Mini-Chat
David Bale Wednesday, June 11, 2014
9:09 AM
Organiser Les Eve(left) welcomes carers to the Carers Week main event at Costessey Community Centre. Photo by Simon Finlay.
Dozens of organisations, including Norfolk Carers’ Council, Age UK Norfolk & Norwich, Dementia UK and Mind, joined carers at an open day as part of National Carers’ Week.
The event at Costessey Community Centre was aimed at reaching out to the thousands of hidden carers across Norfolk.
Organiser Les Eve, who has run Costessey Carers’ group for 12 years, said carers needed to know what help was out there and how they could tap into it.
Mr Eve, who is also on the Norwich and Norfolk Carers’ Council and is a volunteer with Age UK, said: “Of the 94,000 carers in Norfolk, only 4pc are known and registered, so we need to try and winkle the rest out.
“A lot of them don’t realise they are carers. They think that if they are, say, looking after a husband or wife, it’s the expected thing for them to do, and that they are not real carers.”
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