Summer 2017 Edition

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AGE UK BUCKS VOLUNTEER NEWS + FUNDRAISING EVENTS + MUCH MORE INSIDE

The Key Safe Company allows access at the point of need The Key Safe Company is the market leader of mechanical security access products, having revolutionised the way in which people can access properties safely and securely.

Its leading Supra C500 key safe is a locked metal box, which provides a secure method of externally storing keys to the exterior of a property.

The Supra C500 can hold up to five keys and is regularly used by carers, relatives, healthcare and telecare professionals to gain access to a home.

The Supra C500 allows householders to guarantee access to care givers, providing a crucial service if they struggle to answer the door themselves.

The product is secured with a single code mechanical locking system, and the code can be changed at any time.

As the UK’s only Police accredited mechanical key safe tested on

outside walls, the Supra C500 has an LPS 1175: Issue 6, security rating 1 certification from The Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB), the leading international Certification Body in the fields of security and fire protection. Recognised

by Secured By Design, as well as leading home insurance companies, the product has undergone rigorous tests devised by security

The product allows householders to maintain an independent lifestyle and can ensure healthcare professionals are able to deliver scheduled care and gain access in the event of an emergency, without encountering restricted access to the home.

For C500 Key Safe stockist in Buckinghamshire please contact Age UK Buckinghamshire on 01296 431911.

If you live in Milton Keynes please contact Age UK Milton Keynes on 01908 550700 directly.

For more information about the Supra C500 visit www.keysafe.co.uk

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Already used by the majority of local authorities and thousands of UK householders, the Supra C500 can be used to allow access to care teams, occupational therapists and other support staff, without the need to carry sets of keys, allowing more time to be spent with clients.

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Contents List

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Foreword from our What our Service CEO.............................. 5 Users say.....................14 Feedback from the Welcome to Fiona..........8 users of our services.

Our new Grants and Fundraising Manager.

Home Library Service...........................15 Bangers & Burgers........9 For Befriending in Bucks.

Driving Assessments.................17 Charity Shop Haven....10 Assessments for the Our staff are on hand mature motorist. to help you pick out your perfect outfit.

SAFE............................. 19 Safeguarding Adults Fundraising...................11 For Everyone.

Challenge yourself and Competition Time........ 20 raise money for our community service.

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Ask Julie....................... 21

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Foreword from the CEO

Meet the team…

Editor

Helen Wayland Tel: 01296 431911 Email: age@ageukbucks.org.uk

Welcome to the Summer edition of Engage Welcome to the Summer 2017 edition of Engage.

What a glorious Spring it has been, although despite a few downpours, the ground is still hard and we need more rain.

Let us hope that it rains at night and that we have a lovely summer too.

On behalf of the charity, I would like to thank Andrew Broome for walking 500 miles from Northumberland to Aylesbury on our behalf and raising, so far, £1,800.

(See page 11). Not only that, but Andrew has been sleeping in his tent, enduring everything the weather has thrown at him. Andrew’s Just Giving page will remain open for a while, so it would be wonderful if you could make a donation and help make the money

Andrew has raised a round £2,000. In the next edition we hope to have some photographs of Andrew reaching the end of his walk at the finish line outside our Aylesbury shop.

And speaking of the shop, there are some great bargains to be had there (see page 10) so please do visit if you can.

We welcome Fiona to the team as our new Grants & Fundraising Manager (see page 8) and are launching our Bangers and Burgers for Befriending fundraising initiative (page 9). So, if you are planning a barbecue this summer, please do consider asking your friends for a donation to us. Our fundraising pack will give you all you need.

Age UK Buckinghamshire 145 Meadowcroft Aylesbury Buckinghamshire HP19 9HH Tel: 01296 431911 Fax: 01296 330783 Email: age@ageukbucks.org.uk www.ageukbucks.org.uk

I would also like to thank all those who have contributed to the Big Knit. It’s great that so many people enjoy taking part in this and the variety of designs is amazing – so imaginative.

Finally, we have some trustee vacancies, so if you or someone you know would like further information, please get in touch.

Have a wonderful summer.

Giulia

TRUSTEE VACANCIES We have 3 vacancies on our Board of Trustees.

