 As part of the Solver Care project, volunteers from the West Wales village are spending time with elderly people or people who need respite in the community. I have 28 volunteers who do a variety of things like transport, respite care for people who look after their relatives, do shopping, dog walking, anything really that people need help with that isn't medical or personal. And it's working really well because there are so many of volunteers. Nobody has to do terribly much. Well, you know, Lina came down and offered to get a sandwich of brine to come in and walk the dog sometimes. And I find funny things for her, Zuna, sorting my bed out when I've lost my hearing aid and that sort of thing. And it's very nice for me because she chats about her life and I enjoy learning about other people's lives. I don't really want to talk about mine. It's a bit boring but I like to hear what other people are doing. And that's really how it goes very quickly when you come for an hour, doesn't it? It was very interesting as well because I'm studying to go on to be a nurse and Betty was a nurse. It was quite interesting to talk about that. Well, I don't know. It's a long time ago. So we did a survey, trialled it and did a whole series of questions, took it out to the community and got an 85% return on it, vastly in support of the idea. And lots and lots of people were saying I would like to volunteer. One section of the survey was specifically aimed at people already receiving care. There were not yet receiving care but might. We talk about my college and my work in college. We talk about the weather and my boyfriend. Sometimes. I don't know. What else do we talk about? I don't know. Anything really. And we worked very early on with our local surgery, the GP practice just down the road here, very central in the village. And they were very encouraging, very supportive and Lena is there once a week in the surgery on Friday mornings and we have a close working relationship. We are able to refer cases to them and they refer cases to us so that works really well. And the other thing that I absolutely want to stress is that we determined early on to be proactive and not to say to people, contact us when you need help. Although clearly we would like them to do that but to tell us almost in advance so that we can preempt problems and stop things getting to the point where it means hospital or nothing. So that we can be freeventive and supportive and get people actively involved. I mean people like Betty could go and talk to other people who are on me. And many of the people that we are currently caring for are themselves taking part in village activities. And you, several of the things Lena has arranged, people have turned up haven't David? We link in with things that are already going on like the luncheon club on a Wednesday and coffee morning on a Thursday and there's the memory cafe in St David's. And we just make sure that people can get there and encourage them to go as well to get out and about a bit more. I think people care about each other like Molly mentioned earlier about referrals. We sometimes get people like Betty will say you know how's he and he because I've heard he's not very well or maybe such and such would like a visitor. So we do get referrals from all over the place and it just seems initially I think people were maybe a little bit dubious about it. And people don't always like to ask for help. But I think now that they've started doing it and they're seeing other people joining it's become, it's okay. I don't walk very well but I walk quite well without walker. So you walk with me sometimes when the weather's nice enough and we walk banker together sometimes? Yeah. We are conducting our own research, we have our own research subgroup looking at evaluating what's happening, monitoring what's going on. Because we're very aware that it is different and that other people might want to do the same. In fact we've already had contact groups, several areas who do and Lena has prepared a presentation. And we can present what we've done so far, what we've learnt, things that we've found easy, things that we've found difficult, blocks to progress and things that encourage progress. So we're hoping to be able to spread it more widely. Well there's no reason if it works here. It could work anywhere else really. I think Brian is fine. I was delighted when she turned up and she turned right. I really like it. Very good fun coming to talk to Betty. Well we've had some fun.