News

30/06/2020

With the government’s recent announcements and easing of lockdown more businesses and organisations are now able to re-open their doors, as long as they can demonstrate they are taking the necessary precautions to ensure that they are Covid Safe.

At Working Together we have been talking to Shropshire Council, our insurance company and the Furniture Scheme, to understand what measures will need to be in place for us to go back safely to the
Rockspring Centre.

This is the first step on the journey to, hopefully, being able to open our doors again for face-face activities.

Being Covid Safe is a top priority for our members, our staff and our
volunteers and to start with things are likely to have to be a bit different.  We won’t be able to have as many people in the building at any one time because we will need to social distance and we may not be able to offer all the same activities as before until we are sure it’s safe to do so.

Some people might still be shielding or may not be able, or want, to
return just yet. For members who need to stay at home we will continue to stay in contact, providing support and activities as we have been
doing over the past 15 weeks.

The views of our members, their families and carers are very important to us as we start to plan ahead. We need to understand who might be able to return to Rockspring and what activities you would like us to try to offer safely.

We’ve put together a little questionnaire for you to complete.
Copies can be downloaded here:

• Member’s Survey (Long) (Word)
• Member’s Survey (Long) (PDF)
• Member’s Survey (Short) (PDF)
• Member’s Survey (Short) (Word)

or by emailing: manager@workingtogetherludlow.co.uk

We look forward to hearing your views…

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Coronavirus (Covid-19):19/03/2020

Dear members, parents and carers, volunteers, staff and trustees

Following the most recent government guidance and in order to ensure we take our responsibilities seriously in seeking to minimise the spread of Coronavirus, we have made the decision to close the physical doors on Working Together activities from 3pm on Friday 20th March until further notice.

At Working Together we always think of our members, volunteers and staff as one big extended family and staff that are able to will continue to work from home, planning and preparing a whole host of new and exciting activities and opportunities for when we will be able to re-open the doors.

Whilst we may not be able to be together in the same rooms for a while there are lots of different ways we hope to keep in touch.

We are working out ways to offer virtual activity sessions, through video and digital communications – we will be looking into ways we can try to share cookery and craft activities in our own homes, setting up virtual Sewing Bee, Writers, Sports, Youth and Diversity Clubs – and sharing Working Together messages through our phones, tablets and laptops.

We would encourage members and their families to think about drawing pictures and writing letters as ways of keeping in touch in the coming weeks, perhaps creating a new Pen Pal network.

We will also endeavour to continue to offer support to families and will keep telephone contact available and our social media and website up to date whenever we can.

We understand that this could be an anxious time, but at Working Together we hope to find new ways and create new opportunities to support our members from a distance until we can all be back together again.

If you have any questions or concerns at this time please get in touch and we will do our best to help.

Nigel Bishop, Interim Manager
Working Together (Ludlow) Ltd
Rockspring Centre, Sandford Road, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 1SX
Email: manager@workingtogetherludlow.co.uk
Mobile: 07896 415643, Tel: 01584 318925
Registered Charity No. 1147358. Company No. 7982400

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