Hello Everyone - Community Enhances Wellbeing This week has been a very positive one for me and I feel carers, The WeConnect Hub and the Carers Wellbeing Champions really are their own amazing community. Yesterday we had our Arts, Crafts and Conversation weekly group,...

Hello Everyone - How Advocacy can help carers. I am not sure if you know this but the majority of the Carers Centre Team are qualified Care Act Advocates including myself.  The Carers Centre strongly believes that not only do we provide information, connection and...

Hello Everyone - Feeling guilty about looking after yourself. As you know I collect my Dad and we visit my Mum every Saturday when possible. This Saturday I woke up with a migraine, exhausted and feeling low, I spent 20 minutes beating myself up with shall I go or...

Hello Everyone - Is change good? I often hear people and that includes carers, family and friends either say 'I hate change' or  'change is as good as rest'. Some changes are negative, emotionally difficult and causes of anxiety for some, such as bereavement, children...

Hello Everyone - Is it difficult to manage your caring role and finances? Today we had a wonderful workshop/presentation from Shujia Begum an Energy Efficiency Advisor from The Limehouse Project who gave the carers who attend the Carers Forum ideas on how to save...

Hello Everyone - What do you do outside of caring? This questions comes up more and more and so it should.  My question to you all is "what do you do outside of caring"? Some of you are thinking nothing, caring consumes my life, I do not have time to scratch my behind...

Hello Everyone -  Don't you just love it when a plan comes together   Over the last two years, I have developed what was the Carers Academy and now is the Carers Wellbeing Academy with the help from Graham (our/Carers Centre Chief Executive).  The Academy started out...

Hello Everyone -  Caring for more than one person   The weekend just gone was an eventful one and I will tell you why.  As I have been blogging, I now care for both my Mum and Dad jointly with my sister, I have to credit my sister as she is amazing and I really could...

Hello Everyone -  Health benefits of weekends and rest.. Thank goodness it is Friday and the weekend is upon us.  As you know I love my job, the carers and the team but I do also love my weekends, I get to spend more time with my partner, my rosette winning handsome...

Hello Everyone -  Happy Star Wars Day Today is Star Wars Day and May 4th be with you... Some of you are probably thinking what is he on about now and some of you like me are Star Wars nerds and get my message today.  So one of the things that I find helpful and...