Tag: Hearts and Minds

What Do I Need?: Carers Voices

Hearts & Minds charity launched their short film What Do I Need?: Carers Voices online yesterday. 

This is the culmination of their PLAY COPE CARE Workshop Project for carers at home, which they developed developed with carers organisations across Scotland, and with funding from BUPA UK Foundation.  

Speakers at the event were Kaye Ramage, Glasgow East End Community Carers, Claire Baker-Mosley, Head ofCommunity at BUPA UK Foundation and Rachel Colles, Project Lead for Hearts & Minds.  

Hearts & Minds shared their new short film created with carers from Glasgow East End Community Carers who talked about their own personal experiences and thoughts of being a carer at home for a person living with dementia or chronic illness.  

Hearts & Minds also shared the outcomes from the Play Cope Care project and discussed their programmes for people living with dementia and their carers. 

Carers have had to face unimaginable adversity over the last year. Isolation, loneliness, lack of support and vital services as well as feelings of feeling forgotten by society have been acute during the pandemic.

Through conversations with carers groups, Hearts & Minds realised that they wanted to make something to make carers feel seen and heard, for their feelings to be validated, for their resilience and playfulness in the face of extreme adversity to be celebrated, and for their huge contribution to society to be recognised. 

The film is based on Hearts & Minds Play Cope Care workshops for unpaid carers and features the voices of the carers.

The film is available to carers organisations to share and provide 6 minutes of respite to carers who might be feeling alone, at a loss or invisible and act as a reminder they are connected to a huge network of remarkable people who know exactly what they are going through. 

The launch of this film is timely as we approach Carers Week 2021, 7 – 13 June.

Link to Play Cope Care Workshop info:

https://www.heartsminds.org.uk/carers/

Edinburgh charity Hearts & Minds selected as Charity of the Year by Raeburn Construction & Training

Hearts & Minds, the award-winning Edinburgh charity, is delighted to have been selected by leading Fife companies Raeburn Construction & Raeburn Training as their Charity of the Year for 2021.

Over the next year the two companies, owned by Scott and Sarah Raeburn, are planning to undertake a number of live and virtual fundraising events involving the staff and their families to support the work of Hearts & Minds and the Clowndoctors & Elderflowers.

Their first breath-taking challenge is going to be an adrenalin packed 40m bungee jump off a bridge in Killiecrankie, Perthshire!

Raeburn Construction has been operating since May 2006, is based in Kirkcaldy and operates mainly in Edinburgh and Fife providing a groundwork civil engineering service to main contractors besides working with housebuilders and developers fulfilling full build projects.

Raeburn Training was launched in August 2019, it is also based in Kirkcaldy and provides Health and Safety training across all industry types and also specialises in construction safety training.  Clients include companies, candidates and the employability sectors, assisting candidates gain essential skills to gain employment, a very rewarding part of our business.

Both companies are operated with a family feel and aim to provide a good place for employees to work and be part of a growing successful company. This is why the work of the charity felt like the perfect fit to work together over the next year.

The Clowndoctors and Elderflowers use the art of therapeutic clowning to bring magic, joy and laughter into the everyday lives of children facing long-term medical conditions and people living with dementia developing meaningful human connections in times of adversity.

They currently deliver all visits virtually into homes, classrooms and care homes across Scotland.

Scott and Sarah Raeburn, Directors said: “We have heard a lot about Hearts & Minds and appreciate the challenges of continuing charity work at this time. Both Sarah and I have a friend whose daughter has experienced first hand the joy of a visit from the clowns whilst at the Sick Kids Hospital, Edinburgh and she spoke very highly of the difference it made to her daughter’s day.

“The simplicity of making someone smile or laugh everyday was inspiring.”

Rebecca Simpson, CEO Hearts & Minds commented: “Hearts & Minds is absolutely delighted to be chosen by Raeburn Construction and Raeburn Training, it is a tough time for charities and even more so for the people we connect with in hospitals, hospices, and care homes.

“This support is invaluable and will help us reach more people through our Clowndoctor and Elderflower programmes.  We look forward to developing our relationship with the Raeburn team and we are excited about working with them on their fundraising campaigns.”

For more information on Raeburn Training visit https://www.raeburntraining.co.uk/

For more information on Raeburn Construction visit https://www.raeburnconstruction.co.uk/