Help Around The Home: Age UK JAY Service
Do you, or someone you know, need a hand to live well at home? Our Just About You (JAY) service could be perfect for you.
Age UK Isle of Wight's 'Just About You' service offers friendly & trustworthy support workers can help you to maintain independence and live well at home.
They can help with a range of tasks including:
- General housework, cleaning & hoovering
- Meal preparation
- Laundry & ironing
- Shopping - escorted or on your behalf
- Outings & transport
- General administration
- Daily Respite Service
All of our support workers are personally chosen, trained and DBS checked to provide you full peace of mind.
The Just About You service:
- Is flexible. You choose how you use your support worker's time each week
- Can give you any number of hours you need daily, weekly or monthly.
- Enables you to build a relationship with your support worker.
- Is good for you and us, we offer great value rates and you'll be supporting a local charity.
Any profits made from our Just About You Service, go directly back into the Charity to enable us to provide other core services, support & companionship.
Our prices (current as of 2025)
- The rate for domestic services is £22.00 per hour on weekdays and £26.00 on Bank Holidays.
- The minimum chargeable period is 1 hour, thereafter time is charged in 15 minute blocks.
- Mileage incurred as part of the assignment, i.e. for shopping, is charged at 45p per mile.
- We try to avoid parking charges, but where unavoidable these will be charged at cost.
- Clients are invoiced monthly in arrears, with payments to be made via direct debit.
- In the event of cancellation within a 24-hour window of you scheduled visit, there will be a 100% late cancellation fee. Free cancellation can be made anytime up to 24-hours before.
- There is a one off Assessment Fee of £22.00
