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Employee Appreciation Giveaway Winners!

Employee Appreciation Giveaway Winners!


Creative Support Employee Appreciation Giveaway Winners! Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate someone in our Employee Appreciation Giveaway. Once again, we’ve received some fantastic examples of the wonderful work of staff across the country. We have selected the top 10 winners for this month. All will…

Employee Appreciation Giveaway  – Quarterly Prize Draw!

Employee Appreciation Giveaway – Quarterly Prize Draw!


As part of our Employee Appreciation Giveaway, we are entering all 10 winners from the previous three months into a Quarterly Prize Draw. For the big quarterly prize, we would like to offer our winners a choice of either: 🎉 2 days of extra annual leave ✨ An experience of…

Working Towards a ‘No Blame’ Culture in Care

Working Towards a ‘No Blame’ Culture in Care


Article written by the Customer Care Team One of the key ways we work here at Creative Support is ensuring everyone knows and acts on their duty of care. Our staff should feel empowered to act upon their duty of care in a ‘no blame’ culture without fear of reprisal.…

National Safeguarding Adults Week

National Safeguarding Adults Week


This week marks National Safeguarding Adults Week. Over the course of this week, we’ll be sharing information on the ways you can help to safeguard vulnerable adults, as well as the kinds of safeguarding issues to look out for. ‘Safeguarding’ means protecting the health, wellbeing, and human rights of people…

Create Open Cultures – Prevent Closed Cultures

Create Open Cultures – Prevent Closed Cultures


You should be able to speak out about any poor practice in your service. Open Cultures aims to create a safe and inclusive environment for you to do this. “People using services that have closed cultures are more likely to be at risk of abuse, avoidable harm and breeches of…

Share Your Stories!

Share Your Stories!


We want to share your stories! As we come to the close of 2021, we want to take this time to reflect on the past year and talk about everything we’ve achieved over the last twelve months. We would like to invite you to get involved and share with us…

November’s Dorman’s Disco


Join us in November for another Dorman's Disco! The event will be held on Tuesday, 23 November 2021 7-9pm at Dorman Long United Athletic Club, Oxford Road, Linthorpe, TS5 5DT. Register for tickets through the link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/november-dormans-disco-tickets-203163305917 Payment is taken at the door. Tickets are £3, carers are FREE. The…

Design our Creative Support Celebration Card!

Design our Creative Support Celebration Card!


This month, as part of our Creative Competition, we would like you to design a celebration card, which can be sent to both staff and service users to acknowledge their fantastic achievements! Our Creative Champion will see their design professionally printed, and win a £10 ‘Love2shop’ voucher and a Be…

Would you like to ask a question to our Board of Trustees?

Would you like to ask a question to our Board of Trustees?


Members of the Board will be interested to hear from service users in a live Zoom meeting on Tuesday 2nd November from 2pm - 3.30pm Service users are welcome to join the Zoom meeting, raise issues or ask questions themselves, or alternatively our host can ask them. All questions will…

World Menopause Day

World Menopause Day


Today marks World Menopause Day, established to create awareness of the menopause and of the support options available for improving health and wellbeing. The menopause typically occurs between the ages of 45 to 55, with the average starting age being 51. It is a naturally occurring process when the body…