Drumnadrochit community unites to give support to those in need
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COMMUNITY spirit is helping ensure those most in need are being well looked after in Drumnadrochit.
The Glenurquhart Care Project, which runs a lunch club and befriending project for the elderly and vulnerable, has been extending its reach in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Tasha MacNicol (28), fundraiser and befriending project co-ordinator, said villagers had risen to the challenge of making sure everyone stays safe.
She said: “We normally run a drop-in care centre where elderly and vulnerable people come along and get the support they need. We help people with personal care, having a meal and some social time.
“But since March everything has been turned on its head. We are no longer following the rule book of what we used to do. We can’t because of the risk of infection.
“With everything that is going on we have had to close our service as it was and find a new way of working so we can continue to help.”
Now working with Glenurquhart Community Council, the local health centre and pharmacy team and the Glenurquhart wind farm rural community fund she said: “We have a bank of volunteers and they have been phenomenal in taking it all on board.”
“We are providing our service seven days a week. Thanks to staff who are continuing to work in the kitchens, we are able to deliver meals to people. We are also supporting people not able to get out the house because they are self isolating or have Covid–19. That means we are getting groceries and prescriptions to people daily. We are also making welfare calls to anyone who would like them.
“The sense of community is overwhelming.”
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