Pioneering Care Partnership

Background

Pioneering Care Partnership is an award winning charity established in 1998 providing “Health, Wellbeing and Learning for all.” The aim is to support people to be able to access ways to improve health, wellbeing and life chances for people with impairments and mental health issues. As a charity, they also help people with community support in regard to building confidence to reduce isolation through the County Durham Resilience team, one of many services established by the charity.

Facilities

There are a few different facilities, these are below:

First, the Hydrotherapy Pool, the idea behind the hydrotherapy pool is to relax muscles, alleviate pain and can benefit neurologic conditions. It is smaller than a regular pool and water temperature is minimum 32 degrees, this combined with movement and light exercise is very beneficial.

For more information Hydrotherapy Pool – Charity Newton Aycliffe | Pioneering Care Centre

The Community Garden is home to a garden gym and is run by a team of volunteers. It has also seen lots of different herbs, fruits, vegetables, spices grown. It is fully accessible for the community to visit.

For more information

Communty Garden – Charity | Pioneering Care Partnership

Another of the facilities is the Community Café, which is open from 09:30 until 15:00, Monday to Friday, the café offers a range of food and drink options. Breakfast is 09:30 until 11:30, lunch is 11:30-2pm. Drinks and cakes are served all day.

For more information

Garden Kitchen – Charity Newton Aycliffe | Pioneering Care Centre

Within the centre, there are bookable therapy rooms. These therapy rooms are used for Community Mental Health Teams to hold sessions with clients.

The services of Pioneering Care Partnership

In terms of services, there are various services that the charity runs.

County Durham Resilience Team- is a service that offers support for anyone who feels isolated or maybe they don’t meet many people or they just want to build confidence. Clients will be provided with 12 sessions with their worker who’s goal is to work with them so that they achieve goals around reducing isolation, confidence building etc.

https://www.pcp.uk.net/county-durham-resilience

Wellbeing for Life is another service delivered in partnership by PCP(Pioneering Care Partnership) & CDDFT(County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust). Wellbeing for Life promotes people to:

-Be more active

-Eat healthier & or lose weight

-Stop Smoking

-Improve Mental Wellbeing

-Training Opportunities

And more.

See https://www.pcp.uk.net/county-durham-wellbeing-for-life for more information

Options Club- 

Options Club is a member led service for adults with learning and physical disabilities. It is the longest running service under the Pioneering Care Partnership and has run since 1999. Some members have been there since day 1. Members of Options club are the heart of Pioneering Care Partnership. Options members have input on decisions on activities and educational activities and are a key part of day to day operations.

See https://www.pcp.uk.net/options for more information.

See additional services https://www.pcp.uk.net/projects-and-services

Accessibility of the Partnership

The centre is accessible to those who have additional accessibility requirements

• Double Automatic Doors
• Toilets on lower floor & upper floor
• Lift
• Wheelchair access to Hydrotherapy Pool through wheelchair access
• Parking, blue badge parking spots are the closest to the entrance of the centre.

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