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LIFELINE (Emergency Panic Alarm)

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Are you worried about a friend or relative in case they fall when you are out? Or are you thinking about your own safety in your home? Many people like you have decided to get a LIFELINE through us here at One Community.

Lifeline costs just £3.50 a week, its really easy to install as long as you have a telephone socket and a plug socket- you can be set up within a few minutes.

Additionally you can have a wristband with an emergency telephone number in case of being lost or suddenly unwell.
With our friendly Options team, we would be happy to hear from you to talk through meeting your needs.

For further information about Emergency Panic Alarms please telephone 023 8090 2416 or email us here
Lifeline-Leaflet

Christmas Tree FESTIVAL OPENS

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Community Christmas Tree Festival Opens!

The 2018 Community Christmas Tree Festival has opened at Eastleigh Museum with a gallery packed with beautiful trees, each representing a local voluntary or community group. The Boyatt Wood Partnership tree is literally created from Boyatt Wood – an artistic interpretation in twisted willow. The New Music Makers group from Hedge End has recycled music scores into exquisite decorations, while Headway Southampton’s art group has created a tree from used plastic bottles – incredibly pretty reflecting its Christmas lights.
Innovation and imagination abounds with decorations fashioned from lace, knitting and bricks! There are some thought provoking messages too, with trees from Wessex Cancer, Eastleigh Rotary’s Dementia Friends Campaign and from members of day centres around the borough.
The exhibition runs until Twelfth Night (5 January), and the museum, in Eastleigh’s High Street, is open 10am-4pm Monday to Friday and 10am-2pm Saturday. Please note the museum will be closed for Christmas from 1pm on Saturday 22 December, reopening on Wednesday 2 January.

GIVE a pantomime place when you buy a ticket.

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Your chance to GIVE.

In the spirit of the season of giving, The Point are inviting audiences to buy an additional ticket for a young carer to let them experience the magic of a Christmas theatre trip away from their caring duties at home.

Tickets are £11 with £9 concessions. To book yours and purchase a ticket for an Eastleigh Young Carer phone the Box Office on 023 8065 2333 or visit www.thepointeastleigh.co.uk

This is what you will be giving to a Young Carer.

They could be going to see The Snow Queen at the Point in Eastleigh, giving them a few hours off from their caring responsibilities.

This year’s panto is The Snow Queen. The enchanting story is packed with songs from renowned composer Ivan Stott and physical storytelling. Guaranteed to entertain the whole family The Snow Queen runs from Saturday 15 to Sunday 30 December at The Point, Eastleigh.

For further details, please see below:

Point – Young Carers Snow Queen PDF

Grants Available

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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…]

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