NEA's Warm Homes Campaign Award 2010
Now open...

Grants of up to £500 are available to put towards an event, open day or awareness lunch to be held during NEA's Warm Homes Campaign 2010 between 19th November and 3rd December.

The award scheme is open to not-for-profit organisations, local authority or other statutory or voluntary agencies who are helping people make their homes warm and healthy. The activity must focus on the work organisations are doing to tackle fuel poverty and to help low-income households achieve affordable warmth. The event could take a number of forms, eg a fuel poverty seminar or workshop to debate local fuel poverty policy, promotion of milestones in a current scheme, a reception or event to launch a project. The award could fund the entire activity or enable it to occur on a larger scale.

For more information or to apply contact Lesley Tudor-Snodin telephone: 0191 2615677 or e-mail: LTS@nea.org.uk. The applications deadline is 5pm on Monday 20 September 2010.

Call in Time
A telephone friendship service from Age UK...

Living on your own can be hard – particularly if you’ve been used to sharing your home or time with others. Not having someone to talk to regularly can be lonely and isolating. And that’s when a friendly chat on the phone can make all the difference. Call in Time is a free telephone friendship service run by Age UK. Since 2005 it has matched hundreds of older people with trained and supported volunteers who, together, enjoy a weekly phone chat about anything from the weather to hobbies to what’s been going on in both their lives. The volunteers and the people they call often become firm friends in the process.

As well as friendship calls, the service also provides Good Day calls. These calls can provide a little extra reassurance when you’re on your own – especially at times when you most need it, like when you’ve just come home from hospital or experienced a bereavement. You can receive a short call several times a week, at a time that suits you, just to make sure you’re ok. These Good Day calls are made for eight weeks. But if you think you might need them to be extended, that can be arranged.

If you think that you or someone you know could benefit from Call in Time, telephone: 0844 225 0320.

Your Day. Your Say.
A consultation on the future of day services and activities in West Sussex...

West Sussex County Council (WSCC) would like your views on day services and activities across the county and what the service should look like in the future. It wants to improve the choices people have and the way they are supported through adults’ day services and activities.

Visit the WSCC website at: www.westsussex.gov.uk/yourdayyoursay for more information, downloads of the consultation material and the online questionnaire which will be available between 4th August-27th October 2010. WSCC is also holding six public consultation meetings:

Horham 18th August 6.30pm – 8pm
Midhurst 2nd September 6.30pm – 8pm
Chichester 7th September 6.30pm – 8pm
Crawley 9th September 6.30pm – 8pm
Worthing 14th September 2.30pm – 4pm
Littlehampton 16th September 2.30pm – 4pm

Winter Wellbeing event
Information & Advice for the over 55’s hosted by Crawley Neighbourhood Network...

Do you have all the information you need to go through the winter months safely and securely? Would you like to find out more about, fuel payments, pension credit, adaptations to your home, benefits or more? The Crawley Neighbourhood Network Team is hosting a Winter Wellbeing event at Crawley Baptist Church, Crabtree Road, West Green, Crawley on Friday 24th September from 9am-4pm. Why not come along and meet the professionals that can answer all your questions? Free transport is available.

For more information, or to book your transport, telephone the Neighbourhood Network Team on telephone: 01293 657160.

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