Your Tesco shop can help Unpaid Carers, just by collecting a blue token and popping it in the 'Imago Community' pot. We will receive an amazing £1,500 to provide Unpaid Carers with creative activities if we gain the most tokens!

This year, Carers Rights Day is on Thursday 21st November, and the theme is recognising your rights.

Congratulations to the residents representing the London Borough of Lewisham managed to finish in 4th place at the annual Better Club Games, beating their 18th place last year.

Cllr Laura Cunningham explains how we’re improving support for Unpaid Carers.

Saturday 20th July 10am to 2pm at Bellingham Family Hub

The sessions will be available every day except Sundays, between 1 and 2pm from the 15th July to the 27thJuly.

The Lewisham Afya Community Champions Program cordially invites Lewisham residents to the Skip Diabetes workshop on Monday, 15th July 2024. The event will be held at the Honor Oak Community Centre, 50 Turnham Road, Brockley, SE4 2JD, from 1 pm to 3 pm.

Amrit Kaur Rai is looking to speak to Punjabi Sikh caregivers as part of her doctoral research to help improve services and experiences for families.

Lewisham Local are hosting a free online Healthy Start briefing session with Citizens Advice Southwark on Monday 24^th of June.

By Matthew McKenzie FRSA BEM - Author, poet, and carer activist.

We are delighted to announce that Imago has partnered with local charity Create to offer art sessions for Unpaid Adult Carers who are registered with our Maximising Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers service in Lewisham

The next Carer’s Forum will run on Tuesday, 25th of June 2024, from 13:00 – 15:00 at the Civic Suite or via Microsoft Teams.

2.3 millionworkers with unpaid caring responsibilities in Great Britain will be entitled to take up to five days unpaid leave when the new Carer’s Leave Act came into force on Saturday 6 April 2024.

This campaign for this year's carer’s week is ‘Putting Carers on the Map', aiming to heighten unpaid carers' visibility in health and social care avenues and ensure that unpaid carers’ voices are duly heard.

The Glass Mill Leisure Centre at 41 Loampit Vale, SE13 7FT is the base for our new Carers Hub where you can access support and advice.

Matthew McKenzie is an unpaid carer and advocate for the health and wellbeing of unpaid carers.

Matthew McKenzie is an unpaid carer and advocate for the health and wellbeing of unpaid carers.

Imago is looking to engage with unpaid carers from different areas, situations, and circumstances whose care recipients are based in the Borough of Lewisham.

Just before Christmas 2021, my then 56-year-old husband had a stroke and our lives as we knew it, flew out of the window.

Matthew McKenzie is an unpaid carer and advocate for the health and wellbeing of unpaid carers. Here, he tells his story.