MOSELEY COMES TOGETHER Moseley Together is a network of local support organised by Moseley Community Development Trust (CDT), working with local Councillors Kerry Jenkins and Martin Straker Welds and volunteers from all over Moseley, to help people who are ill or self-isolating and unable to go out due
a small group and efficiently co-ordinated by Lorna Brewster of Moseley CDT. Initial details are obtained of the help required and then an area co-ordinator is asked to make contact with the person. The individual is then put in touch with a volunteer and there is a follow-up with both parties for any feedback or issues. The co-ordinators are all trusted local residents who have links into their neighbourhood. Many of the requests we have received are for collection of shopping and prescriptions, but some we have signposted for specialist and additional help including a number of referrals as 'extremely vulnerable'. Some people just need reassurance and a chat, and neighbours have gone above and beyond in checking on people they were worried about.
to COVID-19. The community spirit of Moseley went into overdrive to create, in less than a week, a website, logo and graphics, social media platforms and a network of volunteers and co-ordinators across the eight polling districts of Moseley ward. Leafleting networks were mobilised and posters put up. Guidelines were compiled, safeguards put in place and telephone crash courses administered in using Gmail and Google Drive. Moseley Together has a central helpline and email address monitored remotely by HISTORY
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