Free residential breaks in the country for carers

Carers' Day retreats
Drop-in group for carers
Booking
Recipes

'Carers Breaks' offers adult carers a complete ’break’ from their normal caring role. A chance to find peace and calm in a tranquil setting. Carers are also given opportunities to learn skills that will help sustain their caring role into the future. As well as getting away to a beautiful country setting, carers are helped to understand the dynamics of stress in their caring situation and offered simple methods drawn from yoga, tai chi, and meditation to promote a greater sense of well-being and ease. Massage is commonly made available to assist an experience of calm.

These breaks are funded by local government and other agencies and so are ‘free’ of charge to the carers.

To see pictures of the last Carers Break and some previous Breaks click Gallery.

Carers Day Retreats

This is an initiative of the Brighton Buddhist Centre funded by Brighton & Hove Council Council for carers from the City.
The days run from 10.00 to 17.00 and carers are welcome to attend any two day retreats in a year.

The aims of the Carers Days include -

to provide a place to unwind and recharge your batteries,
to learn helpful skills to better deal with stress and help maintain calm,
to meet other carers and have a space to talk.

There will be time to talk to other carers if you wish, and there are several short sessions looking at effective techniques to help create more calm in our life, especially when things get tough. All sessions are invitational, nothing is compulsory! Learning to meditate can help you manage difficult and stressful times in your life as a carer. The day includes a delicious buffet lunch.

These day retreats are funded by Brighton & Hove Council and are free to carers. You do need to have completed an assessment with B&H Social Care Access Point for 2011 - you can do this over the phone on 01273 295555 and it should only take 15 minutes or so. They will provide you with a carers card which entitles you to attend two days and other supportive services on offer.

To book for one of the Carers Days please inform the Social Care Access Point staff which day you would like to attend. Places are limited to 15 per day so please book in good time.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our days!

Dates for 2011 - all days run 10am - 5pm

Monday, September 5
Sunday, November 27

Drop-in group for carers

This group has the same aims as the Carers Day Retreats in that it gives you a chance to try out activities like yoga, relaxation and meditation at the Brighton Buddhist Centre. It also simply helps carers to meet and share together. It is fun and informative as well as restorative. There is no charge to carers.

Meetings at the Centre on Thursday afternoons from 2.00 to 3.30 every fortnight. The next meetings for 2011 are:

September 1, 15 & 29, October 13 & 27, November 10 & 24, December 8 & 22

Booking

If you live outside Brighton & Hove please contact Taravajra or Karunavira at Mindful Health Ltd to discuss the possibility of setting up a break in your area.

Recipes

Many carers have enthused about the vegetarian food served on the Breaks so we are developing a recipe page on this site. See recipes to find out how to make the sun-dried tomato chutney and lasagna.

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