Voluntary and community organisations

The following organisations provide services to carers in Medway:

• Alzheimer's and Dementia Family Support
• Carers' Relief Service;
• Princess Royal Trust Medway Carers' Centre;
• Medway Crossroads;
• Samaritans Medway, Gravesham and Swale West.

Alzheimer's and Dementia Family Support (ADFS)

What is offered?

• Support and information.
• Support with Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance Benefit claims.
• Home visits
• Counselling, including bereavement counselling.
• Advocacy.
• Friendship groups.
• Chair based exercises.
• Outings and events.

ADFS is funded and supported by Medway Primary Care Trust and Kent County Council and is managed by the Council for Voluntary Service Medway (www.cvsmedway.plus.com).

Maggie Luck
ADFS Manager
Alzheimer's and Dementia Family Support
The Sunlight Development Trust
105 Richmond Road
Gillingham
Kent ME7 1LX

Phone: 01634 338630 or 338631

Email: carerssupport1@btconnect.com

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Carers' Relief Service

Carers' Relief provides a short break to carers of adults with a learning disability who live at home. It aims to provide a flexible service, based on the needs of the main carers and their dependants.

It employs personal support workers to work in the community with the adult with a learning disability and duties can include:

• befriending;
• shopping;
• swimming, bowling and other sporting activities;
• hospital visits;
• attending parties, clubs and other social groups;
• staying in the home.

Carers' Relief also supports adults with a learning disability who are living independently in the community.

Teresa O'Brien
Carers Relief Service
Lingley House, Rooms 2 and 3
Commissioners Road
Strood
Rochester
Kent ME2 4EE

Phone: 01634 715995

Email: c.r.service@btconnect.com

Carers Relief Service is registered charity number 1051841.

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Medway Crossroads Caring for Carers

The aim of Medway Crossroads is to relieve stress by providing short breaks for carers of disabled people living at home. In turn, this will help enable disabled people to stay in their own homes.

Its services are carer-led, flexible - to meet the needs of carers - and should supplement and complement rather than replace existing social services.

Medway Crossroads Caring for Carers
Office 7/8
55 Balmoral Road
Gillingham
Kent ME7 4NT

Phone: 01634 577900

Email: medwaycrossroads@btconnect.com

Caring for Carers website: www.crossroads.org.uk

Medway Crossroads Caring for Carers is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with registered number 4019963.

If you are a member of a voluntary or community group providing services to carers in Medway and would like your details included on the Medway Council website, please contact the Social Care Contracts Team at the address below.

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