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Caring Together is a leading charity supporting carers of all ages across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.
At Caring Together our vision is a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated ...
Befriender
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Summary
The Norfolk Befriending Service is an exciting new project focused on providing companionship and wellbeing support to unpaid carers.Detailed description
Our Norfolk Befriending Service aims to offer an inclusive, trusted service that links volunteers with unpaid carers to help reduce loneliness and isolation, build confidence and improve wellbeing.
We look to match people who share similar hobbies and interests.
We have 3 volunteer opportunities within the Befriending service.
Carer Befrienders will offer regular companionship and wellbeing support for the carer at home.
This could include:
- Having a cup of tea and a chat
- Playing board games together
- Reading to the carer
- Helping the carer to cook a meal
Carer Befrienders can also offer support for the carer in the community to offer reassurance, encouragement and help build independence.
This could include:
- Companionship whilst walking
- Support to access local community services such as the library, supermarket, carer support group or leisure centre.
Helping Hand Befrienders will offer practical support where the carer is unable complete certain tasks themselves. This is more of an ad-hoc role and the Befriender may support several carers with different tasks on an ad-hoc basis.
This could include:
- Dog walking on a lead
- Collecting prescriptions
- Grocery shopping
- Light gardening tasks
· Family Befrienders will offer companionship for the cared-for at home, to help make it easier for the carer to get out into their local community for activities that give them support, friendship and wellbeing.
This offers similar support to the Carer Befriender but is focused on the person they are caring for.
This could include:
- Having a cup of tea and a chat
- Playing board games together
- Reading to the cared-for
You may wish to apply for more than one role and all our befriending roles can all be adapted to suit your availability and lifestyle.
What we will provide to volunteers
💸 Reimbursement of costsAbout Caring Together Charity
At Caring Together our vision is a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated or struggling alone. You can join us in working to make this vision a reality for people who are looking after a family member or friend.
If you are an unpaid carer, we are here to help you. We are here to give you information and advice, and to provide services and support, to make your caring role more manageable, to benefit you and the person you support.
There are over 150,000 unpaid carers across the region covered by the charity: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Peterborough, and tens of thousands are caring alone behind closed doors. More than three in five of us will become an unpaid carer at some point in our life. We will look after a family member or friend who needs our help because of illness, disability, poor mental health or addiction. Despite how common caring is, many unpaid carers feel they are on their own.
Unpaid carers often find themselves plunged into a caring role with little warning, and feel completely overwhelmed by the heavy responsibilities they shoulder. Many are exhausted from looking after their husband, wife, partner, parent, sibling or child for hours every day, sometimes in addition to trying to hold down a job or bring up children.
We need your help to make sure that even more carers in our local communities receive the practical and emotional support that they need.
Caring Together is a network partner of Carers Trust and has grown significantly over the past ten years, providing more services and more help for family carers and their families across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.