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Donation helps Emmbrook pupils become carers
Pupils thanked a Rotary Club that helped send them on a trip to become carers for a week.
By Jon Nurse
June 29, 2012
Past Rotary chairman Mike Beswetherick, pupils Barney Smith, 17, Hannah Jennings, 18, Leo Whyte, 17, Jodie Mitchell, 17, Chris Rowland, 16, Georgina Hubbarde, 17, Rotary chairman Miles Halliwell, and teacher Sam Martin.
Pupils thanked a Rotary Club that helped send them on a trip to become carers for a week.
Six sixth formers from The Emmbrook School were sent to an outdoor centre in Wales where they acted as full-time carers for pupils from Addington School, which caters for children with learning needs.
They joined pupils from Charters School in Ascot and Maiden Erlegh School in Reading at the centre in Tirabad, Wales, which is owned by the three schools.
Turkish baths offer spa treat for carers
The way we see it, we’re giving some of our time to people who are literally giving away part of their lives.
Published on Thursday 28 June 2012 11:21
A SPA in Sheffield which stakes a claim to having the oldest remaining Victorian Turkish baths in the world is planning to go ‘back to its roots’ with a major new charity scheme.
The baths, on Victoria Street off Glossop Road, were launched more than a century ago when the city was ridden with disease and the local population needed educating about the benefits of hygiene and clean water.
Hidden carers miss out on £1,000s in benefits help
Guy Anker
News Editor
Many on low incomes who care for loved ones or friends are entitled to over £3,000 a year in the carer’s allowance alone, plus the fact they’re in that position may trigger eligibility for other benefits.
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There are approximately six million carers in the UK. However, huge numbers don’t claim.
Benefits charity Elizabeth Finn Care estimates 300,000 people who are eligible do not claim carer’s allowance.
Other non-financial support is also sometimes available from local authorities and charities to those who ask for help.
Cancer charity Macmillan says over a million people caring for someone with cancer miss out on vital support, which may go beyond straightforward state handouts.
