Older People
We care deeply about the wellbeing of older people in our city
We have partnered with various organisations to ensure that everyone get’s the help they need.
Hope Blooms
Hope Blooms is a Florist with a difference. They use donated flowers from wholesale (Helliwell Flowers), which have plenty of life left in them but would normally go to waste.
These flowers are made into handcrafted bouquets by a skilled florist and are given as gifts to the most isolated and needy people in our community.
While they are not essential, these bouquets affirm peoples worth, bring them joy and beauty and let them know they are seen and valued. Their aim is to be more than something “nice”; reducing waste and bringing beauty into the lives of those who can least afford it.
Caraway
Caraway is focused on looking after the spiritual well-being of the older person in Southampton, and providing gifts for care workers in care homes across Southampton.
To volunteer: We need volunteers to make phone calls to older people and to those living with and supporting those who are frail or have dementia (working in collaboration with the Caraway team); to buy and make gift packs for care home workers; and to develop creative booklets / leaflets to send to older people living with dementia and for care home residents.
For more details and other enquiries
Website: https://www.caraway.uk.com/
Email: caraway@caraway.uk.com
Communicare
The Communicare ‘Good Neighbours’ scheme can help vulnerable older people in Southampton.
Key services:
Telephone befriending
Shopping
Essential deliveries
Transport for essential appointments/tasks (eg medical appointments, collecting cash from cash point where people have no alternative way of paying for goods)
For support: Please note that they do not provide personal care, do not provide medical care including supervision of medication, give advice such as legal advice, give support where this would pose a risk to our volunteers.
To volunteer: Please email enquiry@communicareinsouthampton.org.uk if you would like to volunteer for telephone befriending, shopping, deliveries or transport.
More details and other enquiries
Website: www.communicareinsouthampton.org.uk
Want to help your church in caring better for older people?
Check out this incredible resource: “Guidance for Christian faith organisations in the support and value of older people”.
Here’s what professor Keith Brown, Director of The National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice, had to say about it:
“This guidance is designed to help all Christian organisations and churches consider how they might better support, include and encourage older citizens in their communities. It takes a practical approach, offering insight and guidance based on the very best national research and understanding, and our combined years of national leadership of health and social care in this area. We trust you find it both stimulating and informative and that it inspires you to consider how you might offer even better pastoral support, and engage with these often under-valued members of our communities.”
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