Tree of Light 2022
This year, we’re hosting our 14th annual Tree of Light campaign and are delighted to have two real life switch on events coming up. We hope you can join us! One of the beautiful pines in the Woolston Millennium Garden and a large donated tree at St. Mark’s Church, Archers Road, will be covered in... Read More
NEW Travel Buddies Project
We are partnering with SCiA to offer transport to some local events and also to run one-off outings for service users as part of our Travel Buddy Project. The idea is to help reduce isolation by using community transport such as SCiA’s fleet of accessible minibuses. We hope that using the SCiA buses to get to... Read More
2022 AGM & Annual Report
This year, we held our AGM and Volunteer Celebration Event at Highfield Church Centre. The AGM was kept brief but saw Annie present the Manager’s Report, Emily provide detail on the accounts for the year 2021-22 and a talk from Colin Wright. The AGM was followed by a social time over hot drinks; it was... Read More
Thank you to retiring trustees
Two of our Trustees came to the end of their current term of office and have chosen not to re-stand this year – David Thomas and Hannah Silver. David had joined Communicare’s team, staffing the newly established Woolston office in 2009; helping match volunteers with service-users. He completed lots of volunteering roles ranging from inducting... Read More
Welcome new trustees!
A huge welcome to our two new trustees, Darren Crispin and Lenka Fremerova! Both joined us at our AGM last week and gave a little presentation about who they are and why they’ve joined the team… Darren Crispin “I’ve recently retired from Lloyds Bank after forty years. I would like to remain active and use... Read More
AGM & Volunteer Celebration 2022
In our 32nd year, we were thrilled to have so many attend our AGM & Volunteer Celebration Event. Updates were given on the 2021-22 financial year, with events, numbers helped and finances all discussed. We then had a brief talk from Annie on our future plans and had a discussion on her presentation about the... Read More
Become an ‘activity buddy’
Do you have some spare time? Could you sign up to become ‘activity buddy’ for the lonely and isolated we support, to help them become more physically active? As part of our recruitment drive for volunteers, we’re looking for people who can spare some time to act as a buddy to the individuals we support... Read More
A message of thanks to our volunteers…
Recently, service user Derek sadly passed away. His son, Jason wrote to us and the message was so lovely, we wanted to share it… “Thanking all the volunteers for being there everyday for my dad Derek. Such wonderful people. I had the pleasure in meeting one, who was very kind”.
Bond event is fundraising galore for us
Attendees at a James Bond-themed event helped raised £2,300 for us recently (September 2022). The event was organised by We Love Your Office at the Lysses Hotel in Fareham and included a three-course meal, entertainment, raffle and silent auction. Patrick McShee, Managing Director at We Love Your Office, said: “We have held two major events... Read More
Volunteer drivers needed for weekly intergenerational event
We are looking for helpers to convey isolated and often lonely individuals to a weekly intergenerational CommuniTea event at Weston Adventure Playground. We run CommuniTea coffee mornings with The Southampton Children’s Play Association (SCPA) every Thursday during term-time from 10am, which allows often lonely and isolated people to meet other people of all ages and socialise,... Read More