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Young Visitors Project update

We are now seven months into our Young Visitors’ Project in partnership with Northlands House Bupa Care Home and would like to recruit more 16–19-year-olds to assist us. We need volunteers, so we can continue with our group activities and also visit some residents who are unable to come out of their rooms. Both students...
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2023 AGM & Annual Report

The 2022-23 AGM is now complete. We had a wonderful time, gathering to discuss what we’d achieved this year and approve the figures and accounts. Thank you so much to County Bowling Club in Northlands Rd, for hosting us – what a wonderful venue, set in beautiful grounds! Thank you also to all of those...
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New home for Communicare

We’ve moved to a new home in the city and now have offices at 6, Northlands Road. Annie Clewlow, our Manager explains “Our charity was launched more than 30 years ago by a team drawn from all walks of life and has expanded as the years have progressed. We have not had the opportunity to...
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Our plant sale raises nearly £400

Shoppers and gardeners who purchased a range of plants at our sale last Saturday have helped us raise £390. The money collected at our event at CommuniBakes will go towards the work we do helping vulnerable and isolated people in Southampton. Thank you  Emily Arbery, our Fundraising and Finance Coordinator, says: “Thank you so much...
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Communiteers invited to our volunteer conference

We are hosting our annual conference for our volunteers this Saturday 25th March, which will include a variety of workshops and a celebration event. Variety of workshops We will have a choice of workshops, including spiritual care, hearing and dual sensory loss, mental health, living with loss, find your patch, skills for telephone calls and...
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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...
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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...
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A message of thanks to our volunteers…

Recently, service user Derek sadly passed away. His son, Jason wrote to us and the message was so lovely, we wanted to share it… “Thanking all the volunteers for being there everyday for my dad Derek. Such wonderful people. I had the pleasure in meeting one, who was very kind”.

SCPA urgently seeks volunteers to help it provide services in school holidays

The Southampton Children’s Play Association (SCPA), which we work with on our intergenerational project CommuniTea, is urgently seeking volunteers to help it provide its services during half-term and Easter holidays (February 2022). Anna Roberts, Play Development Manager at SCPA, which provides free playschemes and after-school clubs, said: “We are running our free playscheme at Weston Adventure...
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2021 AGM & Annual Report

We were delighted to have an in-person AGM this year and it didn’t disappoint. Volunteers caught up after a long period of time not seeing each other and it was great to have face-to-face updates on what our charity has been up to in 2020-21 and more recently. Our Chair of Trustees, Miles also gave...
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