Older People & Long Term Conditions

Burton Live at Home Scheme is proud to announce its Monthly Safe Space Session .

Wednesday 3 April 10.00am-2.30pm

Voluntary Services Centre, Union Street, Burton on Trent DE14 1AA

Our Safe Place is designed to support carers to have a few hours of " Me" time away from their caring responsibilities.  Bring the person you are caring for to the Safe Place and we will support them while you go and do some shopping,attend an appointment or go and have lunch with a friend.

Following our call out to members with an interest in Drug and Alcohol Services, we have been approached by member organisation BAC O’Connor (better known to many as Burton Addiction centre) who are working closely with Addaction to put forward a VCSE led tender application. We would therefore encourage our wider members to also consider this option as follows:

An exciting new service is being piloted in Lichfield which aims to maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of people over the age of 60 through fun, friendship and music.

It's business as usual!

We would like to reassure people that despite the loss of all funding from the County Council, Support Staffordshire's voluntary and community transport scheme in the Staffordshire Moorlands will be 'service as usual' after 31st March. Initially Support Staffordshire will keep the project running whilst a new, independent organisation is due to be launched soon.

A Community Service in Difficulty

Two years ago last December a vital Community Transport Service run by Lichfield District Council ceased due to national and local government austerity cuts. The council could not afford to run the service for the community or maintain its fleet of vehicles to the required standard for passenger transport. They are now at a stage where another local transport charity is in danger of closing down not due to any financial concerns at present but because of a lack of interest from the local community.

Attached is the Spring newsletter from Burton & Uttoxeter Live at Home Scheme. 

It gives details of all of their activities that take place at various locations across Burton, up until the end of May 2019.  Their activities include Arts and Crafts, Knit and Natter groups, Coffee & Whatever sessions and RelaxAcise classes.

They plan on starting sessions in Uttoxeter from April 2019.

Lichfield Re:Cycle are a confidence building bike recycling project based in Lichfield. We have recently published a report covering our activity over the last two years and our plans for the future.

More details can be found on our website www.lichfieldrecycle.org.uk