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Posts by Marie-Eva James

Phone Calls, Parcels and Post

Jane usually works face to face with Guideposts service users in the local community, but when Covid struck she had to figure out how to support and care for her clients from home.

Love on the Spectrum

Love on the Spectrum is a reality television show currently being streamed on Netflix (Cert PG). Our brilliant volunteer Paul watched the series for us. Here he shares his thoughts on the programme.

6 Ways We’ve Helped During Lockdown

As we make the final preparations for reopening we wanted to reflect on some of the thing we have done since the start of the pandemic. So here are 6 things to celebrate!

Guideposts Service User Council and Co-production Week 2020

James is the Chair of our Service User Council so we caught up with him to find out about who he is, his role and what co-production means to him.

Pen Pals

Keeping people connected through Pen Pals

Our team in Gloucestershire have been connecting children with older people in our CONNECT groups by setting up a pen pal service.

How a pandemic has changed Henry Smith House

How a pandemic has changed Henry Smith House

This week is mental health awareness week so we spoke to our team in Watford who run our mental health work at Henry Smith House.

Windrush Radio Simon Oliver

Guideposts Radio Show

This lockdown makes that hard but one great way that everyone can join together, no matter where they are, is through the radio – and so that’s what we’ve done.

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