Tag Archives: carers
Memory Cafe in Chard gets boost to help those with alzheimers
Sisters support the Memory Café in Chard
2:20pm Thursday 13th October 2011
THERE was a big boost for the Memory Café in Chard this week – thanks to the fundraising efforts of three sisters who are keen volunteers for the service.
A cheque for £367 was presented to the Alzheimer’s Society at 11am yesterdat in the Guildhall, following a tea party organised by Alaine Budge, Barbara Bagg and Maureen Chubb back on Sunday, July 3.
Stirling Carers’ Centre gets £100k lottery funding
Carers’ project lands £100k lottery jackpot
Oct 12 2011 by Johnathon Menzies, Stirling Observer Wednesday
A CHARITY that supports carers in the Stirling area scooped a lottery jackpot yesterday (Tuesday).
The area’s branch of the Carers’ Forum was awarded £118,836.
Age UK warns Norfolk’s elderly facing winter fuel poverty
5.4 million households in the UK are living in fuel poverty and one in three pensioners across the country experience fuel poverty
Dominic Bareham dominic.bareham2@archant.co.uk
Thursday, October 13, 2011
12.48 AM
Winter fuel poverty could hit Norfolk harder than other parts of the country, an Age UK Norfolk representative has warned.
Linda Gill, the charity’s development manager, said the county had a higher than average elderly population receiving the winter fuel payment struggling to meet the increasing cost of fuel to keep their homes warm during the cold winter months.
