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MEA OVERVIEW
Morley Elderly Action is a
registered charity that helps and supports people over the age of 60 to
remain living independently within their own home environment. The area we
serve is Greater Morley, which includes the town of Morley and the six
other satellite villages of Churwell, Drighlington, Gildersome,
East Ardsley, West Ardsley, and Tingley. The area
covers 2.5 Council Wards, and there are over 10,000 older people residing
within these boundaries (Census, 2001).
We provide a diverse range of
quality services, which are determined by our service users and we run
projects in order to combat social isolation. Some of these include:
• Gardening
• Welfare Benefit information
• Help accessing relevant benefits or services.
• Liasion with the Police
• Advocacy to help older people execute and maintain their rights
We also provide services such as the provision of home
security items i.e. door locks, door chains, door scopes and security
lighting, and in conjunction with the Fire Service, we provide smoke
alarms.
Our growing team of volunteers (presently approx 100),
many of who are of retirement age themselves, carry out:
• Befriending
visits,
• Deliver meals on wheels,
• Provide administration support for ourselves and for other elderly
groups,
• Provide Morley Wheels, a voluntary community transport scheme.
We act in support of the following groups:
• Strollers
and the Scramblers Walking groups
• Arts group
• Craft group
• The Musers (men’s group)
• Three Lunch Clubs; The Smile, The Grove and a third one in
conjunction with Morley
High School.
We carry out home visits to assess the needs of our users and their carers,
and access services on their behalf. On Mondays to Fridays, for four hours
per day, we hold drop in sessions when older people can call in for support
and advice. We currently have over 1600 members,
and more than 2500 service users in our database, with this number growing
on a daily basis.
With three full time members
of staff, and despite our volunteers contributing over 11,000 hours of
service delivery input in 2006, we still unfortunately have waiting lists
for many of our services.
A small charge is levied for
some of our services including Morley Wheels, and the various lunch clubs.
Our gardening service is provided at a heavily subsidised charge and like
much of what we provide is over subscribed whilst being massively under
funded to meet the genuine and ever growing need for the provision of help
and care in the community.
We also have our
own Community Tea Rooms(Monday to Friday 10am – 2.00pm) in our
headquarters at Wesley House, 32 Wesley Street, Morley, and a very popular
coffee morning run by the Friends of Morley Elderly Action, every Tuesday
9.30am – 11.30am in Morley Town Hall.
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For further information you can contact at:
Westley
Street, Morley, Leeds, LS27 9ED
Tel: 0113 253 4484
Fax: 0113 253 4253
email:info@morleyelderlyaction.org.uk
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