So you think Care should be done differently? The provision and delivery of social care is in the news on a daily basis. Sadly, it’s rarely a good news story. The pattern is all too familiar: ov...
We asked Natalie, an experienced carer, to tell us “What Care Means” being part of the growing Friends family At Friends Helping at Home we are really keen to share the amazing stories o...
For some of us, we knew that our NHS, social care and mental health family were struggling. Successive governments failed to listen. They failed to recognise this army of incredible individuals and sa...
Time for a more rewarding career? It’s not by chance that our franchises are growing. We have spent the first two years reviewing and refining the ‘knowhow’: our systems that support a market led serv...
As we all start to come out of the Covid lock down, our Torbay Branch goes from strength to strength Our founder and CEO Andrew discusses recent developments during “Covid-19” with our first f...
Vision: Andrew Richardson, Founder & Managing Director Why I started Friends Helping at Home With our fourth branch about to open, I was asked to give some background as to why we started and what...
Sam Stuart-Hill, Deputy Managing Director, shares her insights. Time for a Change to Work with People Who Have Care at Heart? This Spring, we all lost control over our lives. We’ve been apart, we’ve b...
It’s good to know that we really do care Most weeks local branch managers receive great feed back from the families of those who use our services. We put our customers in control: we introduce s...
Are you looking for the right opportunity of a more rewarding career? At a time of great uncertainty – Brexit, economy etc., one thing is for certain, the population is ageing and older people w...
Purple Angel Memory Café Purple Angel provides a really valuable support newtork for those with dementia and for families and carers. How it all began…. Norman McNamara a resident of Torbay, Devon, UK...