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YOUNG CARERS UPDATE!

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We can hardly believe it either but WOW our very own ‘walking dead’ walkers have raised over a £1000!

Just such an amazing physical achievement and such a great Young Carers project to support.

Please see the poster below for all the details.

Feeling inspired?

Sponsored walking might not be your thing but perhaps you might like to try a pudding night at your WI or men’s group, perhaps a Zumba challenge at the gym or a sponsored tech famine at youth group? Short on ideas? We have lots!

Just email Jean at jroberts-jones@1community.org.uk 023 8090 2400

You can make a donation really easily to One Community. Including on line, in person or via text.

Walkers raise £920 for One Community!

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Wonderful ‘walking dead’ walkers have raised £920 to support young carers in the Eastleigh area.

Thank you, whether you walked, supported, sponsored or were just cheering them on. It will make a big difference to our young people and can help us run the singing group, take them on a trip and help us run our youth groups.

It’s not a big deal. It’s just walking, right? We do that every day. This is what we
(Rachel, Declan, Jennifer and Chris) said before the four of us embarked on this journey from Dorking to Eastleigh non-stop.

We had decided to take on this challenge and had a few setbacks, including pushing the dates back and having a team member pull out last minute. However, miraculously we managed to conquer this challenge on Saturday 13th of July 2019. It ended up taking 33 hours and we all agreed it was the hardest thing we have ever had to do. There were many moments when we felt like giving up, but with some music, visits from friends and even a nap at 4am in someone’s front garden we managed to power on through. Whilst the walking certainly took a physical toll, we all agreed the hardest part of this challenge was the mental endurance. We got to 40km not even halfway through and was demoralised. Still, more than halfway to go and feeling like quitting, how can we do this extra 60km? Teamwork and Determination – that is all that got us through. Without the support of each other, we would be lost, we would have given up at 30km.

We picked Eastleigh Young Careers as our charity because it is such an important cause and makes a dramatic difference here in our little town of Eastleigh. What I didn’t understand before the walk is how much difference a good team makes. We got to experience 33 hours of exhaustion, pain and hopelessness and was shattered by the end of it. We slept well afterwards. Some children live their lives caring for others and never get the chance to rest or have a team to encourage them. We choose Eastleigh Young Carers for our charity as every child carer, when they feel exhausted and when they feel like giving up at 30km, need people around them to help get them to their 100km mark.

To see the article in full please see below:

If you feel inspired to raise money for a One Community Project, please contact us by emailing jroberts-jones@1community.org.uk or ringing us on 023 8090 2400

Young Carers go to Paultons Park!

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The wonderful Eastleigh Lions have been so good to Young Carers over the years and this year is no exception.

Nine families went along to Paulton’s Park and had a wonderful time.

We are incredibly grateful for our wonderful supporters, who have enabled these young carers to have such a positive experience.

Eastleigh lions club Paulton’s park family day

Young Carers need YOU!

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On a Monday late in the afternoon you might hear some lovely melodies floating out of the windows of the Point in Eastleigh. These fine young voices are being used in our very own Young Carers singing group.

Our Young Carers have an awesome sound!

We would love to keep this group going, get better and better and have lots of extra options of growing into the future.

“I like going to choir, my favourite song is This Girl is on Fire. I am braver now I have been to singing and I have even sung a bit on my own.” Ms.B.

Help Ms. B. and the other children increase their confidence and benefit from singing. You can share with other people that we have applied for this and this will help us win the £!

https://www.persimmonhomes.com/community-champions/

Young Carers, mental health and recycling.

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It is mental health week and we are looking at getting more funding and volunteers to help with our young carers, at risk of mental health.

We are really lucky in the Eastleigh area to have some amazing young people. Some of these are young carers. They spend a lot of time with a person who has a significant impairment and this effects their lives in many ways.

Because of the extra pressures and worries involved in life, together with other factors, they are at greater risk of mental health issues.

To combat these issues and increase happiness, our young carers team run various events and offer family support. There is; a young carers choir, youth activity groups and holiday time activities. Sometimes our young carers project gets a donation of Easter eggs, a day out or Christmas hampers. Our supporters are amazing, especially our One Community bus passengers, the ROTARY and LIONS.

