The second webinar of our series on Loneliness in the time of Covid-19 focused on bridging the digital divide. Over 100 participants from charities, local government, academia, and health and care came together to talk about their experiences and learning. In this blog Dan Jones reflects on the insights they shared. In recent months we’ve…
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In this blog, our Executive Director Kate Shurety looks at how charities and organisations can help tackle the digital divide. One of the most striking things about lockdown has been the rapid escalation in the shift of work, services, activities and almost all aspects of daily life online. Of course the growing interest in the…
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Shelagh Marshall OBE is Chair of Age Action Alliance’s Loneliness and Isolation Working Group. Back in March 2020, she shared her story of loneliness and bereavement after losing her daughter. Since then, Coronavirus has forced us into lockdown and deprived many older people from seeing their families. In this blog, Shelagh shares how she’s staying…
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In this blog, chair of the Campaign to End Loneliness and charity campaigner Paul Cann, looks at how we can continue to encourage connected and caring communities after the pandemic has subsided. The virus has killed and harmed far too many. Perhaps it has also brought out the best in us. So many acts of kindness,…
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Last week we brought together over 150 organisations to share their experiences of working to tackle loneliness during the Coronavirus lockdown. In this blog Kate Jopling shares just some of the things we learnt in the session. It’s hard to do justice to the huge amounts of learning, support and resources that were shared over…
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On Thursday 30 April, we hosted our first virtual Research and Policy Hub meeting on the topic of loneliness and bereavement. In this blog, our Research and Policy Manager, Dr. Kellie Payne looks at some of the key findings, evidence, and ideas from the event. Does bereavement increase the risk of loneliness? We heard from…
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Michelle Dawson, Programme Manager for Ageing Better in Middlesbrough reflects on how her organisation is responding to the new challenges of working on loneliness through lockdown, and what they are learning along the way. As the dust begins to settle from the frantic and very impressive response mobilised by our local authority (with help from the third sector) to meet…
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On 23 April, our Executive Director, Kate Shurety, took part in an Instagram Live Q&A with Pete Bombaci, Chief Connection Offcer of a Canadian organisation called the GenWell Project. In this blog, she outlines a number of the issues they discussed around loneliness and connection, including how Covid has led to a deficit of touch,…
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In this blog, our Campaign Manager for England, Andy Nazer, writes about losing his wife Angelica, and how bereavement changed his understanding of loneliness. In February 2019, Angelica, my partner, wife and best friend died. She’d been living with cancer for 13 years. She was born and raised in Greece and studied in London. She…
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In the light of the Coronavirus emergency it feels like an understanding of the importance of connection and the need to tackle loneliness has never been higher. But in a world of lockdown, social distancing and shielding, there are no easy answers for what can be done. However, this problem isn’t new for organisations that…
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