Welcome to Penderels Trust Lincolnshire

Please find below some general information on the services we offer.  

To access PA Finder, please click on the PA Finder button on the right hand side of this page.

To access our document centre, please click on the Document Centre button on the right hand side of this page.

To access our Events Calendar, please click on the link at the top of the page.

Please contact us at the office if you need any further help or information.

Services in Lincolnshire

Penderels Trust is working in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council to support adults and children who receive a direct payment in the area to get the most out of their care money and to achieve their goals.  Our support includes:

• Support when recruiting a personal assistant
• Guidance on all aspects of being a good employer including legal obligations and responsibilities
• Support with choosing and using a care agency
• Help with money management and keeping accurate records
• Payroll services
• Managed accounts

Please contact the team at the Lincolnshire office for more information.

You can also watch our bite-sized videos about us, our services and Direct Payments. See the flyer at the bottom of this page to have a look. 

You can receive your direct payment in the form of a Virtual Wallet. Find out more about Virtual Wallets via our introductory video that you can watch here.

Peer Support Groups

We’ve set up two peer support groups for Lincolnshire: one for Direct Payment users and one for Personal Assistants. They’re run on Facebook, with rules and settings in place to protect your privacy. You can chat, share ideas and ask queries. Why not join and say hello?

Click here for the Direct Payment user group.

Click here for the Personal Assistant group.

We also run virtual peer support meetings for Direct Payment users. This small and friendly group meets every month on Zoom for a chat. If you’d like to take part, contact us at lincolnshire@penderelstrust.org.uk.

Annual Health Checks for People with a Learning Disability

In these extremely challenging times, it is more important than ever that we help people with a learning disability to stay healthy and well. Lincolnshire County Council and NHS Lincolnshire are encouraging people with a learning disability to contact their GP practice to arrange their Annual Health Check and to check they are recorded as having a learning disability on their GP records. This means the doctor will prioritise their health check each year and contact them to arrange it every year.

The Annual Health Check will help people to access the health and wellbeing services they need. This may also be a good chance to ask about flu jabs or the Covid-19 vaccine if the person hasn't already been contacted.  There is a lot of information available in our download section at the bottom of the page including easy read guides and how to prepare for the health check.

Safeguarding in Lincolnshire

If someone you know in Lincolnshire is being abused or you think they might be, please contact the safeguarding team at Lincolnshire. It's better to be on the safe side. 

If you believe that a child or adult may be the victim of neglect, abuse or cruelty please call:

• Children's Safeguarding - 01522 782111 (Monday to Friday, 8 a.m to 6  p.m.)
• Adults' Safeguarding - 01522 782155 (Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.) or
• 01522 782333  for outside office hours

You do not need to know everything about the situation. You may just be worried or feel that something is not right. 

If you believe a crime has been committed and there is an immediate risk of danger, call the police on 999 or 112.  If there is no immediate danger, call the police on 101. 

People who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired can use the police Typetalk service on: 

• 01522 558263 or
• 01522 558140 or
• 07761 911287

If you have a concern about domestic abuse, call EDAN Lincs on 01522 510041.

To find out about advocacy, please visit Connect to Support Lincolnshire.

Child Sexual Exploitation

A confidential 24-hour helpline is available for children and young people who are worried they are in an exploitative situation. 

Call or text free on 116 000 or visit https://www.saysomething.net/ 

Whistleblowing in Lincolnshire

What is Whistleblowing?

Whistleblowing is described as the act of reporting unethical activity or misconduct within private, public or third-sector companies. Some everyday activities that come under whistleblowing are bullying, fraud, corruption, discrimination and health and safety violations.

You can raise your concern at any time about an incident that happened in the past, is happening now or you believe will happen in the near future.

Please follow the below link which will outline in more detail the next steps and provide you with further information:

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/1962/whistleblowing-policy-pdfa

Remote Employment Service

BID Services, one of our partner organisations in Lincolnshire, have launched an exciting initiative!

If you are currently unemployed and have hearing or sight loss, you can register for their Remote Employment Service. Through the service, Specialist Sensory Employment Coaches will teach you how to create and update a CV, look for jobs, complete an application form and interview for openings. All this will be done online, so you can learn from home!

If you’d like to use the new service or find out more, please get in touch with BID Services’ Employment Team at lincsemployment@bid.org.uk or call them on 07783 809801.

Further information is also provided here.