By Mark Bradford | Project Leader
Carers Network's unique BizzyBox Lending Project has now been supporting unpaid carers in central London for over two and a half years!
There are over 130 carers registered on the online lending library, with more than 225 product loans to date.
The library of activity products are taken on request to 5 different monthly coffee mornings that Carers Network runs in the City of Westminster, The London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This gives carers across these boroughs the opportunity to borrow and return items at various venues throughout each month.
These include local carers like Caroline, who recently swapped a sewing machine that she borrowed for ‘Arthur’ a musical teddy bear therapy device. This has been specially designed to improve cognizance and engagement, and her son who is living with a learning disability very much enjoys using the device!
As well as being an opportunity to borrow therapy products such as this, these coffee mornings are a fantastic opportunity for carers to get together, socialise, provide each other with peer support, and speak to members of Carers Network’s staff team for help and advice.
Opportunities to meet at such coffee mornings help to reduce the social isolation that carers often face due to their demanding day-to-day caring roles, as well as providing carers with a very well-earned break and some time for themselves so that they can re-charge.
Your continued generosity has helped us to expand and keep running this project so that more carers can enjoy coming to coffee mornings, socialise together and then borrow products from the library to enjoy with their loved ones at home.
By Mark Bradford | Project Leader
By Mark Bradford | Project Leader
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