Carers feel they are forgotten by society, our website enables them to have contact 24 hours a day

A virtual community for carers operating from a base in Norwich and set up in 2005. We care and support one another, and the carers who become ex carers usually decide to stay with us. We campaign to get carers on line, www.computers4carers.co.uk set up in 2009 by Chill4Us to campaign to get carers on line, because they felt it was necessary to ease carers isolation and help them with the fear of caring. We need unused but working laptops. If you are a carer then we are ready to support you.

Why the community needs this charity

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 nearly 800 members, with many followers on FB and Twitter. There is 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.

Results and outcomes

We are looking forward to meeting in Norwich during April 2012. We try and meet for lunch twice a year and we meet for coffee every week. Carers are in contact on the forum or the chatroom throughout the day and night. We would like to meet up with the friends we have made over the years, but have never met. A carer receives only £55.55 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.

Latest activities and projects

Computers4Carers

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

Unpaid family carers meeting up with other carers and ex carers on the internet

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