Could You Be A Befriender? Your City Needs You!
Could you be a telephone befriender? We desperately need more volunteer telephone befrienders to help our isolated service users. As people ‘return to normal’ with work and social commitments, understandably, many can’t commit to making phone calls. Manager, Annie Clewlow says: “We are currently in touch with more than 600 of the city’s residents and... Read More
We Need Volunteer Drivers To Get People To Urgent Medical Appointments
We’d love to hear from drivers with their own cars to volunteer to transport our service users to urgent medical appointments throughout the summer and beyond. Communicare needs help with the collection and return of isolated and often lonely residents to their homes when they have GP appointments and hospital outpatient clinics to attend. Hannah... Read More
Jenny Adds-up To Make A Great Volunteer With Her Bookkeeping Skills
It’s Volunteers Week 2020 and we are so grateful to all our Communiteers and Trustees who give their time freely for the benefit of others and our charity. Jenny Coombs is married to fellow volunteer, Andrew and first volunteered with Communicare in November last year. She explained: “I offered to help with administration and as... Read More
Our Shielded Trustee Julia Helps Us Embrace Technology While Also Developing New Projects
Julia Painter, who is one of our Trustees, is in the 1.5 million currently being shielded because she has Crohn’s Disease and is on immunosuppressants, but she is making the most of her lockdown by helping our charity embrace technology and develop new projects. She says: “I could develop severe complications if I catch COVID-19,... Read More
Leila Supports Elderly And Vulnerable In Her Community By Becoming A Communiteer
Leila Andrews from Southampton answered our recent plea to help elderly and vulnerable service users and has joined our army of volunteers supporting the lonely and isolated in her community. The 35-year-old, mum-of-one, started volunteering with Communicare a couple of months ago. She says: “I saw an article and Facebook post about Communicare and attended... Read More
Highfield and Portswood Drop Ins, Tea Parties and Lunch Clubs Postponed
Due to the recent government advice regarding coronavirus, regretfully our Portswood and Highfield volunteer drops ins that were planned this month have been postponed until further notice. Our lunch clubs and tea parties have also been postponed. To keep up to date with the government advice regarding coronavirus please see www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response
Highfield and Portswood Drop Ins
Do you have a kind heart? Could you regularly spare an hour to help someone and make their day? We have drop in sessions coming up in Highfield and Portswood to find out more about volunteering with us. Come and have a chat with us at one of our drop ins – we’d love to... Read More
Come to our Bitterne Park Drop Ins
Do you have a kind heart? Could you regularly spare an hour to help someone and make their day? We have drop in sessions coming up in Bitterne Park to find out more about volunteering with us. Come and have a chat at one of our drop ins – we’d love to meet you! Weds... Read More
Check out our Marathon Video!
We’re very grateful to everyone who supported us at last year’s ABP Southampton Marathon and we’re looking forward to this year’s marathon. It was going to be on Sunday 26th April but due to the coronavirus it has been postponed until Sunday 21st June. Check out this video to see what fun we had last... Read More
Come to our Harefield and Bitterne drop ins
Do you have a kind heart? Could you regularly spare an hour to help someone and make their day? We have drop in sessions coming up in January in Harefield and Bitterne to find out more about volunteering with us. Come and have a chat with us at one of our drop ins – we’d... Read More