The guest speaker at September’s Tea and Talk will be Louise Morgan, Director for Scotland of the charity Carers Trust, which works to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems.
Louise Morgan
Louise’s talk takes place in All Saints at 2 pm on Thursday 1 September, with a presentation followed by questions and answers. Everyone is welcome.
Three out of five of us will become carers at some stage in our lives and 1 in 10 of us is already fulfilling some sort of caring role. There are an estimated 800,000 unpaid carers in Scotland, including 30,000 young carers under the age of 18. The value of unpaid care provided by carers in Scotland is estimated to be more than £10 billion a year.
Carers Trust Scotland, where Louise has worked for more than 18 years, is the largest provider of comprehensive carers support services in Scotland, reaching around 30,000 adult carers and 2,400 young carers throughout the country.
Louise herself cares for her mother, who has advanced COPD. Living in Ayrshire, she has three grown up sons and a passion for horse riding.
Carers Trust was founded in 2012 through a merger of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers and Crossroads Care.
The Princess Royal Trust was created on the initiative of Princess Anne in 1991 at a time when people caring at home for family members or friends with disabilities and chronic illnesses were scarcely recognised as requiring support.
Crossroads Care, established in 1974, took its name from the TV soap opera Crossroads, in which the problems of families caring for disabled people at home were highlighted by an accident to one of the characters.
