Community Care Special Interest Group
Group AimsActivities
- Communion to the Housebound
- Special Celebrations of the Sacrament of the Sick
- Eucharist Celebrated in Nursing and Residential Homes
- Wednesday Welcome
- Pastoral visiting
- OAP Lunches
- Whist Drive
See also:
Age Concern (Epsom
and Ewell)
Christmas Alone
The Compassionate Friends
The Handshake Club
HMP High Down
The Samaritans
Transport Provision
Home-Start
Route Call
The Beginning
Experience - for those who've lost a partner
Diocesan page about Social
Concerns
The Handshake Club
The Handshake needs help! Can you spare a Saturday afternoon
to go on a rota to play games, do puzzles, etc. at a community
home for 8 ladies in Ashtead? Your help would only be required
a few times during the year. Please contact Maureen Schumacher
(via the Parish Office) for further
details.
Christmas Alone
If you are going to be alone on Christmas Day, you are very
welcome to come to the Christmas lunch at Epsom Methodist Church
Hall from 12.30pm to 4pm. Transport can be arranged. Please
pray for this annual venture and for the guests. If you would
like to help, please contact Carol Stringer (via Epsom Methodist
Church). Click here
for more information.
The Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends is a nationwide organisation of bereaved
parents offering help and support to other bereaved parents.
Each year they hold a non-denominational Christmas Candlelight
Service. In 1999 this service was held at St John's Church,
Tadworth.
HMP High Down
HMP High Down is currently looking for volunteers who would
like to come in to the prison on Sundays to pray and worship
with us in the RC Chaplaincy in High Down Prison. If you can
speak French or Spanish that will be extra helpful. Anyone interested
please contact Sr Magdelene Ubogu at the prison on 020 8643
0063.
Home-Start
Home-Start provides parent volunteers who help other parents
with young children who are finding it hard to cope. This organisation
is active in the Epsom and Ewell area. Phone: 01737 379902 or
see their website www.home-start.org.uk.
Route Call
Route Call (or Dial-a-Ride) is a local transport service for residents in the Borough of Epsom and Ewell who are:
aged 60 and overThe service operates Monday to Friday between 8.45am and 4.45pm. It is a door-to-door service taking you wherever you need to go within the Borough. Some parishioners already use it to come to weekday Mass. They operate 8 vehicles, most adapted for wheelchair passengers. There is a membership form (available from the Parish Office) which should be completed and returned to the Route Call office at Epsom Town Hall. The telephone booking lines are open between the hours of 8.30am and 1.00pm and payment is made to the driver. Fuller details are available from the Parish Office.orhave difficulty in using public transportorare mobility impaired
If you plan to come to a weekday Mass, why not consider offering a lift to someone who would welcome the opportunity to get to weekday Mass and who would otherwise not be able to come. (extract from Newsletter 2001)