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Celebrating carers through poetry
Why is an insurance company publishing poetry?
A collection of poems about the care sector organised by an insurer isn’t something you see every day. Earlier this year, Ecclesiastical commissioned a national survey examining the value that our society places on carers and the work they do. The findings of our survey showed that the majority of people in the UK believe that carers are chronically undervalued – so we set out to do something that might help rectify the situation. We produced People Who Care because we wanted to celebrate the role of the carer.
In order to shed a different light on the work of carers, we asked four talented poets to visit four different care situations for a day to observe the work that went on and to focus on the people delivering the care. Those experiences were then translated into four new poems.
Michael Tripp,
Group Chief Executive Ecclesiastical Insurance, Gloucester July 2009
Please use the links below to read the poems. Download our people who care pamphlet now. You can also listen to a reading of Clare Pollard’s poem, written following a visit to Leckhampton Court, a Sue Ryder Care Hospice in Cheltenham.
Sue Ryder Care Hospice, Gloucestershire
Clare Pollard visited Sue Ryder Care at Leckhampton Court Hospice in...
Rainbows Hospice for Children
Sally Read visited Rainbows Children's Hospice in the East...
Will you lift your head for me, darling?
Rutland Care Village
Esther Morgan visited Rutland Care Village in...
Thera Trust
Paul Batchelor visited people Thera supports in...
