PLEASE HELP SAVE ENDIKE COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE FROM CLOSING!!

Endike community care centre has been a local lifeline for people of hull for over 30 years, and has evolved from being a day centre for elderly to one of the cities main support centres for dementia sufferers and their families. The centre is open 7 days a week and is host to not only a great number of elderly and people living with memory impairment, but plays a vital role in the community being a hub for Local works group, Rise academy, Sirius, Betta Dayz, Tigers trust, R&R Caring hands, Reds Kitchen, Colin's Martial arts classes, Acro aerobics, and Boxersize sessions... all of these are community groups for kids and adults in the community.

For the past few years, funding had began being gradually cut by Hull City council and then was fully taken away in 2023, council funding is now non existent and the centre have been running solely on donations. As many are aware in the current climate of the cost of living crisis, this would not be sustainable without the much needed funding for adult social care being reinstated, funds have unfortunately now gotten down to the point the centre WILL CLOSE without something drastic in the way of help now!

I am asking for help in anything you may be able to spare, this centre Cannot close! Endike centre is a huge part of Hull's community and would be a great loss to the city.

Issues are being raised currently with the Prime minister across adult social care for funding and practices to be relooked at and given the much needed boost. While this is good the discussions are taking place, decisions like this take time, and whilst this goes on and debates are taking place within Parliament it is people like the attendees of Endike Community centre that are affected when nothing is done immediately. Funding is needed NOW!

Over 60 elderly service users living with disabilities and memory impairment will be affected, their families who rely on the centre for being their only ability to carry on working or shopping or carrying out daily tasks whilst knowing their loved one is being cared for and fed. All of the young people who attend sessions out of mainstream schooling, or school holiday groups.

The young adults attending care groups will be affected, and community members who are all a part of a centre that has grown within the community to something many people have come to rely on.

We cannot let them close without a fight, it shouldn't be that I'm having to ask for donations for a care centre attended by so many, because the care sector you would expect to be already covered by government funding. Aging is an inevitably and illness like dementia and alzeheimers are becoming something more heard of and diagnosed in people of all ages. This SHOULD be reason enough for rolling funding to exist for the types of facilities like Endike Community centre.

But, I am asking and pleading for you to donate something, anything you can. Many people don't consider they'll have a need for a place such as Endike centre, until you do. If we don't act now, there won't be a place such as this centre in Hull or surrounding.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, I will include some links to Endike Facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/share/1DMeHeH5yn/

And a further link to news article covering their fight for funding.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c722gg96454o.amp