Support for Carers in Cheshire

Are you a carer?

Carers provide support to someone who needs extra help to manage day-to-day life. A carer is someone who, without payment, provides help and support to a partner, child, relative, friend or neighbour who could not manage without their help. This could be due to age, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability.

Carers might not live in the same house and they do not have to be related to the person they look after. Most carers are happy to look after relations or friends, but sometimes they need extra support to continue their caring role. Caring for someone covers lots of different things, like helping with washing, dressing or eating, or taking someone to regular appointments.

 

How can we help you with your caring role?

Cheshire and Warrington Trust is the lead provider of The Cheshire West Carer Support Service. We have offices in Northwich and Chester to provide the core elements of the service. We also have an office in Crewe, supporting carers in Cheshire East.

We understand that carers have different needs. We therefore offer information, advice, emotional support, signposting to other services and advocacy in a variety of ways. We also offer a wide range of activities, training and events for Carers throughout the year across Cheshire.

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30th Anniversary Raffle

In November we will be celebrating our 30th anniversary, we are proud to celebrate that we have been supporting carers in Cheshire since 1994.

As part of our celebrations we are holding a hamper raffle, with 30 fabulous hampers to be won! Raffle tickets will be available to purchase at all of our support groups and activities from August. We will also be hosting stalls at some local events to sell tickets and share information about our services, please follow us on Facebook to see where we will be visiting next. 

David Harvey, CEO, said “We are proud to be celebrating our 30th year at Cheshire and Warrington Carers Trust (nee Vale Royal Carers Forum). We have supported many thousands of carers across Cheshire and Warrington and look forward to supporting more for many years to come.”