Financial workshop for grandparents

The Peninsula Grandfriends Group will be holding a financial issues workshop on September 5 at the Mingara Recreation Club, Tumbi Umbi Rd, Tumbi Umbi.

The workshop will be held from 10.30am to 2.30pm.

Local grandparent support group "Grandfriends" has joined forces with The Central Coast Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Project to run the series of workshops.

The project represents grandparents who have fulltime care and responsibility of their grandchildren across the Central Coast.

The purpose of the two-year project is to increase support and information for these families.

Grandfriends has played a key role in this broader project.

Grandfriends is working with the larger project to create a resource kit and run a series of workshops covering areas of interest for grandparents such as legal and financial issues, parenting skills, self care and health, respite and governance for support groups.

The financial issues workshop will cover all relevant Centrelink and DoCS payments, allowances and entitlements, including explanation of family tax benefit, child care benefit, vacation care, disability payments, non-parental care allowance and authorised relative carer

Lunch will be provided, childcare will be available and transport can be arranged.

Contact 4340 1585 to register for this workshop.

Grandfriends has been established on the Peninsula for the last seven years and its members are grandparents who are raising or significantly involved in raising their grandchildren.

The group is keen to welcome new members to the group.

Long time member Mary Surman said: "We are always interested to have new members.

"Our aim is to support every grandparent who is raising a grandchild across the Peninsula."

Grandfriends meets at The Web, Peninsula Community Centre, 93 McMasters Rd, Woy Woy, on the first Monday of every month at 9.30am.

Press release, August 9 Anne Charlton, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Project