OLD BASING & LYCHPIT GOOD NEIGHBOURS
Good Neighbours Groups exist for people in the local community when there is no one else they can call upon to help. Local volunteers carry out simple ‘good neighbour’ tasks according to personal requests from local people. Each request via the GN Group’s mobile phone is matched, via the GN Group’s coordinators, to avolunteer who is able to help in the local community.
Old Basing & Lychpit now has its own local Good Neighbours Group. The Old Basing & Lychpit Good Neighbours provide a key local role in the parish across a wide range of needs including:
•personal transport….to health and other appointments, to servicesand to local groups eg lunch club, community cafe, shops, church serviceetc
•social contact or befriending ……helping to reduce loneliness and isolation
•practical support at a time of need
•connections into local community
•otherneighbourly care such as, shopping, sitting for carer’s respite, small gardening or dog walking help etc
We hope to continue to attract volunteers of all ages from Old Basing and Lychpitto respond to occasional or regular requests for helpwhich come through to the central phone number from individuals in need. It’s an incredibly flexible setup for volunteer: volunteers can offer as little or as much time as they wish on an occasional or regular basis. The local OBL Good Neighbours enables local people to help other local peoplewithin their own community, and helps build and re-build local community relationships for people.
If you as an individual or organization and would like to volunteer or support Old Basing & Lychpit Good Neighbours, do please get in touch:
Sue Wilson, Chairman, 01256 328196
or email:
PTO for further details on Good NeighbourGroups……..
A bit about Good Neighbours Schemes in Hampshire:
Good Neighbour groups are supported, and able to function under the umbrella of, the excellent GNSS (Good Neighbours Support Service). Via the GNSS we can access all the relevant policies, insurance and safeguarding cover and guidance, and other resources and expertise we need in order to setup and run our new OB&L group professionally and successfully.
The GNSS is funded in Hampshire by County Council and NHS Clinical Commissioning groups in Fareham and Gosport, North East and Farnham, North, South East Hampshire and West Hampshire. It is supported and managed by Anglican Dioceses in Portsmouth, Winchester and Guildford, with our local contact being in the Winchester Diocese. The funding and support enables GNSS to provide starter and continuation grants, learning cafes and events and work with local people to growGood Neighbours groups and services.
There are now over 100 Good Neighbours groups in Hampshire (which can go under different names), including: Basingstoke Neighbourcare (spanning the whole of Basingstoke & Deane); KempshottNeighbourcare; Bramley Voluntary Care Group; Burghclere & Newtown Neighbourcare; East WoodhayHighclereNeighbourcare; Kingsclere, Ashford Hil and Headley Care Group; Oakley Community Care; Overton ACTION; Sherfield on Loddon Community Care Group; Silchester Give and Take; St Mary Bourne & District Neighbourcare; Tadley Crosslink; WhitchurchNeighbourcare.
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