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Carers in Hertfordshire – FREE support service for people who look after a family member or friend without being paid to provide help. Offering information and advice, activities, courses, meetings, and workshops. Support is given over the phone, online and face to face. You can also apply for a Carers’ Passport Discount Card
Contact: 01992 586969 Email: contact@carersinherts.org.uk
Harpenden Trust “Their aim is to help Harpenden residents – individuals, families, local organisations – whatever their age, whatever their background. From wellbeing programmes; to befriending; to their weekday morning Well-Bean Community Cafe in Southdown; to Senior’s Coffee mornings; to financial help; to Family & Seniors’ Outings – they offer a very wide range of services across the local community.
Contact: 01582 460457. Email: admin@theharpendentrust.org.uk
St Albans Old People’s Trust A small and friendly local charity which provides FREE goods and services for older people in the St Albans District, who are on a low income with limited savings. The Trust can pay for various goods and services that, for all sorts of reasons, older residents can’t afford to fund themselves. Includes mobility items, household items, personal items, kitchen appliances.
Contact: 01727 260701. Email: grants.admin@staopt.org
Age UK Offering advice on pension credit and Attendance Allowance. For more information, please see this link to get started. You can also call Age UK Advice line on 0800 678 1602.
Citizens Advice – FREE, independent and confidential advice online, over the phone or face to face (by appointment) Provides advice on housing, employment, money and debt, reducing energy bills, consumer rights, education, healthcare and social and volunteering opportunities. Can also offer practical support such as form filling, writing letters or negotiating with third parties.
Contact: 01727 811118.
Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service – : FREE Safe & Well Visit. The visit includes advice on aspects of health and wellbeing to help keep you safe and well. By appointment only and by uniformed staff who will use an agreed password and hold an official ID card. Will supply and fit free smoke detectors where necessary.
Contact: 0300 1234046.
AJ Physio – : specialist physiotherapy health institution that can help with hip and knee replacements, getting you back to fitness, also cater for shoulders and ankles! Fractures and chronic pain caused by conditions such as osteoarthritis. Offering home visits from our clinics in Wheathampstead & Harpenden.
Contact: 01582 383580. Email: admin@ajphysio.co.uk
Dawn to Dusk UK – : This group is for people involved in providing care for someone else, a chance to relax and chat with other carers. An independent social and self-help group for carers in and around St Albans. We meet on Thursdays at 11:00am, Charles Morris Hall, Tyttenhanger Green, AL4 0RN.
Website: https://www.dawn2dusk.uk/contact/
Communities 1st Services – : Offering a range of services for local residents:
The Community Kitchen : sBringing the community together with food’ friendship and kindness. Enjoy a 3-course meal, freshly cooked, pay what you can, everyone welcome. Contact: Maria 01727 207818, Email: kitchen@chapelhub.co.uk
Age UK Herfordshire : Offering many essential services for Older Adults
Harpenden Helping Hand – a local charity offering practical help to those in need, transport to medical appointments, collecting prescriptions, shopping and companionship.
Contact: 01582 764599.
Small Acts of Kindness – Distributing ‘Warm in Winter’ gift bags which contain essential, practical, keep warm items as well as a ‘Purple Pages Information Pack’ of literature that signposts older people to relevant activities and services. Gift Bags are available FREE to anyone over 55 in Hertfordshire. To receive a gift bag email: giftbags@smallactsofkindness.co.uk
Harpenden Lions Club – Supporting local charities and organisations with fundraising, always looking for new volunteers to join and help charities eg: Crisis, AT society, Marie Curie, Mencap, Carers in Herts etc.
Contact: 0345 833 7426 Email: info@harpenden-lions.co.uk
Dementia Support from HertsHelp – : Information and advice, groups and one to one support, dementia awareness training. For more information call HertsHelp on 0300 123 4044 Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm and Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Email: info@hertshelp.net
Alzheimer’s Society – : Dementia Support Workers offer information and practical guidance to help you understand the condition, cope with day-to-day challenges, and prepare for the future. Provides a face-to-face, over the phone or email service.
