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Over a 100 people passed through the doors of the Solent Showcase exhibition Stand Together which was well-known local artist Kev Munday’s. The idea was to allow members of the community to ‘take over’ the gallery and bring social issues into question and discuss. Rebecca Kinge who is the development worker for Healthwatch Southampton, which is an independent national champion for people... Read More

We have recently been successful in obtaining funding through the NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) for a new project Hospital Homecoming. Hospital Homecoming is a partnership project between the NHS and Communicare to match people coming out of hospital with local volunteers who can provide short term support. Our official launch is going to be... Read More

Communicare staff are currently working on extending services to those in need across the city of Southampton and in order to do this a big focus on volunteer recruitment will be necessary and one of the best ways we feel that this can be achieved is through good and effective public relations. Porcupine PR are public relations consultants who offer a... Read More

Communicare barn dance fundraiser success Over £1700 was raised with proceeds all going towards Communicare and its good work that it continues to do! Thank you to Carolyn Page our Trustee who organised the event and to those who went along and supported Communicare.

Grants We have been successful in receiving 2 grant applications from a one-off scheme called Caring Communities. One grant will fund our community tea parties that will be held in sheltered accommodation. We hope this will be a way of developing further communities where isolation and loneliness is a problem in a more structural way; the... Read More

Vintage Dance Night with Fundraising Raffle for Communicare Vie Portland, a supporter of Communicare, has organised a fantastic evening of Vintage tea, cake, music and dance. Where? Pear Tree United Reformed Church, SO19 7G When? Saturday 21 April 7.30pm-11pm Tickets cost £8 (book online) or £10 on the door. All proceeds from the raffle will go to Communicare. If you have... Read More

Funds raised at our Vintage and Craft Fair confirmed Just under £700 was raised – thank you to all who came and supported the event! A warm and welcoming day out at our Vintage and Craft Fair The Daily Echo suggested it as number 3 of the in the paper’s Friday copy ‘Top 10 things... Read More

Communicare are due to receive a grant from the Clinical Commissioning Group to facilitate a new project called Hospital Homecoming; it’s yet to go into full swing but the groundwork is being done and the logistics of how it will work are being drafted. We spoke to the newly appointed Projects Leader to find out... Read More

“With less than a month to go until the Southampton ABP Half Marathon, I’m working on increasing my run distances and trying to speed up my pace! (Although the two don’t always seem to go hand in hand, when towards the end of a longer run my legs are heavy and I feel like I’m... Read More

Communicare’s successful Vintage and Craft Fair fundraiser is officially going to be held at Victory Gospel Centre in Portswood again after stallholders express their love for the quirky building’ capacious interior for visitors and stallholders. Previously stallholders have sold anything from artisan bath blends, candles, clothes, jewelry, bags, antique clocks, to children’s toys. Throughout the... Read More