This is a series of community cafés, in Sherburn, Tadcaster and Selby, aimed at older people and people with disabilities.
Themes
- Prevention
- Support
- Reducing isolation
- Older people
- People with disabilities
Locality
Selby district
Aims
Our main aims are:
- To provide easy-access activities and support in a café-style atmosphere, offering clients the time to relax, enjoy light refreshments, and to reflect and share experiences with both peers and professionals;
- To run the café with an ethos that facilitates peer support amongst clients accessing the services; and
- To reduce social isolation, and improve mental health and well-being for all clients, thereby preventing the need to access other services.
Details
This is a series of community cafés, in Sherburn, Tadcaster and Selby, aimed at older people and people with disabilities, including those with learning disabilities, or experiencing low-level emotional and/or mental health issues. We have an open-door policy, which means you can come in any time we are open. You are welcome to call in socially for refreshments and a chat.
We also offer a monthly programme of activities, delivered in partnership with a range of local services, for example:
Activity sessions
- Exercise to music
- Arts & crafts
- Sewing (adult learning)
- Movie afternoons
- "Getting to know you"
- Games afternoons
- Quizzes
Practical/advice sessions
- Get "mobile" - useful numbers
- Home safety
- Fire safety
- Fun with computers
- Benefits advice/maximise your income
- Potential 4 skills workshops
- Community officers drop-ins
- Get "online"
- Debt/money management
- Confidence building
- Safe social media
- Volunteering workshops
- Doorstep callers campaign
- Police drop-ins
- Healthy eating
- Hate crime information sessions
- Library services information sessions
- Basic cookery
- Abuse awareness
- First aid
Although there is a monthly programme of activities, one-off support will also be provided where needed. This could include:
- Help to read and understand letters;
- Help to fill in forms;
- Help to contact other relevant agencies;
- Advice with issues around home maintenance and self care; or
- Identifying appropriate agencies to provide specialist support or healthcare, and assisting with access to these.
How will this case study improve health and reduce health inequalities?
Our intended outcomes for clients are:
- Reduced social isolation, and increased support networks having been explored and established;
- Increased independence and reduced reliance on services;
- Reduced fear and increased awareness of abuse, and how to stay safe;
- Improved health and wellbeing;
- Improved confidence and self-esteem;
- Improved quality of life;
- Increased participation in leisure activities, informal learning, work-like activities and volunteering;
- Increased awareness of and engagement with other services and community facilities; and
- Increased employability and access to paid work.
Contact details
Hannah Brown, manager
Horton Community Café
Tel: 07525 667905
Email: communitycafe@hortonhousing.co.uk
Web: http://www.hortonhousing.co.uk/
