A charity has stepped in to save a Lincoln organisation offering support to carers.

Age Concern Lincoln will be preserving the good work done by Share the Care, which is due to close its doors at the end of the month, by employing three of its 12 paid staff.

As reported in the Echo at the beginning of the month, Share the Care, which is based in Rauceby Terrace, Lincoln, said it had become increasingly difficult to raise enough funds to support Lincolnshire's 66,000 carers.

And three staff members from the soon-to-be disbanded charity will begin work tomorrow at Age Concern Lincoln's offices in Sixfield Close.

Chief executive of Age Concern Lincoln Barry Earnshaw said he was pleased they could preserve some of the skills and knowledge built up over the years by Share the Care.

And the new branch of Age Concern Lincoln

– entitled Carers Connect – will give financial advice to carers aged 18 to 50 as well as helping to support 10 carer groups across the county.

Margaret Henderson, chairman of Age Concern Lincoln, said: "Taking on some of the work of Share the Care fits in with the work we already do.

"There are a lot of adult children caring for an elderly parent so it is good that we will be able to help them too.

"Statistics show there is going to be big explosion amongst the elderly population and we should be a community that cares."

Carers Connect can be contacted on (01522) 812830.

For more on Age Concern Lincoln's plans to save the Share the Care services, see Thursday's Echo.