One Community

Can you knit or crochet ??

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It is winter and our wonderful buses are out picking up our vulnerable day service passengers and dropping them home safely.

Inside the bus, despite the heating older people and disabled people can get cold quickly.

We would LOVE some lap blankets to keep everyone toastier!

What a lovely gift to give ??

Altogether, we need 35.

If you think you’d like to make one for us, please drop it into us at 75 Leigh road, Eastleigh SO50 9DQ.

We have found some FREE patterns to you to try:

Crochet EASY

Knitting EASY

Eastleigh community pantry

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In the New Year, RCS Community Pantry will be opening on the ground of the Cable Works Building in Eastleigh.

The Pantry initiative is designed to support people with food deprivation, helping them to escape or move on from their current emergency with a ‘helping hand’ approach.

The RCS Pantry provides a holistic approach in servicing the needs of the community as it gives additional support on budgeting, wellbeing, adult learning and employment.
Food provided in the pantry will be fresh, frozen and general foods.

Each week there is a weekly meal deal provided with a recipe to help everyone have a wholesome meal.

Each member will be able to do a weekly shop at a small recommended donation charge of £5.00 per visit and receive a minimum of £15 worth of food.


The pantry has no restrictions on becoming a member. It is a simple and easy process by completing and returning the attached membership form to rcscommunitypantry@romsey.hants.sch.uk or by calling the pantry team on 01794522106.


Please note if emergency help is needed between now and the Eastleigh pantry opening, RCS can supply from the Romsey Pantry with collection at Cable Works.

Giving Tuesday & Big Give

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About ten years ago Giving Tuesday started in the USA. It was a response to the materialism expressed in Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Over the last seven years, Giving Tuesday has been in the U.K., again a response to the materialistic thrust of the time between October and the 24th of December.

This year, the idea is for charities like One Community to join up with thousands of others and encourage people to give for a specific purpose. The hash tag to look for is #giveback2020

It gives the public a great opportunity to give back to our amazing charity that has given so much over the year of lockdowns, covid-19 and many heroes. (Like SUPER STEVE!)

Our target is to raise £5000 for our supported, accessible transport buses.

We have been running a service throughout 2020 in a COVID safe way. This has included shopping for the isolated, taking people out for essential appointments and getting day service on the go again. Our volunteers and staff have been second to none.

Once services start to re-open fully in 2021 to older, vulnerable and disabled people we want to be running services that meet their needs in the Eastleigh area.

To raise the £5000 we need your help.

Visit our DONATE PAGE for easy ways to give

SHARE our posts, tweets, images and articles (including this one!) on your own pages and with the charitable, voluntary or non profit organisations who have the same heart for community that we do.

URGENT Companion callers needed.

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In our area there are people who are so very lonely 🙁


We need YOU to help brighten their day by giving them a cheery companionship phone call.


It’s a voluntary role and needs only be for a couple of hours or, of course, longer if you would like.


PLEASE get in touch by contacting us:

Call: 023 8090 2400

Email: volunteer@1community.org.uk


Thank you

Volunteers needed at Energy

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Want to help the young people of Eastleigh?

We are looking for some volunteers to help at the Energy Youth Centre on Leigh Road.

If you want to make new friends, learn some new skills and enjoy a challenge- Energy would LOVE to hear from YOU!

For further information please email volunteer@1community.org.uk

Or call 023 8090 2400 during office hours.

#Eastleigh #volunteer #youth

Sensational Screen News

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Great News! We have completed fitting of screens to 3 of the minibuses meaning we have increased capacity in the fleet.

Screens make the vehicles much more covid secure as they provide a physical barrier between the drivers and passengers compartments so making them compliant with social distancing and making travel safer for the users and the drivers.

Good Eh?

Ring 023 8090 2450 to book a dial-a-ride covid secure journey.

#transport #dial-a-ride #minibus #Eastleigh #covidsafe

Eastleigh Local Heroes

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Eastleigh Borough Council is giving people in the Borough the opportunity to nominate individuals, organisations or volunteer groups for a ‘Local Hero’ award.

This year has been challenging for many people across the Borough as coronavirus has continued to have an impact on day-to-day life, it has also brought people together and we have seen people go above and beyond to help others.

Find out how you can nominate a group or individual:

https://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/coronavirus-information/local-heroes-nominations

#localheroes #Eastleigh

Keep independent at home

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Lifelines, Key safes, locks and integrated alarms

At One Community we do loads of really brilliant things to help vulnerable people stay at home.

One of these is Lifeline.

We also have some other things you might need to help you remain safe and independent.


Lifeline is a panic alarm you wear on your wrist or round your neck and if you needed emergency help, you just press the emergency button. The cost of one is from as little as £3.60 per week.

If you want one of these or would like to buy one for a friend or relative- ring 023 8090 2400 or email dwinnington@1community.org.uk or hmalcolm@1community.org.uk


You might choose to add in a falls detector for a small extra weekly fee.


We can install a lifeline within 48 hours (often the next working day) or the urgently same day for an extra charge.


Our installation is COVID safe and our friendly installers will show what to do and how it all works. You do not need a landline to have one fitted as a mobile number works just as well.


You can set up a local key holder who can come and help you in an emergency 24hours a day, 7 days per week. Or we can provide and fit a police grade key safe and master lock for you for help to use as needed.
In addition, you can choose to have smoke alarms, CO2 and flood detectors incorporated. These do incur an extra cost- please ring or email to request a price for these.


Most people opt to pay quarterly by direct debit. Or you can post a cheque to us.
Here is a menu of things you might like to consider.
* 48 hours installation (often the next working day) of lifeline to a landline or mobile £15
* Same day urgent installation £30
Weekly cost of Lifeline emergency alarm £3.60 or £46.80 per quarter.
* Weekly cost of a falls detector 50p per week
* Police grade Key Safe £85
* Master lock supplied and fitted £40


#independentliving #emergencyalarm #Lifeline

Cancer Awareness

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Every month One Community posts about cancer awareness and has a focus.

This month’s focus is Men’s Cancers and Lung Cancer.

The idea is to inform people, increase awareness especially in those who are unlikely to see a medical professional regularly.

In case you do not have social media or follow us on our social media channels, please check our latest poster.

It includes a QR code. This is the black and white patterned box. If you take a photo on a smart phone of the code, it will take you to the information on lung cancers.

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