For further details please contact the Chief Executive, Giulia Johnson at gjohnson@ageukbucks.org.uk or telephone on 01296 431911 for an informal discussion.

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ARE YOU HOLDING ONTO YOUR £1 COINS FOR A RAINY DAY?

Everything you need to know about the new £1 coin and how long you’ve got to spend the old one.

By Owen Kyffin CTA, Tax Partner at Whitley Stimpson Ltd.

SPEND OR EXCHANGE YOUR OLD £1 COINS BY 15TH OCTOBER 2017 Whitley Stimpson are keen to make people aware that the current £1 coin will cease to become legal tender on the 15th October 2017. This gives Britons less than 200 days from the introduction of the new one to locate their currency and either spend it or swap it.

and savers, who need to check behind their sofas and in glove compartments for any of the current £1s.

It will also have an impact on a lot of businesses.

It’s concerning how few people are aware of when the current £1 coin goes out of circulation; you have until autumn to spend your round pounds or exchange them for the edgy new version at your bank.”

being illegally copied-but the details haven’t been made public.

BE READY FOR THE CHANGE Just last month, the Treasury urged savers to check in coat pockets and behind sofa cushions for forgotten £1 coins. “We are calling on everybody – from conscientious children saving pocket money in piggy banks to families who like to hold on to their coins for a rainy day – to be ready for this change,” chief secretary to the Treasury David Gauke said at the time.

The new coin, featuring a gold-coloured band around a silver plate similar to the £2 coin, will be “the most secure coin in the world,” according to the Royal Mint. Thinner, lighter and larger than the current £1 coin, with a diameter around 1mm This is the first time the pound coin has been bigger, the replacement also has milled edges, and a But don’t worry, returned coins won’t go to waste; changed in more than 30 years. The old coin has hologram-like image. There is even a hidden high some of the coins will be melted down and used to become a problem as they are easily illegally copied, security feature built into the coin to protect it from make the new 12-sided version. which means lots of worthless pound coins are in Whitley Stimpson offer accounts and business circulation. The new £1 coin is thinner and larger advice and have offices in Banbury, Bicester, than the current one, and has 12 sides.

Witney and High Wycombe. With over 85 years of experience of working with and advising local CHECK BEHIND SOFAS AND and national businesses and individuals on all things GLOVE COMPARTMENTS financial.

Owen advises: “Recent research has shown that ‘piggy bank savers’ could lose £1.1 billion worth of For further advice on spending or saving your money loose change stashed in jars and drawers when the contact Owen and his team at Whitley Stimpson on current £1 coin goes out of circulation later this year.

01295 270 200 or owenk@whitleystimpson.co.uk The change will have a huge impact on both spenders

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Welcome to Fiona Our New Grants and Fundraising Manager I first contacted Age UK Bucks as a potential volunteer and during training began to understand the challenges and rewards that the Charity experiences daily in providing a diverse range of services for older people across Buckinghamshire.

From Befriending, Welfare Benefits and Information & Advice, staff and volunteers cover the whole of Buckinghamshire which is no small task.

I was impressed.

When I saw the position of Grants and Fundraising Manager advertised I decided to apply and was delighted when I was offered the job.

With a background in sales and marketing and experience as a school governor and community fundraiser I look forward to bringing some new ideas and events to Age UK Bucks.

Please take a look at our new style, prize competition on page 20.

As traditional sources of income for all charities dwindles we all face tough times ahead. Meanwhile the need for services

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which benefit the most vulnerable members of our communities is increasing. With caring and supportive staff and volunteers throughout Bucks, Age UK Buckinghamshire is able to offer help, friendship and advice to older people when they are often at their most lonely and vulnerable.

We need to raise funds to be able to continue to provide our services and we have a programme of fundraising events planned for 2017.

If you would like to be part of our Burgers and Bangers for Befriending in Bucks fundraiser please email age@ageukbucks.org.uk or call 01296 431911 to request a free fundraising pack. We are always happy to discuss volunteering opportunities or your fundraising ideas.

As I think someone may have once said “every little helps.�

Some events are very local with generous supporters volunteering to hold cake sales or quizzes in their own homes or local pub.

