OPAL Befriending Services
- OPAL provides a range of Befriending Services for older people who for one reason or another cannot take part in face to face services.
Older People Active Lives
- OPAL provides a range of services for older people and the carers of older people in the rural areas of west Cheshire. Please click the link to find out more.
Become a Volunteer – Do Something Great!
- “OPAL Services truly is a remarkable organisation which provides what I can only describe as a lifeline for older residents in rural villages throughout West Cheshire,” ... “Thanks to their team of very special volunteers it puts smiles on people’s faces and it brings happiness and purpose back into the lives of many.” David Briggs, Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire.
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OPAL Services
OPAL In Touch
A service to enable older people with little or no prior experience of using IT, get connected.
Clubs and more…
A suite of services for older people who may find it difficult to take part in community social activities.
Breaktime Plus
A redesigned flexible support service for the Carers of older people living in rural West Cheshire.
GoOnline
A service aimed at helping older people in rural areas access the internet.
Branching Out
Provides support to older people to take up or renew interests in hobbies and community activities
What’s Cooking
Provides support to older people to re-kindle an interest in cooking for themselves
Recent News
‘Making caring visible, valued and supported’
Afternoon Tea for Carers – Wednesday 8th June, 2-4pm To celebrate Carers Week, Opal is hosting an afternoon tea with music at the Deeside Ramblers Hockey Club near Tarporley on Wednesday 8th June between 2pm and 4pm. If you are an unpaid carer aged 60 + or caring for someone over 60+ in west Cheshire,
Read MoreOPAL Matters June 2022 – Volunteers’ edition
Our June edition of OPAL Matters celebrates Volunteers’ Week 2022 and applauds the work of the amazing volunteers who underpin the work of OPAL Services. OPAL would like to thank each and every one of them for being such an important part of our Charity. This issue also reports on the visit to Buckingham Palace
Read MoreOPAL Volunteers go to Buckingham Palace
Wednesday 18th May was a wonderful day for Mary Thompson and Lesley Duggan, two OPAL Volunteers who were chosen to represent OPAL at the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace to mark the fact that OPAL Volunteers have attained the prestigeous Queen’s Award for Volunteering. The weather was perfect – blue sky and sunshine, but not
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