Warm sleep project launches in Perthshire

The service aims to help pensioners who may be worried about their heating bills over the winter period.

The Warm Sleep Project aims to help pensioners who may be worried about their heating bills and more likely to live and sleep in cold conditions – with negative impacts on their health and wellbeing.

Local voluntary and community organisations, including older carers’ groups, are being invited to help identify seniors who would benefit, to ensure that winter duvets and blankets reach people most in need.

Project Co-ordinator Linda Grant explains: ‘We will aim to provide brand new winter duvets (13.5 Tog) and also new blankets, where required, through financial support from local Trusts and Foundations’.

She adds: 'We are not asking people to gift us quilts or blankets, because the cost of collecting them would be prohibitive. But we are asking community and voluntary organisations, as well as local residents, to help us identify older people in need, especially in our more isolated rural areas.'

'As soon as we are made aware of the level of need, we will act to address that need as soon as we can and get warm duvets out to older members of our communities before the winter sets in. This is just a small gesture to let them know that their community cares about their comfort, health and wellbeing,’ says Linda.

Local organisations and individuals are invited to request help for themselves or seniors they know. To get in touch, visit www.generatingopportunity.com.