Helping Hands is ICA’s project for older people and those impacted by disability and / or serious, life-limiting or terminal illness. The activities and services provided through Helping Hands include:
- Advice
- Befriending (face-to-face and telephone)
- Brain Games – conversation and games (suitable for those with mild dementia)
- Chat A Latte: Coffee, cake and good conversation.
- Chesil Art Group (x 2 – Portland and Wyke Regis)
- Exercise: Get Together Club – gentle seated (x 2)
- Exercise: Osteocise – mid-range
- Exercise: Fit+ – advanced aerobic
- Food: The Dining Room, Sunday Lunch Club and other foodie outings
- Memorability (social and activities for those with memory difficulties + carers)
- Shopping: In-store @ Tesco
- Special events (e.g. Seniors’ Christmas lunch and Christmas hampers)
- Social: Cash Bingo (x 2)
- Social: Coffee mornings
- Transport: Medical and essential appointments
- Transport: Other (e.g. social outings, visiting relatives in care homes, etc.)
- Good Neighbour Scheme (small tasks and errands, e.g. admin, prescriptions, shopping, etc.)
Also Community Connectors (connecting people to the right help, via one-to-one health and wellbeing assessments and support referrals).
To deliver our work, ICA collaborates with a wide range of local organisations and service providers, including Dorset NHS, Two Harbour Healthcare/local GPs, Dorset Council’s Adult Services. Dorset & Wiltshire Fire & Rescue, Citizen’s Advice Bureau (via Energy Bus), Christians Against Poverty (linked to benefit and other financial challenges), Age UK (related to the Household Support Fund), local Food Banks and the Portland Carers Group.
IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW MIGHT BENEFIT FROM ANY OF HELPING HAND’S ACTIVITIES OR SERVICES (OR YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM) PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.
Thank you to our community and the following organisations for their funding contributions towards Helping Hands.
