Perth & Kinross Association of Voluntary Service (360G-SCVO-a0g0N00002FvTWvQAN)

We would like to work in partnership with Lead Scotland. They are a voluntary organisation which is set up to empower disabled young people and adults and carers across Scotland to access learning opportunities. We would like to work with them around raising awareness of the Jointly APP created by Carers UK. Jointly APP is an innovative mobile and online app that is designed by carers for carers. Jointly makes caring easier, less stressful and more organised by making communicationand coordination between those who share the care as easy as a text message. PKAVS would like to work in partnership with Lead Scotland in training up our staff and volunteers who have direct access with carers on how to set up and use the Jointly app. We would then like to work with Lead Scotland on delivering group sessions for carers as well as the option for Lead Scotland staff to accompany PKAVS support workers to carers homes so they can be shown how to set up the app. These home visits may be particularly beneficial due to the geography of Perth & Kinross meaning that it isn't always possible for carers to be able to travel to a central point for these opportunities. Ideally we would like Lead to deliver 3 two hour sessions in August to PKAVS staff and volunteers on this Jointly app. Depending on numbers attending that Lead would think manageable we may also be able to extend an invite out to staff from other third sector carer related organisations for them to attend these training sessions too. We would then like to look to set up 2 training sessions each month (2 hours each) for groups of carers to attend. These would be delivered throughout Perth & Kinross and not just in Perth City. We would also like to retain some of this time though just in case there was the need to do some home visits to carers (especially those living in very rural locations who cant easily access transport). We have allocated a budget for 30 one to one visits during the 6 months from October to March (this would give us the time needed from receiving the funding to promoting then setting up these groups). The only other thing we would like funded is 3 tablets. Not all carers will have access to their own device to see the app. What we'd like to do is have some available to take on home visits and possibly leave with the carer for a spell to see if the app helps. If this was the case we could then put in an application to our Time4Me respite fund for carers so we wouldn't just take the tablet back but could instead award up to £250 to the carer to purchase one of their own if they had found having this available to them really beneficial.