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Each year, Market Drayton Community Enterprise organise two Health and Wellbeing events. This year’s dates are Wednesday 26th April and Wednesday 4th October. Safe Places Shropshire have decided to have their information stand at the event on Wednesday 26th April 2023 from 10am to 2 pm. We will have our leaflets, “help” cards and some […]
Safe Places Shropshire recently submitted an application to Grassroots Shropshire for funding to enable us to be more inclusive in our work. Although our Safe Place scheme covers the whole of Shropshire, the grant received cannot be used in Telford and Wrekin so we hope to be successful in a similar application to Grassroots Telford […]
Some of you may think Safe Places Shropshire team have been very quiet recently so we thought we would give you an update on the work we have achieved that may have gone unseen. This month we have signed up 8 new Safe Places and revisited a number who are already signed up. Sometimes we […]
Last year Safe Places Shropshire was invited to take part in an event being organised by Home Instead Senior Care at Newport and they have invited us to join in with another Dementia Wellbeing Event. On Friday 3rd March 2023, we will be at Dawley Town Hall, New Street, Dawley TF4 3JR from 10am to […]
Safe Places Shropshire is pleased to welcome you to our own dedicated website providing useful information about the Safe Places Shropshire community initiative. We hope you will find it very useful and easy to use. Our website can be used on desktops, laptops, Kindles and mobile phones. When deciding what we wanted from a website, […]
Safe Places Shropshire was invited to take part in an event being organised by Home Instead Senior Care at Newport on 19th October. The event showcased Dementia Awareness and the organisations that could assist in living with dementia. These organisations included: Admiral Nurses who support those living with dementia, PALZ (Professionals with Alzheimer’s), which is […]
As with everyone else, coming to terms with the “new normal” developing after lockdown, Safe Places found they could not return to the activities that had been planned pre-Covid. Fund raising was still curtailed as both the Princess Royal Hospital and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital were not allowing anyone to hold awareness days. Bucket collections […]
Like many other charities across the country, we were unable to continue promoting our Safe Places Shropshire initiative. We could not take part in car boot sales and bucket collections at supermarkets and hospitals were out of the question. The team were effectively grounded and potential signing-up days were put on hold indefinitely. Fortunately, our […]