TheyHelpYou

This service signposts the local community hubs in the UK providing support to vulnerable and shielding citizens during the Coronavirus pandemic.

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

All of our data is now live on https://t.co/mPPcuBwjMn.
Find help from your council: https://t.co/21HFPeMa4h
Volunteer locally: https://t.co/HaH1whM1QW
We'll keep our site up for the time being as an archive. Thank you to everyone who helped. Stay safe.

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

We'll be working with https://t.co/mPPcuBwjMn to donate some of our other data, and incorporate their updates back onto https://t.co/3qiI6YyxCo.
Thanks to the wonderful @GOVUK @GDSTeam for helping get this over the line, and for all the work you're doing at the moment 👏

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

We've donated our set of links for volunteering opportunities to https://t.co/mPPcuBwjMn. You can now enter your postcode there and find out how to volunteer to help locally, safely.
https://t.co/HaH1whM1QW

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

We've started collecting links for how people can volunteer. We've found links for 25% of the councils we're covering but we need your help to find the rest.
1. Open our spreadsheet https://t.co/RWqFFhcyXV
2. Find a council we're missing
3. Add their URL
Please 🙏

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

. @medway_council we'd like to include the contact details on our site for vulnerable people who need shielding in your area. Is there a link or phone number we can include please?

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

. @IoSCouncil we'd like to include the contact details on our site for vulnerable people who need shielding on the Isles of Scilly. Is there a link or phone number we can include please?

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

. @FlintshireCC we'd like to include the contact details on our site for vulnerable people who need shielding in your area. Is there a link or phone number we can include please?

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

Those needing help starting to receive it from local volunteers https://t.co/iaxtBxXUwr

[Surrey Coalition of Disabled People @SurreyCoalition]

The SCC Community Helpline now has an SMS number 07860 053465, for people who are D/deaf or hard of hearing. Operating 9am - 5pm, Mon-Fri. A Textphone (via text relay) facility via 18001 0300 200 1008 and the Sign Language Video Relay service during the hours 8am and 6pm,

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

Even if you don't live near your vulnerable loved ones, you can still help them. Get in touch with them and make sure they know who to contact. If you're healthy and able, contact your local hub and volunteer to help. They'll tell you how to do so safely.

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

If you know someone who would be on the NHS' Extremely Vulnerable list, and you don't live near enough to them to help them, use our site to look up their local Community Hub: https://t.co/A1tV3mOGNJ.
Find out what Extremely Vulnerable means: https://t.co/VLvFENXNKs

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

Councils across the UK are setting these up to help people who are shielding themselves because they're particularly high risk. There are 1.5 million people in this category who received a letter from the government last week.

[TheyHelpYou @theyhelpyouUK]

Find your local Community Hub that is providing support to vulnerable and shielding citizens using your postcode at https://t.co/4GN1PEU2sB