Our August Charity – Caring Together
Excerpted from SEEK:
Caring Together is a local charity supporting unpaid carers throughout our region. An unpaid carer is someone who looks after a family member or friend with an illness, disability or frailty due to age. It’s astonishing to realise that three in five of us will care for someone in our lifetime, and there are already over 150,000 carers across our region. That number will only increase in the years ahead. Despite how common caring is, many carers feel they are on their own. […]
Our vision is of a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated or struggling alone. We provide information and advice, run services and provide support to make a caring role more manageable for the carer and the person they support. We can help with respite care, and ‘What If’ planning to manage unplanned emergencies. What unpaid carers do has never been more important for those they care for, and for the burden they remove from our hard-pressed health and social services. So donations from St Mark’s community are vital to enable more help and support to be available to unpaid carers. They will make a real difference to carers in our local community, and you can be sure they will be spent wisely and carefully. Stuart Evans
About Charity of the Month at St Mark’s
Charity of the Month was created as a way of coming together as a church community to raise money for good causes. The scheme provides ongoing support to certain organisations, and each year members of our congregation are also invited to suggest charities that they would like to promote.
St Mark's, Newnham 