The Greater Walker Community Trust provides day care services to older people living in the Greater Walker area. The trust provides a bus service to bring people to the community centre where they can get a hot lunch and take part in a range of arts and crafts activities, dominoes, bingo and trips out.
Jen Brumwell, project manager at Greater Walker Community Trust says “Our grant from Lloyds TSB Foundation has enabled us continue to deliver high quality social care and increase the capacity of our groups meeting the need of the local community. We now have an average of 147 older people accessing our services and indirectly a further 31 main carers receiving valuable respite time each week.
The grant funded a new volunteer co-ordinator to recruit, train and support the many volunteers that enable the charity to run the wide range of activities on offer. Having an extra pair of hands on deck has also meant that the project manager has more time to concentrate on developing new activities and secure further funding.
Jen Brumwell added, "The social interaction, personal and emotional support the groups provide contribute to a sense of wellbeing, promote independence and a sense of ownership of 'their clubs'.”