We are also launching Burgers and Bangers for Befriending in Bucks when we will be asking everyone in Bucks to support our Befriending Service when having a BBQ by asking their friends and family to make a donation to Age UK Bucks (please see page 9 for more details).

Wishing you all a warm and wonderful Summer.

Fiona

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Age UK Bucks

Charity Shop Haven!

Do visit our shop in Aylesbury High Street.

We have in stock high quality designer goods as well as clothes from top high street shops. Our items are unique in the sense that you won’t walk into everyone else wearing the same outfit!

We can provide the whole ensemble for a school or college prom, as well as a fabulous outfit for a wedding for guests, bridesmaids and even the bride and

the bridegroom. There are lots of lovely shoes, bags and hats or fascinators so you can attend functions looking great without spending a fortune.

For summer, we have lots of superb stock in a wide range of colours as well as costume jewellery to go with most outfits.

We also often have knitting wool (good for knitting the Innocent drinks hats for

our Big Knit), along with buttons, thread and lots of craft items.

Charity shops have changed their image and you will be amazed at the quality, standard and range of items for sale. So please do pay us a visit, so you can get yourself some great bargains at the same time as supporting us to help older people in Bucks.

If you have some spare time we are always looking for volunteers to join our happy team!

Half a day a week is sufficient, either on the

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shop floor or behind the scenes. If you would like to volunteer please talk to Mandy, our Shop Manager, when you visit or ring her on 01296 489 023.

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Fundraising!

Challenge yourself this year and help us raise money for our Community Services in 2017.

Andrew’s 500 mile walk

Andrew is walking 500 miles from Northumberland to his hometown of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. His epic journey started on the 10th April and he is aiming to complete the walk in June. To add weight to this huge challenge, he will be walking with a tent on his back, camping along the entire route.

“Physically and mentally it’s going to

be tough. When the cold and damp sets in, when my legs turn lead heavy, when I have to get out of my sleeping bag in the morning, and when I inevitably find myself questioning my life decisions as I’m stood, lost, in some field without GPS. But it’s a worthy cause to suffer a little for! And one that I hope you will be happy to support.” justgiving.com/ fundraising/iwill walk500milesfor ageukbucks

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Also a big Thank You to Graham Pickering who organised a fantastic ‘Two for Tea’ event in Chesham to promote our Befriending service.

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The Big Knit 2016 - 2017 The Big Knit is back and bigger than ever! Now in its 13th year, budding knitters are being challenged to reach a whopping target of

two million miniature woolly hats. Age UK Buckinghamshire is calling on nimblefingered knitters across Bucks to get their needles clicking

at double the speed to make Age UK and innocent’s Big Knit the biggest event yet!

Local Buckinghamshire lady Hilary has

rounded up knitters from her local area and started a group called ‘The Mad Hatters’ who are now our biggest participants in The Big Knit campaign in Bucks.

For the 2016-2017 Big Knit they will have knitted and donated over 1000 hats!

Thank you Mad Hatters, we couldn’t do it without you!

From Left: Carolina, Wendy and Hilary from the ‘The Mad Hatters’

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NEVER SAY NEVER Ageing is obviously a physical process, but the right mental attitude can generate surprising achievements. Ian Norwell looks at the prospect of running a first marathon in his sixties.

However, my slothful comeuppance arrived when I was approached by a charity that supports the industry I work in, and with no plausible excuse to hand, I was signed up to run the 2017 London marathon.

“The games field at my secondary school was to be avoided at all costs. A confirmed non-athlete, I was the longest-standing member of the games master’s ‘sick-lameand-lazy’ brigade.

At 62, and never having run for anything before, I clearly had some training to do. All the recommended schedules looked ridiculously onerous, involving many miles of schlepping

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around rain-soaked streets through the winter. Then the Parkrun came to my rescue.

It’s a free, 5km run on Saturday mornings, and there will be one near you. It’s a good place to meet nice people, of all abilities. It is not a race, and running with other people through parks, not on roads, is an uplifting way to start the weekend.

