This is a new fund that puts people in York in control of £240,000 to design and decide on grants to help the city better respond to people facing multiple issues including homelessness, addiction & recovery, mental health & well being, poverty and offending. The aims of the fund are; To connect and help create [...]
Last year we decided to undertake a pilot survey to help us to understand the longer term impact our advocacy service had on older people who have worked with us. The report attached sets out how we did this and what clients said about our service. We want to thank the team of volunteers who [...]
We have just completed our report for our Quarter 1 Stats (April-June 2021). OCAY volunteers have supported 129 older people so far, this financial year. 60% of our clients were female, whilst 40% were male. Thank you to everyone who has signposted older people to OCAY, you have really helped us to help older people. [...]
York Older People Assembly are looking for a new Admin Assitant. This is a part-time positon, 8 hours a week. The job purpose is to be the first line of contact to York Older People Assembly in a friendly and professional manner via all communication channels and To provide efficient day-to-day administrative, financial and business [...]
Healthwatch York want to hear from people with lived experience, the experts on living with dementia. They are creating a report exploring how support after a dementia diagnosis is experienced in York and what needs improvement. Healthwatch want to produce a report that helps others living with dementia in York through the listening and sharing [...]
On Friday, Independent Age, along with The Mercers’ Company, published Lessons from Befriending in the time of Covid-19. Independent Age said "We are really grateful for the generous time and insight that many organisations supported by both ourselves and Mercers, to contribute to the report – and the vital work with older people of course". [...]
WE NEED YOU!! Trustee vacancies Do you have a strong interest in making sure that attention is paid to the needs of older people? Are you good at taking a strategic long-term view of how an organisation should develop? Do you have time and commitment to help a small charity to be sustainable into the [...]
OCAY is always recruiting new volunteers. It’s been really great that people still want to volunteer, despite the lockdown and Covid-19 Restrictions. We are looking for those who relish a challenge, those who want to give something back to their community, individuals who care about ensuring older citizens get a say, people looking to utilize [...]
This Month's Trustee Blog comes from Gillian Caldicott, one of our newest Trustees. Gillian talks about why she wanted to become a Trustee with OCAY and what she has learnt so far:"I became a Trustee of OCAY in March 2020, attended my first board meeting on 11th March and almost immediately the world changed as [...]
We just received a Bags of Help grant from Tesco for £1,000. It’s a scheme which gives community projects like us grants of up to £2,000. You can learn more at www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp Our grant will help to pay for the training of our brilliant team of volunteers. If we didn't have our volunteers, then we [...]
