If you are please let us know via the online form below - we may be able to help you.

The services that Action for Family Carers can offer includes:

• Access to Free counselling
• Befriending service: telephone or face to face contact
• Support for Young Carers aged 5 years to 18 years of age
• Day Care services for the “cared for” to provide respite for the Carer
• Feeling good, Caring Well services; this includes Stress reduction, managing emotions and other well-being activities.
• Building Better Opportunities to support Carers to work, education or volunteering.

Action for Family Carers

Brickhouse Farm, Poulton Close,

Maldon, Essex, CM9 6NG

Tel: 01621 851640

Fax: 01621 874817

Website: www.affc.org.uk

Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Action4carers

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/actionforfamilycarers

Carers UK

They’re here to make sure that no matter how complicated your query or your experience, you don’t have to care alone.

Telephone: 020 7378 4999

Website: www.carersuk.org

There is a wealth of information on the NHS website about carers and caring. Below are some links into the site that we hope you will find useful.

• A guide to care and support

  Information for carers and people who have care & support needs.

• Caring for someone

  Advice on providing care, medicines etc.

• Care after hospital

  Providing care for people who have been recently discharged from hospital.

• Taking a break

  Caring for someone can be a full-time job - find out about accessing breaks and respite care.

• Support and benefits for carers
  

  Caring for someone can be a full-time job - find out about accessing breaks and respite care.

• Work and Disability
  

  Guidance, support and help with employment issues.

  Being a Young carer

  Advice for carers 18 or under and their entitlement to support

Help claiming benefits, looking after your bank balance and understanding the legal issues of caring.

• Benefits for carers

  Directing carers to the benefits that can help them in their caring role

• Benefits for the under-65s

  Advice and information on helping the person you look after get the benefits that they are entitled to.

  Benefits for the over-65s

  Advice and information on financial support for older people with a disability or illness.

• Carer's Assement
  

  How your benefits maybe affected after the death of the person you look after and what happens to their benefits

• Other benefits

  Advice for carers and the people they are looking after on claiming a whole host of other benefits unrelated to their disability or caring