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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...

Threepenny Bit Ceilidh prove a hit at Highfield

16 Apr 2018

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...

Finance update: grants and business connections

11 Apr 2018

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...

Vintage Dance Night fundraiser – Next week

10 Apr 2018

Event

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...

Funds raised from Vintage and Craft Fair

09 Apr 2018

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...

Easter egg deliveries by Easter bunnies

06 Apr 2018

A fantastic £120.00 was raised from our ‘Easter egg delivery by Easter bunny’ fundraiser. Faith Kenny and Vicky Duboc, two of Communicare’s volunteer coordinators, delivered the Easter eggs over the weekend along with one of...

A big welcome to our new Projects Leader

05 Apr 2018

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...

Faith’s half marathon training update

04 Apr 2018

“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...

Vintage and Craft Fair confirmed for November

03 Apr 2018

Blog, Event, Featured

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....

Communicare The Rockstone pub’s chosen charity

26 Mar 2018

Communicare were honoured to be chosen as The Rockstone pub’s charity to partner with on their weekend of their 175th anniversary. The pub itself is a building steeped in history and it was exactly 175...

Easter Egg delivery by Easter Bunny

21 Mar 2018

We are fortunate enough to be in contact with a team of Easter bunnies, who will be available to hand-deliver Easter eggs over the Easter weekend! If you know of any little ones (or not...

Faith runs for Communicare in ABP Southampton Half

16 Feb 2018

Faith Kenny, one of our volunteer coordinators, has signed up to run the ABP Southampton Half marathon and raise funds for Communicare to help those in need in the city of Southampton who are largely socially...

Live acts confirmed for our Vintage & Craft Fair!

14 Feb 2018

If you love good music and browsing beautiful crafts and vintage wares then make sure you come along to our fair! Playing at 11.30am is Amy Pritchard aka Amy the Harp Lady, a self taught...

Communicare chosen as Local Co-op Community Fund

02 Feb 2018

Blog, Featured

Communicare has been chosen as one of the Local Co-op Community Fund’ charities. What this means is that every time members shop at the Co-op, 1% of what they spend on selected own-brand products...

Sellers wanted – Vintage and Craft Fair

23 Jan 2018

Communicare is holding a Vintage and Craft Fair on March 10 11am-3pm at Victory Gospel Church in Portswood, Southampton. There will be hot lunches served, homemade cakes, lots of live music and dance, and a...

Communicare’s Barn Dance at Highfield Church

08 Jan 2018

Book your tickets now! Our trustee, Carolyn Page, has organised the fundraiser. There will be dancing, live music, and a buffet supper. Hampshire-based folk band Threepenny Bit will be playing. Threepenny Bit are described as ‘bursting...

Toddle & Waddle: The Pilot Study wrapped up

03 Jan 2018

Blog, Video

We Make Southampton joined Communicare and Active Nation on the last day of Toddle & Waddle. Claudia Murg, Managing Director of local independent journalism community We Make Southampton captured the essence of the project in this short...

Communicare and Highfield Church’ Christmas Tea Party

21 Dec 2017

Over 80 guests attended our joint Christmas Tea Party with Highfield Church at the weekend. There were over 30 Communicare clients and around 40 guests were from Highfield Church’ community. There was plenty of party...

Waited on by soldiers – The Haven Christmas Lunch

21 Dec 2017

“The best thing about this lunch is being waited on by soldiers”, said Lola is one of our Haven Lunch Club members and goes to the club every Friday. Communicare and The Haven at St...

Official launch of Tree of Light 2017

08 Dec 2017

Over a hundred people gathered to see the lights turned on at our official launch of the Tree of Light campaign 2017 and join in with carol-singing and remembering special people and causes. The big...

Our banners are up ready for tomorrow

01 Dec 2017

Melodie, our fundraising coordinator, and Barry Wake, chair of the Woolston Millennium Garden worked hard together this week to put up the banners kindly donated by Spectrum Signs around the tree for Communicare’s Tree of Light...

Being Rock session on listening awareness

01 Dec 2017

We were very privileged to have Mandy Preece from Being Rock come and speak to us about how to be a good listener. We learned a lot about our own behaviours and approaches to listening....

Another successful Vintage & Craft Fair fundraiser

20 Nov 2017

We raised a phenomenal £1070 at our Vintage & Craft Fair fundraiser that we held at the Victory Gospel Church on 11 November! Thank you to everyone who helped us – volunteers, visitors, stallholders, and...

Tree of Light 2017 – Woolston Christmas Festival

16 Nov 2017

We’re delighted to announce that we’re launching our 9th Tree of Light event, where one of the beautiful pines in the Woolston Millennium Garden is covered in hundreds of sponsored lights to commemorate loved ones...

Communicare’s Annual General Report

07 Nov 2017

Please find a copy of our Trustees’ Annual Report & Accounts 2016-17

Entertainment confirmed for our Vintage & Craft Fair

25 Oct 2017

“I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.” – Sonam Kapoor We agree with Sonam Kapoor. Browse vintage and handcrafted goods while you listen to sultry sounds...

Toddle & Waddle activity class to start in November

18 Oct 2017

Communicare is to launch an exciting new pilot study combining older less mobile people and young toddlers in a weekly class with the aim to improve fitness and activity levels. What the sessions, aptly named...

The latest member to join the Communicare office

17 Oct 2017

We welcomed our newest staff member Faith Kenny to the office last month. You probably spotted her on our newsletter – if you are a subscriber – and now we thought that we should properly...

Vintage & Craft Fair fundraiser in November

14 Sep 2017

Emily Arbery