Caring Hands Charity

Better Daily Living

Caring Hands can offer you options which can help to maintain or improve how you manage day to day tasks which may be getting a little more difficult; helping you to remain in your home for longer. This includes:

Laundry Collection and Delivery service . They can collect laundry from your home, wash, dry, fold and deliver it back on the same day.

Small Items of Equipment . They can provide small equipment aids, free of charge, by referral from a health professional

Handyman and Gardening. They can help with gardening, gardening clean ups, small repairs, decorating and household tasks

Advice and Advocacy

All advice is impartial and completely confidential.

The Welfare Benefits Advice service is free and available to people who live in the East End of Newcastle upon Tyne. Their independent advisors can do a benefit check to make sure you are receiving the correct entitlement. They can also help with benefit applications.

First Stop Advice service can answer your queries and offer you information on some supporting organisations that could benefit your situation. 

Wellbeing

Wellbeing services to provide social opportunities, activities and support.

Friendly visits  and telephone chats: Caring Hands volunteers can visit people at home, in hospital or care settings and over the phone.

Counselling: They have personal one to one counselling support provided by student counsellors in training from local universities

Groups: Caring Hands has several group activities available

Caring Hands Community Launderette

Located nearby to to Caring Hands at 38 Wretham Place, The Community Launderette is open to the general public. For a price list please visit their launderette page or contact

MONDAY 8:30am – 2pm  (last wash 1.00pm)

TUESDAY 8:30am – 1:45pm  (last wash 12.30pm)

WEDNESDAY 2pm – 5pm (last wash 4.00pm)

THURSDAY  8:30am – 2:00pm (last wash 1pm)

FRIDAY – CLOSED

SATURDAY 8:30am – 2pm (last wash 1.00pm)

SUNDAY CLOSED