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
- April sessions: Friday 5th: Manicures & Pedicures; 12th: Peer Support; 19th: Peer Support; 26th: Guest speaker - Fr Martin McManus
- May sessions: Friday 3rd: Manicures & Pedicures; 10th: Peer Support; 17th: Peer Support; 24th: Peer Support; 31st: Guest speaker - Fr Martin McManus
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
- April sessions: Thursday 4th: Beauty Therapy with Shauna; 11th: Yoga with Lauren; 18th: Belly-dancing class with Anne; 25th: Zumba dance class with Liliana (LUKAS Zumba teacher of the year).
- May sessions: 2nd: Beauty Therapy with Shauna; 9th: Yoga class with Lauren; 16th: Belly Dancing class with Anne; 23rd: Zumba dance class with Liliana; 30th: workshop with Sylvia Alfred (Gilead).
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 9th - Greenwich by boat and the Cutty Sark / Gay men's group Shepherds Bush brunch meet (1); Tuesday 26th - Gay men's group Shepherds Bush brunch meet (2); Tuesday 23rd - Exclusive behind-the-scenes trip to Metropolitan Police Lambeth Central Communication Command
- May activities - Tuesday 7th - London Eye; Tuesday 21st - Christ's Hospital school lunchtime recital
- June activities - Tuesday 4th - Bournemouth seaside trip; Tuesday 18th - UCL/Museum of London lunchtime lecture: How London's black death became a tropical disease
- September activities - Monday 16th - Thursday 19th: Senior Gay Men's residential trip to Cornwall to visit KPS Trebullom.
Thanks to Elton John AIDS Foundation for supporting our social activities for older people.
Talking without prejudice: Evening Group
3rd Wednesday 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.
2013 sessions:
Wednesday 20th February: HIV & Recreational Drugs - with Dr. Christopher Hilton, Speciality Registrar in Psychiatry, Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Wednesday 20th March: HIV, Health & Faith - with Fr. Martin McManus
Wednesday 15th May: HIV & Mental Health & Well-being - with Dr. Pepe Catalan, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
Cara Kids summer holiday sessions
Kids' summer camps 2013
We're pleased to be able offer FREE places at a number of activity camps for Kids over Summer 2013. Based in a beautiful farmhouse in the heart of the Cornish countryside, Kids Camps will offer a wide range of activities for 9 -15 year olds (plus parent or guardian), both onsite and around the County. Click HERE for more information about the venue or email Chris to ask about a referral.
Thanks to our friends at Kernow Positive Support for making this possible.
Social Group
From 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 exhibitions Hajj: Journey to the heart of Islam, Shakespeare - staging the world and Ice Age Art - arrival of the modern mind
Next Trip: March 2013 Life and Death: Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum.
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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