Chill4us has been running since August 2005. Our members tell us that our virtual community is like a family, so they no longer feel alone. We have 651 members with 1,363 followers on twitter and 233 on facebook. We have a 24 hour forum, chatroom and arcade. We hold hosted chats with MP's and other charities with an interest in carers. We have had meet ups, but this is normally too expensive for us to arrange. We would like to meet up in the autumn and our members are already getting excited.
Carers are in contact on the forum or the chatroom throughout the day. We would like to meet up with the friends we have made over the years, but have never met. A carer receives only £53.90 a week - the lowest benefit of its kind. And that's for a minimum of a 35-hour caring week. At £1.54 an hour, this is a third of the national minimum wage.
We campaign to get unused but working laptops to give out free to family home carers. We have given computers or laptops to over 100 carers. read more
We would be pleased to have someone who knows about the internet, and could help us.
£ 5.00
Coffee and cake for a carer
£ 10.00
Meal for a carer
£ 20.00
Entrance to venue and meal
£ 50.00
Transport, entrance and meal
£ 100.00
Would enable a carer to get a laptop
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Community Foundation grant data
First grant date13/04/2010 Latest grant date13/04/2010 Amount of grants received£500.00Vetted by: Norfolk Community Foundation
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