All day
25th December 2024 – 1st January 2025
If you need support during this time, you can contact Tower Hamlets Connect for adult social care and adult safeguarding:
- 0300 303 6070 – Monday to Friday, 09.00-17.00
- Out of hours: 0207 364 4079
Events & Activities
Events in January 2025
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30th December 2024(1 event) |
31st December 2024(2 events) All day If you need support during this time, you can contact Tower Hamlets Connect for adult social care and adult safeguarding:
– The Tuesday morning Drop-In session at Breathing Space in the London Buddhist Centre is an opportunity to have tea, coffee, and biscuits with other carers in a calm peaceful environment. There is time to connect socially with others as well as engage in a mindful meditation to help relax and restore. This is a non-religious activity and is open to all. You can arrive anytime Fromm 11am, with the meditation starting at 11.45am and ending by 1pm when carers often go for lunch together in a local café. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
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1st January 2025(1 event) All day If you need support during this time, you can contact Tower Hamlets Connect for adult social care and adult safeguarding:
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2nd January 2025
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3rd January 2025
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4th January 2025
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5th January 2025
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6th January 2025(2 events) – Our weekly reading group enables carers to sit round a table, have fun with other carers and have a short story read to them by an experienced Reader; this mindful activity enables you to slow down and look inwardly. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– Why not come and have a walk in Tower Hamlets with other carers and exercise, lower your blood pressure, connect with people, have fun, and have some mental respite from your caring role. We Meet outside the centre, and we go off in a different direction each session. email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk for more details
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7th January 2025(5 events) – Carers are offered four, one-hour sessions where they are able to discuss the pressures and issues of the caring role and given coping mechanisms and strategies to effectively manage their caring role. These are provided either face to face, virtually on Zoom, or by telephone. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– Working with our partner, ELATT, this learning group is for carers, to learn English as a second language, participants will have an academic year of learning including how carers can learn English to help with their caring roles through conversation with health providers. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– The Tuesday morning Drop-In session at Breathing Space in the London Buddhist Centre is an opportunity to have tea, coffee, and biscuits with other carers in a calm peaceful environment. There is time to connect socially with others as well as engage in a mindful meditation to help relax and restore. This is a non-religious activity and is open to all. You can arrive anytime Fromm 11am, with the meditation starting at 11.45am and ending by 1pm when carers often go for lunch together in a local café. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– Each month Fathama our Hospital Worker leads a drop in session for carers who are caring for their elderly and frail loved ones so, please come and pop in if you can make it and get some wonderful support, information and advice and you get the chance to meet other carers who experiencing the same things. email fathama@ccth.org.uk for more details
– This monthly Peer Support Group is for carers experiencing a wide range of bereavement, grief, and loss related issues. Caring for someone who passes away, a sudden death of a family member or friend, a terminal diagnosis, someone who is end of life or supporting someone with Dementia can have a big impact on your wellbeing so, why not come along to the group and you will have the chance to be supported by Robin (Counsellor), Tony (Wellbeing Manager) and your fellow carers who help you stay connected which aids better wellbeing. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
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8th January 2025(2 events) – The peer group is monthly and is for carers of anyone who presents with challenging or difficult behaviour, and this give carers a chance to come together to look at solutions and be able to connect with other carers who just get the situation you find yourself in. There will conversational topics, sometimes consultation and ideas for caring for someone within the client group. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7339417664?omn=83016638523 Meeting ID: 733 941 7664
– This Workshop is for carers who are preparing for their caring role to end due to their loved one’s eventual passing. You will learn what you can do to put things into place such as advanced care plans and funerals. We will also explore how carers might feel after their caring role stops, the future and how you can take baby steps down a new path. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7339417664?omn=84523813593 Meeting ID: 733 941 7664
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9th January 2025(3 events) – This group is for carers to learn a craft, develop a hobby, and enjoy some free time. Carers will get to have fun with other carers. This group is also a peer support group and recognises the mental health needs of carers, carers of people with a mental health issue, you can also bring the person you care for. Materials, refreshments, and fun will be supplied. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– This activity is solely for the carers who took part in the summer of 2024 photography course. The carers will go the city to see their work exhibited and have a celebration.
