News
April 2008
The SCOPe Project
GAMH has been awarded a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to provide a citywide volunteer befriending service to older people with mental health problems and older carers of people with mental health problems. The grant has been awarded for 5 years and the project will be known as the SCOPe Project (supporting older carers and older people through befriending).The project will have a particular focus on reaching those older people and older carers from minority groups within our local communities.
We already know from our needs assessment report No One Asks Me Report 2006 that older people and older carers experience social isolation and loneliness and that these issues have a negative impact on their mental health and wellbeing. This also prevents them from taking part in many community activities. This new project will allow us to address these needs and will also offer meaningful volunteer opportunities. We plan to target potential volunteers from all groups within our communities including younger people and younger carers, people from Black and Minority Ethnic community and people with physical disabilities.
We will be employing two Part Time Volunteer Coordinators to take forward the work. Posts and project start date will be advertised in due course.
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