Connecting Unpaid Carers Across Lewisham
Welcome to Connecting Unpaid Carers Across Lewisham. Here you will find the latest news and information around your rights and caring role. We also invite you to share your personal experiences and views to help others who may be in a similar situation.
Read our latest newsletter
Imago Carers Newsletter:
- Issue 4 - May: Click here to read
- Issue 3 - March: Click here to read
- Issue 2 - January: Click here to read
- Issue 1 - December: Click here to read
If you would like to have your story or thoughts or offer of support included in our newsletter and website, please email our news team on: lewishamunpaidcarers@imago.community
Latest News
You are Invited to the Skip Diabetes Workshop
12 Jul 2024
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.
Are you a Punjabi Sikh caring for an adult relative with cancer?
09 Jul 2024
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.
Free Healthy Start Briefing - Join Online
14 Jun 2024
Lewisham Local are hosting a free online Healthy Start briefing session with Citizens Advice Southwark on Monday 24th of June.
Carers week - A chance for carers to be placed on the map
05 Jun 2024
By Matthew McKenzie FRSA BEM - Author, poet, and carer activist.
Creative workshops for Unpaid Carers in Lewisham
05 Jun 2024
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
Join the Lewisham Carers Forum
30 May 2024
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 .
Spotlight on the Carers Leave Act
30 May 2024
2.3 million workers 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.
Join us to celebrate Carers Week 2024 in Lewisham 10th - 15th June in the Glass Mill Leisure Centre
30 May 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.
Drop-in and access support at our Carers Hub
30 May 2024
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 receives the British Empire Medal
30 May 2024
Matthew McKenzie is an unpaid carer and advocate for the health and wellbeing of unpaid carers.
Carer's Stories
Matthew McKenzie receives the British Empire Medal
30 May 2024
Matthew McKenzie is an unpaid carer and advocate for the health and wellbeing of unpaid carers.
Join our Work Together Panel
30 May 2024
Imago is looking to engage with unpaid carers from different areas, situations, and circumstances whose care recipients are based in the Borough of Lewisham.
My personal story of being a carer by Barbara O'Conner
30 May 2024
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's Story
30 May 2024
Matthew McKenzie is an unpaid carer and advocate for the health and wellbeing of unpaid carers. Here, he tells his story.
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