– This new monthly group is aimed at any male carer who wishes to spend time with other male carers and see how camaraderie can help you with your caring role, you can talk if you want or NOT, chat about the issues faced by men in today’s world but you might just want to talk football? For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
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10th January 2025(1 event) – This new group is for carers who want to explore their green fingers, we are lucky to have a plot at the Crossrail Canary Wharf Roof Garden and each month we will have a group tend to the plot, grow herbs for wellbeing. Carers will have to add their names to the list and each session up to 10 carers can attend so, it will be first come first served. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
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11th January 2025
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12th January 2025
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13th January 2025(2 events) – Our weekly reading group enables carers to sit round a table, have fun with other carers and have a short story read to them by an experienced Reader; this mindful activity enables you to slow down and look inwardly. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– Why not come and have a walk in Tower Hamlets with other carers and exercise, lower your blood pressure, connect with people, have fun, and have some mental respite from your caring role. We Meet outside the centre, and we go off in a different direction each session. email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk for more details
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14th January 2025(3 events) – Carers are offered four, one-hour sessions where they are able to discuss the pressures and issues of the caring role and given coping mechanisms and strategies to effectively manage their caring role. These are provided either face to face, virtually on Zoom, or by telephone. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– Working with our partner, ELATT, this learning group is for carers, to learn English as a second language, participants will have an academic year of learning including how carers can learn English to help with their caring roles through conversation with health providers. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– The Tuesday morning Drop-In session at Breathing Space in the London Buddhist Centre is an opportunity to have tea, coffee, and biscuits with other carers in a calm peaceful environment. There is time to connect socially with others as well as engage in a mindful meditation to help relax and restore. This is a non-religious activity and is open to all. You can arrive anytime Fromm 11am, with the meditation starting at 11.45am and ending by 1pm when carers often go for lunch together in a local café. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
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15th January 2025(3 events) – We have a trainee counsellor who will offer six one-hour sessions to carers. The wellbeing team will triage our waiting list, and the counsellor will undertake the sessions to enable carers feel better equipped to manage their caring role. These are provided either face to face, virtually on Zoom. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– 'You’re relaxing on the sofa scrolling through Facebook. The autumn chill has started, and you see an advert for a heated throw. Just what you need! But did you know, scammers pay for adverts on Facebook to sell their bogus products? Check out your scam spotting skills with this this quiz from Which? and come along to our consumer scams workshop on 13 November to get even better at spotting scams on social media.’ For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– This weekly peer support group enables Young Adult Carers to access a range of activities which are co-produced and relevant to them, such as self-care and personal empowerment workshops. They may also choose to use these sessions to discuss their caring role with staff or simply for ‘chill out’ time in order to connect with other Young Adult Carers and get a break from their caring roles. Food and drink are provided. email benjamin@ccth.org.uk for more details
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16th January 2025(2 events) – This group is for carers to learn a craft, develop a hobby, and enjoy some free time. Carers will get to have fun with other carers. This group is also a peer support group and recognises the mental health needs of carers, carers of people with a mental health issue, you can also bring the person you care for. Materials, refreshments, and fun will be supplied. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– This new monthly group is being run by Anita a carer health champion and this group will look at women’s health, swap tips for the menopause, women’s health, how sisterhood and connection can support good emotional and physical wellbeing. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
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17th January 2025(1 event) – Our volunteer reiki healers spend 30 minutes using their skills to make you feel relaxed, centred and feeling like you can undertake your caring role more successfully. You will be able to discuss what conditions you suffer from and seek their advice. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
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18th January 2025
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19th January 2025
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20th January 2025(2 events) – Our weekly reading group enables carers to sit round a table, have fun with other carers and have a short story read to them by an experienced Reader; this mindful activity enables you to slow down and look inwardly. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– Why not come and have a walk in Tower Hamlets with other carers and exercise, lower your blood pressure, connect with people, have fun, and have some mental respite from your caring role. We Meet outside the centre, and we go off in a different direction each session. email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk for more details
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21st January 2025(3 events) – Carers are offered four, one-hour sessions where they are able to discuss the pressures and issues of the caring role and given coping mechanisms and strategies to effectively manage their caring role. These are provided either face to face, virtually on Zoom, or by telephone. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– Working with our partner, ELATT, this learning group is for carers, to learn English as a second language, participants will have an academic year of learning including how carers can learn English to help with their caring roles through conversation with health providers. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– The Tuesday morning Drop-In session at Breathing Space in the London Buddhist Centre is an opportunity to have tea, coffee, and biscuits with other carers in a calm peaceful environment. There is time to connect socially with others as well as engage in a mindful meditation to help relax and restore. This is a non-religious activity and is open to all. You can arrive anytime Fromm 11am, with the meditation starting at 11.45am and ending by 1pm when carers often go for lunch together in a local café. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
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22nd January 2025(3 events) – We have a trainee counsellor who will offer six one-hour sessions to carers. The wellbeing team will triage our waiting list, and the counsellor will undertake the sessions to enable carers feel better equipped to manage their caring role. These are provided either face to face, virtually on Zoom. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– This monthly forum gives carers a chance to come together and discuss their caring roles, feeding back on customer service of organisations and agencies working within Tower Hamlets, explore ideas in which Tower Hamlets can support carers, look at best practice and work in partnership with the Carers Centre to continuously improve its services. The forum enables carers and the Carers Centre to equally give to each other. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7339417664?omn=89074548350 Meeting ID: 733 941 7664
– This weekly peer support group enables Young Adult Carers to access a range of activities which are co-produced and relevant to them, such as self-care and personal empowerment workshops. They may also choose to use these sessions to discuss their caring role with staff or simply for ‘chill out’ time in order to connect with other Young Adult Carers and get a break from their caring roles. Food and drink are provided. email benjamin@ccth.org.uk for more details
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23rd January 2025(2 events) – This group is for carers to learn a craft, develop a hobby, and enjoy some free time. Carers will get to have fun with other carers. This group is also a peer support group and recognises the mental health needs of carers, carers of people with a mental health issue, you can also bring the person you care for. Materials, refreshments, and fun will be supplied. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– This peer group advises and works collaboratively with the Wellbeing Academy to develop activities that are coproduced, have a direct access to carers and is a partnership for better wellbeing.
