Blackburn and Darwen Carers Service
Your local charity supporting family and friends who are carers for a loved one.
Services on offer
- Face to face 1 to 1 support with experienced advisors
- An open-door service for as long as you need us
- Benefits advice and form filling
- Counselling
- Complimentary therapies
- Activities, trips and events (subsidised, small charges may apply)
- Dementia support and information workshops
- Life after caring workshops - support when caring ends
- Support for families who are affected by someone else's drug or alcohol use
- Young Adult Carers support for carers aged 16 to 25
- Wellbeing and mental health support
- Craft and social groups
- Befriending
- Volunteering opportunities
Plus much more...
Blackburn with Darwen Carers Service, Kingsway, Greenhurst Place, Blackburn BB2 1NA
There when you need us on 01254 688440
Email: office@bwdcarers.org.uk
www.bwdcacrers.org.uk
Carers Registration Form
Drug and Alcohol Support
Lasting Power of Attorney Filing Service
Support for young adult carers
What's On Activities
Counselling Services
Offering family carers a safe and confidential space in which to explore your thoughts, feelings or difficulties with no judgment.
The Carers Service offer up to 8 sessions. Each session is one hour and the sessions are arranged weekly. This takes commitment to attend all the sessions.
Our counsellors and counsellors in training are members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Telephone 01254 688440 or email for further details office@bwdcarers.org.uk
Benefits
Are you a family Carer struggling to understand the benefits maze?
We can support you and the person you care for with the following:
- General benefits advice
- A benefits check
- Advice on what benefits you be entitled to
- Support to claim disability benefits and Carers allowance
- Help to complete the forms
- Support to challenge decisions if Benefits have been refused
Our staff are bilingual so can also support carers who speak Punjabi or Urdu
www.bwdcarers.org.uk
Tel: 01254 688440