My Neighbourhood
At the heart of the Worthing Neighbourhood Care Alliance is our desire to get Worthing active and involved.
Not just involved in the great work that local voluntary groups do for older people, but also working together at the neighbourhood level to create communities where older people know they have a support network of neighbours they can call on. We’re determined that loneliness and isolation should have no place in Worthing.
Community Engagement Workers are instrumental to us making headway towards this vision.
A question of support
- How well do you know your neighbours?
- Would your elderly neighbours find support within your neighbourhood if they needed it?
- Are you involved in regular ‘formal’ volunteering?
If your answers to those questions tend towards ‘not very’, ‘perhaps not’ and ‘no’, don’t feel too bad about it. Many different social and economic factors stack up against and undermine the possibilities for both formal volunteering and close-knit supportive neighbourhoods.
But there is a great opportunity right now to do something positive. Our Community Engagement Workers are working flat out in your neighbourhood during the next year.
If you want to make your street a better place to live, where neighbours look out for each other and offer ‘that little bit of extra help’ to more vulnerable neighbours, please get in touch with them. If you know of a ‘missing service’ and would like help and advice to get a club or social event off the ground, please get in touch with them. Or if you could help out an older neighbour with their shopping, give them a lift to the GP, or invite them round for coffee… please get in touch with our Community Engagement Workers!
Angie Bacon
Goring, Marine and Heene wardsBased at Heene Road Community Centre
Contact: 07827 278742
Email: angie.nca@btconnect.com
Pat Davies
Castle, Tarring and Gaisford wardsBased at Elizabeth House, Pelham Road
Contact: 07827 278743
Email: pat.nca@btconnect.com
Linda Jones
Broadwater, Selden and Central wardsBased at Dial-a-Ride office (behind Methold House)
Contact: 07827 278744
Email: linda.nca@btconnect.com
Joe Payne
Northbrook, Durrington, Salvington and Offington wardsBased at New Life Church, Durrington
Contact: 07827 278745
Email: joseph.nca@btconnect.com
Community Engagement Workers will be holding various open days and events across Worthing in 2008-09. Check out our what’s on pages for details.