Healthcare Support and Assistance

A Kenton-on-Sea initiative servicing Kenton and the surrounding areas.
Doing our best for the community.

How are we
helping you?

Educating our community

On many aspects of healthcare and wellbeing.

Supporting our local medics

Ensuring that our local medical services, including our doctors and clinics, have the resources and support wherever possible.

Offering kindness

Where we can to people who are feeling isolated or lonely.

Offering emotional support

With our dementia support group and ad hoc trauma counselling.

Mission statement

Based in Kenton on Sea, Coastal Kindness, and its branches, provides practical advice and support, both physical and emotional, to community members and healthcare workers. Our volunteers seek to spread kindness one helping hand at a time.

Directors

Coastal Kindness is a registered Non-Profit Company, K2022573449, founded July 2020.

Robbie Cameron Avis (Chair)
Dr Susan McGarvie (Vice Chair)
Doug Swanson (Treasurer)
Simon Avis
Jennie Bowen
Mohamed Docrat
Derek Rushmere

Portfolio holders 2024/25

Administration: Patsy Burn
CPR & AED Training: David and Margie Morrell
Equipment: Doug Swanson
Media & Communications: Robbie Avis
Minute Secretary: Jean Martens
Operations and Training: Jennie Bowen
Purchasing: Simon Avis

Working Committee

We have an active working committee that gets stuff done.

Administration: Patsy Burn
CPR & AED Training: David & Margie Morrell
Clinic Project: Doug Swanson & Neels Huines
Media & Communications: Janda Theron
Copy Editor: Jean Martens
Community Development: Jennie Bowen
Procurement: Simon Avis
Medical First Responders: Nick Albrightson
Dementia Support Group: Jennie Bowen
Professional Counsellor Group: Susan McGarvie