Links
Some useful sites for carers:
Directgov - Website of the UK government
Parent Partnership Service - Shropshire Telford and Wrekin - for a list of parent/carer groups in the region click here.
Radnorshire Healthy Friendships - a befriending scheme based in Newtown, Powys designed to help people who experience mental distress to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.
The Rosetta Live Channel - Rosetta Life is launching a ground-breaking free resource for the palliative care community, its own Youtube channel at www.youtube.com/rosettalive. This is probably the largest single collection of films about end of life anywhere. The channel consists of 120 short films - 10 mins or less - made with people living with life threatening illness in recent years. All the films have been made to a high professional standard in collaboration with hospice participants. The channel gives a strong sense of attitudes to death and dying and the culture of UK palliative care today. Click here for more information.
Shropshire Disability Network - The brand new website of The Shropshire Disability Network is now live. The website was officially launched at the group's Annual General Meeting, held June 10th 2010 (pictured).
The network was formed in 2008 to provide a powerful collective voice for disabled people across Shropshire, and their website has been designed to be 'The place for disability information in Shropshire'. Their vision is that by 2025 disabled people in Shropshire will have the same opportunities, choices and responsibilities as non-disabled people to be respected and included as equal members of society.
Your membership will help the network represent the views of its members to government, public, voluntary and community agencies and organisations, as well as providing an opportunity to raise the profile of the organisation.
Click here for the homepage, and if you wish to become a member of the Network, click here for more information on joining up.
True Vision: Disability Hate Crime - click here for more information and use the links below to download a list of reporting points in Shropshire and reporting form. Once complete, the form can be handed into your local police station. If you do not want to fill in the form or talk to the police you can still make a report by calling Crimestoppers on freephone 0800 555 111. You do not have to give your name, and what you say is confidential.
You and Your Money - This site is dedicated to improving people's understanding of their personal finances and encouraging financial wellbeing for all.
Yours.co.uk - this fortnightly print magazine features a regular carers section entitled 'Sharing the Caring'. Click the link to be taken to the website homepage and enter 'carers' into the search box.
For those caring for someone nearing the end of life:
Caring for someone who is terminally ill
National End of Life Care Programme
NS&I (National Savings & Investments) For specific information on sorting out savings for someone who has passed away, click here.
Some useful sites for organisations:
Amanda Waring - SPECIAL OFFER: £1 off award-winning dignity and end of life films. Omega supporters are now entitled to a special discount on the DVD films of Amanda Waring, inspirational campaigner for the rights of the elderly. Her dignity-themed films and training packs have been hailed as the best training tools available for person-centred and end of life care. For more information and to browse the online shop, visit www.amandawaring.com. To qualify for Omega discount on Amanda's DVDs, email your order to mail@amandawaring.com and quote the code OM20.
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Calendar Check - This new online charity calendar has been designed to help charitable organisations. It's a free site which enables charities to upload event details and avoid potential clashes with other events so that they can maximise their fundraising potential. Click here to be taken to the site homepage and here to view a press release on the launch.
End of Life Care - published in assocation with St Christopher's Hospice - The Journal End of Life Care is designed to enable the individual nurse, the education establishment and the health service providers to achieve excellence in the care and support of dying people and their families. To download a flyer with additional information in PDF format, click here.
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