Thank you, thank you, THANKYOOOOOOU! To the CRACKING @claires_bookshop for the generous donation to our Young Carers project raised by running a raffle.
The books are to be used for our summer programme we are setting up for young carers. Over £100 worth of books!
If you’d like to donate to young carers please use this link: https://lnkd.in/dDTf_8H
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A big thank you to our local scouts for these fantastic craft kits.
They are all going out to our young carers.
Delivered and sorted out by our team at One Community (including our CEO JEAN ROBERTS-JONES.)
The health and safety of our service users, volunteers and staff, and the population in general, is paramount in our response to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Here is the current situation with regard to our services. Please keep checking our website for updates.
If you have any questions about the current public health emergency, or are in need of assistance, we will do our best to help. Please call us on 023 8090 2400 or email info@1community.org.uk, Monday to Friday 9am-4pm.
CURRENTLY WE ARE OFFERING;
THESE ARE ALL AVAILABLE ACROSS THE EASTLEIGH AND FAREHAM AREAS.
Our Day Centres are currently closed, but we are keeping in touch with members and providing personalised services as required, including meals and companionship sits. Our Personal Assistant and Take a Break services are offering limited support, with care as always to keep all involved safe. Virtual contact will be maintained with users of our Back to the Future (visiting) scheme. Our Lifeline services continue as vital to vulnerable people in isolation: phone 023 8090 2400
Our Shopmobility service is aiming to open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, between 9 and 1, from the 18th June 2020. By appointment only. Covid-19 safety measures are in place and some delays are inevitable as client and staff safety is paramount to us. Ring 023 8090 2400 Monday- Friday from 9-4 for more details.
Our transport services are closed to passengers but our drivers are involved in getting shopping and prescriptions to customers in high risk groups. Dial-A-Ride (phone 023 8090 2450 or 023 8090 2432), Community Transport (phone 023 8090 2414) and Hedge End Park service (phone 023 8090 2432).
Young Carers activities are currently closed but members are being provided with home packs. Phone 023 8090 2462
Our Volunteer Centre is operating a limited service: 023 8090 2458 or volunteer@1community.org.uk Community Development services remain available by phone or online: 023 8090 2458 or vss@1community.org.uk
The Pop-Up Shop in Eastleigh’s Swan Centre will remain closed till further notice. Our Information Centre in Fareham Shopping Centre is closed, but staff can be contacted on 07702 802555, hhamlett@1community.org.uk, 023 8090 2458 or vss@1community.org.uk
Eastleigh Museum is closed until further notice. Services usually offered at the museum, Volunteer Centre Outreach, Basics Bank Vouchers, Hate Crime Reporting, Information are still available. Phone 023 8090 2458
Our young carers are a fabulous group of kids. Through our young carers project they meet other children living with someone who has difficulties.
We have a busy set of activities like a weekly choir, youth groups and holiday activities.
It would be really wonderful to have you come and drive our young carers to and from their activities. We pay a good mileage rate, all you need is a car and business rate insurances. We will take care of all of your checks so you are good to go!
We wish all our; customers, staff, volunteers and the communities of Eastleigh and Fareham we serve, a very happy new year!
Looking back over 2019, we have done so much! Looking back to Shop Mobility collecting their service award from the mayor of Eastleigh, fast forward to moving to our temporary premises at 75 Leigh Road.
We have all worked hard to improve the lot of people in Fareham and Eastleigh through our community project support, volunteering, Eastleigh museum’s and Fareham’s shop outreach and Young Carers groups. Our transport appeal for funding for a new bus is almost at the point of being able to get one on the road and the day activity services are a fun and welcoming place to be.
One Community is changing and in 2020 and we are looking forward to sharing a swan centre shop with local charity Fledge in the spring. We have several new training opportunities too.
Wishing all of you a very happy new year!
From all of us at One Community.
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.
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
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.
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 £!
Fax 023 8090 2413
Textphone 023 8090 2400
Registered Office 75 Leigh Road, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 9DQ. Registered Charity Number 1052978. Registered in England as a company limited by guarantee. Company Number 3132524.