When caring for a loved one, it is often difficult to keep up with caring for your immediate environment. There is just too much to do to get on top of everything, yet your home is one of the most important contributors to your good health. This is especially important when caring for someone suffering …
One of the greatest struggles that faces people caring for a loved one, is guilt. Sometimes, you just want to put your head in a box and hide your face: you feel guilty about tiny mistakes, you feel guilty about needing a break, you even feel guilty about being tired. Before you know where you …
Why put a loved one into a care home, when you can look after them in the home they love? During pandemic lockdowns we have all become aware of how important our own home is to our physical and mental health. This is especially true for vulnerable people, such as those suffering from dementia, or …
If you use Amazon, you may be interested that you can shop there and help Oxfordshire Crossroads. All you have to do is shop via Amazon Smile for your normal purchases and it will automatically donate to Crossroads at no extra cost to you. Just click HERE to get started – and feel good about shopping!
Oxfordshire Crossroads is continuing to provide care to the vulnerable – and to offer support to unpaid carers shielding family members at home. We are being commended for our approach to keeping service-users and providers safe. Fundamental to this is treating everybody – including ourselves – as if they have Covid. We are continually screening …
We at Crossroads are very grateful for all the support we have received from local MP.s for the Barclays-funded CROSSROADS COMMUNITY RELIEF PROJECT and are proud to share this letter from Witney&West Oxfordshire MP Robert Courts.
We are called CROSSROADS after the popular TV soap-opera, set in a fictional King’s Oak motel, that ran from 1964 until 1988. The show was groundbreaking because it featured a disabled leading character, Sandy Richardson, played by Roger Tonge, an actor bravely battling Hodgkin’s Disease. To accomodate Roger’s disability and keep him in the show, …
We are raising £50,000 to provide free care for those who need it most in these times of uncertainty. As a charity, this is a project very close to our hearts and we are delighted to report that, thanks to generous benefactors, we have to date reached a total of £26,500. We still have a …
The Care Workers’ Charity have partnered with Oxfordshire County Council, to support those who are new to the care sector and preparing for their first days of work, in the form of Starter Grants. If you are starting work for Oxfordshire Crossroads, you are eligible to apply. Oxfordshire County Council have made funding available to …
CROSSROADS, NEEDS YOU! As an equal opportunities employer, we are open to all ages and communities, so long as you are fit, and happy to be DBS checked. Having a valid driving licence is a bonus and we pay mileage at 45 pence per mile. Full paid training is provided. Flexible hours, weekdays or weekends, …
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