
Supporting our clients to honour Remembrance Day
At Home Instead Lancaster, we understand that our clients may choose to mark Remembrance Day in their own way. Our Care Professionals will support clients who wish to participate in the day’s events by attending local services or parades, by helping them to attend.
For those unable to attend services in person, we’ll watch together the national Remembrance Day parade broadcast from London on TV, with clients who’d like to experience it. The Sunday parade, filled with symbolic moments and collective pride, is a way to feel connected to the wider community’s remembrance.
On Monday, November 11th, at 11 am, we will also join clients who wish to observe the traditional two-minute silence. This moment offers a pause for reflection and respect for all who have served and sacrificed, particularly those clients with their own or family military connections. We find that many clients appreciate the opportunity to share memories, family stories passed down, or simply experience this moment of silence with a trusted Care Professional by their side.
We support older adults with companionship-led care at home, and can also help to get out and about. With our tailored approach to home care, we can provide care in the way that each client wishes, including taking the time to sit down and watch the parade on TV, take a 2 minute silence or to talk about parades and memories from the past.
Learn more about our home care services by calling our award winning local team on 01524 951574 or for job opportunities, apply online.
