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Namaste Care Education and Resources

SC052410Registered charity from 16 March 2023
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Charity Information:
The Name the Charity is Known By NEAR
Address 24 Hillhouse Wynd
Kirknewton
Postcode EH278BU
Website www.namastecare-near.org
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
3 The organisation's purposes are: (a) Advancement of education (and its sustainability) for staff and family caring for people with advanced dementia in care homes, community orientated organisations and 'at home' formal/informal carers. NEAR will provide an education programme and supporting resources that will meet all of the needs set out below. - To provide education and resources to professional health and social care staff supporting people with advanced and end-stage dementia within institutional settings (such as care home, hospices or hospital), or at home. In time we hope to extend educational support to unpaid carers of people with advanced and end-stage dementia. - Raise awareness of the Namaste Care programme for people with advanced and end-stage dementia - a system of care demonstrated through research to improve experiences of people living and dying with advanced and end stage dementia. (b) Improving the health (physical, psycho-social, spiritual and emotional) of people with advanced dementia living and dying in care homes/care at home communicating through the senses, nutrition, hydration, connection with others, which all underpin the programme (c) Providing a programme designed to promote equality and diversity for people with advanced dementia through involvement within their community to overcome the inability to participate in normal activities. NEAR will promote equality, diversity and inclusion for people with advanced and end-stage dementia through raising awareness around people living with advanced dementia being amongst the highest population of inequality and discrimination globally. Having a cognitive disability that is not yet widely understood has led to the fundamental psycho-social and spiritual needs of people with advanced dementia currently not being met. By educating the people that care for those living with advanced dementia, NEAR's programme educates staff and unpaid carers in this cognitive disability, raising awareness. of the level of discrimination currently afforded to those living with advanced dementia and provides valuable information, resources and tools to be able to provide equality and inclusion to them. Also, there are inequalities within palliative and end of life care for this group, and improving knowledge and skills of professional health and social care staff to change practices around under-recognition and treatment of pain and agitation, communication challenges and lack of appropriate care in the last phase of life. (D) The programme provides relief of isolation and loneliness for those with advanced dementia through daily interaction with people providing Namaste Care
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
NEAR educates people who care for those with Advanced dementia in how to support them to achieve their best quality of life. This includes, understanding their unique changing needs, Namaste Care as a model of stage appropriate care, and providing tools to connect and communicate with each other, long after words are no longer available.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 16 Mar 2023
Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"
Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2024 £1 £0 30 Dec 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £4,246 £3,300 24 Nov 2025 Yes Download
31 Mar 2026 No Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
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Income and Expenditure:
Charity Trustees:
First Name Last Name
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