Our Home Comforts Team offers gardening, painting, DIY, clearing slippery paths, moving furniture so that a person who’s sight is failing is able to see the television, bringing shelves down to a level where the resident is able to reach without standing on a stool. The Team will fetch paint and material on behalf of the resident. They will also take curtains down have them washed and ironed at our Bright Street Laundry and put back up again.
Current Team Members
Chip Frith (Team Manager) and his team, Dave Hicking and Tim Hallam (Supervisors) and Daniel Shaw, with the support of volunteers, do invaluable work for local people, in their own homes. The work they carry out ranges from moving a bed downstairs for a client who is ill or unable to climb stairs, to working up to five days in a client's home to bring the property up to a safe standard. They will also carry out jobs such as gardening, painting and DIY, putting up shelves and many other jobs.
Our Home Comforts Team:
Enables people to remain living independently in their own home
Ensures earlier discharge from hospital for some clients by making their home safe and habitable
Supports many people with mental and physical health problems
Supports volunteers within the team
Supports young parents
Works in partnership with other organisations to deliver services to their clients
Home Safety Project
This team is also responsible for the Home Safety project. On behalf of Erewash Borough Council and Sure Start Erewash (Cotmanhay and Kirk Hallam) we fit safety equipment such as stair gates, fire guards and cupboard catches in homes in Erewash where there are babies and young children.
The home comforts team is supported by The Big Lottery, Erewash Social Services, Derbyshire County Council Social Services, DDEP and service users.
Our Home Comforts Team will carry out jobs such as gardening, painting and DIY, putting up shelves and many other jobs.
Please call Jane on 0115 9444146 (or email Jane) to book the team, and Chip Frith the Team Manager will come and see what you need doing.
