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Annie & Bryony attended the fantastic launch of ‘Dementia Friendly Southampton’ today, at St. Mary’s Stadium. We are in the process of signing up to be a dementia friendly charity too – whoop!

We applied to the Woodroffe Benton Foundation late last year with great hope that they would support a new application. We’re so pleased that the Foundation has decided our work worthy of their funding and will ensure to put the £1,000 they’ve sent us to good use!

Emily attended a Southampton City Council grants consultation at Southampton Voluntary Services this morning. A few members of their team came to discuss possible changes to grant funding across the City and to take lots of local organisation’s view, opinions and concerns on board.

Just a quick message to say that we’re now back in the office, despite a -5 degrees start this morning! We’ve come in to lots of messages so please bear with us as we sort through them all. Hope you had a lovely Christmas/New Year break! From, The Communicare Team

A big thank you all for being such wonderful supporters of Communicare in 2016 – here’s to a positive and exciting 2017. If you have any further ideas for activities or as to how we might improve our service, please do get in touch. We hope you have a good Christmas break. From, The Communicare... Read More

Long-term funders of Communicare, The Henry Smith Charity have committed to funding us throughout 2017. The £10,000 will go a long way towards helping those most in need across the City, particularly as we look to expand our services.

We had two great Christmas open offices today. Thanks to all those that made it! We ate far too many mince pies but really enjoyed seeing you all.

What a way to end the year?! 35 clients and about 10 volunteers joined us for a celebration like no other! We were so pleased that Father Christmas made it and brought us all presents – much to our surprise, no-one there was on his naughty list! We obviously shared in lots of festive food... Read More

We had a brilliant turn out to the SGM and safeguarding awareness raising today. These were both really important topics so we were delighted so many of you could support it. For volunteers that were unable to attend, we’ll put further details from the Safeguarding session in the ‘Volunteer Extra’ news sheet. During the SGM,... Read More

Lots of us joined together for a super festive Christmas lunch at The Haven today. The team of volunteers cooked a superb roast and then Kev led us in Christmas carols – Emily swiftly avoided a solo that Annie tried to enforce! We hope all the volunteers have a lovely Christmas break and look forward... Read More