Tag: lifecare
LifeCare will warm older people up this winter – with your help
The Stockbridge-based charity which provides care and support for older people is asking for help in their Winter Warmer appeal.
LifeCare which has its café and hub on Cheyne Street is issuing a plea...
Lifesaving funding boost for LifeCare
The ScottishPower Foundation has granted more than £75,000 of funding which will help the Stockbridge based charity maintain their Meals on Wheels Service and Help at Home.
The free services reach more than 200 older...
Lifecare offer hairdressing at home for clients and carers
The COVID restrictions taught us all how much we value a visit to our local hairdresser to help us feel like ourselves, boost our self-esteem and to simply enjoy a chat and a catch-up...
LifeCare warmly welcomes new support in response to emergency appeal
LifeCare Edinburgh and Hibernian Community Foundation announce partnership benefitting local older people
Hibernian Community Foundation has announced an exciting new partnership with local older people’s charity LifeCare. The renowned charity provides positive care for hundreds...
LifeCare begins their Winter Warmer Appeal
Looking for a way to support older people and help them to keep warm this winter, Lifeacre Edinburgh, the charity based in Stockbridge, has begun an urgent appeal.
The Winter Warmer campaign will allow...
Leonardo employees raise vital funds for isolated older people in Edinburgh
Aerospace Engineering company chooses LifeCare Edinburgh as its new charity partner
Leonardo’s Edinburgh employees have voted to make LifeCare Edinburgh the focus of their charitable fundraising for the next two years.
The renowned charity, which turned...
Val McDermid cuts the ribbon at CafeLife in Stockbridge
Local crime author Val McDermid wielded a pair of scissors at the opening ceremony at CafeLife in Stockbridge on Thursday.
She officially reopened the revamped CafeLife community cafe on Cheyne Street in...
Haugh House residents walk for charity
Residents at an Edinburgh care home have completed a mile for every day in February to raise money for a charity which supports older people in the local community.
Haugh House residents stepped up to...
LifeCare celebrating 80 years of service
LifeCare Edinburgh, the older people’s care charity now based in Stockbridge, celebrates its 80th anniversary this month.
Established in September 1941, the local organisation offers a range of vital care and community services which...
Lifecare Edinburgh receives grant from Arnold Clark Community Fund
Older people’s care charity awarded £1,000 from the Arnold Clark Community Fund
LifeCare Edinburgh has received £1,000 from Arnold Clark’s Community Fund to help the charity deliver its essential care to hundreds of older people...
Café Life is open for breakfast and lunch once more
Café Life announces reopening for breakfast and lunch.
LifeCare Edinburgh has told us that they have reopened their popular community café, Café Life, on Cheyne Street, Stockbridge. The large, bright and comfortable space is now...
Lifecare has meals on wheels for the elderly
LifeCare Edinburgh, the older people’s support charity, is urgently extending its ‘meals on wheels’ service launched last year as increased support for the elderly through the crisis.
The charity set up the new service...
New boss appointed at Lifecare
Edinburgh charity Lifecare has appointed Damian McGowan as its new Chief Executive. Based in Stockbridge, the charity offers care and support for older people in the north of the city.
Mr McGowan has over 30...
LifeCare will run Meals on Wheels with new funding
LifeCare Edinburgh, the older people’s support charity, has secured £100,000 from Barclay’s 100x100 UK COVID-19 Community Relief Programme.
This significant funding will enable the Stockbridge based charity to deliver its important new ‘meals on...
Worbey & Farrell fundraising for LifeCare
Worbey & Farrell have teamed up with LifeCare, an Edinburgh charity in support of their work with the elderly, people with dementia and carers to hold a fantastic benefit concert.
Worbey & Farrell are musicians who live in Edinburgh – they have...
Thursday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
With Nerve and Heart and Mind: in her poem The German Ward, Vera Brittain wrote of how she worked with 'nerve and heart and mind' to match the courage and skill of the sister-in-charge, the only trained...