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If your group is involved in supporting parts of the community, then please look at these grants that may be available to you.

HIWCF FUNDS NOW OPEN!

Tampon Tax Community Fund
The Tampon Tax Community Fund would like to award grants of between £5,000 an £10,000 to support marginalised women and girls, to help them overcome barriers that may prevent them from fulfilling their potential. The fund will support a variety of projects that make a long-term difference to health, well-being, confidence and social/economic activity, as well as addressing equality. Projects may cover supporting women and girls to learn new skills, building confidence to apply for new jobs or to return to the workplace, teaching women how to look after and improve their mental or physical health and live in good health for longer, or connecting women through building social networks to share experiences and offer support to each other. The fund hopes to target those organisations that have been established by women or girls and/or are led by women and girls, and which have been established with the key aim of working with women and girls only. Please apply before 19th October 2018.

For the full criteria please click here: http://www.hiwcf.com/funds/tampon-tax-community/

Businesses Supporting Older People (BSOP) Fund
BSOP would like to award grants of £500 to small community groups or community initiatives that support activities for members aged over 55 years old, such as bowling clubs, coffee mornings, luncheon clubs, trips and projects, so they can reduce isolation and loneliness in the community. The aim is to enable older people to access services and encourage new people to join in and participate in community clubs and activities. Please apply before 12th October 2018.

For the full criteria please go to the HIWCF website: http://www.hiwcf.com/funds/business-supporting-older-people-fund/

How Understanding Personality Traits Can Help You as a Carer

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Written by Jenny Holt, Freelance Health Writer

Could there be a way for you to better understand those who you provide care to? Studies suggest that if you make a concerted effort to better understand personality traits, you could fell a little better equipped to care for those under your charge. By taking into account the subtle and yet complex nature of the many personality types we come into contact with on a daily basis, you may enjoy a deeper understanding of those you care for, allowing both them and you to feel more positive about the caring relationship. [Read more…]

7 Important Tips for Carers who are Empaths

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Written by Jenny Holt, Freelance Health Writer

Being called an “empath” is not an insult. Too often, people think of their gift of being a highly-sensitive individual as a curse rather than a strength. Below, we will look at how being an empath makes you perfectly suited to being a carer, and what you can do to ensure the positive aspects of being an empath outweigh the negative.

What Sets You Apart as an Empath

When you first hear the term “empath,” you might get a negative impression, as you would with the other “-path” labels: sociopath, psychopath, etc. Many people may think of a someone ‘who just needs to grow thicker skin’, ‘stop being so selfless’, and ‘stop being so darn sensitive’. However, as we grow as a society to understand that people’s feelings and emotions are important, the empath label can, and should, be worn like a badge of honour. [Read more…]

How Caregivers Can Manage Panic and Anxiety

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Written by Jenny Holt, Freelance Health Writer

Caregivers typically help family members or someone in the home who needs assistance on a regular basis. Spanning from daily to weekly services, carers are often related to the cared for person, usually they are adult children (and sadly sometimes minors too) who are now taking care of senior parents. Being a caregiver is physically and emotionally demanding, with many adult children feeling forced into a corner leading to feelings of guilt and frustration. Over time, the stress can grow and negatively impact the experience for the carer, as well as the person receiving the care. [Read more…]

The Untapped Career Prospects in Care

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career-111932_640Written by Solomon Kumuyi, Home Care Services Manager One Community

The aspiration of almost every young person is to choose a progressive career path in life and to move as high as possible.

As a young man, I started my career as a chemist, then I moved into customer relations and then to IT. During my post-university time of serving the Nation in Nigeria, I was privileged to lead a charity organization that supported the less privilege in the society – the motherless babies, inmates in the prisons, and disabled children. Putting smile on their faces. The vision to improve my skills in the world of IT and business brought me to UK and during my studies I worked as a part time Healthcare Support Worker, assisting the elderly, young, and disabled people in the community. [Read more…]

Flexible working – your rights

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It is a little known fact that after 26 weeks of working you are entitled to request flexible working hours. Here at One Community one thing we are looking at presently, is how we can ensure carers are not excluded from working due to the responsibilities of the caring role.

Flexible working could be the answer for many carers who are concerned they may need to reduce their hours resulting in economic hardship, or give up their job all together which as well as the reduction in disposable income could lead to increased social isolation.

We understand here at One Community that it is a difficult balance to strike as a carer – helping a loved one maintain their independence whilst also maintaining your own. Work can provide positive stimulation, a break from the caring role, and also allows a person to follow their own ambitions. [Read more…]

Cyberbullying – the bully hiding behind the screen

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cyberbullyingWritten by Kylie Barton, Researcher, One Community

Cybercrime, and by extension, cyberbullying is one of those ‘under the iceberg’ crimes that we are still figuring out how best to tackle. Simon Hayes, Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight said:

As we embrace technology and conduct our lives online, so crime has changed and moved online to follow us.”

[Read more…]

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