Our Groups

Mixed Peer Support Group

Every Friday 11.30am - 3.00pm Cara Centre - contact Fiona for more information

This group is open to people living with HIV and offers:

Monthly programme of activities
Individual support with staff and volunteers
Free condoms / femidoms
Information library
Occasional workshops
Free lunch served at 1.30pm
May sessions: Friday 4th; 11th; 18th; 25th: Communion with Fr. Martin McManus (London Ecumenical AIDS Trust).
From July 2012 - March 2013 we're working once again with our friends at Hammersmith & Fulham Citizens Advice Bureau to bring you a series of interactive workshop sessions focused on How to Pay Those Bills & Keep a Roof Over Your Head. Each session runs 11am - 1pm, followed by lunch at our peer support group: Fri 20th July Dealing with Household Bills; Fri 17th August Budgeting for Priority and Non-Priority Bills & Debts; Fri 21st September Savings; Fri 19th October Attitudes to Money / Do you WANT it or NEED it? / Making Money go Further; Fri 16th November Fuel Bills: Energy Best Deal; Fri 18th January Banking and Bank Accounts; Fri 15th February Choosing Credit; Fri 15th March Wills. Please contact us HERE if you wish to attend.

Women's Group

Every Thursday. 11.00am - 3.00pm Cara Centre Cara - Map - contact Helen for more information

Run in partnership with Positively UK, this user-led group is open to women living with or affected by HIV and offers:

Individual support with staff and volunteers
Free lunch served at 1pm
Information library
Free condoms / femidoms
Occasional workshops and social trips
May sessions: Thursday 3rd: Beauty therapy with Jessica & Shaunna; 10th: Yoga class with Sue; 17th: Belly-dancing with Anne; 24th Zumba dance class with Liliana / Communion with Rev. Chris Rogers.

Senior Service Older People's Group

Sometimes, as you're getting older with HIV, it can help to meet up, socialise and share a meal with people of your own age.

Twice monthly mixed group and monthly Gay Men's group - both operating at various times and locations. Contact Fiona for more information.

This user-led group is open to older people (55+) living with HIV and offers:

Individual support with staff and volunteers
Social activities and organised trips (Brighton, Canterbury, British Museum etc.)
April activities: Tuesday 3rd - Tour of Royal Courts of Justice; Tuesday 17th - London sight-seeing bus tour and river boat cruise to Greenwich; Gay Men's Group Monday 30th - Imperial War Museum.
May activities: Tuesday 8th - day trip to Brighton; Tuesday 22nd - tour of London Freemasons' Hall.
June activities: Tuesday 12th - day trip to Amberley Museum; Tuesday 19th - day trip to Bournemouth; Gay Men's Group Thursday 28th: Soho Theatre trip to see Utopia.

Talking without prejudice: Evening Group

3rd Monday evening each month, 7pm - 9pm.

Information and support group, meets at Cara Centre. Please join us to share food, support and conversation.

Speakers on subjects including: Exercise & Keeping Fit; Work Related Issues; Treatments Update.

Next sessions:
Monday 21st May Politics and Economics of HIV in London: with Memory Sachikonye from UK Community Advisory Board HIV treatment advocates network and Garry Brough (tbc) from THT and Bloomsbury Patients Network

Monday 18th June Undetectable Viral Load - what are the implications and what does it mean? -discussion with Dr. Christopher Scott MBBS MRCP from Charing Cross Hospital West London Centre for Sexual Health

Monday 16th July Recreational Drugs and HIV - discussion with Dr. Christopher Hilton, Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry, from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Cara Kids summer holiday sessions

Most years we run weekly activities, such as trips to London Zoo or Windsor Legoland, during July & August. This year, because of the Olympic games potentially making travel around London a bit of a nightmare, we are planning to provide a beach holiday for children and families. Please contact us for more information.

Social Group

Frome time to time we run social activities for anyone with HIV to attend; in order to reduce isolation and increase peer support opportunities.
Recently, thanks to the generosity of the British Museum, we visited the exhibition Hajj: Journey to the heart of Islam. Watch this space for details of our next activity. Alternatively contact mail@caralife.com if you have any ideas for future activities.

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