As the starting horn blew at 10 am, we shuffled along for over twenty minutes before the mass of bobbing heads finally moved away. The day went as well as possible, with perfect weather, and amazing crowds to cheer us on. Completing the course with my daughter Lucie’s support, was an inspirational event, and the occasion reminded me what a great Capital

city we have. Apart from the iconic landmarks like Cutty Sark and Tower Bridge, the glass canyons of Canary Wharf are amazing. And they say that the cheers from the crowd wills you on. It’s true. At 83, the oldest runner this year was Ken Jones from Chingford, and he came home just 38 minutes behind us.

So what has it done for me, and what could it do for you? The sedentary job of a journalist, sitting at a screen most days, does not augur well for a healthy retirement. I am now a Parkrun regular, feeling healthier, and meeting nice people every Saturday morning.

Of course, you don’t need to run a marathon, but how about trying a 5k?

Just buy some proper running shoes first.”

Contact Fiona Wright at fwright@ageukbucks.org. uk or phone 01296 431911 to sign up to run the 2018 London Marathon for Age UK Buckinghamshire.

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What Our Service Users Say...

Last financial year, our Welfare Benefits service claimed back over One Million pounds in welfare benefits for 300 older residents across Buckinghamshire. This service takes huge pressure off the older person and gives them peace of mind. The extra money helps them stay in their own home for longer as well as pay for the things they might need.

Another of our key services is befriending where visits to over 300 people around the County are carried out by our wonderful volunteers.

The service provides invaluable company for people living alone who may feel isolated and lonely.

In addition our Information and Advice Service fields over 10,000 calls from people needing help.

We always ask the people who use our

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For more information on volunteering call: 01296 431911 or email: age@ageukbucks.org.uk or see our website: www.ageukbucks.org.uk

services for feedback on their experience in order that we can continue to improve on the delivery of those services. We are very lucky to receive such complimentary comments from our service users, proving that the organisation really does make a positive difference to the lives of local older people.

“It’s a joy to have someone coming to the house.”

I doubt if our application would have succeeded without your help.”

“My befriender is lovely – kind and helpful. We can talk about anything.Could not have done without Age UK’s help.”

“Without your help I would not have known what to do. I didn’t realise this help was available to us. It has made such a difference to us, we were really struggling.”

Most of our services are home delivered by our wonderful volunteers, therefore the majority of these comments are about them. Without our volunteers our services would not exist.

“Your representative was very helpful and thorough.

“It’s nice to know that there’s help out there for the elderly.”

“Each person we spoke to was a delight and most helpful and a very big thank you to my volunteer.”

Reproduced here are some of the comments we have received over the past six months: “A wonderful service – my befriender is so kind.”

“I look forward to my befriender visiting; she is lovely and a good friend now.”

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Love reading but can’t get to the library?

Let us come to you…

Home Library Service

www.buckscc.gov.uk/home-library-service Have a question about the Home Library Service?

Not sure if it’s for you? Get in touch at:

01494 475573 ● homelibraryservive@buckscc.gov.uk

Buckinghamshire Libraries Face of the council  Heart of the community

For more information visit www.buckscc.gov.uk/libraries  01296 382415

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Driving Assessments for Buckinghamshire’s Mature Drivers Driving is an important part of life for many of us, providing freedom and independence.

There isn’t an age at which we automatically become unsafe to drive but as we get older, our health, eyesight, mobility and reaction times may begin to deteriorate.

Transport for Buckinghamshire (TfB) offer a range of driving assessments including an assessment specifically designed for the mature motorist.

This can help identify changes in your driving and identify what can be done to help you to continue to drive safely for as long as possible The assessment is carried out on local roads in the drivers own car and is based around their driving

needs. This is followed up with a written report which gives an overview of the drive and highlights any areas for improvement.

The one hour driving assessment costs £37.

Since 2012 TfB have delivered over 450 mature driver assessments, the majority are drivers who take an assessment voluntarily to ensure they are still driving safely. Many drivers return for regular reassessment and a quarter are medical referrals from GP surgeries and health specialists. Feedback from drivers who have taken an assessment is very positive stating the experience is a reassuring confidence boost.

For more information, log onto: http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/tfb_shop Tel: 01296 382416 Email: roadsafety@buckscc.gov.uk

• ‘Caring for Older Carers’ service’

home visits across Buckinghamshire.

