Support Services
Morning Call is a charity based in Inverness, set up in 1989 to deliver a free daily call service to any older people experiencing isolation and loneliness, they also offer a housebound library service.
Do you need a Listening Ear? Phone CCC for a one off or regular Listening Ear call. Phone 07908402344 or email listeningear@culduthelchristiancentre.org. They are there to listen and support you in whatever you’re going through.
Re-engage bring older people together into social groups at a time in their lives when their social circles are diminishing.
Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland (CBCS) exists to promote the well-being of bereaved people in Scotland. They seek to help anyone experiencing bereavement to understand their grief and cope with their loss.
Age scotland friendship line is open 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday 0800 12 44 222.
AbilityNet's IT provides free IT support to older people and people with disabilities of any age. Their volunteers can support people located anywhere in the UK and can help with all sorts of IT (information technology) challenges, from setting up new equipment, fixing technical issues, showing you how to stay connected to family and use online services.
“We live in a time where to have a life crammed to the hilt is considered a success story. But with all this pressure, so many of us have nowhere to go to meet and talk about it. Frazzled Cafe is about people coming together to share their stories, calmly sitting together, stating their case and feeling validated as a result. Feeling heard, to me, has always been half the cure.”
— Ruby Wax, OBE
James Support Group are starting up bereaved through suicide support groups in Thurso, Nairn, Dingwall, Aviemore and Invergordon, as well as their group in Inverness. These groups will run once per month – Information via their website.
Citizens Advice Consumer Service offers advice over the phone or email, and through the self-help website.
Highland Hospice Adult Bereavement Services are now available to all those bereaved by the death of a family member or friend.
Enquiries can be made to Ruth Foster, Bereavement Officer, on 07709 717586 or email bereavement@highlandhospice.org.uk.
The National Charity for the elderly, the terminally ill and their pets.
A network of 17,000 volunteers “hold hands” with owners to provide vital loving care for their pets. They keep them together – for example, walk a dog every day for a housebound owner, foster pets when owners need hospital care, fetch the cat food, or even clean out the bird cage, etc.
Highland Hospice aims to support people, their families and carers, living with an advancing, life shortening illness in the Highlands to live the best possible life and to prepare for and experience the best possible death. By managing pain and other physical symptoms, they help make time and space for reflection, for gaining perspective and for achieving a measure of calm and tranquillity.
Here 2 Help is a Befriending Project run by Badenoch and Strathspey Community Transport Company. Befrienders can visit you for an hour or two each week in your own home, or they can accompany you out and about. Telephone befrienders are also available to call you each week for a chat. Telephone julie on 01479 810004 or email julie@ct4u.co.uk
Befriending service to support isolated and lonely individuals living in the Glens and villages across Glen Urquhart, Strathglass and the surround Beauly area. The befriending service is free and matches volunteers with individuals who would like support through regular face to face visits and or meetings. It is open to all ages with the specific aim of addressing isolation and loneliness. Telephone – 01456 459 077Email – befriender@glenurquhartcareproject.org
