About Us
About Beacon South Yorkshire
Beacon South Yorkshire are dedicated to supporting carers across South Yorkshire through physical and emotional support sessions that allow them to carry on caring.
Over 20 years of supporting carers across South Yorkshire
Established in 2000, Beacon South Yorkshire provides a range of services supporting carers across South Yorkshire who are caring for people with substance misuse, disabilities, mental health, dementia, or who are elderly.
Our focus is to support caregivers. We aim to help them to cope with the competing demands on their time, as well as managing their own well being, so they can do a better job of looking after their cared-for significant others, family member or friend. We achieve this through a diverse range of services.
Here's how we can support you
From drop-in sessions, telephone support to group sessions and activities, we’re here to support you.
- One to one emotional support sessions
- Complimentary therapies
- One to one counselling sessions
- Social events / Respite
- Monthly coffee mornings
- Relaxation and beauty therapies
- Training
Ways we can support you
From drop-in sessions, telephone support to group sessions and activities, we’re here to support you.
- Drop in sessions are Wednesdays, 11:00am - 1:00pm
- Telephone support
- Other group activities
- Group support sessions
Our dedicated team
Our team is made up of dedicated individuals who genuinely strive to provide the very best care and support.
Lynda McDermott
Lynda joined BeaconSY as a volunteer in 2005 and trained as a support worker. In 2012 she was appointed Development Manager and, following a restructure in 2016, was appointed Funding & Services Manager. Lynda has considerable experience of caring around addiction, mental health issues and dementia.
Kerry Lawton
Kerry started volunteering with BeaconSY in 2012, having come into contact with us through her own experience of caring for a family member with addiction. Wanting to use her experience to help others Kerry initially trained as a Support Worker and was recently appointed as the development manager for BeaconSY's Rotherham branch.
Christine Key
When I was a carer for my parents over many years I wanted to find out all I could to help me. I joined several carer forums, where I discovered Beacon South Yorkshire, I also attended complementary therapy sessions. I was asked to join the Board of Trustees as I had gained a lot of knowledge from the forums I was involved with and this year I was asked to become Chair of the Trustee Board. I am delighted to be able to support this excellent service.
Sandra Cross
Like many of our team, Sandra first came in to contact with BeaconSY when she was looking for support while dealing with the challenges of being a carer. After some time Sandra decided to join the team and currently helps with managing our finances.
Abigail Fearns
I originally came to Beacon as a counselling student and fell in love with the warm inspiring environment and never left. Since qualifying as a counsellor I have now been appointed as Counselling Lead overseeing the counselling service, allowing students the chance to experience what I did all those years ago.
Diane Grummett
I became a trustee at Beacon South Yorkshire because I wanted to make a difference to all of our wonderful carers who look after all kinds of people with addictions and issues. Beacon was my ray of hope, kindness and sanctuary at a difficult time in my life. The love, support and help these wonderful people gave me was unconditional and without judgement. They are wonderful and are not just friends but my family. They saved me at my lowest ebb and I will never be able to repay them. Beacon South Yorkshire, you are amazing.
Shiela Owen
Having personal experience of caring for a loved one with dementia, Sheila was one of the original trustee board members who worked with the BeaconSY founder in response to a perceived gap in services to support carers to cope. Having served for many years as Company Secretary, Sheila is now a trustee.
Some lovely feedback
We’re always thrilled to hear positive feedback on how we’ve helped so many different carers in their caring roles and enable them to carry on. If you’d like to share your experience of the service and support that we’ve provided, please send your message to info@beaconsy.org.uk
“To Beacon,
OMG, I feel so empowered were the words I wrote in my diary following my first face to face at Beacon.
After years of carrying pain silently & quietly, I felt released from all the chains and shackles of my life.
Of course, euphoria is fleeting & the hard work of forgiveness of myself, acceptance of the past loom ahead & have yet to be achieved. For each positive step, there is at times a word, a sentence, some small thing that can bring back the pain & make me feel a failure again & takes me backwards.
But after one such recent occurrence, one of the many angels in disguise at Beacon, said to me “How you feel is proof you’re learning, you are moving forward – its part of the process”
Experiences like this humble me & make me feel so very grateful that Beacon is there for me – without judgement without expectation it’s simply there.
I have embraced my good fortune by attending Mindfulness & Yoga regularly I’ve been given the tools of these wonderful aids to help me heal myself.
I have met so many other people – pain, anxiety, and stress are a mutual component unspoken but present.
To meet these people talk with them feel pain with them and laugh with them is such an enormous gift that keeps on giving. So many folks would be helpless in the sea of life were it not for Beacon.
I look forward to being able to give back in some way when I feel well and have conquered my many demons, small words – Thank You – but never more sincerely uttered.”
– Mrs S
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