Caring for Others

What's in My Area:

• Age UK Leicestershire & Rutland Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland is a local charity which promotes the wellbeing of older people by helping to make life fulfilling and enjoyable.
• Barnardo’s A wide range of practical and emotional support services to young carers in Leicester and Leicestershire
• Carers Guide 2024 – Support For Carers VASL A Guide for Carers.
• Caring for Carers Poster – The Carers Centre LR 2024 Are you supporting a partner, family member, child or friend who couldn't manage without your help due to their disability, illness, frailty or addiction?
  
• Coping With Caring Poster Are you looking after or supporting a partner, family member, child or friend who couldn’t manage without your help?
• Enrych Leicestershire Supporting adults with physical and mental health disabilities to enjoy the most active and independent lives possible
• Extra Care Housing Helping you live independently for longer
• Happy Mondays Carer Group Do you look after someone, a friend, relative or neighbour who, due to an illness, disability, frailty, poor mental health or substance misuse, would struggle without your support? Then you are a carer.
• Hospice Hope Hospice Hope works within North West Leicestershire to support individuals who have a condition that leads to a reduction in quality of life or who have been diagnosed with a life limiting condition as well as offering support to their partner or carer.
• Information and Support Directory Information on a wide variety of services in Leicestershire
• John Storer House John Storer Charnwood provides a range of support services to voluntary organisations, community groups and self-help groups in Charnwood, Leicestershire.
• Leicestershire County Council – Are you a carer? Do you look after, help or support someone who wouldn’t be able to manage everyday life without your help, and you’re not employed to do it?
  If so, you’re an unpaid carer and there’s support available for you.
  
• Leicestershire County Council – Blue Badge Parking Scheme Priority parking for disabled people
• Leicestershire County Council – Help for Young Carers If you're 19 and under and you look after someone at home, you can get help with care and your school work.
• Local Attraction Offer For Carers Free admission for 12 months with a carers passport.
• Marlene Reid Centre We work in partnership with individuals, families, groups and organisations to encourage, facilitate, manage and deliver positive community activities
• Royal Voluntary Service hospital to home When older people come out of hospital, they can need more intensive support than usual to help get them back on their feet.
• Singing Café Music Therapy for adults with mental health challenges
• Support for Carers – Voluntary Action South Leicestershire If you look after someone who couldn’t cope without you and you don’t get paid then you’re a carer and you deserve help and support
• The Carers Centre Providing a wide range of services and support for carers, working closely with local and national partners to ensure that carers have a dedicated place to turn to for the help and assistance they need.
• The Carers Centre – Presentation We support unpaid family carers, in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland,
• VASL – Support For Carers Leaflet Do you look after someone aged 18 years and over who could not manage without your support due to an illness, disability or is elderly? Would you like some help and
  support or someone to talk to?
• Young Minds Worried about a child or young person's behaviour or mental health? You're not alone
  

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