Coronavirus: if you are able to offer help, please post here
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andysays
Love and solidarity
Great thread idea.
Don't know if anyone's mentioned it here yet, but existing Food Banks are one way in which help of various kinds could be organised.
Fozzie Bear has already posted a link to one in Hackney
and from their site I see that they are/were already looking for volunteers, including drivers to distribute and admin workers to co-ordinate things.
There's likely to be a growing need for these sort of networks to deliver stuff to those stuck indoors for a variety of reasons.
Don't know if anyone's mentioned it here yet, but existing Food Banks are one way in which help of various kinds could be organised.
Fozzie Bear has already posted a link to one in Hackney
and from their site I see that they are/were already looking for volunteers, including drivers to distribute and admin workers to co-ordinate things.
There's likely to be a growing need for these sort of networks to deliver stuff to those stuck indoors for a variety of reasons.
Didn't Bob do a song about it? With feedback?
Ooh, if it's not too out of order can Stig intro you to my mother for online Scrabble?Ooh and if anyone wants an online Scrabble opponent (who is crap) I can do that too!!
And for those of us with spare cash: give it to the Trussell Trust.
Make a One-Off Donation - The Trussell Trust
polly
Well-Known Member
As well as being able to help with shopping drops in the north Essex area, I am also really, really chatty. So if anyone feels lonely during isolation my conversations are open I'm not very interesting but I can chat shit all day long. (Though working hours until lock down weds to Fri school hours 
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I'm not very interesting but I can chat shit all day long. (Though working hours until lock down weds to Fri school hours )
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
editor
hiraethified
I think from now on people should ONLY post up in this thread when they need help.
It's very kind that people are offering, but it's making the thread unwieldy. I'll edit the title too.
Athos
Well-Known Member
Yes. My Dad had a heart op last year. I think it'd kill him if her got it. Other that facilitating his complete self- isolation, I'm not sure what else I can do.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
My nan is in her late nineties and is just getting over a chest infection (she is really susceptible to them), and has only recently moved into a care home who have asked visitors to stay away. Three of her four sons live local and she was having daily visits, but they are nearly all retired now and are meant to stay at home themselves. She is really switched on so to not see her children and the grand / great-grandchildren for months might be really difficult. I'm just glad she got to meet and spend time with her newest great-grandchild before all this kicked off, because for the next few months I think the only contact she is going to have with her family will be by letters, postcards etc (theres no phone in her room, and she is quite deaf anyway).
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Just tried to set up online delivery for parents... all the slots have gone for 3 weeks in all the local supermarkets.. I wonder if I try at midnight the next day will become available.
Lots of independent businesses are starting to do supermarket/takeaway style deliveries because people just aren't coming into their shops and it's the only way they're going to stay afloat. If you can't bring yourself to battle it out with Tescos this might be the worth asking around your local area about
Hollis
bloody furious
Yeah - the thing is they live 180 miles away, and are rather set in their ways! They also can't live off takeaways.. not only does this virus target the elderly, but the elderly are also least equipped to deal with it. . I am hoping i can arrange a mate locally to do shopping for them... though i know it is a big ask.
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Sorry what I meant by takeaway style was that some of the impromtu delivery services from different high street shops operate like how when you phone up a takeaway restaurant they send stuff out straight away, whereas other shops delivery services are more like a supermarket where you book a slot in advance. I was trying to describe how deliveries from eg the grocery stalls in your local market hall might be functioning rather than tell you that you should order takeaways. I can see how all this is a garbled mess though so I'm not suprised I confused you and in any case it sounds like it's not useful information for your specific situation. Super glad you found a resolution, good luck with it all
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
A few different separate groups of friends are doing this with virtual pub gatherings, tea and cake, movie night. I’ve not yet joined in but I probably will. Reminds me of times past on here when people would start a party thread.
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SheilaNaGig
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frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Panic over we are well stocked, but I might pm you about my grandma. X
people mentioning this on mutual aid sites, but without the caveat, if you can afford it, many vunerable people are already on their knees, some local shops are ok on price, most are not.
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