Along Came Kirsty Charity Consultants, in partnership with charity PAMIS, have secured a grant of £197,788 from The Alliance Health and Social Care Scotland to train family carers in using technology to support people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD).
The PAMIS team will use the grant to implement the Manage IT project over the next two years. The project will help equip family members with the skills and knowledge required to support those in their care by using the latest technology.
In addition to the training for carers, the funding will enable PAMIS to recruit three members of staff and develop software and apps for the project. The Manage IT project will enable family carers to plan care for their daughter or son much more efficiently, and improve communication with health and social care services.
PAMIS is the only organisation in Scotland that works solely with people with PMLD. People with PMLD and their families face many barriers to accessing and participating in the community, and PAMIS works on a number of fronts to enable inclusion and improve their quality of life.
Along Came Kirsty provide a range of approaches such as writing fundraising strategies and applications for funding, evaluations, marketing and organising creative fundraising events. Since start up in February 2012, Along Came Kirsty has worked with a number of charities/social enterprises and supported them in securing over £500,000 in funding.
Director Kirsty Thomson says \'There is a demand from smaller charities for this input as they do not have the capacity to carry out many of these time consuming tasks and unfortunately without some of this vital work, charities risk loss of funding to both their core and project work\'.
