Registrations for Care Home Open Week 2024
Registrations are now open for Care Home Open Week (CHOW) 2024, which takes place from 24-30 June.
The event will also repeat the Great British Care Cycle Relay, covering 300 miles from Manchester to London. Cyclists stop at care services along the way. Each leg of the relay is around 20 miles and cyclists can complete as many legs as they wish.
Registrations are open via the Championing Social Care website
The aim is to shine a positive light on the work of the care sector by encouraging homes to open their doors to the public, VIPs and local decision-makers.
In 2023, over 5,000 care services registered to take part in Care Home Open Week. That’s around a third of the total number of homes in the country. More than 150 Members of Parliament visited homes during the week and the event had support from Government ministers and the Royal Family.
This year, the organisers plan to make it an even bigger event, encouraging an even broader range of care services to take part.
2023 saw also saw the inaugural Great British Care Cycle Relay which took place in the same week as Care Home Open Week. The Relay invites volunteers to join a cycle relay that will run from Manchester to London via stops in North Wales, stopping at care services along the way to highlight how social care services are at the heart of communities up and down the country. Each leg of the relay will be around 20 miles in length and cyclists can join the relay for as many legs as they wish.
Both events will begin with high profile launch events on 24th June. Venues and additional details will be announced soon.
Mitesh Dhanak, Chair of the Care Home Open Week Committee, commented: “Care Home Open Week is a unique opportunity for the care sector to showcase the amazing work that it does for people. Care services are at the heart of their communities and it’s a brilliant way of engaging with local communities and for us to raise the profile of care services across society. I’m thrilled, too, that we will be running in tandem with the Great British Cycle Relay once again. It really highlights the volunteer commitment that underpins our ethos as a sector.”
