Community Plus has helped many people to battle loneliness by connecting them to local groups and activities. One such resident is 70-year-old Mr A who reached out when his partner moved into a care home after developing dementia and becoming violent towards him.
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A collaborative project to tackle isolation in Huddersfield has been shortlisted in the Social Prescribing Network Awards 2022. The Growing Friends of Community Activity in Lindley (FOCAL) project has been shortlisted for the Award for Best Community-based Organisation in Social Prescribing. Who’s involved? Our Social Prescribing team worked alongside anchor organisation Local Services 2 You to help residents come together
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Coffee and Words is a group where residents from different walks of life meet to converse over a brew and biscuits at Holmfirth Library. The group chooses words to engage with or bring something along that connects people to words. This could be anything from books, magazines, recipes, letters or just anything with words.
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Read about Donna’s journey to new beginnings with the help of Community Plus.
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Claire Baldwin is a Community Co-ordinator based in Holme Valley South. Claire spends a lot of her time talking to residents about their local area, how they feel about it and sharing ideas of what improvements they’d like to see. This is Claire’s first blog about the Cinderhills project. Hi, I’m Claire Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I often worked from Holmfirth Library and supported a baby weighing clinic at Holmfirth Memorial Hospital. It
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‘I need a reason to get up each day’. SH found themselves in trouble after they lost their job, separated with their partner and kids and were being threatened with eviction from their home. SH reached out to Kirklees and expressed how they were feeling lonely and anxious after being harassed by the landlord. SH opened up about how they
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This is the story of 92-year-old ex-firefighter, Rodney who lives by himself after the sad passing of his wife. Because of the pandemic, Rodney was shielding and only left the house twice; for the COVID vaccine and once again for his wife’s funeral. Rodney became lonely and was referred to Community Plus. Community Plus could help him reconnect with people,
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Through a series of free, pop-up vaccination clinics held across the borough, over 5,000 people have been vaccinated so far by primary care and pharmacy providers.
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