Care home reviews site, carehome.co.uk, signs up to The Care Workers' Charity £500 Challenge

The UK’s leading care home reviews site, carehome.co.uk, has signed up to a new fundraising campaign by The Care Workers’ Charity and committed to give an annual donation of £500.

The new campaign encourages businesses across the adult social care sector to commit to an annual donation of £500, which is the same amount as an average grant awarded to a care worker experiencing financial hardship.

Will and Oli Blackwell, directors of carehome.co.uk said: “Care workers do a hugely demanding job, both physically and emotionally, caring for older people and people with disabilities. They play such an important role in society and we need to make sure they are also looked after and supported.

“We urge organisations working in adult social care to accept this challenge and show that they really care about helping the people who make up our essential workforce. It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that care workers are supported to stay in their jobs and have a place to go in times of crisis.

“By signing up as a Founding Member, we hope to encourage other organisations to sign up themselves.”

The Care Workers’ Charity is experiencing a high demand for their services and since 2020 they have made over 6,000 grants to care workers in crisis.

Karolina Gerlich, chief executive of The Care Workers’ Charity said: “We are extremely grateful to carehome.co.uk which has signed up as a Founding Member of our £500 Challenge. Every organisation who signs up and spreads the word is making it more likely that our charity can support care workers across the UK, providing the right support when it is needed most.

“This year, we are seeing demand for our crisis grants rise as sharply as they did at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore we are asking businesses working in adult social care to show their support for this essential workforce who must not be forced into taking on high-cost debt in order to buy the essentials items like bread and milk, fill their car with petrol or pay their rising energy bills.”

Please donate what you can by following this link to The Care Workers’ Charity website: www.thecareworkerscharity.org.uk/the-care-workers-charity-500-fundraiser/

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