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Charity Festive Evening

at Suffolk Food Hall &

Bourne Garden CentreSupporting Suffolk Family Carers

Friday 9th December 2011

6.30 ~ 8.30pm

Special guest: star of stage & screen

Ruthie Henshall

Hosted by Laurie Mayer & meet Rob Dunger on the door

Christmas shoppingLive jazz music

Choir from Ipswich High

School for Girls &

Our Young Carer Lily

Festive Draw

Christmas TombolaTastings & Demos

Festive Menu in the

Samford Restaurant

(bookings being taken)

Tickets 5.00(Includes a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie)

All ticket proceeds to charity

Tickets on sale from 31st October

Suffolk Food Hall - 01473 786 610

Bourne Garden Centre - 01473 786 617

Suffolk Family Carers - 01473 835 400

Ipswich

Hospital

Carers Kitchen

opening

ceremony

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Family Carer

enjoying a hand

massage with the

Body Shop at the

Bixley Ward

Pamper Day

Sound of Soul Gongs

at Stratford St

Andrew Outreach

Whats On

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Contact Us

Information Line: 0844 225 3099 Monday-Friday 9.00am-4.00pm

Email: [email protected]

Reception: 01473 835400Website: www.suffolkfamilycarers.org

Emergency Numbers

Customer First: 0808 800 4005

Police: In an emergency dial 999

For non-urgent calls to Suffolk Constabulary: 01473 613500

Caring Touch Editor: Fiona Baker

Articles/Information featured in this newsletter are not to be reproducedwithout permission. Every effort is made to ensure that the information in

this newsletter is correct, however Suffolk Family Carers cannot acceptliability for errors or omissions and cannot recommend products or

services. The Editor has the right to reject articles or advertisementssubmitted.

[email protected]

Suffolk Family Carers, Units 6 & 8, Hill View Business Park, Old Ipswich Road, Claydon IP6 0AJ

Suffolk Carers Ltd. Registered Charity No. 1069937. A company limited by guarantee and registeredin England No. 3507600.

Registered Office Unit 8, Hill View Business Park, Claydon IP6 0AJ

Christmas Opening times

Suffolk Family Carers will be closed on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th

December 2011 and Monday 2nd January 2012. Our offices will be open

between 10.00am and 2.00pm only on Wednesday 28th, Thursday 29th

and Friday 30th December.

Our normal business hours will resume on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.

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The Learning Disability Team; Changing Times

As many of you will know there have been lots of changes atSuffolk Carers over the last few months and the LearningDisability project has been no exception. We sadly had to say

goodbye to many Family Carers first point of contact, Pat Nice,who we know many Family Carers had an enormous supportfrom, in filling in Emergency Plans and generally being pointed inthe right direction with services we offer at Suffolk Family Carersand more widely in the community.

Bill and Emma have swapped roles with Bill now taking on therole of advocate. Primarily this is funded for families of people

with a learning disability who are part of the local authoritiesAMOS project (Accelerated Moving On Strategy). This is wherepeople who live in residential care homes in or out of the countyare being supported to move into their own homes and in somecases, purchase a share of those homes through a specialmortgage; or where residential care homes are de-registering tobecome supported living schemes and people are then entitledto a tenancy agreement and more welfare benefits. As you can

imagine this can be quite a daunting time for those families. Insome circumstances we are also able to support families ofpeople who need to move on, to find suitable accommodation forthem and receive an appropriate service from ACS.

Emma is now the involvement worker and has the task ofsupporting the Family Carer representatives to the SuffolkLearning Disability Partnership Board (SLDPB) to ensure families

views are considered when planning the future development ofservices. This is always a challenging task but Bill and the repshave worked hard to try and ensure they are meaningfullyinvolved in meetings. This continues to present hurdlesespecially when the SLDPBs format and meeting structure isonce again under review and may change, although we areunsure what those changes will be yet. We hope that we caninvolve more families and provide some added bonuses for

families who do give us their time and thoughts on services andtheir future development. Watch this space for more

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Bixley Ward PamperCarers Day

Councillor Russell Harsant talking to FamilyCarers

In September Family Carers in the Bixley Ward area ofIpswich had a well deserved Pamper Day! The day includedyoga and meditation sessions, therapies and a chance to

get to know and talk to other Family Carers from the area.Family Carers were also able to have an NHS Health Checkwhich included a free cholesterol test which was a benefitto many Family Carers who attended.

We would like to thank Cllr Russell Harsant who funded thisday from his Locality Budget.

We would also like to thank all our volunteer therapistswho supported us during the day without you this daywould not have been possible! Many local businesses alsosupported us by donating products such as tea, coffee andelderflower cordial along with many other local Suffolkproducts thank you! A huge thank you to Colleen andHilary who volunteered to help us on the day and served

our refreshments. Colleen and Hilary are two of our willingband of volunteers at Suffolk Family Carers, who help in allsorts of ways.

Suffolk Family Carers Caf (Hill View Business Park,Claydon) supplied the cakes and sandwiches which wentdown very well indeed!

One Family Carer who attended said It was a mostrelaxing and enjoyable experience, thank you.

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Due to funding constraints we had been unable to provide

Moving & Handling tuition since the beginning of 2011. Butwe are delighted to announce that .......

Did you know that over half of all Family Carers have suffered aphysical injury such as a strained back since they began to carefor someone?

So if you having difficulties moving and handling the person youcare for, visit our website and refer yourself for a visit from ouroccupational therapist, Liz.

She can visit you at home to show you how to safely move and

handle the person you look after.

She can advise you on:- how to look after your health how to prevent falls, slips or trips equipment that will help the person you look after to

become more independent.

To arrange a visit, please fill in the form on the Suffolk FamilyCarers website and our occupational therapist will contact you tofix a time and a date.

This service is free.

Let us help you to move and handle safely!


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