Information, guidance and services for Nottingham Residents



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Covid 19 - you can call________________________________________________________________________

NHS Health at Home
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The COVID-19 outbreak means the public needto stay at home as much as possible. If they need an NHS service, they should try to do it online from home first - "unless" there's a serious or life-threatening emergency or they have been advised to attend an existing appointment for ongoing treatment.

The NHS Health at Home [ [link removed] ]campaign signposts to information such as contacting a GP, ordering repeat prescriptions, managing wellbeing and existing conditions without leaving home.

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Sycamore Dining - two course cooked meals
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Sycamore Dining

Sycamore Dining are delivering 2 course cooked meals to older people across the city delivered to your doorstep. Volunteers cook the food on a daily basis from Monday to Friday.

The charge per meal is only 4 payable in advance. Meals can be ordered on line www.sycamore-dining.org.uk [ [link removed] ] or by emailing [email protected].


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Safeguarding Adults with Care and Support Needs
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During Covid-19, it is particularly important to safeguard adults with care and support needs. They may be more vulnerable to abuse and neglect as others may seek to exploit the situation. The Social Care Institute for Excellence has produced helpful advice on how to remain vigilant and support others. Click here [ [link removed] ] for more information.

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Avoiding Fraud and Scams
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In order to help you avoid fraud and scams during this current period please read Action Frauds coronavirus related fraud report [ [link removed] ] which includes top tips [ [link removed] ] about how to remain safe in the virtual world, including advice on avoiding online coronavirus-related scams and keeping yourself and your organisation protected while working from home.

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Keeping Fit and Active
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Physical activity is more important than ever right now. Being active in a way that is right for you can improve your physical health, help manage stress and anxiety and just generally make you feel better. At the moment, you can still go outside for one form of exercise, if you're well enough and as long as you follow the official advice on social distancing [ [link removed] ]. However if you are staying in, you can still exercise by checking out Stay In Work Out [ [link removed] ] or trying some of the exercises below:


* *10 Today*: Short ten minute routines to get you stretching and moving. The routines air on BBC Radio 5 Live at 5pm each day and can be accessed on the BBC Sounds website [ [link removed] ].Find out more and access the resources here [ [link removed] ].
* *'I CAN' Active Calendar 2020: *Later Life Training have made their new 'habit forming, movement prompting, strength and balance monitoring' 2020 calendar free to download. Please visit their website here. [ [link removed] ]
* *Make Movement Your Mission*: Ifyou are on Facebook, join Bex from Monday 23 March to Monday 20 April at 8am, 12noon and 4pm for a daily 10 minute workouts on the Make Movement Your Mission Facebook page [ [link removed] ].
* *Sitting Exercises:* These exercises are done while sitting; a great place to start to build strength and balance. See the exercises here. [ [link removed] ]
* *Flexibility Exercises: *These flexibility exercises can be done at home to help improve your mobility. See the exercises here. [ [link removed] ]
* *Balance exercises*: There simple balance exercises can be done at home to help make you feel more steady in walking and moving. See the exercises here. [ [link removed] ]
* *Movement for those with Osteoporosis or Osteopenia: *You can watch and follow the online videos offered by the Royal Osteoporosis Society - See the exercises here. [ [link removed] ]

*Getting down to and up from the floor safely *

In a time where emergency services may take longer to respond skills such as being able to get up following a fall are essential. These exercises and methods [ [link removed] ] will help develop these skills.

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Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Every mind matters

You might be worried about Covid-19 and how it is affecting your life, especially if you have been advised to self-isolate. This might feel difficult or stressful.

If you're anxious, struggling to sleep, or just generally not feeling yourself lately, take the Every Mind Matters quiz for practical tips from the NHS on how to improve your mood or sleep pattern. Take the quiz [ [link removed] ]


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Local Helpline for support with mental health problems
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If you are struggling with your mental health and need support or advice call the new Nottinghamshire Foundation Trust Mental Health Helpline on *0300 303 0165. *The line is open to people of all ages who live in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

For more information, visit their website at [link removed] [ [link removed] ]

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Other National and Local Mental Health Support
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Most mental health services are now only offering support online. We have produced a Nottingham mental health signposting guide that gives details of different Helplines that you might find useful. To access the guide, please click here [ [link removed] ].

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Pastoral Support for Care Homes
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Many Care Homes and Sheltered Housing have well established links with local churches and other faith communities. At this time of increased demands and stresses there may be some who do not have such relationships. If you would appreciate some pastoral support from a local church, but do not have a contact please get in touch with us and we will try our best to link you up.


* Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. [email protected]
* Transforming Notts Together. Hannah.buck@transformingnottstogether
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Nottingham on Call - your local assisted technology service
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Nottingham On Call

Nottingham on Call is a popular local service that supports people who are isolated, vulnerable and at risk due to their age, frailty or level of disability. Most customers come to Nottingham on Call for a personal care alarm and pendant, which gives you the ability to call for help in an emergency, for example if you have had a fall, or there is a fire.

Once pressed, the alarm alerts our friendly contact centre team, based in the heart of Nottingham. Our polite and professional call handlers are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They will always be there to take your call, reassure you and ensure the right response, whether that is contacting a next of kin, or even the emergency services.

