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The Princess Royal Trust Richmond Carers Centre

Welcome to the local website of the Richmond Carers Centre. Here you will find information for carers living in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and those who are caring for someone who lives in the Borough.

Latest News and Events

RICHMOND CARERS CENTRE RESPONDS TO THE TRAGIC DEATH OF A CARER AND HER DAUGHTER
New scheme to be launched for isolated carers. Please see the following article:
Carers First Alert Scheme (25 KB)

RICHMOND CARERS CENTRE SURVEY
Are you a carer who has used any services provided by Richmond Carers Centre in the last year? If so we'd like to know your views by clicking the attached link, typing in your responses and sending back to the Centre. Carers' Survey 2010 (49 KB)

PRINCESS ROYAL TRUST CARERS AND FINANCE SURVEY
Click the link to do the survey Carers and Finance Survey

NEWSLETTER AUTUMN 2010 Autumn 2010 Newsletter (1.5 MB)

VIEW THE RICHMOND CARERS CENTRE DVD! CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW:
Richmond Carers Centre DVD

If you have any difficulties viewing the PDF available on this page, please see: Help accessing PDF files

PHOTO GALLERY
Click the links below to see photo slideshows.

Carers Laughter Yoga
Carers Week 2010

Our Mission

Richmond Carers Centre to deliver and be the gateway to direct support, information and access to services for unpaid carers in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Our Vision

To know and be known by all local carers, providing or influencing provision of support for them.

Key Objectives for 2009/12

  • Increase capacity for direct support to adult carers
  • Increase capacity for direct support to young carers and work with schools
  • Secure adult carer project funding for counselling, complementary therapies, activities / events
  • Develop outreach across the Borough
  • Support carer involvement and engagement with strategic planning
  • Consider new areas for service development

How to Find the Richmond Carers Centre

Click here for a local map

Making Donations in Support of Richmond Carers Centre

You can support our organisation in a couple of ways and you do not have to be a carer to do so.

  • Donating Money
    To make a donation to our organisation please make cheques payable to "Richmond Carers Centre" and complete the Gift Aid declaration on our general leaflet. If you are a tax payer this will enable us to reclaim tax on your gift.
  • Donating Your Time
    We will be happy to send you further details of being a volunteer at our Centre if you contact us on the above telephone number or email address.
  • Please see our general leaflet for further information in the "Publications Section."

Looking for Local Advice & Information?

If you want information relevant to caring for someone living in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, please take a look at our fact sheets in the "Publications Section".

Scottish Young Carers Festival 2010
New figures have shown that almost 90 per cent of Scottish young carers feel that their schools and GPs do nothing to support them – and that is despite the fact that young carers save the public purse...
19.08.10

More on: Scottish Young Carers Festival 2010

Carers' News

Consultation on Carers Strategy 'Refresh'
Paul Burstow MP, Minister for Care Services, has announced a consultation on what the Government should prioritise to support carers from 2011-2015. This will focus on how best to deliver the five...
29.07.10

Mental Health and the Triangle of Care
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers and the National Mental Health Development Unit today published a guide which emphasizes the need for better local strategic involvement of carers and families in...
28.07.10

Caring Together and Getting it Right
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers welcomed the Scottish Government’s Caring Together and Getting it Right for Young Carers strategies launched on 26 July 2010 at The Princess Royal Trust Lanarkshire...
26.07.10

Carer Involvement Can Reduce Hospital Re-admission Rate
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers launched a new report Out of Hospital today. It urges policy makers and health services and commissioners to work together with carers and carers’ organisations to...
21.07.10

Latest Discussions

And so it is
A class of five-year old students are learning to read. One of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said, "Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!" The teacher took a deep breath, then...
mag - 31.08.10

its my birthday tommorow.....
......i dont know whether to be happy or a bit sad !!! i am well into my 40's and havent been feeling my best for at least 12 months if not more. Been worrying about silly little things and those silly...
loopy - 29.08.10

High Rate Mobility
Hello to all, Newbie to the boards but have been lurking for a few weeks reading posts.. I have two sons, i am a carer to my eldest who is nearly 6.. He has severe epilepsy with several different...
l.boo - 26.08.10

Anyone ben accussed of benefit fraud relating to Carers Allowance?
I have recently posted about this and had a lot of fabulous kind words and advice from justanothercarer, but I was wondering if anyone out there was going through the same as me and maybe be could be...
very worried sarah - 24.08.10

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