Thank you to Salisbury Journal for promoting Care Home Volunteers. It’s great for the work of CHV to be shared as wide as possible. The more volunteers within the community, the more we can interact and befriend those in a care home Click here to read the article
Five Steps to Wellbeing … Give Giving can mean volunteering your time but it can also mean small acts such as offering to help someone you notice struggling with their bags, contacting a friend you know needs support or simply saying thank you. Research has shown that just one act of kindness a week can…
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We have recently held a very successful volunteer session at Kings Court Care Centre in Swindon with our new volunteers. 7 volunteers - and Cuba the dog - attended the session which provides new volunteers with the information and training they require. It was a really interactive, informative and thought provoking session even on…
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Check out our latest news coverage in Valley News - thanks to all for taking part Volunteer carers are vital link
How local and national charities benefit from retirement community schemes including one ‘Knit and Natter’ group …The saying goes that ‘charity begins at home’ and many retirement developments are putting that very much into practice in their own unique ways. Every year, local and national charities benefit from various schemes at retirement communities, which allow…
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Did you hear us on BBC Radio Wiltshire with Graham Seaman? If not why not take a listen and hear from Jeni our Swindon Volunteer Coordinator talking to Graham about our service and how volunteers can make a huge difference to those in local care homes Click here
Shared reading has a significant impact on mood, concentration and social interaction. A Liverpool charity is running sessions in care homes. Stephanie Brada reads the Henry Charles Beeching poem Going Down Hill on a Bicycle to a group of residents at a care home. They read along with her, some mouthing the words, others silently following the…
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Welcome to the Team Jeni …. We are pleased to welcome Jeni Burchell to our team as Volunteer Coordinator for the Swindon area. Jeni started her working life by training as a nurse both in a hospital and in the community. Over the past 20 years Jeni has worked as a CEO/senior manager in three charities…
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After a successful launch in Salisbury 2015 and then moving the programme to Chippenham in 2016, this young charity is extending its unique training and support programme to the Swindon area this year. Care Home Volunteers believes there is huge potential for volunteers to enhance the lives of people living in care homes by providing social contact and…
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Chippenham Coordinator …. We are pleased to welcome Carrie Wierszycki to our team as our Coordinator in the Chippenham area. Carrie joins the team with a wealth of knowledge working with volunteers and the local community. “I find it rewarding to work for organisations that strive to achieve the best for people and I am…
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