Skip for Carers Registration Form

Carers are on their feet all day, providing care and support to individuals and families. This can cause a myriad of health complications and uncomfortable effects, including issues like:

* Leg cramps

* Exhaustion and fatigue.

* Backache.

* Plantar fasciitis,

* Bunions and corns: and

* Excess pressure on the joints

Black Women in Care is raising £10,000 to Support frontline workers in caring for their health and wellbeing. We aim to support at least 20 carers and their families to offset their cost of living.

Skip for carers- this is an event created by BWIC that encourages people to skip/walk-in carers’ shoes by taking 2000 steps or doing 200 skips daily for ten days to support carers.

From assisting with grooming and getting dressed to grocery shopping with their allergy in mind, preparing and serving meals at the right time considering patient preference, giving mental and emotional care to supporting patients to their favourite café for coffee or beloved park some fresh air, and making suggestions to family members and healthcare staffs on the care plan ideas, caring for others can be very fulfilling, although it can as well be very demanding; mentally, physically, and emotionally. It involves a deep level of dedication that makes it more than just a job – it is a profession.

One main issue for carers is the fact that they are either standing all day or walking from one home to the other in order to provide adequate care for service users in their own home, causing a myriad of health complications and uncomfortable effects, including issues like:

* Leg cramps

* Exhaustion and fatigue.

* Backache.

* Plantar fasciitis,

* Bunions and corns: and

* Excess pressure on the joints

Though black, other minority groups and white carers encounter high levels of these complications and uncomfortable effects and other complexities in their caring role, black carers are well-known to experience distinctive challenges in gaining access to support services due to a lack of self-identification among black carers causing the lack of policy inclusion of their needs, deepened by conventional assumptions of their needs and how it should be supported.

Skip for Carers is an event created by BWIC that encourages people to skip or walk in carers’ shoes by taking 2000 steps or doing 200 skips daily for 10 days to support carers.

If you would like to be a part of and are unsure how to join the Black Women in Care one-million-skips-for-carers challenge, you can create a personal or team fundraising link to this cause to support us in reaching our target.

If you would like to be a part of the Black Women in Care one-million-skips-for-carers challenge, please share the registration link here and share with your network, or visit our just giving page here

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