Wetherby in Support of the Elderly’s (WiSE) has coordinated efforts with local community outreach agencies to provide 250 winter warmer packs to older and vulnerable people. WiSE’s support comes at a time when heating bills remain astronomically high and winter fuel payments for have been cut, leaving many older people at risk of fuel poverty….
A swell of demand has prompted a much loved Wetherby charity café to extend its opening by an extra day. The WiSE Owl Café celebrated its 10th birthday last year, but organisers say its new Friday opening is in response to the growing range of customers pouring through its doors. Wetherby in Support of the…
Wetherby in Support of the Elderly (WiSE) is appealing for handmade Christmas cards for its popular postal scheme designed to reduce isolation and loneliness. WiSE would like volunteers to help them ‘send a smile’ to over 60s over the festive period – and say that someone is thinking of them. This is the third Christmas…
A charity café visited by almost 4,000 people across Wetherby has celebrated its second birthday. Wetherby in Support of the Elderly (WiSE) launched its Welcome Café two years ago to support people of all ages as they battled the cost of living crisis. The café proved so successful over its 102 weekly sessions that the…
Wetherby in Support of the Elderly (WiSE) wants sponsors to help a hamper appeal which aims to curb isolation across the district. WiSE hopes residents and businesses will donate cash or goods which can then be turned into hampers which will raise money at raffles throughout the year. WiSE fundraisers say money raised through the…
Wetherby in Support of the Elderly (WiSE) has reported a big jump in the number of people accessing its services, as demand in the district grows. The number of survey respondents who said they access services provided by WiSE at least once a week leapt from 30 to 54 per cent year-on-year. Calls for extra…
A popular charity postal scheme needs poppy-themed cards to help Wetherby older people mark Remembrance Day. Wetherby in Support of the Elderly is making an early call for crafty kids and volunteers to hand make the cards, which will then be sent to over 60s across the district in November. It’s all part of WiSE’s…
Wetherby in Support of the Elderly’s (WiSE) is appealing for superhero kids to make cards over the school holidays to make isolated older people smile. WiSE’s ‘Send A Smile’ scheme aims to cut feelings of isolation and loneliness by asking people to spare 10 minutes to send an older person some handmade post. Now the…
A Wetherby charity volunteer who lost two grandparents during the Covid-19 pandemic is raising money for older people in a bid to reduce loneliness. Mal Leszczynska will run a half marathon for Wetherby in Support of the Elderly (WiSE) having seen how lonely her nana and grandma had become in the last years of their…
A Wetherby woman’s tombola marathon will raise money for older people as a thank you for her dad’s dementia support. Adele Fairburn plans to run tombolas at her 15 Bee Crafty Markets throughout the year to boost funds for Wetherby in Support of the Elderly (WiSE). The charity hosts a memory café which Adele says…
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