It's Carers Week
We're fully supporting this year's theme of "Make Caring Visible and Valued" with events throughout the week.
Help for carers
Our service is confidential, independent and free.
This service provides up-to-date information and advice to people of any age and with any disability, older people, their families, carers, friends and associated professionals throughout Bedfordshire and Luton.
Please fill in this form to ask us a question or to book a one-to-one appointment.
Practical support for unpaid carers in Luton.
Welcome to Carers Central, where we are completely dedicated to helping unpaid carers living or working in Luton.
Carer support group meetings
Due to the coronavirus situation and government advice to stay at home all our Carers Central carers support groups are cancelled until further notice.
If you would like to participate in a virtual carers meeting using the online Zoom app then please contact Levi or Sally on 0300 303 0201.
We are still here to help and support you during this period of social isolation.
If you know a carer in need or are one yourself, please do continue to contact us – we are here to help in any way we can.
Call us during office hours on 0300 303 0201
Or email us and we’ll get straight back to you.
The new Carers Central service
We’ve built this service to support unpaid carers across Luton, funded by Luton Council in partnership with NHS Luton Clinical Commissioning Group.
We have a website especially created to help support carers in Luton please take a look and we hope you’ll find the information on this page to be useful.
Free care skills training
Free online training courses for PAs in care and unpaid carers. Now you can access our popular free workshops online, anytime, with our free online courses. We have over 30 mini-courses including Mental Health Awareness, Dementia Awareness, Health and safety, Safeguarding Adults, Autism awareness, Infection control, Epilepsy Awareness and Deaf Awareness.
Free exercise classes and equipment
More free exercise classes for Bedfordshire and Luton residents only. We have received new funding to provide free exercise and Yoga classes live online. We can help you with free exercise equipment hire and laptop/tablet hire too.
Wheelchair hire
Our wheelchair hire service has now reopened following COVID-19 safety guidelines. So we can help when you have a temporary need for a manual wheelchair.
Our newsletters…
Read all our latest newsletters and emails full of events, news and all the ways we help disabled people and carers every week of the year…
AdviceCentral – Your open door to advice in Central Bedfordshire
We provide a free telephone and website service helping residents of Central Bedfordshire to access advice services both locally and across the UK. Funded by Central Bedfordshire Council.
Join our team of superhero volunteers
If you would like to volunteer remotely to help our charity team or as part of a work placement then we would love to hear from you. Our volunteers gain valuable experience and really enjoy helping out in many different departments including marketing, helpdesk, admin, social media and research.
Help with housing
Over 20 links to useful websites and information helping you with housing, for people across Bedfordshire.
What is your role as a carer?
Are you are a full-time carer or part-time carer? Or perhaps you are a long distance carer. Take a look at the help that is available whatever your type of caring role.
Caring for yourself
When you are a carer it is sometimes difficult to remember that you need to care for your own health too. So we have compiled some useful tips and links to help you keep healthy.
Carers helping carers
We’ve been impressed with the help available on the CarersUK online forum. It’s a place to ask questions, with other carers providing the answers. There’s lots of useful tips and plenty of sympathetic support.
All about “Carer’s Assessment”
See our our step-by-step guide to everything you need to know about “Carer’s Assessment”.
Know your rights as a carer
Be in the know with the help of the expert guide to ‘carers rights’ from Carers UK. The guide gives a full picture of the practical and financial support available to carers.