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Newsletter Spring 2021
Newsletter Spring 2021

MSOPC is a local charity,

managed and run by
older people for older
people in Mid Sussex.
Our aim is to improve their lives
through the representations we
make to decision-makers about
older people’s needs. We also
aim to reduce isolation and
loneliness, offering support,
advice and information on many
issues which older people face,
through our social opportunities,
public events, roadshows,
quarterly newsletters, website
and helpline.
Spring has sprung!
There is no charge to join
MSOPC, either as an individual or
We have been out and about eagerly photographing the as an organisation working with

beautiful spring flowers which have been steadily older people, and your
appearing all around us these last few weeks. With the information will not be passed on
promise of warmer, longer days and the rollout of the covid to third parties. To find out more
information, please phone 01444
vaccinations, we hope you are all feeling a lot more uplifted and 242 760. Further details of
optimistic, as we certainly are. MSOPC and upcoming events can
be found on our website at
We started off the year by working with Burgess Hill Town Council, as www.msopc.org.uk or Facebook
they normally hold their wonderful carers day in March at Burgess Hill page www.facebook.com/
Girls school, which is a chance for those caring for loved ones at home to msopc.org.uk
come along and enjoy a free day of pampering and fun activities. But this Inside this issue
year, due to the lockdown, the council organised for those carers to
receive gift bags delivered to their home. MSOPC news ............. 2

We have had some wonderful letters of thanks from the recipients of the Covid-19 update ......... 3
bags, which reminds us of why we do, what we do. But it just summed up Visiting care homes .... 4
how much a small act of kindness can lift the spirits so much. Census ....................... 4