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Welcome to the Rural Coffee Caravan
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The Rural Coffee Caravan Information Project delivers information
and friendship across Suffolk. Information is power - and the Rural
Coffee Caravan Information Project befriends people and offers them
access to the information they need to empower them.
Knowing what’s going on in our own communities isn’t always easy.
It is especially difficult if access to transport is limited, or
the village shop or pub or post office has gone, or you live in one
of Suffolk’s very scattered parishes. We bring the Project to rural
communities, equipped with coffee, tea & homemade cakes, along
with all sorts of information about organisations and the services
they offer you.
“Making a difference to rural communities
throughout Suffolk”
Newsflash
Donate to us Online
Great News. We have teamed up with Charity Choice
and the Co-Operative Bank to accept donations online. So now you
can send us a donation straight away using your credit or debit
card! Just click on the Donate Now button and you will be taken to
our page on the Charity Choice website.
It’s 100% secure and unlike some other schemes every single penny
of your gift reaches the charity as Charity Choice passes on 100
per cent of any donation and neither the giver nor the charity is
charged anything for using the service.
If you would like to help us you can donate online right now by
clicking on the Donate Now button which will take you to our
donations page on the Charity Now website. It’s 100% secure.
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Donate with
justtextgiving

You can now also donate to us by text. You just text CCIP03 £ then
the amount to 70070
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You can now follow us on
Twitter
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Take part in the Coffee Caravan
Christmas Quiz
Have
some fun and see how you do with our Christmas Quiz
Would you like to help us by donating a £1 and having a chance to
win £25?
Our quiz gives you the second lines (and sometimes a bit more to
help you) to songs, old and new.
You just need to remember the first lines, the singer/band and the
title of the songs to be in with a chance to win.
Download the Quiz as a word document
Download the Quiz as a pdf
Please text your donation (£1 or more). Type CCIP03 followed by
amount e.g CCIP03£1 & send to 70070
Please email or post your completed Quiz back to us
by 6th January 2012.
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Working together to combat loneliness
and reduce ill health
The Campaign
to End Loneliness is a nationwide campaign that is calling for
more local collaboration between the government and voluntary
organisations to reduce loneliness among older people, which
could improve the lives and health of older people and in turn
reduce health costs.
The Coffee Caravan is one of 75 organisations working on this
initiative to combat loneliness. More information can be found at
the campaign to end
loneliness website
Laura Ferguson, who is the Director of the Campaign to End
Loneliness, said “If you live on your own you can become lonely
over time and, alarmingly, you are more likely to become ill and
need more intensive health and social care support. Loneliness
should be better understood and prioritised by all those providing
support or contact to people in local areas, including health
providers. Reducing loneliness is likely to reduce the
vulnerability of older people and further health costs.”
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Find out about Suffolk Independent
Living Payments Advice Service
Suffolk Independent Living is the direct payments
support service in Suffolk, providing advice and support to people
considering or using Direct Payments. Direct payments are a cash
payment made by Suffolk County Council in order for you to meet
your assessed needs. A direct payment can also be part of a
personal budget.
Visit the Suffolk Independent Living website for more
information.
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Our new Mobility bus We
are now the proud owners of a Mobility
bus! 
This vehicle will seat 7 people (including driver) or 6 people and
a wheelchair.
We are absolutely delighted, not only do we now have a way of
transporting anyone who uses a wheelchair or who has difficulty
getting around but we can also use it to tow our Coffee Caravan
meaning our volunteer towers just need to drive it rather than
having to use their own cars or vans.
We plan to use it to collect people who would like to come to one
of our village visits but can’t for reasons of mobility.
So if you know of someone in your village that you think would
like to make use of this facility please let us know and we can
make the necessary arrangements.
We would also like to be able to allow villages to “borrow” the
Mobility bus for special events. For example, maybe you have an
‘Open Gardens ‘day that certain residents can’t access, provided
you can find a suitable driver you could use the bus to drive them
around to each garden, very useful if the gardens are spread all
over the village. The possibilities are endless. Just call us
for a chat; we will always do our best to help you.
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Suffolk Circle Is a new
membership organisation that provides help with life's practical
tasks through local, reliable helpers, and links members together
to get out and about and to learn new things. Based in Bury St
Edmunds they currently cater for neighbouring areas but will be
expanding to cover the whole of Suffolk in time. You can contact
them by phone or by clicking on their logo
below.
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