Triple Paralympic Gold Medallist at friendship club at Hart Court
Peter Hull MBE Ply is speaking at Sholing Friends group at Hart Court in February to raise awareness of the new club and encourage residents from the area to attend (2026). He will be sharing his inspiring experiences at the friendship club, run in partnership with us, on February 9. Disability Sport Advocate Peter, who... Read More
Shining a Light of Love: Tree of Light Remembrance Names 2025
As Christmas approaches, our city becomes home to a very special tradition – Communicare’s 17th Annual Tree of Light campaign. This year, the campaign grew even brighter with three switch-on events bringing people together to celebrate, remember and help tackle loneliness across the city. Each twinkling light on our trees reflects a story – a... Read More
We’re launching our NEW Craft & Games Club!
We’re delighted The Barker Mill Foundation have sent us £1,000 to help us launch our Craft & Games! The idea is to share the joy of crafts and games with isolated people at home and at local friendship clubs (essentially befriending with added fun!). Benefits Helps befrienders and service users develop relationships Gives more purpose... Read More
Runners raise £1,500+ at marathon
Runners who participated in the ABP Southampton Marathon on Sunday (April 6, 2025) have helped raise £1,580.72 for us. Our team, which even included a pair playing chess whilst running, took part in the 10km and half marathon races to help raise awareness and funds for us. You can still sponsor our team via our fundraising... Read More
Tree of light 2024 remembrance names
Our Tree of Light 2024 event has been huge! We’re so thankful to everyone who has been a part of it – sponsoring lights, making stars, helping at events or simply turning up for an evening of fun! We hope you all enjoyed the light switch-ons as much as us and found some solace in... Read More
Thanks to trustee, Carolyn Renault
We’d like to say a huge ‘thank you’ to our former trustee, Carolyn Renault who has now retired. She gave her time freely and was dedicated to our charity for 11 years! Manager, Annie said at our AGM in November “I want say a special thank you to Carolyn for being so dedicated to us... Read More
Cooking up success!
Cooking up success! We recently helped host a brilliant hands-on cooking activity all about making a salad wrap with Pula from TWICS at St Mark’s Church, Archers Road, Banister Park. She also showed/explained how to make minestrone soup in a slow cooker and provided a sample of soup for everyone to taste and take home.... 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
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