What's On
Your guide to events, groups and activities.| 6.jan.12 - | Coffee Morning at Layton Medical Centre 10.30am-12 noon |
| 9.jan.12 - | Magazine Consultation Meeting at Blackpool Carers Centre 10.30am-12.30pm |
| 9.jan.12 - | Evening Support Group at The Squirrel Pub 6.30pm-8.30pm |
| 10.jan.12 - | Coffee Morning (Extended) at Blackpool Carers Centre then Dobbies 3.15pm-4.30pm |
| 16.jan.12 - | Friends of Blackpool Carers Centre at Blackpool Carers Centre 10.00am-12 noon |
| 18.jan.12 - | Practical Steps Meeting at Conf Room 1, Progress House 1.00pm-3.00pm |
| 25.jan.12 - | Trip to Skipton Market and Castle £10, call Carla to book |
| 30.jan.12 - | Service User Advisory Board (BlackCAB) Relaunch
Event at the Centre for Independent Living 4.00pm-6.00pm |
| 3.feb.12 - | Coffee Morning at Layton Medical Centre 10.30am-12 noon |
| FORTHCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS |
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| 21.jan.11 - | The Diamond Ball see the news section for more info! |
Welcome to Blackpool Carers' Centre
Blackpool Carers' Centre is an independent, local charity
and member of The Princess Royal Trust
for Carers Network. We provide a range of services to support and
enhance the lives of carers of all ages across Blackpool.
We provide information and support to individual carers over the telephone,
in person at the Centre and when appropriate in the carer's home.
What is a carer?
A carer is someone who, without payment, provides help and support to a partner, child, relative, friend or neighbour who could not manage without their help. This could be due to age, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability.
Latest News
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Charity Shop - Donations & Volunteers Needed
Caring Times Winter 2011
PCT Applauded for Supporting
Carers
Blackpool Carers' Centre
win Prestigious Award
IF we can help Blackpool
Blackpool Carers' Centre
awarded Investors in Diversity Stage 1 standard
Annual Report
Read Jaymelea's story in
The Sunday Telegraph magazine
Dragon’s Den Star Hilary Devey
Backs Campaign for Unpaid Carers
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Vacancies at Blackpool Carers' Centre
Blackpool Carers' Centre is currently recruiting for a Young Carers' Activity Co-ordinator (Maternity Cover) and a Young Carers' Champion. For more information please visit our Employment page.
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE for the Diamond Ball - 21st January 2011
On Saturday the 21st January 2012 Blackpool Carers Centre will be holding it's Diamond Ball at the Hilton Hotel, Blackpool from 7pm until late.
This spectacular event, in aid of Blackpool Carers Centre, celebrates the selfless work of unpaid Carers throughout Blackpool.
The evening will include drinks and canapes on arrival, three course dinner with coffee and a host of entertainment throughout the night including an Awards Ceremony and dancing until the early hours.
This is the ideal event at which to hold your late Christmas party and also support a worthwhile, local charity.
Click here to download the poster!
Charity Shop - Donations & Volunteers Needed
30.11.11
We will shortly be opening our first ever charity shop at 165a Church Street, Blackpool, close to St John's Primary School.
We are all working hard to get everything prepared, but now need your help! If you have any items which are in a good, clean condition that you no longer want, then please donate them to us. We're interested in everything- clothes, books, toys etc. You can either drop them off at The Centre on Robson Way between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday, or take them to the shop once it is open, or call Sarah on 01253 393748 or 07873 408421 who will arrange for items to be collected.
We are also recruiting volunteers to help out in a variety of roles such as working in the shop, collecting and sorting stock etc. If you are interested and want to find out some more information, then please call Sarah on the above number.
Remember- your unwanted items will help to raise money for a LOCAL charity that supports LOCAL carers. Watch this space for more details!
Caring Times Winter 2011
06.12.11
Blackpool Carers Centre's quarterly magazine "Caring Times" is now available to download. Click here to download your copy today.
