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Spotlight on… Bell View

Spotlight on… Bell View

As part of our Information and Signposting Service, we’re shining a spotlight on voluntary and community organisations offering all kinds of support to people in Northumberland.

Bell View is an independent charity based in North Northumberland. It offers a range of health, wellbeing, and social activities from its Resource Centre and from community spaces across the region. The Resource Centre has a community café with free internet access and is a Warm Space offering tea, coffee, cake and soup. A range of activities are on offer including arts and crafts, exercise, digital support and much more.

Bell View provides Day Care services, five days a week in Belford and on a Monday in Berwick, which is a fantastic day out with activities, care and support and a hot lunch. Wheelchair accessible transport is provided which means a full day out for clients and a full day off for those caring for loved ones. Bell View also has a CQC registered care provider, Help at Home, delivering personal care and enabling support across the whole region.

For more information please email: Daycare@bellviewbelford.co.uk or telephone 01668 219221.

Spotlight on: Vision Northumberland

Spotlight on: Vision Northumberland

As part of our Spotlight on… series we are shining a light on Vision Northumberland, formerly Northumberland County Blind Association.

Vision Northumberland is a local charity based in Morpeth which provides advice and support services to blind and visually impaired people to enable them to gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to live a fulfilled and independent life. It offers a home visiting service, clubs and support groups, telephone counselling, volunteer drivers to help clients get around, computer training, help with energy bills, low vision aids assessments and much more. Clients can also benefit from regular phone calls with the charity’s telephone support service, Client Connect (formerly Sightline).

Vision Northumberland’s volunteers based across the county have recently been honoured with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.

The award recognises the vital support that the charity provided to the community in response to the pandemic by setting up a telephone befriending service with 91 volunteers making telephone calls. At the height of the pandemic over 600 visually impaired people were contacted to reduce isolation, loneliness and provide a lifeline during unprecedented times. Our very own Healthwatch staff team and volunteers were happy to be involved in this project.

You can get in touch by calling 01670 514316 or email info@visionnorthumberland.org.uk