Ideally would like to have more spaces to support more families. This will improve mental well-being and increase the chances of young carers to reach their potential.

So a young carer and her grandad have come up with a FANTASTIC idea to raise money for us.

Here is our Facebook post explaining all about it:

#eastleigh #youngcarers #mentalhealthweek we run young carers activities for yr3-yr13. Improving mental health as we go. To help us do some #Recycling of

mobile phone and ink cartridges

Listed below are the places you will find collection boxes for these items:

1 = Cherbourg Campus, #Crestwood College,

2 = The Crescent School,

3 = Eastleigh Library, in the Swan Centre,

4 = Eastleigh Baptist Church, (in coffee shop) Wells Place

5 = One-Community Office Romsey Road in the Reception,

6 = #ShopMobility, Wells Place

(next to McDonald’s),

7 = Tesco Extra #Hamble Lane #Bursledon SO31-8GN at the customers information desk

8 = Good Luck Chinese Take Away in Twyford Road #Eastleigh.

These locations are visited and collections made regularly, and the phones and ink cartridges are sent off to recycling companies and the money sent directly to Young Carers Bank Account.

Please keep supporting this great group of young people.

With thanks to Georgie and Georgie’s grandad for helping us 🙂

Very generous Easter Bunnies!

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Our wonderful passengers help young carers.

For Easter many Hedge End Park & Dial-A-Ride passengers collected over 200 Easter eggs for young carers. They have collected so much for the lovely young carers who deserve all the great gifts donated by our kind passengers. This is not the first time they have provided such generous gifts and over the years hundreds of eggs have been given alongside other lovely things.

Our passengers have noticed that a little bit of kindness really does go a very long way. We think they are GREAT!

You could give us a bit of kindness very easily.

  1. Sign up for AmazonSmile when you do your shopping online.
  2. Volunteer for a few hours a week, we will find you something to suit your talents and time.
  3. Train with us and DRIVE OUR BEAUTIFUL BUSES (with these cracking passengers on them!)
  4. Donate £5 by texting 1COM5 to 70085 for us to run dial-ride & our other services, like young carers (we won’t bother you with marketing texts.)
  5. Ring us on 023 8090 2400 or email info@1community.org.uk and register to use our bus services.

Vote FOR US! (We actually do stuff!)

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Just four days left until nominations close for the @Ecclesiastical Movement for Good awards. Your nomination could make all the difference. Visit ecclesiastical.com/movementforgood and enter our details. Thank you for your support and please share! #movementforgood

£1,000 could make a big difference to the work One Community does supporting people and groups in the Eastleigh and Fareham areas. That’s why we’d be really grateful if you could nominate us in the Ecclesiastical Movement for Good awards. Your nomination could be the one that wins us £1,000.

The awards are designed to give eligible charities in the UK and Republic of Ireland the financial assistance they need to help them make a real difference. In total, 500 charities stand to gain £1,000 and we’d love to be one of them. £1000 could provide our Day Activity Centres with entertainment for 20 days, restock our dementia friendly board games, or pay for two activity days for our Young Carers.

It’s quick and easy to nominate us. Just visit ecclesiastical.com/movementforgood , click ‘nominate now’ and enter our details. It will ask for our charity number, which is 1052978. The closing date for nominations is Friday 17 May 2019. The more nominations we get, the greater our chance of winning, so please spread the word to your friends and family. Thank you in advance for your time and support.

Young Carers Awareness Day

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Today is #youngcarersawarenessday

Here is our project which does an awesome job of supporting Young Carers in Eastleigh.

We need your help to keep our projects up and running for kids like these:

https://carers.org/young-carers-awareness-day-2018

What you can do:

1) Share this post. (Link http://1community.org.uk/?p=4838 )

2) Like our Facebook page, follow us on Instagram and Twitter.

3) Donate your time. (Click on the word “time” and find out about volunteering)

4) Donate your money (Click on the word “money” or the top or bottom of this page has a link to donate to us directly- it is really easy peasy!)

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

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