Community Voluntary Service
Burnham u3a is a member of Maldon & District Community Voluntary Service, a charity which aims to support communities across the Maldon district. I recently attended a networking event on behalf of our committee, and made contact with various organisations dedicated to supporting our local communities. Many of you will already know about these organisations, but even if you so, you may find it useful to have their details (below) to pass on to friends and family if appropriate. Or you may feel like exploring opportunities to volunteer with them.
Pete Wardle
Social Supermarket
(website; phone: 01621 851891; email: admin@maldoncvs.org.uk)
Carers First
(website; helpline: 0300 303 1555; email: hello@carersfirst.org.uk)
Carers First works directly with and for carers, providing personalised information and tailored support in the way that suits them, helping them find balance and to live their lives to the fullest.
Among the events run by Carers First is a monthly group that meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month from 10.30am-1pm at the United Reformed Church, 52 Station Road, Burnham CM0 8HF. All carers are welcome.
Action for Family Carers
(website; phone: 0300 770 8090; email care@affc.org.uk)
Action for Family Carers is a charity which offers information, advice, support, counselling, activities and respite day care to carers who provide unpaid help and support to a partner, child, relative, friend or neighbour who could not manage otherwise.
Citizens Advice
(website; phone: 01621 875774; email: via website)
Citizens Advice, an independent charity, provides free, high quality, independent information and advice on a wide range of subjects. Among the outcomes they achieve for people they help are: increasing income; appealing against incorrect benefit decisions; writing off unmanageable debt; preventing homelessness; helping people in fuel poverty or who have been treated unfairly.