Free residential breaks in the country for carers

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. While this new kind of break for carers is the initiative of a team based at the Buddhist Centre in Brighton it has no religious agenda.

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

Drop-in group for carers

This group meets from 2 to 3.30pm at fortnightly drop-ins in the Brighton Buddhist Centre.

Booking

If you are a carer or work for carers, are over 18 and live in the Brighton & Hove area please contact the The Carers Centre to make a booking. If you live in another area please contact Taravajra or Karunavira at the Metta Project. Once your booking has been confirmed we will send you further details.

The next Carers Breaks at Rivendell for 2008 will be:
September 22 - 24 mid-week

There will also be another break for Brent Social Services at Vajrasana, a retreat centre in Suffolk:
Sep 5 - 7 (weekend)

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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