Carers Hub

Haringey’s Carers Hub in Wood Green

The Carers Hub:

• gives carers a place where they can meet other unpaid carers - a relaxing space for carers to meet up over a cup of tea or coffee or to access the internet
• provides somewhere carers can access information and advice.

The Carers Hub can be found in Wood Green Central Library, on the ground floor near the entrance to the Library.

• Drop in sessions
• Activities at the Hub
• Planning your visit
• How organisations can book the space
• The Hub opening – what it means to carers

Drop in information and advice sessions for carers.

Drop-in sessions providing information, advice and support to all carers are held at the hub every Wednesday 10am - 1pm and every 3rd Thursday of the month 2pm - 4pm no appointment is necessary. The drop-ins are hosted by organisations funded by Haringey Council.

The Thursday drop-in will commence from the 15 March 2012.

Activities at the Hub

Carers requiring one-to-one support can make an appointment to meet with a carers support worker. Appointments are available at the hub on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am – 1pm. To make an appointment, please contact either the Mental Health Carers Support Association or the Black and Minority Ethnic Carers Support Service. The contact information is available in document in the attached files section below.

Appointments are available for all carers. Services available via an appointment with a carers support worker could include:

• advocacy,
• benefits advice,
• counselling and
• access to support groups.

The Dementia Café and a pampering and support group for Asian carers is also held at the hub on a monthly basis. For details of when the Café and support group is please refer to the document in the attached files section below.

From November, a housing information and advice session for unpaid carers will be held in the Hub on a trial basis. It will be held on the first Tuesday of the month in November and December 2012 and on the third Tuesday of the month in January 2013. A mixture of bookable appointments and a drop-in session will be available. Please see the flier in the attached files section for the details.

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Planning your visit

Outside of the drop-in sessions and other activities the hub is open to carers when Wood Green library is open:

• Monday to Friday: 8.45am to 7pm
• Saturday: 9am to 5pm
• Sunday: 12pm to 4pm

If you are planning on visiting the Hub, it may be best to call ahead to ensure that the room is available. Telephone: 020 8489 2780 or 2781.

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How organisations can book the space

If you are an organisation based in Haringey supporting unpaid carers and you would like to book the space, please download the booking guidance and booking form from the attached files section below. Complete and return the booking form to the address on the form.

If you would like a booking form to be posted to you, please contact Jennifer Layne on 020 8489 2293.

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The Hub opening – what it means to carers

To capture the celebration of the launch, Maggie Dain, a carer and a representative on Haringey’s Carers Partnership Board wrote the following poem.

The Hub Opening - 15 June 2011

It’s today!
But, of course, I got it wrong –
arrived too early, so now am vacant of purpose
and wondering how I can use the empty hour.
But it’s not empty – it’s full of life, both dead and alive –
books and people
what more can I want?
Books – yes – “the life blood of the master spirit”, as was once said –
that people come to, by chance or by design,
or miss, and that is a loss that should not happen –
when will our schools and human needs truly work for us all?
...
But The Hub still awaits opening – just one more half-hour!
I hope it will do everything we all hope it will:
a friendly place of meeting, sharing, finding, laughing, perhaps a little tearfully –
maybe hoping again that something can be supported
in lives sometimes too stressed for hope.
...
Yes, everything, that life’s about –
OK, so not everything,
but at least something, in some small, comforting way.

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Attached Files