The list of organisations below derives from a wellbeing event hosted by the Jubilee Field Surgery in September 2024. The event was aimed at the elderly, carers, and those in need of support.
All these organisations have a local presence. A brief description of the kinds of services they provide, plus contact details, is included in this post. By clicking on the name of each organisation you will be taken through to their website for more information.
Alzheimer’s Support
Contact: tel. 01225 776481| email office@alzheimerswiltshire.org.uk
- home support
- day clubs
- activity groups, such as singing, crafts
- carer support
Bobby Van
Contact: tel. 01225 256867 | email BobbyVan@wbvt.org
- home security service for people aged 60+ or 18+ with a registered disability, living in Wiltshire. Provide advice; fit locks, fire alarms, smoke detectors; supply message-in-a-bottle (to give vital information in an emergency)
- stay safe online advice for people aged 60+ or 18+ with a registered disability, living in Wiltshire.
Carer Support Wiltshire
Contact: Freephone 0800 1814118
- free service
- provide information and advice
- financial advice
- carer support
- carer café
- wellbeing workshop
Carers Together Wiltshire
Contact: tel. 01380 710300 | email enquiries@carerstogetherwiltshire.org.uk
A partnership between Age UK Wiltshire, Community First, Alzheimer’s Support, Wiltshire Service Users Network, Citizens Advice Wiltshire and Wessex Community Action
- carer support for people providing informal unpaid care to another person, through a range of support services
- activities
- carer breaks
- advice
- counselling
- coaching and training
Dorothy House Trust
Contact: 0345 0310 555
- provide support for people in the last three years of their life
- In collaboration with Carer Support Wiltshire, the Trust offers bereavement support, including help points (regular informal drop-ins) across Wiltshire, including in Chippenham, Corsham and Malmesbury.
Rethink Mental Illness
Contact: Freephone 0808 8010525
- carers’ support
- advocacy
- helplines
- peer support groups
- digital tech buddies to help those struggling to use technology to connect with others.
Wiltshire Age UK
Contact: Freephone 0808 196 2424
- information and advice
- wellbeing check and hot meal
- fitness and friendship groups
- gardening
- grants for energy bills
- in conjunction with Carers Together Wiltshire, offers services including a sitting service and counselling, to meet the needs of the carer
Wiltshire Libraries
Contact: tel. (Chippenham Library) 01249 650536 | email libraryenquiries@wiltshire.gov.uk
- digital support
- warm spaces
- social activities, such as the Thursday Club (Chippenham) and the Public Living Room (Malmesbury), as well as reading groups and one-off events
- activity trackers and blood pressure monitors free to borrow
- information, including bus timetables
- home library service – available to people of any age who are:
- blind or partially sighted
- disabled in some way
- suffering from a long term illness
- recovering from an operation and in need of short term help
- elderly and frail
- unable to carry library books
- carers who cannot easily leave home
- people experiencing mental health issues
- mobile library service, stops at Long Leaze, Nettleton
- books in alternative formats
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