Carer Support Groups
Funding Awarded to Voluntary Sector Organisations to Support Unpaid Carers
During the summer in 2023, small grants were awarded to voluntary community based services in Rotherham.
The funding is supporting projects that improve the health and wellbeing of unpaid carers throughout the Borough and is in place until the end of March 2024.
Funding was awarded to the groups listed below, please contact them if you wish to take part (the majority can be found on Rotherham Gismo):
Activate Rawmarsh: The Parent/Carer Social Support Club
Funding will provide coffee mornings, a walking club and socially active exercise classes for parent carers and is open to current members.
Active for Life Solutions Ltd: Caring for Carers!
Funding will provide weekly exercise classes for unpaid carers and is open to all unpaid carers.
Beacon South Yorkshire: Art Psychotherapy
Funding will provide a weekly course of art therapy and is open to all unpaid carers.
Headway Rotherham: Headway Rotherham Carers
Funding will provide monthly social peer group support with organised events and is open to all unpaid carers who support a brain injury survivor.
Kiveton Park and Wales Community Trust: Carer Support and Social Group
Funding will provide weekly social opportunity and advice and information sessions and is open to all unpaid carers.
Kiveton Park and Wales Development Trust
Lost Chord UK: The LCUK Choir that Cares
Funding will provide a weekly carers choir and is open to all unpaid carers.
Lost Chord UK Dementia Charity
Nayi Zindagi: Timeout
The funding will provide weekly art workshops and is open to all unpaid carers.
Pivotal Health and Wellbeing CIC: Gentle Exercise and Social Support for Dementia Carers
The funding will provide weekly low impact exercise classes for carers of people with dementia and is open to all unpaid carers of people with dementia.
Pivotal Health and Wellbeing CIC | Rotherham | Facebook
Rotherham Carers Forum
The funding will provide advice and information sessions, along with opportunity for relaxation and is open to all unpaid carers.
Rotherham Living Independently for Everyone (Life) Group: Carers First Project
The funding will provide weekly support sessions for carers to take part in low impact exercise and cooking classes and is open to all female BAME unpaid carers.
Email: Rotherhamlifegroup@gmail.com
Rotherham Parent Carers Forum: Send Connect
The funding will provide advice and information and craft sessions and is open to all unpaid parent carers.
Rotherham Parent Carers Forum (RPCF)
Rotherham United Community Trust: Match Day Mates
The funding will provide a gym session whilst the cared for person is looked after with attendance to home games and is open to all unpaid carers.
Homepage - Rotherham United Community Trust (ruct.co.uk)
Rotherham Wah Hong Chinese Association
The funding will provide physical activity and craft sessions and is open to all unpaid carers.
Rotherham Wah Hong Chinese Association
S62 Community Together CIC: the Cared for Carer Project
The funding will provide a rolling 6 week course of activities and is open to all unpaid carers.
S62 Community Together Rotherham
The Brecks Community Hub CIC: the Carers Wellbeing Project
The funding will provide a bi-monthly peer group activity session on a range of topics and is open to all unpaid carers.
The Centre: Brinsworth Community Trust: Care for Carers
The funding will provide weekly wellbeing activity workshops and is open to all unpaid carers.
The Centre: Brinsworth Parish Council
The High Street Centre Ltd: Stronger Together Carer Support
The funding will provide mindfulness sessions and peer group support and is open to all unpaid carers.
The Learning Community Ltd: Giving Back Project
The funding will provide weekly sessions covering a range of activities and a walking group and is open to all unpaid carers.
The Rainbow Project Rotherham
The funding will provide a weekly hot meal and craft based sessions and is open to current service users.