A family carer is anybody, of any age, who looks after someone with a long term illness, mental health difficulty or disability who could not cope day to day without this help.

Becoming an unpaid family carer is often a gradual process, like the changes affecting person you care for. The work of caring gradually impacts your daily life, restricting your ability to get time for yourself. Because of this most people see themselves as a ‘wife’, ‘husband’, ‘daughter’, ‘son, ‘brother’, ‘sister’ or ‘friend’, rather than as a family carer. 

We are a Suffolk based charity, committed to reducing loneliness and social isolation.  We believe that people need people, and that if we can create a network of contact and support as locally as possible to the individual, then the routes of support improve, reducing loneliness and isolation and improving health and wellbeing