Do you provide unpaid help to a family member, friend or neighbour, to help them with everyday living?
Do you look after someone who has a long-term illness or disability or who is elderly or frail?
Do you have a child with special needs?
Do you help a relative or friend who is about to be discharged from hospital?
Are you under 18 and caring for or helping to care for someone in your family, who has a long-term illness or is disabled?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you would benefit from contacting South and Vale Carers.
South and Vale Carers is a specialist charity, set up in 1994, that supports unpaid carers living in South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Council areas. South and Vale Carers provides a personal, professional and confidential service offering a wide range of advice, information, and practical and emotional support, visiting you in your own home at a time to suit you.
South and Vale Carers can help you with:
- Emotional support and practical advice to help you with your caring role
- Help in claiming Allowances and Benefits for you and the person you care for
- Completing a Benefits Check to make sure you and your family are maximising the family income
- Knowing your rights, including at work
- Help with Appeals and Representation at Tribunals
- Advice on your entitlement to services
- Advice on choosing and paying for care
- Trips and activities to give you a break – you deserve one!
Last year we helped over 1,000 carers and supported carers in achieving in excess of £920,000 in benefits and allowances for carers. If you would like to know how we could help you, please call South and Vale Carers on 01235 510 212 or visit our website (www.svcarers.org.uk)
As an independent charity we do not receive any statutory funding. If you would like to support our work, please get in touch, your donation would make a difference.