You Matter - Learn and Thrive: six week carer' course, Dorking
You Matter - Learn and Thrive is our brand new six week course for carers to help you improve your wellbeing and feel more informed and in control. Different topics will be covered each week, starting with the impact of being a carer, and how it can affect you.
You Matter – Learn and Thrive
Caring can be fulfilling, but also brings a wide range of challenges, affecting your life and how you feel.
Our new course aims to help you feel better as a carer, more informed, and more in control.
Running over six Fridays, in Dorking, our sessions will look at different topics, week by week.
You’ll hear from our staff and a wide variety of external organisations too – see list below. Plus there’ll be opportunities to chat with other carers.
Program
- Week 1: Friday 2nd October – The impact of being a carer
- Week 2: Friday 9th October – Wellbeing matters
- Week 3: Friday 16th October – Your rights, your support
- Week 4: Friday 23rd October – Connecting you to support
- Week 5: Friday 30th October – Training and development
- Week 6: Friday 6th November – Reflect and feedback
Details
Dates and times: Course runs on Fridays 10.30-1.30pm, starting Friday 2nd October, and finishing Friday 6th November.
Venue: Pippbrook House, Reigate Road, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1SH
Parking: Pay & Display car park behind Dorking Halls RH4 1SG – Pippbrook House is a five minute walk across the road.
Lunch and refreshments are provided, please advise us of any dietary requirements.
There will be a goody bag for attendees, presented at the final session.
Ideally you will be free to attend all six sessions. If you cannot, please let us know. Email [email protected]
Attending organisations
Organisations coming to give advice and information during different sessions include:
- Action for Carers, including our specialist Moving & Handling service, and our team for mental health carers
- Age UK
- Andy’s Men’s Club
- CAP (debt help)
- Clandon Wood
- Crisis Payment
- The Green Hub
- Guildford Action
- Mary Frances Trust
- Men’s Sheds
- Oakleaf
- Shooting Stars
- Surrey Coalition of Disabled People
- Surrey Welfare Rights Unit (benefits information)
- Tech Angels
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