Contact: 01707 378365 Email: central.herts@alzheimers.org.uk
Music for My Mind – : Personal playlists for Dementia Care. Automatically generates a playlist of personally meaningful music in 25 minutes. Songs can bring back treasured memories and provide powerful well-being benefits for people living with dementia and memory loss. Music can reduce anxiety and depression.
Lions Club – : Emergency Information Scheme. Offering a FREE ‘Message in your Wallet’ medical cards and/or a FREE ‘Message in a bottle’ to store in your fridge, recording all your medical information, just in case of an emergency. Our emergency services know to check the fridge when they see the stickers. Available from doctor’s surgeries, local health centres and chemists. Call 0845 833 9502 for more info.
Mind in Mid Herts – : Open to people who are both experiencing mental health problems and want to source support for their recovery and ALSO to prevent people from becoming unwell. Visit their website for a variety of resources, workshops and courses.
Call : 03303 208100 for more info. Email: admin@mindinmidherts.org.uk
Samaritans – : Whatever you’re going through, a Samaritan will face it with you. They’re there 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Call : 116 123 for more info. Email: jo@samaritans.org
H’arts in Mind Art Hub & Gallery – : A safe space to view local art with displays being changed regularly. Free Drop-In sessions: Sketchbook drop in 1st & 3rd Thursday of every month at 11.30 and Mindful Zentangle on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of every month between 2.00 and 3.30. Collage Club on 1st Sunday of every month at 1.30 with Fran with a charge of: £10.00. Wheelchair friendly. Email: hartsinmind@gmail.com
Healing Emotions – : Providing a ’paid for’ service where we use ’Emotional Freedom Technique‘ (EFT) or tapping to help with anxiety, pain management, bereavement and loss, depression, stress, weight loss and much more. Call : 07793 202360 for more info. Email: julie@healingemotions.co.uk
St Albans and District Shop Mobility – : Giving the permanently and temporarily disabled people of the district independence. Free daily loans of electric scooters and manual wheelchairs. Longer term wheelchair hire from £1 a day.
Call : 01727 819339 for more info. Email: stalbansshopmobility@hotmail.co.uk
Borrow Box. eBooks and eAudiobooks online or with the library app. Download from Google Play Store or Apple App Store or visit: www.borrowbox.comPlease follow this link for further information.
Talking Newspaper – : For people who can’t see well enough to read the local newspaper but want to keep in touch with their community. A FREE weekly service of recording of news from the local press. Plus, features, interviews and more! Delivered online or delivered FREE by Royal Mail.
Email: nfo@sadtn.org.uk
The Audio Biographers – : A paid service to preserve your memories and stories to be listened to by your loved ones, now and in the future. For more information contact Caroline Pearce.
Email: carolinepearce@audiobiographers.co.uk Phone : 07976 576883
Computer Friendly drop-in centre – : FREE sessions, staffed with friendly and experienced technical volunteers, who will help you find a solution to your Windows, Apple or Android issues. Sessions are held at The Salvation Army Halls, Leyton Road, Harpenden on Wednesdays from 10:00 to 12:30 AND at the Harpenden Trust Halls, 90 Southdown Road, Harpenden on Thursdays 10:00 to 12:30.
Email: admin@cfsta.org Phone : 01727 617359
Active Ageing – : Offering 10 to 3 clubs. For socialising, enjoying live entertainment, joining in activities, enjoying a hot meal with friends on a weekly basis. For locations, please call : 01462 420911 Monday to Friday from 9am to 4:30pm (Hertfordshire Community Foundation.
Email: grants@hertscf.org.uk.
