Personal Connection
Many of our in-person groups have been meeting again in the last few weeks, and it’s wonderful to make personal connections again.
How to support Guideposts
Many of our in-person groups have been meeting again in the last few weeks, and it’s wonderful to make personal connections again.
Our face-to-face adult services have been opening up gradually over the last month. Although we have kept in touch and offered online services, phone calls and sent fun things to do in the post, it’s not the same as being together.
We are so proud to say Burford Garden Company are Sponsors of our Outdoor Wellbeing Hub, and support Guideposts by offering their expert advice, skills, workforce and connections, as well as financial assistance and goods to help with the development and growth of the site.
The Guideposts Information & Support phone line opened a year ago, in March 2020. It was coincidental, if fortunate, that it was just at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our team have been at the end of the phone to support people through this exceptional year, and have developed the service to fit the needs of the time.
To mark World Autism Awareness Week we spoke to some of our community to find out what it’s like to live with autism and what autism means for them.
This morning our Dreamcatchers leader, Helen, is encouraging more connection between the group, comparing their favourite foods, and how they express themselves.
One of our Henry Smith House yoga class members, Carole, tells us about her experiences and how she came to pranayama.
Play them on your own or share them with others, and let us know how you get on!
Guideposts Information Service heard from a young woman, Jenny, who lives with from Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and had been self-isolating at home during the Covid-19 crisis.
During lockdown, we took a call from a lady, who was distressed and needed urgent help for her elderly father who has Parkinson’s Disease, loss of voice and lives on his own in Gloucester. Some sockets in the kitchen had come off the wall and were unsafe. Harriet was worried that her father might try to fix it himself and cause an accident.
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