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Design our Creative Support Celebration Card!

Design our Creative Support Celebration Card!


This month, as part of our Creative Competition, we would like you to design a celebration card, which can be sent to both staff and service users to acknowledge their fantastic achievements! Our Creative Champion will see their design professionally printed, and win a £10 ‘Love2shop’ voucher and a Be…

Would you like to ask a question to our Board of Trustees?

Would you like to ask a question to our Board of Trustees?


Members of the Board will be interested to hear from service users in a live Zoom meeting on Tuesday 2nd November from 2pm - 3.30pm Service users are welcome to join the Zoom meeting, raise issues or ask questions themselves, or alternatively our host can ask them. All questions will…

World Menopause Day

World Menopause Day


Today marks World Menopause Day, established to create awareness of the menopause and of the support options available for improving health and wellbeing. The menopause typically occurs between the ages of 45 to 55, with the average starting age being 51. It is a naturally occurring process when the body…

Employee Appreciation Giveaway Winners!

Employee Appreciation Giveaway Winners!


Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate someone in our Employee Appreciation Giveaway. We received some fantastic examples of the wonderful things you have done for one another. We have selected the Top 10 winners for this month, all will be receiving a delicious box of Hotel…

Take part in our 2021 Service User Satisfaction Survey

Take part in our 2021 Service User Satisfaction Survey


We value the views of our service users and are launching our 2021 Service User Satisfaction survey, an opportunity for us to find out how we are doing and how we can improve as a service provider. Thanks to you we were delighted with the outcomes of our 2020 survey. We…

Creative Support Art Competition 2021 – Place Your Votes!


We have been blown away by this year’s entries to our Art Competition - over 80 service users sent in over 100 pieces of art in the hope to star in our 2022 calendar! As always, the creative talent of the people we support has been incredible, and we would…

Join Creative Voices – Tuesday 14th September!

Join Creative Voices – Tuesday 14th September!


Creative Voices is a national service user forum - join us for our first meeting. The forum is about the organisation listening to you about your ideas and thoughts for Creative Support. We hope to welcome more involvement in our wonderful 30 year old company. Please join us on Zoom…

Take part in our 2021 Art Competition!

Take part in our 2021 Art Competition!


It’s time to get creative - our Art Competition is back! We would like you to send us your paintings, drawings, models, sculptures, crotchet, embroidery, photography or whatever other creative endeavors you enjoy. Our panel of judges will select 12 creations to feature on our 2022 Creative Support Calendar! How…

July 2021 Exceptional Staff Achieve Q Winners

July 2021 Exceptional Staff Achieve Q Winners


Creative Support strives to achieve a high-quality service at all times, through our support workers, service managers and teams. As we are still living and working through the Covid-19 pandemic we want to continue to recognise the exceptional efforts our staff are making at this time. Congratulations to all of…

Service User Awards

Service User Awards


Our Service User Award Winners - July 2021! Welcome to the July edition of the Service User Awards newsletter, where we recognise the amazing achievements of our service users and tenants across the country. It was truly humbling to hear about our service users achievements and how individuals have overcome…

Policy and Documents Search Functionality


You can now search for any Creative Support policy or document directly from the policies page in the staff area. You can search either by the exact name of a policy/document or by using a keyword, e.g. “Safeguarding Adults”, “cars”, “petty cash”, “certificate” etc.  This search can also be used…

International Non-Binary people’s day

International Non-Binary people’s day


This week is Non-Binary Awareness Week with today Wednesday 14th, being International Non-Binary people’s day. Here at head office, the LGBT+ Network have put together a International Non Binary Day poster to mark this special day and to spread awareness about what it means to be Non-Binary! We would like to…

Staff Prize Draw Winners


To show our staff how much we appreciate and value their hard work and dedication during these challenging times, we will be continuing to run our weekly random staff draw from Thursday 23rd July. Every week, we will randomly select one of our contracted staff to win £100 in supermarket…

June 2021 Exceptional Staff Achieve Q Winners

June 2021 Exceptional Staff Achieve Q Winners


Creative Support strives to achieve a high-quality service at all times, through our support workers, service managers and teams. This year we have seen an incredible sense of collective purpose to make things work and maintain an excellent level of service for the people we support. As we are still…

Raising Dysphagia Awareness

Raising Dysphagia Awareness


Dysphagia is a medical term for describing swallowing problems. There are different types of dysphagia but it is usually caused by issues with the nerves and muscles involved in swallowing. Some people may have difficulty swallowing certain foods and liquids whereas others can’t swallow at all. The main complication of…

Introduction to Learning Disability Month

Introduction to Learning Disability Month


Welcome to June and our Learning Disability Month! Throughout the next four weeks, we’ll be sharing lots of articles and information all about learning disabilities to help people better understand what they are and to celebrate and support people with them. Approximately 1.2 million people in England have a learning…

Apply for a Green Grant today!

Apply for a Green Grant today!


As part of national ‘Mental Health Awareness Week’, this week we’ll be focusing on the theme of nature and launching our ‘Green Grants’ initiative. Nature has so many proven benefits to our mental wellbeing, and over the past year people have developed a new found appreciation of getting out in…

Staff Wellbeing Newsletter

Staff Wellbeing Newsletter


Welcome to May! This month we’ll be focusing on Mental Health and will be sharing articles and stories full of information about mental health and wellbeing. We’ll be talking about mental health disorders, conditions, and other mental health needs along with providing interesting resources. This first week we’ll be taking…

Our #CelebratingDiversity Autism Month Newsletter is now available!

Our #CelebratingDiversity Autism Month Newsletter is now available!


As part of our yearly theme #CelebratingDiversiy, this month we have been celebrating autism and neurodiversity! With the help of our fantastic colleagues and service users, we have included information, resources and stories, providing a platform for people to share their own unique experiences and perspectives of autism! By creating…