PKAVS Carers Centre

Parent Carers Cold Water Swimming

Wednesday 3rd
18.45 - 19.45
Willowgate activity Centre, Perth

Booking is essential due to limit spaces, please contact 01738 567076 or email [email protected]

Parent Carers Perth Coffee and Chat

Tuesday 2nd June
9.30 - 11.30
Jeanfield Swifts Football ground, Bute Drive Perth

Contact 01738 567076 for more information!

Perth Festival of the Arts has been a huge supporter of our Respitality project for many years.

Their 2026 programme is now in full swing, and we were delighted to receive a number of tickets to some of this years shows for our unpaid carers.

Our Senior Carers Short Breaks Officer, Anne, says:

“We are extremely lucky to have such a great organisation on our doorstep, which has collaborated with us for many years.

The opportunity to attend theatrical productions is not always accessible to everyone, and PFoA helps our carers to enjoy a short but meaningful break from their caring role by attending these performances free of charge.

We cannot thank them enough for their continued support.”

The festival is a vibrant celebration of the visual and performing arts. If you’d like to find out what’s on, be sure to visit their website:

Perth Arts Festival, Scotland ALL the Arts | TEN Days | ONE Amazing Festival For ten days in May, Perth Festival of the Arts becomes the highlight in Scotlands cultural calendar and brings some of the finest international and national performers to Perth

More information about what's happening locally coming soon!

Keep an eye 👀on our social media channels!

There are lots of ways to get involved in !

Visit www.carersweek.org to find resources and information about building carer friendly communities.

Football Memories (Dementia friendly)

Thursday 4th June
10.30am - 11.30am
McDiarmid Park, Perth

Booking is essential, please contact 01738 567076 or email [email protected]

Male Carers Driving Range experience

Wednesday 3rd
10am - 12pm
Noah's Ark Golf Driving Range

Booking is essential, please contact 01738 567076 or email [email protected]

Our monthly Calendars for June 2026!

If you are interested in booking or would like some more information, please contact the Carers Centre on 01738 567076 or email [email protected].

Our June Newsletter is now ready to read online.
Inside you will find, a chance to give your opinion through our survey, an update on Carers Week 2026, where the Adult Carers team will be this month and much more.

Use this link below to have a read and let us know what you think!

J U N E N E W S L E T T E R 2 0 2 6 The Carers Centre is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.

This week BBC programmes are sharing practical advice, raising awareness of support available to carers, and highlighting the importance of carers’ wellbeing.

Throughout the week, BBC Caring Matters programmes will shine a light on the realities of unpaid caring across the UK.

Find out more and share to raise awareness of carers and the need for more support for them

BBC introduces Caring Matters, a week of special programming to help audiences navigate caring Seven days of dedicated content across the BBC will be broadcast on TV, iPlayer, Radio, Sounds and Online

We are delighted to wish our Respitality partners at the Scottish Crannog Centre all the very best for their official opening today.

Our Senior Short Breaks Officer, Anne, has the following to say about them:

"We were extremely fortunate when, almost 18 months ago, the Crannog Centre agreed to collaborate with us. Since then, they have provided invaluable support to our unpaid carers through a wide range of opportunities, including days out via the national Respitality scheme, a VIP day for our adult carers, day trips for parent carers and their loved ones, as well as memorable visits for our young carers’ groups.

The Crannog Centre staff truly understand the vital role our unpaid carers play in the community, the pressures they face, and they respect the work unpaid carers do, day in and day out.

Our carers feel welcome, appreciated, valued and most importantly relaxed here.

As Mike Benson the Centre Director has mentioned to me previously, “together we tell the timeless stories of home, of communities where everyone is valued, being there for one another, and of small acts of kindness.” And we are proud to be part of that story.

If we were to sum the Crannog Centre up in three words, we would say: “community, connection, and kindness” and we look forward to our continued collaboration with such a fabulous team."

New Crannog to be unveiled five years after blaze The previous reconstruction of the Iron Age roundhouse in Perthshire was destroyed in 2021