Service Area: OAP / Vulnerable People

Southampton Sunday Lunch Project (charity no. 1040275) -- is for all those that need a Sunday Lunch in a warm, welcoming, friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Just come to one of our locations on Sunday (Woolston, Northam, Freemantle) and enjoy lunch. It is totally free, no booking, no referral or name is required. Our regular lunch guests are adults only, some are working or retired but in need of support and company, some have temporarily fallen on difficult times, some are temporarily without a suitable home and some need a good lunch and company. Collect your Sunday packed lunch box between 11am-12:30pm...

Want to connect with other people and get connected online? Want to  video call with friends or family, join facebook, go along to an online art exhibition, or craft and chatter group, or join a peer support zoom call or an online chat, but not sure how to? It's a great way to feel connected when you can't get along to groups or get out and about. Give us a call and one of our Southampton volunteers will be happy to help. Know someone else who could use this help? Give them our number or with their permission send us their...

Many cancer patients have had treatments cancelled, delayed, reduced and altered because of the potential threat of catching coronavirus but also because they did actually contract the virus. The psychological impact of shielding will be significant. People have had to receive bad news and had protracted stays in hospital acutely unwell without loved ones. At home many people are developing significant anxiety and depression as result of shielding and are already very frightened of adjusting to life after lockdown. Many people have felt very vulnerable about the reminder of cancer even though their cancer was treated years ago. As a...

Assistance to People with Sight Loss During COVID-19 Pandemic Guide Dogs have put together some suggestions about basic communication principles to consider when interacting with people with sight loss. The does not replace or override general guidance or policies in relation to supporting people during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is intended to support those who are working or volunteering with blind and partially sighted people for the first time. Sight loss is more common than you think Some blind and partially sighted people will already be known by various agencies. For example, they may be on the council’s sight loss...

Connect 4 Summer- We are providing 10 free childcare sessions to families in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM) with working parents. Please contact the providers directly. Children must be aged 5 and older. You will be required to provide proof of FSM.

Healthy Headspace is a online group for anyone who wants to chat about ways to encourage a positive outlook and healthy thinking.  We meet via Zoom at 9.30 – 10.15 am every Friday. To get the Zoom details phone or text Astrid Vaswani 07952 904052

City Catering Southampton are an independent charitable company that operate Southampton City Councils Meals on Wheels service. We support our customer’s independence by ensuring they receive a nutritious hot meal straight to their door, complete with welfare checks. We can also deliver a afternoon tea, consisting of a sandwich, cake and a yogurt, delivered with your hot meal. On Fridays, we deliver additional frozen meals for the weekend if needed. We will also provide additional meals over the Bank Holiday weekends. Tailored menus We serve a wide variety of meals, tailored to the individual needs of our customers. All meals...

A message from Jo Ash, SVS CEO We hope you all unfurled your flags and billowed your bunting, enjoyed the VE Day bank holiday and sang ‘We’ll Meet Again’ with vim and vigour last weekend.   I wish it could have been joined by ‘Pack up your Troubles’  but fear we may though be feeling slightly more confused about when and how either might happen following the PM’s announcements on Sunday.  This has shifted the message slightly, relaxed the rules a bit about what we can all do and when things will be opening up, so we will all need to...

A message from Jo Ash, SVS CEO Dear Colleagues, Friday’s Bank Holiday commemorates VE Day – 75 years since the ending of WW2 hostilities in Europe – and our current challenges in the battle against Covid 19 perhaps give us a brief insight into the relief and joy that must have been felt as the immediate anxiety and fear for loved ones and self lifted for the generations that faced those dreadful events. The war though was not entirely over and, before that conflict’s peace could truly be celebrated on VJ Day on 15th August 1945, there were further trials...