FIFE CARERS CENTRE
  • Home
  • Work with us
    • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Contact Us
    • About Us >
      • Mission Statement
      • Terms & Conditions
      • Confidentiality and GDPR
    • Meet the Staff
  • Make a Referral
  • For Professionals
  • News
    • Information Bulletins
    • Carers talking about their caring role
  • Carer Support
    • Carers Groups
    • Befriending Service
    • Respite, Short Breaks & Holidays
  • Resources
    • Carers Emergency Cards
    • The Carers (Scotland) Act 2016
    • Emergency Planning
    • Carer Support Plans
    • Workshops for carers >
      • Take a Walk in their shoes
      • Communicating with Dementia - Words and Beyond
      • Carer Essentials for parent carers
      • Carer Essentials for carers of adults and older people
  • Taking a Break
    • Creative Breaks Fund

News

Volunteers Week 1 - 7 June 2020

6/1/2020

 
Picture
Fife Carers centre volunteers provide regular befriending to carers across Fife who are socially isolated, feeling lonely or just in need of someone to talk to or listen. Volunteers are people who do not necessarily have plenty of time to spare, they have the heart. Very often they have had similar experience in caring roles or faced other life challenges; they appreciate the stress and anxiety caring role can cause and find it rewarding to be able to help someone who frequently can’t speak to family or friends.
When it was still possible, they enjoyed face to face meetings and different activities together before pandemic; now it is limited to telephone and video calls as well as frequent messages.
Both, carers and volunteers, find it particularly important to continue their befriending relationships at these challenging times when many of us feel anxious and lonely.
Use of modern technology has never been that popular before; some volunteers and carers have been that desperate to see one another they have specially learned to use video communicators for the first time in their lives!

Comments are closed.

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    May 2022
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    June 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
Photos used under Creative Commons from verchmarco, nick@, CMRF_Crumlin
  • Home
  • Work with us
    • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Contact Us
    • About Us >
      • Mission Statement
      • Terms & Conditions
      • Confidentiality and GDPR
    • Meet the Staff
  • Make a Referral
  • For Professionals
  • News
    • Information Bulletins
    • Carers talking about their caring role
  • Carer Support
    • Carers Groups
    • Befriending Service
    • Respite, Short Breaks & Holidays
  • Resources
    • Carers Emergency Cards
    • The Carers (Scotland) Act 2016
    • Emergency Planning
    • Carer Support Plans
    • Workshops for carers >
      • Take a Walk in their shoes
      • Communicating with Dementia - Words and Beyond
      • Carer Essentials for parent carers
      • Carer Essentials for carers of adults and older people
  • Taking a Break
    • Creative Breaks Fund