Carers’ Connection April 2022
Welcome to our spring edition of Carers’ Connection, although as I write this the weather is very changeable and a bit grey. At least we now have wonderful banks of spring bulbs out, bringing us all some much-welcomed colour.
Carers Week in June, we plan to offer both in-person and online groups. Plans are afoot to open a Carers’ Respitality Bureau at our Albert Street base, which you can read more about on page 9. We have also just found out the great news that the service has been awarded £78,000 of funding for the next year, all of which will go towards more breaks and activities for carers. We are still finalising the finer details and will update you over the next few weeks.
New growth and development are themes running through this newsletter, and we look forward to your opinions on how the team have listened to what you have been telling us, and how we have responded. Our winter hardship fund provided a total of £24,300 in grants to eighty-one of our unpaid carers, which helped them with things like winter fuel costs and clothing. We were successful in a funding application for our Doorstep Breaks project, where we worked with local businesses to provide respite activities for carers, such as golf lessons and spa days. Our Health and Wellbeing worker is launching the new Health & Wellbeing Book Club, where you will be able to borrow books to help support you in your caring role.
Our final new and exciting development is the opening of our office at Cornhill hospital as part of our enhanced support service, so I hope you enjoy reading about it all and we look forward to seeing some of you in person at our groups.
Joanna McPherson, Service Coordinator Stay up to date with all the latest news on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ aberdeencarerssupportservice
We are aware that some carers would like to start meeting in person whereas others may wish, for safety reasons, to still join our support groups online. During 1