Dartmouth Caring Chairman Dee Nutt and its Manager and coordinator Alison Stocks at the Information Day held at Dartmouth Yacht Club.
Dartmouth Caring’s special Information Day at Dartmouth Yacht Club on Tuesday June 26 was a huge success.
The day brought together invited members of the Dartmouth community to find out more about the charity – which aims to help the elderly and vulnerable adults in the Dartmouth and district area.
The charity’s Chairman Dee Nutt gave a special presentation to start the day giving an overview of the charity and how it helps its target groups. These include the long-established Lunch Club, its Parkinson’s Café for those with Parkinsonian symptoms, its Memory Café for those with short-term memory loss and their carers, its home visits, Visually Impaired Book Club, as well as its transport, befriending and counseling services.
Alison Stocks, the Manager and Coordinator of the charity then described the way the charity’s five members of staff work to support its clients to live independently in their own homes for as long as possible. She described them as “the core of all we do – without the staff in the office, Dartmouth Caring simply couldn’t function.”
Finally one of the charity’s unique and revolutionary Bridge Workers, Jackie Mclean, who started on a job share in the role at the beginning of July 2010, outlined exactly how the role saves the NHS hundreds of thousands of pounds in hospital admissions each year – whilst improving patient care.
Dee said: “The Information Day was a huge success – we are trying to let people know everything we do and why. It’s vital that the community can see and understand how we work and how it helps people they know in this community every day of the year. We are successful because people come to us for help and we do all we can to do that.
“One of our strengths as a charity is we have adapted and offered new services when a need has become clear – this is why we started many of our groups and why the Bridge Worker role was created.
“We hope to continue this work, developing our services to meet the needs of this community.”
Phil Scoble 