Shared Lives South West has won a prestigious award in the Great South West Care Awards for 2012.  The award was announced on 16th November at a gala event in Bristol, presided over by the comedian Dom Joly.  This award event, part of the Great British Care Awards, was one of a series of regional [...]

Despite all the recent bad weather, for the 6th year in a row, the sun shone on Shared Lives South West at their annual summer picnic for Cornwall, held on the 24th June. 180 Shared Lives carers, family members, service users, supporters and staff joined in the event at Crealy Cornwall, near Wadebridge.  Despite some dark looking [...]

Shared Lives South West has been shortlisted as a national finalist in the National Government Opportunities (GO) Excellence in Public Procurement Awards 2012/13.  These awards recognise success and partnership in Government procurement, and Shared Lives South West is a finalist in the GO Best Service Award – Small Businesses/Third Sector. We were shortlisted after we made [...]

New film now available. Our new film, made for us by Biggerhouse FIlms, is now available for viewing on our website.  The film follows Pat and Roger Criddle and Kay Rhodes, a Shared Lives carer with Shared Lives South West.  Pat carers for Roger, who has dementia and now uses our Shared Lives service to [...]

During 2012, Shared Lives South West will be continuing to develop its work on Shared Lives and dementia. Our new short film – Pat and Roger’s story – NOW OUT! Made for us by Biggerhouse Film, it features Pat and her husband Roger, who has dementia.  Roger has regular breaks through Shared Lives South West [...]

Shared Lives South West would like to wish everyone a happy Christmas and very joyous and prosperous New Year. Our offices will be closed from Saturday  24th December until Wednesday 28th December.  The office will be open on the 28th, 29th and 30th of December.  The office will close for New Year from Saturday 30th [...]

Shared Lives South West is seeking 2-3 additional trustees to join its board.  The organisation has more than doubled in size since 2004 when it was set up, and has plans to do so again over the next three years.  The board therefore needs strengthening in both numbers and skills to help it through this [...]

Shared Lives in the south west region is getting a boost, with support from the Department of Health in the South West. The Department of Health is supporting the expansion of Shared Lives schemes across the South West region working with Shared Lives South West.  By raising awareness and increasing capacity the Department hopes that [...]

Shared Lives South West has been celebrating another milestone, having now exceeded 200 Shared Lives carer households. Jane Bell, chief executive commented: “we have been steadily increasing the capacity of the service over the years, and this is a great milestone achievement for the organisation.  When the organisation was set up in 2004 we had [...]

Shared Lives South West celebrated another successful year with its Shared Lives carers, the people who live and stay with them, staff, volunteers and supporters at a packed Annual Scheme meeting at the Trethorne Leisure Park near Launceston.  Held on Thursday 29th September, in glorious sunshine, over 130 people came from all across Devon and Cornwall to [...]

Shared Lives South West has launched its new website today!  Packed full of information, the website aims to give service users, prospective Shared Lives carers and family carers all the information they need about Shared Lives South West and Shared Lives services all in one place. The website also features Shared Lives TV, which shows [...]