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Tel: 0113 388 5400
Fax: 0113 388 5401
Email: info@catholic-care.org.uk
The Huddersfield Deanery Project for Older People (HDP) was set up in 1994 to provide a range of services for older people in the Ashbrow Ward of Kirklees.
Within its objectives HDP seeks to
- promote the practical social and spiritual wellbeing of older people
- address specific practical, social and spiritual concerns of older people especially those arising from loneliness and isolation by offering direct or indirect help.
- support older people to remain independent and live at home through all initiatives/activities.
The service is staffed by one part time manager with admin support.
What we offer:
- 2 Gentle armchair exercise classes and 2 keep fit classe
- Prayer group which meets fortnightly and provides a lovely time of reflection and sharing and is open to all
- ‘Thursday Friends', a lunch club with activities, gentle exercise, raffle and bingo
- ‘Friday Friends', a lunch club including fortnightly gentle exercise, a raffle, bingo, credit union point, book club and the sale of healthy fruit and vegetable bag
- Craft group
- Walking group
- Bingo Club
- Volunteering opportunities at all groups
Through our locally based office in Bradley we share information, offer advice and support or can signpost to another organisation.
Enquiries are always welcome - in person or on the phone. Home assessment visits are carried out to assess individual needs and to identify what activity might best suit the older person concerned.
How to contact us:
Office address -
92 Keldregate,
Bradley
Huddersfield
HD2 1TB
Tel: 01484 3000094
E-mail:joann.wareham@catholic-care.org.uk
Catholic Care acts to support those in need of its services, especiallly the weak and the vunerable and it acts as an advocate for those unable to represent themselves
The primary purpose of the agency is to foster and influence a vision of how people can live together in Christian charity, love and justice, by taking the "Caring Church into the Community
