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Care Quality Commission approval for Kingsway Care
) LGBTQ+ inclusive Kingsway Care has been approved by the Care Quality Commission, meaning that it is regulated for personal care (dementia, live in, respite, emergency, palliative), which is at the core of its service.
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Olly Carter, managing director, said: “We continue to offer, as we have done for the last six months, a broad range of other support services - housework, gardening, pet care, health & beauty, transport, shopping & meals, home technology, home safety - and companionship.” The organisation also buddied up with AgeUK for the winter and has been helping it with emergency support packages, such as support after hospital discharges. Kingsway Care’s other big news is that it has gone live with its website www.kingswaycare.com where you will find an LGBTQ+ community page.
DARREN (L) & SCOTT (R)
It has also started to offer some online events, such as weekly quizzes and music shows through its Facebook page: www.facebook.com/kingswaycaresussex, and YouTube channel: https://tinyurl.com/ouqhd4yo. The quizzes are run by Dave Taggart who has been touring with Belinda Carlisle as her guitarist for some 20 years. May is being slated as the month the organisation will move into 22 Victoria Terrace, Hove, with a community space and café. Kingsway Coffee Club will be run by Scott Burey aka Drag With No Name and his manager/partner, Darren, with community events and activities planned (for normal times). D www.kingswaycare.com y https://tinyurl.com/ouqhd4yo f www.facebook.com/kingswaycaresussex
Clare Project announces new booklets ) The Clare Project, the trans support and social group, has announced a new series of information booklets, written by and for the trans, non-binary and intersex (TNBI) community. Designed and written by Luka White, a training and development worker employed by the Clare Project, the newest booklet in the series offers tips and advice for family and friends of TNBI adults. The next topics will be Being TNBI and Neurodivergent and Intersex Community Needs. Further booklet topics are yet to be decided but may include topics such as Body Image, Social Transition and Dealing with Discrimination. e If you would like to be a part of the consultation group for future booklets, email luka.white@clareproject.org.uk to express your interest. D To download the booklets, visit: www.clareproject.org.uk/resources
BLAGSS runners stay on track up this challenge. Participants can see how far everybody has got on the map of Iceland and Tommy asserts that this is something that definitely spurs him on and he claims that he has done more running on this initiative than when he was marathon training. There are also environmental benefits; every 20% of ) Two BLAGSS running convenors, the route a runner completes guarantees Tommy Martinsson and Roy Haines, a donation from the organisers to cover have embraced lockdown restrictions by the planting of a tree in one of the Eden turning them into a positive opportunity Project’s reforestation programmes. to enhance their fitness and endurance. Both have signed up with Conqueror Tommy said: “I’d highly recommend Events for the Virtual Icelandic this challenge or similar initiatives. It’s Challenge which involves logging got me out of the house a lot more their running distances across Sussex than I would have otherwise during the within a system which also automatically lockdown. It’s easy to get demotivated moves them along their virtual challenge and once your exercise regime course; a circular 1,332.5km route of decreases you end up in a negative Iceland’s entire coastline! This challenge spiral where your motivation gets even tests their endurance and speed and lower. Considering how mental health both runners are well on target to beat has decreased, I’d say anything that gets the average completion time of 357 us out of the house is worth it. It also days. gives you something to talk about with the people in your virtual community.” Using the Conqueror app, Tommy and Roy have created a small community of D For more info on BLAGSS, visit: old and new friends who have taken www.bhssrfc.com/
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