Making a Difference in the Community
A series looking at organisations and people whose activities have a big impact on the lives of others in the community.
BLTV’s Don Chamberlain with Cameraman Carl Yeates visit many charitable groups and organisations who’s aim it is to help the Community in their own particular way – Making a Difference…
Making a Difference in the Community
Making a Difference No 1
Don Chamberlain and Carl Yeates visit the Barnsley dementia support group and look at some of the activities on offer to dementia and alzheimer sufferers in the community.
Making A Difference No 2
Don Chamberlain and Carl Yeates visit the Barnsley foodbank which doesn’t think that anyone in our community should have to face the prospect of going hungry in this day and age.
Making a Difference No 3
Don Chamberlain and Carl Yeates visit the disability information advice line (DIAL). A charity based in Barnsley that has helped, for the last 30 Years, thousands of people with benefits, bills and debt problems.
Making A Difference No 4
People suffering mental health problems or anxiety might benefit from doing something creative – is the view of a Barnsley charity. The group, appropriately called Creative Recovery, is the latest to be featured in BLTV’s series Making a Difference. Co-founder Helen Boutle tells us more about the charity – and the theory.
Making A Difference No 5
The mission of Age UK Barnsley is to promote the wellbeing, independence, dignity, choice and inclusion of older people in the Barnsley area. In particular, those who are disadvantaged through ill-health, disability, poverty or social exclusion. The CEO of Age UK Barnsley, Debby Bunn tells us about it’s aims and ambitions, and we hear some SCAM advice at the end.