Fife Carers Centre provides help and support to unpaid carers of people with all types of illness and disabilities throughout Fife. The organisation has commissioned us, Community Enterprise to carry out an evaluation of its services. As a local carer and user of these services, we would be grateful if you could complete the following short survey. It should take approximately 10 minutes. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to contact Victoria at victoria@communityenterprise.co.uk or telephone 01506 862227.

Thank you.

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* 1. Firstly, please tell us how found out about the Carer's Centre:

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* 2. The Centre offers a range of services and activities to provide information, support and training to carers. We'd like to know what services you've used (tick all the apply):

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* 3. How useful have you found these services?

  Extremely useful Very useful Slightly useful Not useful at all Don't know - haven't used it
Carers Toolkit
Information Workshops
Monthly lunches
Regular support group
Drop in to the Centre
Complementary therapy
Quarterly newsletter
Support from a Carer Support Worker
Other (as in Q1)

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* 4. If you found any of the services 'extremely useful', please tell us how they have been useful in the space below, otherwise, please skip ahead to the next question.

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* 5. If you found any of the services 'not useful at all,' please tell us why in the space below, otherwise please skip ahead to the next question.

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* 6. Are there any ways in which you think Fife Carers Centre could improve on its current services? Please use the spaces below for suggestions, otherwise, please skip ahead to the next question.

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* 7. To what extent do you agree with the following statements: "Fife Carers Centre has helped me to....";

  I strongly agree I slightly agree I neither agree nor disagree I slightly disagree I strongly disagree I'm not sure
Cope better in my caring role
Be more confident in my caring role
Feel better about myself
Feel supported and not so alone
Feel less stressed
Be better informed about help I can get
Deal with financial challenges
Get the help I need from other agencies (NHS, DWP etc.)
Be a more active member of my community
Make others aware of the issues I face

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* 8. If you 'agree strongly' with any of the statements above, we'd really like to hear about your experiences of how the Carers Centre has helped you. Please use the space below to tell us / give us your examples:

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* 9. Are there any ways in which the Carers Centre could be helping you more in your role as a carer? Do you have any suggestions about what other services or activities they could offer to carers?

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* 10. Please feel free to use the space below to leave any final comments about your experiences of the Fife Carers Centre.

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