The service offers support to carers 75 years plus.

The cared for person can be of any age with any illness or disability and the service can offer bespoke support including up to six

Information and advice on all aspects of the caring role including: • L asting Power of Attorney.

• H ome care provision.

• R espite care.

• L ong term care planning including

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care costs and savings limits.

I nfo on benefits the carer and cared for may be entitled to.

T elecare – assisted technology.

C arers emergency plans.

M essage in a bottle I ndependent living equipment.

A dvocating on behalf of the carer.

R eferring on to appropriate services

for them and their cared for.

Please contact 0300 777 2722 / 07958 539590 for referrals including self-referrals.

Email: julie.thomas@ carersbucks.org http://www. carersbucks.org/75scarers-service/

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Exercise Classes with light lunch Holiday Inn, Weston Turville.

An event to bring older people together for gentle exercise and a spot of lunch with the opportunity to develop a social group.

Starting Tuesday 6th June 2017, running weekly.

Exercises start at 12.30pm with lunch at 1pm.

The event finishes at 2pm with flexibility to leave earlier. ÂŁ6.50 for each visit.

Call Home Instead to book your space: 01296 410029

Afternoon Tea Holiday Inn, Weston Turville An event to bring people together. For those that are older and would like to meet others to make friends or just have a reason to have some fun.

The next dates for the Afternoon Tea are below: Thursday 20th July 2017 Thursday 19th October 2017 Thursday 25th January 2018 Thursday 26th April 2018 Spaces are limited. Call 3 weeks in advance to book your space.

Carers are available and there will also be a live performance, courtesy of The Aylesbury Performing Arts Centre.

Call Home Instead to book your space: 01296 410029 We can support you to get to and from a car or cab.

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Safeguarding

Who Are we?

SAFE (Safeguarding Adults for Everyone) is a service user and carers forum which is working across Buckinghamshire as part of the Safeguarding Adults Board. The aim of the group is to raise awareness of adult abuse and to work with the board to ensure that there is a service user/carer perspective on all their work.

What is Adult Safeguarding?

Some adults with care and support needs who are unable to protect themselves are subject to a range of abuse. They often rely on people to support them to provide them with care and to look

after their money etc, and they are therefore open to the possibility of abuse and exploitation.

Adults For Everyone (SAFE)

Buckinghamshire County Council has the lead role in undertaking Safeguarding investigations but it is supported to do this by the Safeguarding Adults Board whose role it is to ensure that all agencies are working together to protect adults with care and support needs.

What do we do?

We ensure that all the work undertaken by the Safeguarding Board takes into account the views of service users and carers. The forum is

also asked to develop certain pieces of work by the Board.

The forum can ask the Board to consider taking on a task that it thinks is important to service users or carers or ask for funding to support SAFE to undertake a piece of work for the Board.

Why would you join SAFE? Although Safeguarding is a serious topic the group is fun and friendly, members come from all walks of life with a variety of experience and knowledge. The forum meetings are open to anyone who is or was a carer or service user.

SAFE offers a great opportunity to influence the delivery of safeguarding within Buckinghamshire.

There is a chance to meet like minded individuals, develop networks and to make a difference for people in Buckinghamshire.

In return we will provide you with training and support in Safeguarding as well as paying your expenses.

How can you join?

The dates and venues of our meetings are available on our website http://www. buckinghamshire partnership.co.uk/ safeguardingadults-board/ buckinghamshiresafeguarding-adultsboard/subgroupsand-safe-forum/safe.

You can either just come along to an event or contact the Safeguarding Board Manager on nbarry@ buckscc.gov.uk or 01296 383758 who can talk to you about SAFE and about how you can become involved in the group.

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COMPETITION TIME Engage prize draw Enjoy our brain bending Summer Word Scramble. Do you have what it takes to solve the word problems related to the hottest season of the year?

Win a £20 voucher kindly donated by The Works to spend in either their Aylesbury or High Wycombe restaurant!

