An exciting development and a new website

On August 27th, Carers 4 Carers officially became part of the charity Omega Care for Life (http://www.omega.uk.net). To members, there will be little difference but for those who organise and run the group, it will mean we now have some solid backing behind us. We have been warmly welcomed by Omega and look forward to working with them. We share their mission:

"Omega exists to tackle the wider determinants of health, including social and economic issues. We achieve this by providing access to opportunities, information and a range of other non-clinical support. We work with family care-givers, people nearing the end of life, the bereaved, socially isolated individuals, the frail and the elderly.
We welcome the opportunity to work with anyone who shares our ethos to help us:

• ·  encourage self-help and peer support

• ·  exchange important information and coping skills and encourage others to do the same

• ·  encourage the entire community to get involved in “sharing the caring”

Carers 4 Carers will continue to work autonomously and organise our own meetings in our own way, but we now have the ability to move forward and develop in ways that will make us a little different from other Carer Support Groups, ways which will really make a difference to carers.

We are delighted that Thomas Memery, the Development Director for Omega, will be with us at our next meeting on Friday 27th September, which is to be the first of a series of Carer Wellbeing workshops.

And finally, to celebrate, we have a new website which is now live - www.carers4carersonthefosse.org.uk. The blog will remain active but the main website will contain more information and a contact form is provided so that you can easily get in touch.