Mission and Aims
The mission of the Caring Community Circle (CCC) of the NFA (New Findhorn Association) is to provide resources and coordinate services for care in the community.
The aims are to:
- Be a link between individuals with needs (or potential needs) and the NFA Council
- Provide information/education on the Curriculum for the 4th Age (skills and resources relevant for the stage of dependence)
- Create a culture of mutual support through encouraging the establishment of Buddy Networks for individuals and strengthen those networks as and when required
- Facilitate care in community in the many aspects necessary – accommodation, care workers and volunteers, funding, social inclusion, links with social work and health care services
- Hold custodianship and facilitate use of the ‘Community Care Fund’
Hands-on Care in Community
- People Awareness – holding vulnerable people in the community
- Facilitating, providing or coordinating care at home for community members
- Facilitating Findhorn Careworkers
Social, spiritual and educational activities
Some of these are not available whilst COVID restrictions are in place
- NFA liaison to embed the CCC in the community structures
- Curriculum for the 4th Age workshops
- Weekly exercise class
- Film discussions (bi-weekly)
- Social inclusion community structures incl. multi-generational co-housing
- Buddy system for personal support
- Minding-the-Gap : Youngers and Olders meet in intergenerational events
Contact Information
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Caring Community Co-ordinatorLaura ShreenanMobile 07486 401 655
Resources
- Community Care Fund.pdf to supplement statutory care funding
- Equipment for Loan (hoist, wheelchair, rolator etc) contact the CCC Co-ordinator Laura Shreenan for any further information or need for equipment (details below)
- Findhorn Careworkers – paid carers to support care at home (cultural shift to create sustainable work and care provision)
- Caring Community Newsletters (No. 2 = MARCH 2022)
Related Pages
- CCC Mission and Aims – in more detail
- Looking after Our Own – a brief history of health and social care in the Findhorn Foundation Community
find the full report NFA GatherIn 2018 Award: People Care GatherIn 2018 final report
and the full report from the NFA GatherIn 2019 Award here:CCCGatherIn 2019 final report - Curriculum for the 4th Age – summary
- Notes from the Curriculum of the Fourth Age
- How to Train Your Carer – article
- 4th Age Film list (CCC owned only) .pdf for download
- 2015 Community Care Circle .docx = more detailed document for download
- Tara Approach resources
revised 27 February 2022