Caring Town Totnes

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Caring Town Totnes is a collaboration of over 70 local public, voluntary and private health and social care providers. The Caring Town Totnes Network includes referral organisations and service providers such as the Moor to Sea Local Commissioning Group, South Devon & Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group as well as Social Services commissioning groups, DCC adult social care, and NHS GP practices; plus organisations that cover life stages from birth to death such as the Daisy Child Care Centre and  Totnes Caring; other need-specific voluntary sector organisations like the Memory Café; small private and community owned enterprises that offer services such as home care; and support organisations including the Community Police, Totnes Job Centre, CVS, CAB, local churches, South Hams District Council and Totnes Town Council.

These people are on the frontline – they know most expertly what is needed in Totnes and the reality of our overburdened public services. They report that the spending cuts and increased demand for all modes of support is resulting in significant strain on both residents and services (be they statutory, private or voluntary), and we all know that more cuts are coming as the austerity agenda is pursued while demand increases with our ageing population.

Other issues reported by our local sector include a lack of appropriate venues; little time for volunteer recruitment; finding good quality staff; fundraising is getting harder and more competitive; challenges in accessing the local market and raising their profile;  little time to network; and a feeling that we are not reaching the most vulnerable and that services are not joined up enough.

However our shared view that this is a huge opportunity to provide services which meet people’s needs in a far better way, and collectively we have the ideas and likely solutions for many of the issues we face.

Since 2013, we have together been laying the foundations for a transformation in how we support all of us in our community, and particularly the most vulnerable. Our joint vision is of an integrated, mutually supportive and highly accessible local network and marketplace, combining professional and voluntary capacity working collaboratively to support those most in need.