Clover Singing Group – : a not-for-profit club for mostly semi-retired/retired ladies to meet up each week to sing and enjoy a laugh together. We offer free taster sessions. Contact Charlotte: : 07791 741233, Email: cloversingingclub@gmail.com for more information
Harpenden Intergenerational Choir – : Held at the fully accessible Salvation Army Halls in Harpenden, The Intergenerational Choir is open to all. Meeting every Tuesday except the 1st Tuesday of every month at 12:45 to 13:30. For more information call 01582 768278 or visit the town council’s website https://www.harpenden.gov.uk/intergenerational-choir.
Harpenden Art Club, Art for All – : Held at the fully accessible Salvation Army Halls in Harpenden every Thursday from 19:30 to 21:30. Offering an inclusive, lively and friendly programme for all abilities.
Email: info.hac2018@gmail.com.
The Arts Society – : their aim to promote the knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of the arts through a stimulating programme of lectures.
Email: theartshe@gmail.com.
Harpenden Bowling Club – : Have fun playing bowls and a full range of social activities.
Email: secretary@harpendenbowlingclub.co.uk.
The Culture Trust, Luton – : FREE puppet workshops for adults in Luton. Running from January to March 2024. Adults of all ages and all abilities welcome. For more information and to register contact: Caroline at : caroline.simon@luton.gov.uk.
Oaklands College – : Adult Leisure Courses. Includes sewing, drawing, photography, cookery, languages, getting to grips with your smartphone, Staying Safe online and more! Call: : 01727 737154, Email: acl@oaklands.ac.uk for more information
The Well Bean Café, run by the Harpenden Trust – : A community café service drinks and cakes daily, Monday to Friday from 10:30 to 12:30. All welcome and payment is by donation.
u3a Harpenden – : meet monthly at the Harpenden Trust Hall with a guest speaker and 20 other interest groups to choose from that meet regularly either in peoples homes or designated meeting places, to find out more: phone Judith: : 07593 579415, Email: harpenden.u3a@virginmedia.com for more information
Hertfordshire Libraries – : Running regular events in Hertfordshire libraries, some of which have been created to combat social isolation.
Kingfisher Club – : Dementia Fun Clubs are welcoming and engaging, with every session offering a mix of activities, afternoon tea and more! Open Monday to Wednesday from 10am to 3pm in St Albans. , please call : 07747 286194 Email: dementia@hils-uk.org.
Art for Dementia – : FREE art workshop offering company, a chat with a cup of tea or coffee while expressing yourself through visual art. Held at the Caledon Club on the second Wednesday of every month during term time only. For more information, please contact Samantha at contact@samanthahurleyart.com.
Singing for Memory – : Singing café sessions on Mondays from 14:00 to 15:30 at St Albans Masorti Synagogue. Participants must be accompanied, and a small fee is payable however the first session is a free taster session. Booking is required. For more information, please contact Pauline on 07939 118964 or Lu on : 07900 696128 emailsingingformemory@e-sams.org.
Herts Musical Memories – : Sessions incorporate gentle seated exercise to music, voice and breathing exercises, an eclectic mix of songs, simple rounds and partner songs that are dementia focused. Held in 9 locations across Hertfordshire including Wheathamptsead and St Albans. For more information email admin@hertsmusicalmemories.org.uk or call : 0208 950 5757
Bringing Memories to Life with Hertfordshire Libraries – : The Reminiscence Collection can stimulate the sharing of happy memories, as part of one-to-one conversations or group activities. You can borrow up to 30 items for 3 weeks. For further information libraries.communityservices@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Memory Lane Café – : Held at the fully accessible Salvation Army Halls in Harpenden on Mondays (Except Bank Holidays) from 14:00 to 15:30. Offering a place for anyone living with dementia and their loved ones to enjoy a cup of tea and a piece of cake whilst taking part (or not) in an offered activity (FREE). No booking required.
The above information is to help the user pinpoint where they may be able to find help and support in the community. It is your responsibility to make your own enquiries and any decisions regarding using any of the above organisations/companies. Nannies 4 Grannies Ltd does not accept any responsibility whatsoever.
We regularly update the above information; however, the content of this document is liable to change, therefore where the information is correct at print, people’s names or contact details may alter over time.
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