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Free penpal befriending service

A registered home care service serving Sandwell, Birmingham delivering personal care and domestic support in the home to enable individual to retain or maintain their independence.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Congolese, Afro Caribbean

An Advice & Guidance Service for Deaf and hard of hearing people.

Bridges service supports people with palliative care, registered with a Birmingham GP.

BUDS Activity Sessions operate at various venues within the Borough of Sandwell.

Quality: PQASSO Level 1

The service aims to close the gap in health inequality by ensuring that deaf patients have access to a full range of communications support, as well as advice and information to enable them to feel included in their care and medical treatment.

Crossroads offer personalised care and support to enable you to remain living in your own home. Our care is person-centred and can be provided to people of all ages, disabilities and health conditions, 24 hours daily.

Quality: CQC Registered

Care and support services to adults with disabilities including care provided in the home.
SAFS have over 25 years of experience in supporting South Asian families with a disabled child, young person or adult.
Staff speak a range South Asian languages such as Panjabi, Urdu, Mirpuri, Hindi, Bengali and can undertake interpreting and translations where required.
Language dietary and faith needs are met through a skills matching process.
Services are provided for both genders

Quality: OFSTED inspected, CQC Registered
Ethnicity focus: Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi

Crossroads offer a wide range of training courses to family carers at our Training Hub including; How to use hoist equipment of all types, Health and Safety, Food Hygiene, Infection Control, plus much more, please contact us for more details.

Quality: CQC Registered

The aim of our service is to give carers a break from their caring responsibilities, by putting in place a sitting and befriending service which enable them to have time to themselves knowing their loved one is being cared for at home.

Quality: Investors in People, Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Congolese, Afro Caribbean

Low level support and signposting service that is free to access and referrals are open to everybody aged 18 years and over and includes people with disabilities and long-term conditions, mental health, learning disability and dementia, as well as carers.

Providing information and support to Brain Injury and Stroke survivors and their families/carers in the community.

The cost of living team are here to provide you with a wide range of information, advise and guidance.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Bangladeshi

A counselling service for brain injury and stroke survivors, their carers and close family members for a defined range of problems.

Good quality second hand donated furniture, and new goods, both domestic and commercial for sale. Avoiding landfill, reusing and recycling goods, helping the environment

Providing respite care or support during the day, to give main carer a break.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Telephone-based companionship and personalised support service.
Delphinium is a pay-as-you-go service.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Helping you and your family before and after being diagnosed with dementia

We offer personal care to support with daily living needs, enabling people with complex needs to remain in their own home for longer. This can be provided alongside social care services or funded by the person themselves or their family.

If you have a personal budget, we are here to help and support you with your care package.

Quality: CQC Registered

SAFS offer a Domiciliary Care Service to individuals in their own homes, supporting with personal care tasks.

Quality: OFSTED inspected, PQASSO Level 2, Investors in People, CQC Registered
Ethnicity focus: Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi

A specialist homecare service to help deaf, deafened, hard of hearing and deafblind adults maintain their independence and improve their lives both at home and in the community.

Lifestyles Drop-in Service – SAFS manage the SAFS Windmill Community Centre where groups and activities take place. We provide one to one support to individuals allowing them to access activities as they choose.

Come and join in the parent / carer stay & play. Packed with a bunch of activities, sensory play, sing-a-long and so much more. Free of Charge. 50p for tea/coffee and toast

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Sandwell's leading social and therapeutic horticultural project supporting people's health and wellbeing for over 20 years (an Ideal for All project - registered charity for disabled people)

Quality: Matrix

Sandwell's leading social and therapeutic horticultural project supporting peoples health and wellbeing for over 20 years (an Ideal for All project - registered charity for disabled people)

Quality: Matrix

gymnasium, fitness, well being, training plans, boxercise, special needs activities, keep fit. after school club.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Home to Home Calls provides a friendly daily phone call service specifically for the elderly and the most vulnerable members of our society.

Our Carers information, advice and support service operates between 9am - 5pm on Mondays to Fridays. If no one is available to take your call, carers can leave their contact details with our Administration Officer or Receptionist and our Service Manager will phonethe carer when he returns to our office.

Quality: Investors in People, Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Congolese, Afro Caribbean

Cancer support group

Quality: Investors in People, Matrix

Outreach support for people recovering from functional mental health and family members.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Congolese, Afro Caribbean

Through the Connected Palliative Care Team, we can provide 24/7 clinical support for those who are at the end of their life. We can also offer respite care for family carers as they care for their loved one.

Quality: CQC Registered

A Support Group for parents and carers who have disabled children, young people and adults.

Quality: OFSTED inspected, Investors in People, CQC Registered
Ethnicity focus: Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi

To provide respite stay with a Shared Lives Carer, from one night to a few weeks, to give family members a planned break.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

A service which supports individuals who, through disability and social exclusion, feel that they have no meaningful involvement in decisions that are made which directly affect their lives.

Sandwell Community Navigators deliver a free wellbeing support service to residents aged 18+ across Sandwell. There are opportunities to find information, advice and support to meet your needs.

Quality: CQC Registered

The Community Offer provides low level practical support and access to personalised information, advice and guidance to anyone aged 18+. Supporting your wellbeing and helping you live as safely and independently as possible.

Quality: Matrix

Support Groups
Workshops
Advice Sessions
1:1 Outreach Support
Family Sessions

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Offering Short Breaks, Support Work and Promotion and supporting work with young carers, aged 5-18 in Sandwell who help care for a family member with an illness/disability, mental ill heath, substance misuse or elderly/infirm

Hospital Befriending, Support, Advocacy, & Community Support

Quality: Investors in People, Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Congolese, Afro Caribbean

Supporting Older adults and carers in hospital and at home

We can provide short breaks at home, in a centre based setting, in a community based setting and where a grant is paid enabling carers to organise their own short break.

Quality: Investors in People, Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Support for Carers of adults with a functional mental illness.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Congolese, Afro Caribbean

Their team of Wellness Coaches will carry out a detailed assessment of your falls risk while collaborating with you and your family to develop a package of community-based support. Their comprehensive assessment includes:

Falls self-confidence test
A basic questionnaire assessment
Footwear and food care assessment
Falls free referral tool
Quantitative Timed Up and Go (QTUG) test:
This will determine your level of risk for falling, and place you within low-medium-and high risk
Home risk assessment
Once their Wellness Coaches and Physiotherapists have completed the comprehensive assessment they will explain to you your results and refer you to the most appropriate community support services available if necessary.

Sandwell Stroke Recovery Service provides high quality information, practical advice and emotional support following a stroke.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

A safe friendly environment to leave your loved one whilst you attend appointments or simply need to take a break

Social Hubs delivered as part of a Lottery Funded Project within Agewell CIC, supporting people living with mild to moderate dementia and their family carers.

We welcome applications from people who would like to Volunteer with BUDS. We provide opportunities within our Activity Sessions and Carer and Family Support.

Quality: PQASSO Level 1

A free independent and confidential advocacy service which supports children and young people who care for another person.