PCT Applauded for Supporting
Carers
04.11.11
Blackpool Carers Centre has today applauded Blackpool Primary Care Trust for supporting carers. Chief Officer, Michelle Smith, said "We're delighted to see that Blackpool PCT has increased their spending on services for carers in this area and we applaud their continued support."
You can download the full press release here
Blackpool Carers' Centre
win Prestigious Award
04.11.11

The Community Foundation for Lancashire held their inaugural Spirit of Lancashire Awards at the De Vere Village Herons' Reach, Blackpool on Wednesday 2nd November and Blackpool Carers' Centre were delighted to be nominated for the Health and Wellbeing Award, which is given to a project that works towards improving the health of people across Lancashire and encourages the social wellbeing of residents within a community.
Applications were invited from the voluntary and community sector from any groups who were awarded funding from the Community Foundation since March 2009. These nominations were then shortlisted against award criteria by a panel of judges.
Once the shortlist had been created, each nominee was visited by one of the judges in order to assess the impact of their work and how it has changed lives across Lancashire. The judging panel then reconvened to discuss their findings and decide upon the overall winners.
Trustees and staff attended the evening and were absolutely thrilled when Blackpool Carers' Centre was chosen as the winner of their nominated category.
Michelle Smith, Chief Officer said "The team work so hard so it was great to have that work recognised; also quite humbling to see the great work being carried out throughout the county."
Well done to everyone involved.
IF we can help Blackpool
24.10.11
| Information website set up by a local parent of a young adult with a learning disability and a long term health condition. The site informs people of all the useful information she has come across in 17 years, freebies, holiday funding, blue badge appeals, disabled facilities grants information and lots of detailed info on the personal budgets that Blackpool have been operating for the last 18 months. Check out www.IFwecanhelpblackpool.co.uk |
Blackpool Carers' Centre
awarded Investors in Diversity Stage 1 standard
24.10.11
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Blackpool Carers' Centre is proud to have achieved stage one of Investors in Diversity Standard. We'd like to thank all of you who took the time to complete the survey we carried out as part of this. |
Annual Report
19.10.11
Find out everything that has been going on at Blackpool Carers Centre in our annual report. Click here to download the report.
Read Jaymelea's story in
The Sunday Telegraph magazine
19.09.11
Jaymelea Hurren is a Blackpool Young Carer, who has been looking
after her mother since she was a young girl.
Click HERE to download her story about how it feels to be more like the parent than the child.
Story courtesy of The Sunday Telegraph.
Dragon’s Den Star Hilary Devey
Backs Campaign for Unpaid Carers
19.07.11
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New Dragon’s Den star Hilary
Devey is backing the Give Carers a Break campaign to push Primary
Care Trusts (PCTs) to give England’s five million unpaid carers
the support they desperately need. The campaign by the country’s two leading carers’ charities, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers and Crossroads Care, aims to persuade PCTs to use Government allocated funding of £400m for breaks and other help for carers. |
Millionaire business-woman Hilary, a long-term
supporter of The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, said: ‘As a former
carer and a business-woman it makes perfect sense to me that carers
should be supported in this way. Breaks from caring responsibilities
make all the difference to the carers’ mental and physical health
and well-being. It’s a sound investment that saves money in the
long run because without breaks many carers are not able to continue
as their health deteriorates and they end up needing care or hospitalisation
themselves.’
Research from the two charities indicates that the vast majority
of PCTs are failing to show how they will be spending the cash on
carer services – in complete contradiction to government guidelines.
Nine out of ten (91%) PCTs still haven’t committed to using the
funding to support carers. And while over half (54%) said they will
revise their plans to support carers, carers fear they will miss
out again if PCTs aren’t held to account.
Liz Fenton, Chief Executive, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers
said, ‘As part of this campaign we’re calling on the Government
to ensure every PCT spends their allocated budget supporting carers.
Because the money is not ‘ring-fenced’, cash-strapped PCTs are not
obliged to spend the money on carers and are in danger of diverting
the funds elsewhere.
‘We applaud those like Sunderland PCT which has worked with Sunderland
Carers’ Centre to give carers the break they deserve by investing
£630,000 for extra services to support them.’
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