Our service is still running during Covid and we are doing our utmost to ensure our customers experience the same service they always would. However we are asking them to reduce their level of testing, to allow us to focus on emergency calls. Our call handlers are alerted if there are any problems with a customer's equipment, ie if batteries are getting low, and will always get in touch with a customer to ensure this is fixed. All our customers can be assured that they are being supported even without testing the alarm.

Being mindful of social distancing, for those who feel confident, we are providing a self-installation process, where we can deliver an alarm for the customer to simply plug in and test. However, we realise that self-installation isnt for everyone - in circumstances where a frail/incapacitated customer hasnt got someone to help them, then our service will be able to install the alarm as normal, while observing social distancing practises.

For more information, please contact our team on 0115 746 9010, or email:[email protected] or visit the website [ [link removed] ].


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Arts, Culture and Literature
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Bringing libraries into your homes

App for newspapers and magazines

Our libraries might be closed but they are still providing you with information, activities and new reads that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home.

The have launched the new Your Online Library webpage [ [link removed] ] designed to support you whilst in lock down. It's jam packed with activities and guides from keeping the kids stimulated and learning, applying for Universal Credit, support for small businesses to lots of trusted online resources including the NHS and BBC Bitesize.

If you, or someone you know, are not a member of the library dont worry. You can start enjoying free access to library eBooks and eAudio books by joining online here [ [link removed] ]. Just fill in the form and in no time at all you will be happily browsing thousands of items.

You are offered free online access to thousands of newspapers and magazines with PressReader via Nottingham Libraries.

After 30 days of using the service, you will find that you have been signed out as a library member and are being offered their commercial service. All you need to do is log out and then sign in again using the library option to continue accessing everything for free.

If you havent discovered PressReader yet, then visit the online library to find out more. You will need yourlibrary card number and PIN [ [link removed] ] to get started. Dont worry, if you are not a library member you can easilyjoin online here. [ [link removed] ]



Armchair Gallery

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City Arts"Armchair Gallery"app is free and enablesisolatedolder peoplethe chance to enjoy some of the UKs greatest cultural collections, from the comfort of their own home."Armchair Gallery"has special featuresforpeople living with dementia. You can use the app on Android and iPad tablets.

For more info and a direct link to download the app go to: www.armchairgallery.co.uk [ [link removed] ]



Artspeak

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ArtSpeak provides access to the creative arts for the over 60s in Nottingham.

If you would like to sign up to become a member of ArkSpeak for free please do so here [ [link removed] ] . You can also check out a collection of daily posts in the news section [ [link removed] ].

If you are interested in creative arts, they recommend Google Arts and Culture [ [link removed] ].


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Nottingham Elders' Forum
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Due to the Coronavirus, forum activities have ceased for the foreseeable future and the offices are now closed. However if you would like to talk to the team please cal 0773 292 3102.

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Money and funding opportunities
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*Worried about money?*

If you are worried about money, you are not alone. There is lots of FREE advice available. The sooner you talk to someone, the sooner things will get better. For more information click here. [ [link removed] ]

*Encouraging older adults to ask about Pension Credit*

Department for Work and Pensions are currently running an awareness campaign around Pension Credit [ [link removed] ] a benefit for those over State Pension age on low incomes. The campaign aims to increase Pension Credit awareness a.nd take up among eligible recipients, which can help with the costs of living.

Funding Opportunities

Apply for a Bring Joy Foundation Grant [ [link removed] ] and support seniors to stay connected with families and loved ones during this time when people may be more isolated than usual. They also have a number of Facebook Portals to give away. If you know of anyone this might benefit please email [email protected]

*Yorkshire Building Society* Coronavirus Response Fund is offering donations between 250 - 2,000 to charities helping local communities to cope with the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. For more information click here [ [link removed] ].

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Local Transport
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At the moment there are regular changes to public travel arrangements including changes to Medilink [ [link removed] ]which runs between QMC and City Hospital. To stay up to date with changes to Medilink and other Nottingham City Transport services click here [ [link removed] ].

Other operators are also affected:


* NET tram [ [link removed] ]
* Trentbarton [ [link removed] ]
* Kinchbus [ [link removed] ]
* Marshalls all services suspended until further notice
* Centrebus [ [link removed] ]
* East Midlands Railways [ [link removed] ]
* Cross Country trains [ [link removed] ]
* Stagecoach [ [link removed] ]
* Pronto [ [link removed] ]
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Nottingham Arrow
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Nottingham City Council have produced a special edition of the Arrow which will be dropping through doors across the city in the coming days. A great number of people will be keeping tabs on our online resources, but for many residents in our communities, receiving a copy of the Arrow through the door is also vitally important. That is why we have produced an additional copy to keep residents informed of the things that matter most at times like these. An online version is also available here [ [link removed] ].


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Stay Home, Save Lives
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It is vitally important that we continue to observe Government instructions to stay at home and follow social distancing guidelines it is tough but staying at home really does save lives so thank you to all of you who continue to observe this. Only go out for food, health reasons or work (but only if you cannot work from home).

If you do have to go out, stay two metres (six feet) away from other people at all times and wash your hands as soon as you get home.


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