It’s been a productive couple of weeks and we’re really getting to grips with telling people about what we do and some of the amazing things our staff get up to.  In addition to the ‘everyday’ stuff they do (which is pretty amazing), we’ve had staff represent the organisation at the Stonewall Equality March in Brighton, run some exciting recruitment oppportunities and launch our Smart Living service on the Isle of Wight.

We’ve also been thinking about how to blog, tweet, use Facebook and engage with and expand our Social Media presence … exciting stuff!

To top it off, we’ve linked in with local social enterprise, Express fm and with southern radio station, Wave105 fm.  We even had Charlotte from Wave pop in yesterday to interview Nicki (she’s the one in the photo on the left!) about the great debt and welfare benefits work going on with Advice Portsmouth … why not check out her interview?  Click here and you can listen to what she had to say!

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It’s great when we hear about local businesses working together and we love it even more when those local businesses are working with us!  This week, Women’s Gym Curves, teamed up with our Dorset You First Domestic Violence Outreach Service to donate non-perishable food items which we could use with our work with people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.  Curves are rightfully proud of the way that they’ve been able to make a difference and so a huge thanks goes to the team that stepped up to the line and help shed those pounds (of food).  Click here to read the press release that tells you more about it.

And it seems to have been something of a week for Dorset You First.  Our amazing administrator, Kerry, has been working tirelessly to look for donations and support from local businesses to help with our outreach work for our domestic violence service.  Already she’s received promises of personal alarms, sim cards and telephones for men and women threatened by domestic violence.  She’s also after some torches so if you know anyone who has any they could donate, please let…

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On Wednesday 2 May, in partnership with the Isle of Wight Council and the IoW NHS Clinical Commissioning Gr0up, we’re going to be launching our Smart Living Assistive Technology service on the Isle of Wight.  We’re really excited about this one year pilot which aims to offer our telecare and assistive technology services to clients across the island. 

We’re going to use the event to chat about how the equipment works (come and have a look and see what it is and how it works) over a cuppa and a biscuit.  There will be displays of equipment and people on hand to answer your questions.

The launch is going to take place  in the Hunnyhill Room, The Riverside Centre, The Quay, Newport PO30 2QR
on Wednesday 2nd May from 10.30am to 3pm.  For more information, please contact Lorraine Pink on
0845 265 8003 or click on the postcard or brochure links below.

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DL Brochure (IoW) (small)

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