How local carers' organisations can get involved
If you’re a local carers’ organisation, you can get involved in the campaign by:
- Writing to your PCT or local MP using our template letters below. Ask when they intend to publish their plans and budgets for supporting carers, as required by the Government.
Download a template letter to PCT here
Download a template letter to MP here
Download a template letter to local councillor here
- Getting carers involved. Put up the “Give Carers a Break” campaign posters in your Carers’ Centre or scheme to tell carers about the campaign. Reach new carers in your local GP or dentist waiting room, library or supermarket. Add your details to the poster so that local carers know where to go for support.
- Asking carers to fill in our “Give Carers a Break” campaign postcard and getting them to explain why having a break is important to them. Take these with you when you visit carers in their own homes or give them out in your Carers’ Centre or scheme. Present these to your PCT or local authority on their behalf.
- Asking carers to write to their MP, local councillors and PCT chief executives. Make sure that carers include details on how this issue affects them and their family.
Download a template letter to be written to MP
Download a template letter to be written to local councillor
Download a template letter to be written to PCT
- Organising a “Give Carers a Break” event. Invite your local MP, councillors and PCT commissioners to talk directly with local carers about the support available and their plans for the future.
Suggestions on how to hold your event.
Invite your local media and use our draft press release here
- Being creative. Put together a display to show your local MPs, PCTs and councillors. Use copies of the completed “Give Carers a Break” campaign postcards. Ask carers to add their photo or even a drawing or poem to show what breaks from their caring role mean to them. Get your local MPs, councillors and PCT commissioners involved and ask them to add to the display. Send us some photos and we will put the best ones on the campaign web page!
Download Give Carers a Break campaign materials here:
Give carers a break campaign postcards
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Get in touch if you’d like more information on how to get involved in the campaign. Email us on givecarersabreak@carers.org or call us on 020 8498 7942.
