Our Tree of Light raises more than £1,200 so far
We have raised more than £1,200 with our 14th annual Tree of Light campaign. We held switch-on events for our festive trees to commemorate loved ones at two events last weekend (December 3 and 4) and people are still able to sponsor lights until December 20. A helping hand to the community All the funds raised... Read More
Praising the service of our volunteer who has passed away
We’re paying tribute to one of our volunteers who has recently passed away. Stephen Webb, aged 66, joined our team between 2009 and 2019 and was a dedicated volunteer and driver for us. Valued volunteer Annie Clewlow, our Manager, says: “We were very sad to hear of the passing of our volunteer, Stephen. Although it is... Read More
Tree of Light promises to be ‘bright beacon against loneliness’ in Soton
This month (November 2022), we’ve officially launched our 14th annual Tree of Light Christmas campaign, which represents ‘a bright beacon against loneliness’ in the city. The switch-on events for our festive trees, which feature lights commemorating loved ones and special causes, take place on Saturday, December 3 and Sunday, December 4. Lord Mayor of Southampton Our... Read More
Friendship Club is helping to combat loneliness
A weekly friendship club that launched earlier this year has been successfully helping to combat loneliness and bring generations together. The Woolston Friendship Club, run by St Patrick’s Church and St Patrick’s School in partnership us, says it has around 25 regular guests spanning all generations. Regular attendees The club has been a huge success... Read More
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