Dementia Support Line
Brain Workout
Keep your brain active with our monthly Brain Workout puzzle pack delivered straight to your door!
What is Brain Workout?
Brain Workout is a monthly subscription puzzle pack. You can choose how how much you wish to donate monthly and in return you’ll receive a pack of challenging puzzles straight to your door every month!
Every quarter your regular monthly pack will be a bumper pack, this is a bigger pack including more puzzles and activities for some extra brain acrobatics.
Your Brain Workout gift will support us to help end the devastation of dementia whilst keeping your brain ticking.
To get your free taster pack, click the link below.
How does it work?
How do we decide on what puzzles to include?
Each month we send out a different combination of word, number and logic puzzles in order to exercise different types of cognitive function such as memory, spatial awareness, general knowledge and recall, verbal reasoning, mental arithmetic, pattern recognition and creative problem-solving.
Just like a physical workout needs to target different parts of the body, a mental workout needs to ensure that all aspects of brain function are challenged to keep sharp.
We are proud to partner with the amazing folks at Take a Break Puzzle magazines to ensure you get a variety every month. Take a Break have been producing puzzles for over 30 years, so we know your brain is in safe hands.
All packs are mailed out around 28th to 30th of each month. Packs can take up a week to land on doorsteps.
There are 4 direct debit dates: 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd. The mailing list is created around the 20th of each month, meaning the direct debit payment must have cleared by the 20th to ensure you are included in the mailing list. Therefore, if you have a direct debit date of the 22nd of the month, you'll have to wait the following month for your first pack. You will receive your welcome pack in the meantime to tide you over until then.
e.g. if you set up your direct debit on the 2nd of May and select the direct debit date to be the 22nd of every month, you will receive your welcome pack within 2 weeks of signing up. As the direct debit is set to come out on May 22nd, you would miss the deadline for the May mailing (20th). Therefore, you would receive your first puzzle pack in June, which mails at the end of June so you'd receive it very early July.
The first thing you'll receive from us is your welcome pack, in this you'll get an extra puzzle pack and a free Brain Workout pencil.
In your monthly puzzle packs, you'll get your themed pack of puzzles, a personalised letter and a workings sheet to scribble any calculations down.
You'll also get a bumper pack instead of a standard monthly pack every quarter, this includes even more puzzles to crack on with. Bumper packs are in March, June, September and there's a special Christmas pack in December.
We work hard to keep Brain Workout as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible. The paper used for every pack is Forest Stewardship Council ® (FSC®) certified, which means it is sourced from sustainably managed forests. Well-managed sustainable forests give multiple benefits to society, such as livelihoods, ecosystem services and biodiversity, while helping to tackle climate change.
The FSC® certifies forests to credible, independently verified standards of responsible forest management, conserving the natural habitats of plants and animals, and respecting the rights of forestry workers and local communities. It works to ensure a robust supply chain, starting from the forests through to the end user.
The paper used is also widely recyclable so once you have completed the puzzles in your pack, you can dispose of it responsibly by using your household recycling bin.
For more information on sustainable paper and forests, visit https://twosides.info
Currently we only have one version of Brain Workout but last year added in the varying levels of difficulty so that people could pick and choose their levels or work through them and ideally progress to a higher level.
Brain Workout is unfortunately not specifically designed for people living with dementia but as way to maintain your mental wellness whilst your donation goes towards supporting people living with dementia.
At the current time we are unable to gift Brain Workout packs. The delivery address has to be the same as the billing address as our fulfilment house doesn’t have the system in place to have these as different places, being it would be a manual process which naturally costs more as it wouldn’t be automatically mailing it.
There currently isn’t enough of a demand for this for us to justify the cost in implementing the system – but in the future we’d love to look into this further.
Currently we do not have the IT infrastructure to do this and this would be an extremely expensive set-up process for us, at this moment in time, there is not enough of a demand for us to justify this.