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24th January 2025(1 event) – Each month Fathama our Hospital Worker leads a drop-in session for carers who are caring for their elderly and frail loved ones so, please come and pop in if you can make it and get some wonderful support, information and advice and you get the chance to meet other carers who experiencing the same things. email fathama@ccth.org.uk for more details
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25th January 2025
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26th January 2025
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27th January 2025(2 events) – Our weekly reading group enables carers to sit round a table, have fun with other carers and have a short story read to them by an experienced Reader; this mindful activity enables you to slow down and look inwardly. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– Why not come and have a walk in Tower Hamlets with other carers and exercise, lower your blood pressure, connect with people, have fun, and have some mental respite from your caring role. We Meet outside the centre, and we go off in a different direction each session. email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk for more details
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28th January 2025(3 events) – Carers are offered four, one-hour sessions where they are able to discuss the pressures and issues of the caring role and given coping mechanisms and strategies to effectively manage their caring role. These are provided either face to face, virtually on Zoom, or by telephone. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– Working with our partner, ELATT, this learning group is for carers, to learn English as a second language, participants will have an academic year of learning including how carers can learn English to help with their caring roles through conversation with health providers. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– The Tuesday morning Drop-In session at Breathing Space in the London Buddhist Centre is an opportunity to have tea, coffee, and biscuits with other carers in a calm peaceful environment. There is time to connect socially with others as well as engage in a mindful meditation to help relax and restore. This is a non-religious activity and is open to all. You can arrive anytime Fromm 11am, with the meditation starting at 11.45am and ending by 1pm when carers often go for lunch together in a local café. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
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29th January 2025(4 events) – This monthly peer support group aims to help carers network, support each other, learn caring tips, and share knowledge, it is your group, and you have a say in how is runs. Carers zoom in from home. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7339417664?omn=89884186010 Meeting ID: 733 941 7664
– We have a trainee counsellor who will offer six one-hour sessions to carers. The wellbeing team will triage our waiting list, and the counsellor will undertake the sessions to enable carers feel better equipped to manage their caring role. These are provided either face to face, virtually on Zoom. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– This learning workshop is delivered by Alzheimer’s Society to new carers of someone with Dementia. This gives carers a chance to learn a more in-depth knowledge on dementia related issues and what you can do as a carer to support your loved one with Dementia. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– This weekly peer support group enables Young Adult Carers to access a range of activities which are co-produced and relevant to them, such as self-care and personal empowerment workshops. They may also choose to use these sessions to discuss their caring role with staff or simply for ‘chill out’ time in order to connect with other Young Adult Carers and get a break from their caring roles. Food and drink are provided. email benjamin@ccth.org.uk for more details
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30th January 2025(3 events) – This group is for carers to learn a craft, develop a hobby, and enjoy some free time. Carers will get to have fun with other carers. This group is also a peer support group and recognises the mental health needs of carers, carers of people with a mental health issue, you can also bring the person you care for. Materials, refreshments, and fun will be supplied. For more details email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk
– This workshop is for carers to understand and learn how to proactively look after your liver, avoid liver damage and think about what you can do to keep your liver healthy as well as yourself. Your liver has an amazing ability to repair itself when it has been damaged. But it can only take so much. 9 out of 10 cases of liver disease are linked to alcohol, weight and viral hepatitis. This workshop will help carers take positive steps to reduce these risks. email wellbeing@ccth.org.uk to book your place Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7339417664?omn=87158108526 Meeting ID: 733 941 7664
– This monthly group enables carers feeling isolated to connect with local residents, carers will have the chance to undertake health and nutrition classes, exercise classes, advice, fun and games. We work in partnership with St Joseph’s Hospice and LBTH.
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31st January 2025
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1st February 2025
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2nd February 2025
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