Volunteer Celebration Evening & AGM
We had a fab time our our Volunteering Celebration Evening, and survived the AGM! Some 30 people turned up for the AGM and we’re so grateful for everyone that managed to get there, despite the... Read More
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Asda Foundation donates £1,000!
Today, we were delighted to receive a cheque of £1,000 from The Asda Foundation, Southampton to help us purchase some hand chimes and a couple of tablets. Following on from the success of our recently... Read More
Communiteers in Thornhill – we’re coming to you!
One in three older people are affected by loneliness – that means someone on your street may not have spoken to anyone in days. Can you help? Wednesday 11th Sept, 10am-12pm at St. Christopher’s Church... Read More
Vintage & Craft Fair – Oct19
We’ve just booked our next Vintage & Craft Fair and this time, we’re going to be in Shirley! Saturday 26th October, 11am-2.30pm at Shirley Baptist Church, SO19 9DY. We have two connected halls, a lounge... Read More
Calling all musicians!
Do you have a musical talent and enjoy performing for people? We are looking for some willing volunteers to provide musical entertainment at our lunch clubs and tea parties. We are especially keen for some... Read More
Happy Birthday, Annie!
Annie traditionally goes away on her birthday, we think to avoid any birthday embarrassment. Never one to miss a party excuse, our office team decided this wasn’t on and put together a little video, along... Read More
Volunteer Assessors Needed
Bryony is out doing an assessment as we are very low on volunteer assessors. Do you have a good eye for detail or a background in healthcare and just an hr or two free a... Read More
Vintage & Craft Fair October 2019
We’ve just booked our next Vintage & Craft Fair and this time, we’re going to be in Shirley! Saturday 26th October, 11am-2.30pm at Shirley Baptist Church, SO19 9DY. We have two connected halls, a lounge... Read More
Goodbye Hannah
Hannah set up our Hospital Homecoming project and has now handed over to Katy, in order to pursue a career in HR. We are incredibly appreciative of all she’s done in setting up and maintaining... Read More
Hospital Homecoming drop-ins – City centre
One in three older people are affected by loneliness – that means someone on your street may not have spoken to anyone in days. Can you help? Join us for free tea, toast and cake... Read More
Haven Lunch Club – Open Day
The Haven Lunch Club invited all to join in with its Open Day today. With Church members and Communicare volunteers delivering around 1,500 flyers through local doors and a massive article in the Echo, the... Read More
New mental health project & administrator
Much of the activity with leading the Southampton Mental Health Network forward this month has concentrated on getting our new administrator, Hannah, installed. ‘Hi, I’m Hannah, I’m excited to have joined Communicare to support the... Read More
Have you seen our new road banners?
We are delighted to announce that our new road-side banners are up! These have been funded by Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) funding for the Hospital Homecoming project and will be working their way around the... Read More
Office volunteer feedback
We’ve recently had some lovely feedback from Paige, who’s been volunteering with us in the office and just had to share it! “I came to volunteer with Communicare as I was looking for some work... Read More
New video in the making!
We’ve been having a great time reviewing initial footage taken for our new promo videos! The team can’t wait to see what Claudia Murg and the team at We Make Southampton will produce for the... Read More
New Choir at The Haven Lunch Club
This month has seen the launch of the Communicare & Haven choir! Our choir, led by Musical Director Saire Herschel, will be meeting on the first Friday of each month at the Haven Lunch Club.... Read More
Waffle Club Tuesday 9th July
Our monthly waffle club at Fusion grill (previously Pere Waffle), 95 Above Bar Street (opposite Burger King) is Tuesday 9th July! Join us from 5-8.30pm to waffle away about any topic you like, meet new... Read More
Haven Lunch Club open day 2019
The Haven Lunch Club, run in partnership with Communicare in Southampton is having its annual open day on Friday 19th July. All are welcome to join us for 11.30am-2.30pm at St. Mark’s Church, Archers Road... Read More
Client Gladys celebrates 100th birthday
GLADYS Webb from Southampton celebrated her 100th birthday last Friday (June 28) at the Haven Lunch Club run in partnership with St Mark’s Church and the charity Communicare. The great-grandmother-of-six has been coming to the... Read More
The Great Get Together Tea Party
Today we celebrated ‘having more in common’ for the Great Get Together, and in classic Communicare style, we did this with a lively tea party held at Medwall Court in Thornhill. And lively it was,... Read More
Barn Dance – October 2019
It’s safe to say that after two fantastic barn dances, we’re totally hooked! We’ve invited Threepenny Bit back for another big ol’ dance on Saturday 5th October. Live music, dance, laughter & bring your own... Read More
New aprons have arrived!
Our fab new aprons have arrived from Caroline’s T-shirts and we’re so pleased with them! Annie has been testing them out by making several rounds of tea for the office team – she does have... Read More
School children’s ice cream business raises £236 for us!
School children who ran an ice cream sales project with the support of Jude’s Ice Cream have helped raise £236 for us. The year five pupils from Oakwood Primary School recently visited our offices to... Read More
Great Get Together Tea Party – 24th June
After some successful, fun-packed St George’s Day events in March and April, we are approaching our next event that has been funded by Southampton City Council’s Celebrations Grants! The Great Get Together tea party will be... Read More
We’ve opened a new lunch club – Fairfax Court
We’ve opened a new lunch club! We’re inviting Thornhill residents to a new charity lunch club we’ve recently launched in the area to help enrich the lives of lonely and isolated people. We’re hosting the... Read More
2018 Tree of Light Book now available
The remembrance book for our 2018 Tree of Light is now available to view here. It features all of the names that were remembered by sponsoring lights on beautiful trees in the Woolston Millennium Gardens... Read More
National Volunteers Week!
It’s national volunteers’ week this week and we want to take the opportunity to thank all of our 225 volunteers currently working with us! Our work is 100% completed by our dedicated team of volunteers... Read More
A new laptop & computer
Thank you Jamies Computers for supplying us with a fab laptop and computer. Vicky has been enjoying herself testing them out today! Thanks also to our volunteer, Adam who helped us decipher what we needed... Read More
The Great Get Together Tea Party
Thanks to Southampton City Council funding, we are delighted to be putting on a Great Get Together themed tea party at Medwall Court, Thornhill SO19 6JS. Monday 24th June, 1.00-3.00pm. Suggested donation of £2.50 on... Read More
Two new lunch clubs!
We have launched two new lunch clubs on the East side of Southampton. If you, or someone you know would like to come along to one or both, you would be very welcome. Meon Court,... Read More