General information available from our office
Monday-Friday 10am-4pm.

Welfare benefits advice
We hold benefits advice sessions on Mondays and Fridays from 10am to 12.30pm. No appointment is needed. The Pension Service holds a "surgery" every Wednesday between 10am and 1pm at 1 Milton Road.
No appointment is needed.
Home visits by Age Concern Swindon advisors can also be arranged but there may be a waiting list.

Visiting/befriending service is provided by over 75 volunteers matched with older people who may be lonely or housebound.
Contact Sarah Jefferies for more details.
Advocacy service matches volunteers with individual older people to enable them to exercise and defend their rights.

Portable electric fires to borrow in an emergency, particularly in cold weather.
Call 01793 692166 to borrow.

Wheelchairs can be borrowed for up to 3 months. There is no charge for this service but we welcome donations to help us maintain our supply of chairs.
Call 01793 692166.

Some services are only available in particular areas and on certain days. Please check with us to make sure what is available in your area; if in doubt Patricia Chandler our Senior Manager - Services, will be pleased to help, either telephone 01793 692166 or e-mail patricia.chandler@ageconcernswindon.org.uk

Sangam Day Centre is a day club/drop-in for older Asian people and meets each Wednesday from 1pm-4pm at Broad Green Neighbourhood Centre, Salisbury Street, Swindon. The centre is now run by its own committee and the contact is now:
Arun Bedi, secretary
Swindon Sangam Centre
1 John Herring Crescent
Swindon
SN3 4JJ
email: arun@ideb.freeserve.co.uk
Telephone 01793 822278

Caribbean lunch club meets each Monday from 11am-2.30pm at the Broad Green Neighbourhood Centre.

We give grants to independent lunch clubs to help with some running costs. Information from Patricia Chandler.

We have more information and a leaflet about other grants to older people's organisations.
Contact Jo Osorio on 01793 692166 or e-mail jo.osorio@ageconcernswindon.org.uk

Age Concern Enterprises offers a range of products and services with the needs of the over 50s in mind. It arranges these services through a network of Appointed Representatives operating from around 300 local Age Concerns across the UK including Age Concern Swindon.

Age Concern Enterprises is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
Any profits generated by Age Concern from the products go directly to support Age Concern's charitable activities both locally and nationally.

Phone for information or call in to Number One Milton Road on Monday,Tuesday or Wednesday between 10am and 12.30pm.
Follow this link to find out more
http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/shop.

Age Concern Swindon relies on volunteers to help with much of our work, including fundraising. Contact us for details of current volunteering vacancies.

Age Concern is a federation of independent charities. For information about Age Concern nationally and about our campaigning work, go to www.ageconcern.org.uk

Age Concern Swindon
Making More of Life in and around Swindon for over 50 years
Registered Charity 800056