QUESTIONS

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10. EWLOT

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SEND IN YOUR DETAILS TO BE ENTERED INTO THE COMPETITION

Name Address

Telephone Number Please send your answers by post to : Summer Word Scramble, Age UK Bucks, 145 Meadowcroft, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP19 9HH or email age@ageukbucks.org.uk with ‘Summer Word Scramble’ as the email subject. The winning entry will be drawn on 31st August. Good luck!

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Ask Julie Q

I’m in my seventies and live in private rented accommodation in High Wycombe. I’m finding it difficult to manage my money and have some debts. I have trouble managing my utility bills and rent and my credit card bills are mounting up. Can you advise or be able to direct me to someone who can help?

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Age UK produce a useful Factsheet ‘Dealing with Debt’ (Factsheet no 75) If you haven’t access to a computer, please ring our helpline on: 01296 431911 to request a copy of the factsheet (posted to you). Also, the following offer advice on debt: Local Citizens Advice Bureau – offer faceto-face advice in the bureau, but an appointment should be made in advance.

The address for the Wycombe Office is 8 Easton St, High Wycombe HP11 1NJ and the phone number: 0344 499 4108.

The National Debtline provides free debt advice on line or over the telephone. They can

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send you a free selfhelp information pack.

Visit their website Contact- https://www. nationaldebtline.org/ or tel. 0808 808 4000.

Stepchange Debt Charity provides debt advice over the telephone: 0800 138 1111 or their website: www.stepchange.org Bucks Floating Support is a local organisation providing support to people who live in temporary accommodation, social housing, private rented accommodation and those whose mortgaged properties are at risk of being repossessed.

They can also help you with budgeting and managing your utility bills.

Mandeville Grange Fundraiser 15th July, 2.30pm–5pm 203, Wendover Road, Aylesbury, HP21 9PB This July a local nursing home is hosting a fundraiser to support our Community Services.

Activities during the day include: Cake Sale Hot Stone Aromatherapy by Glad from Heaven and Earth Raffle Entertainment by singer/ trumpeter Avelia Moisey For more information please contact Asha Roy on 01296 435320

Tel. 01296 484322 or email: bucksenquiries@ connectfs.org or see their website: www. bucksfloatingsupport.org.

It may also be worth checking if you are entitled to receive any benefits that could help, contact us on 01296 431911 for advice or for a copy of the booklet ‘More Money in your Pocket’, published by Age UK.

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Help in the Home

We offer a reliable, high quality cleaning service tailored to your needs at a time convenient for you.

For more information call: 01296 431911 or email: age@ageukbucks.org.uk www.ageukbucks.org.uk

Handyperson Service

If you have simple DIY jobs around the house that need doing our handyperson service may be able to help. The service is not intended to provide complex or skilled labour solutions to problems and does not replace qualified trades people.

For more information call: 01296 431911 or email: age@ageukbucks.org.uk www.ageukbucks.org.uk

Neat Feet Footcare

Gardening Service

Providing nail cutting and general footcare

Are you an older person living in the county?

Do you need help with your garden?

For more information call: 01296 431911 or email: age@ageukbucks.org.uk www.ageukbucks.org.uk

For more information call: 01296 431911 or email: age@ageukbucks.org.uk. www.ageukbucks.org.uk

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2 LUXURY STATIC HOLIDAY CARAVANS FOR HIRE

GOLDENSANDS HOLIDAY PARK MABLETHORPE With miles and miles of golden sandy beaches opposite the park, you can also benefit from the facilities of the Haven Holidays Park which include: an outdoor pool with flume and a heated indoor pool.

A Funfair with plenty of rides, a large fun area with a playground, climbing wall and crazy golf.

There are also two coarse fishing lakes. Entertainment, both daytime and evening and a bar and restaurant.

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The Caravans are comfortable, clean and spacious. Central and electric heating throughout, with a fully equipped kitchen area. Both have extra wide showers, with separate toilets. The large lounges have comfortable seating a TV, DVD and CD player, with a second TV in the double bedroom.

Both are situated together with a large grass area at the front with outdoor tables and chairs.

The caravans are available for hire from 10th March to 20th November

3 Nights Fri - Mon

4 Nights Mon - Fri

7 Nights Fri - Fri

Booking MUST be made through eastuk-holidays.com Look for - Bermuda 8 Berth or Richmond 8 Berth