If you need medical help, please follow the guidance on the NHS Inform website. Do not go directly to your GP, hospital or other healthcare environment. If you are at higher risk of severe illness and you need help with food or medicine deliveries, you should contact your Council's shielding support service.
A new national helpline has been set up to provide essential assistance to those who do not have family or existing community support, who cannot leave their home and cannot get online, but who are at high risk of contracting COVID-19. Please contact 0800 111 4000 or read further information.
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We would like to invite you to use our "Salute" app to create a communication environment for volunteers and people in need of help.
"Salute!" is the voice messenger, works like a walkie-talkie: chat with everyone who is nearby (~10-15 km), with friends only or send messages to users directly.…
We can help families of all shapes and sizes during 24/7 isolation/lock down with emotional, relationship and poor mental health support plus where one or more person is really struggling we can help with individual counselling to help you get through this. We have many young people who have lost s…
Weekly grocery shopping delivery to older people at home - either by our volunteer teams delivering via Food Train vans or by matching with a local volunteer in your community.
Meal Makers meal-sharing - matching you with a volunteer in your community who will cook and deliver an extra portion of d…
Citizens Advice Rights and Fife (CARF for short) is an independent charity that provides free expert advice and assistance to help you resolve your problems – no matter what these are ( e.g. Benefits, Welfare, Employment, Consumer, Debt). We cover the Fife area only. To find your nearest Citizens Ad…
Local Services
Although our local hubs are closed, OPFS is still supporting hundreds of single parents in each of the communities where we have services. We know that coping with the current crisis is having a devastating impact on families, so we have ramped up our information and advice services…
Signposting to shopping, cooking and isolation support;
Meal support for vulnerable vegans and vegetarians;
Grants to support independent living;
Nutrition during self-isolation;
Self-isolation survival guide;
Veggie pen- and phone-pals scheme;
Mature Vegans and Veggies UK Facebook page.
guidance aiming to help everyone in the fundraising community have the right information on the coronavirus outbreak. This includes a series of blogs from THINK Consulting Solutions on how to navigate fundraising against the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak, more general guidance around its impa…
Emotional support to parents, especially lone parents. Connecting families through virtual groups and social media to share ideas and activities. We can also connect families to services and resources.
Telephone support to ensure they have what they need at this time eg shopping, prescription …. we can help find the local service to suit them. Isolation and loneliness support over the telephone.
