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Everybody needs good neighbours – the Torbay Coronavirus Helpline

Bob Jope by Bob Jope
March 25, 2020
in Community News

HUNDREDS of calls have been made to a helpline set up to match people who need help with those who want to help in the current coronavirus crisis.

Charitable and voluntary organisations have come together to provide a steady stream of non-medical advice and support for people in the Bay who are self-isolating.

In the first week of operation, the Torbay Coronavirus Helpline took more than 200 requests for help and nearly 500 offers of help of everything from prescription collections and shopping, to dog walking and phone befriending.

The helplines – 01803 446022 answered by Torbay Community Development Trust staff from 8 am to 8 pm, seven days a week and the Brixham Does Care direct line – 01803 857727 – staffed from 9 am to 4.30 pm, Monday to Friday have been fielding calls in a bid to help self-isolated and vulnerable people across the Bay.

Healthwatch Torbay has continued to stay up to date with all the latest information on their website: www.healthwatchtorbay.org.uk alongside fielding calls from worried individuals and both Age UK Torbay and Citizens Advice Torbay have also been helping with individual’s pleas for help.

The Torbay Help Hub which started life on Facebook and has now become a website in its own right at www.torbayhelphub.com has joined forces with the helpline. The Hub is concentrating on exchanging practical information alongside coordinating offers of help from businesses and keeping up to date with supermarket opening times.

Volunteers can sign up online at: www.bit.ly/torbayhelpline, and people who want to coordinate their own neighbourhoods can express their interest at: www.bit.ly/torbaymicrovol

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