Carers Charter
Value, Support and Involve Carers in your Community
Caring for someone can be physically exhausting and emotionally stressful, with these pressures resulting in many carers feeling unsupported, isolated, and alone.
As a business or organisation, you may have employees and service users/customers with caring responsibilities. This makes you ideally placed to help identify and support carers in your community.
Supporting You to Support Carers
Did you know?
Over 250,000 people juggle caring with holding down a job?
(source Carers UK Scotland)
A growing network of local services and businesses in Dundee have signed up to our Carers Charter.
By signing up you can gain access to valuable resources and information to help YOU to help carers.
- Get access to bespoke modules to learn more about unpaid carers
- Get access to resources i.e. information leaflets, media assets
- Free promotion of your service/business
- Networking opportunities
- Carer e-news – fortnightly newsletter send straight to your inbox
- Promote your events for free on Carers of Dundee website (support services only)

As an employer, supporting employees with caring responsibilities to achieve a healthier work/life balance can benefit the business overall by:
- attracting and retaining staff
- reducing stress in the workplace
- increasing resilience and productivity
- reducing sickness/absence leave
- improving service delivery
- increasing staff morale

Value carers

Carers will be identified and feel respected and recognised in their caring role.
Support carers

Employers and Services will work to support carers to live a fulfilled life.
Involve carers

Carers will have opportunities and support to be involved in decisions that affect them and their caring role.
Interested in signing up? Complete the form below!
Those who have pledged
The following is a list of local services, organisations and businesses that have currently pledged their commitment to supporting carers.
- Joe FitzPatrick MSP
- Dundee Health & Social Care Partnership
- Dundee City Council
- Penumbra
- NHS Tayside
- Cairn Fowk
- Alternatives Dundee
- Parent to Parent Dundee
- Dundee YPU CAMHS NHS Tayside
- The Erskine Practice, Dundee
- Dundee Volunteer & Voluntary Action
- Dundee Money Action
- Deaf Links
- Brooksbank Centre
- Dundee Carers Centre
- Rotary Club of Claverhouse
- The Yard Dundee
- RockSolid Dundee
- The Corner
- Dundee & Angus College
- Alzheimer Scotland Dundee
- Link up Whitfield
- Discoverin Families Whitefield
- Dundee & Angus ADHD Support Group
- Carolina House Trust
- Santander (Reform Street)
- LGBT Youth Scotland
- Christians Against Poverty – Dundee Debt Centre
- The Card and Gift Gallery – Broughty Ferry
- Relationships Scotland Tayside and Fife
- The V&A Dundee
- The MAXwell Centre
- We Are With You (Dundee)
- Spectrum
- Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce
- Goodcall Mobile CIC
- Stobswell Forum SCIO
- DEAP Dundee
- Overgate Shopping Centre
- Dundee United Community Trust
- Peoplehood (Blackwood Homes and Care Project)
- Barnardo’s Works Tayside
- Lead Scotland Dundee
- Shaper/Caper
- Wellbeing Works Dundee
What our pledgers said...



