Archive
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Cotswold Friends Now Offer IT Help!
03 May 2016
In 2015 Cotswold Friends receiving funding from the Notgrove Trust to start the ‘Connect’ Programme. Connect was implemented to help our most isolated clients currently on the befriending programme with Cotswold Friends. The pilot programme was based on testing how tablet computers could enhance the connectivity of lives of older people who are vulnerable, isolated and lonely. We believed that enabling these people to comfortably use a tablet to order shopping, speak to a family member on Skype, manage banking and send emails they would benefit from purposeful activities, learning new skills and socializing as well as experience an increase in self-confidence and self-worth and a decline in loneliness and isolation.
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Our New Video Created by Cotswold TV
16 February 2016
We’ve just seen our new, fabulous video as created by Cotswold TV.
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So How was January 2016 For You?
31 January 2016
Whilst we’re having a great start to our New Year, we know that for many others it hasn’t been such a good month. If you are feeling a bit down in the dumps and need a bit of help with carer respite, or ideas of how to help yourself better, give us a call and talk to one of our team. We can help you with community transport or guide you to a social group for support or a good day out.
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Spreading Awareness on BBC Radio Gloucestershire
26 January 2016
Cotswold Friends were invited in to BBC Radio Gloucestershire to talk to David Smith on Saturday, 23rd January 2016 about how they help overcome the effects of isolation and loneliness in the North Cotswolds. Cotswold Friends offer a variety of services including community transport, events and social groups - lunch clubs, Men in Sheds, Knit and Natter, gardening and singing groups, Social Prescribing at 5 Cotswold GP’s surgeries, Carer Respite, Dementia Day Care and befriending services.
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A Great Volunteers Morning At Cotswold Friends
19 October 2015
Great volunteers coffee morning held each month on the first Tuesday at Cotswold Friends in Moreton in Marsh.
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See How Our Community Transport Service Has Grown!
23 September 2015
For those of you who don’t know, Cotswold Friends is a local charity that - among other services - provides a community transport service for people in and around the North Cotswold area. The transport service has evolved from a system founded in the 1970’s and has grown over the years to where we are today with just under a thousand clients and just under a hundred volunteers. Here are some numbers on what we’ve been up to this year!
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Managing A Social Prescribing Pilot In The North Cotswolds
10 September 2015
Cotswold Friends have been appointed to manage a 12 month pilot for social prescribing co-ordinators in a five North Cotswolds GP surgeries! With the government’s remit on health being placed on population health and seeking local change and improvement from within localities, social prescribing is designed to offer non-medical or preventative solutions for GP-referred patients.
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Volunteers Coffee Mornings At Cotswold Friends
09 September 2015
We have over 200 fantastic volunteers on our books now! Some of them are volunteer drivers who take our elderly residents to the shops, their hospital appointments and to see family and friends, others help with carer respite and our lunch clubs. Many are befrienders to the hundreds of isolated and lonely older people in our community. Without them, we (read more)