This Carers Week, is about Making Caring Visible for unpaid carers, that are looking after a family member or friend who has a disability, mental or physical illness, or who needs extra help as they grow older. In the last survey of carers (2011) there were over 37,000 unpaid carers living in Cheshire West. Often carers
Volunteers Week 2020 ends today but this year has been a Volunteer’s Week to remember. Our celebrations were restricted due to coronavirus but we managed to deliver over 200 goody bags to volunteers in and around rural West Cheshire. This was our Thank You to all our amazing OPAL volunteers, who between them have given
OPAL is delighted to announce that on 2nd June 2020 we were awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services. The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to local volunteergroups across the UK to recognise outstanding work done in their own communities. It was created in 2002 to celebrate the anniversary of The Queen’s coronation. It is the MBE for volunteer groups. Jane Colville,
The Marshes Community Benefit Fund has once again granted funding to OPAL Services. The funding is for the OPAL Branching Out service which operates in the Frodsham and Helsby areas. Over the next year this funding will assist in the recovery phase of COVID – 19 and also going forward. Our thanks go to the
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OPAL has received news from Cheshire West and Chester Council that our Community Response Fund application has been successful. This very welcome funding will help us to continue our work through the Covid19 pandemic. This is great news because it means we can continue delivering all our befriending and support services to existing members and
Over the last few weeks OPAL has been redesigning OPAL Services to comply with social distancing rules during the coronavirus pandemic. We have successfully set up 3 new temporary services, all based on the social distancing and safe working guidance, while still supporting our members who are now self isolating. Our new services are: A
Coronavirus ….an urgent message for all our OPAL members and volunteers OPAL Services is very aware of the way in which the coronavirus is spreading and of the implications for older people with underlying health conditions, be they our members or volunteers. We have been taking advice from the Council and taking account of information
Coronavirus (COVID-19) bulletin Catch it, Bin it, Kill it OPAL Services would like all members and volunteers to know that we are monitoring developments in Coronavirus (COVID-19) very closely and will issue news updates as the situation changes. For the moment we will continue to observe safe hygiene practices and encourage all others in our
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