PLEASE NOTE: These workshops happened in February 2018 and we are not taking new applications to attend.
Together, we had an amazing 2017. Our film The Loneliness Project went viral and was seen by over 60 million people. Thousands of you have joined the Campaign.
This week the Government appointed a new Loneliness Minister, Tracey Crouch. We will work closely with her to make sure loneliness is a national priority.
We want 2018 to be the year that everyone takes action on loneliness. But we need your help.
We want to launch the largest public campaign on loneliness the country has ever seen. We’d like to invite you to attend our campaign workshops in London on Monday 29th January and Monday 12th February.
You just need to attend one workshop.
About the workshops
In these workshops you’ll help us plan the next phase of the campaign. We’ll discuss what loneliness is, what activities can help us and what simple actions people can take to end loneliness. Your ideas and input will be used to help us design the campaign, though any personal stories you share won’t leave the room – everything you share is in confidence.
You’ll get a free lunch and the venue will be fully accessible. If you have any additional needs, we will work to support them.
People of all ages are welcome, but we’d encourage anyone over 65 to apply – We want to make sure older people are at the heart of this campaign.
Register for your workshop
The workshops will take place at:
National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Society Building
8 All Saints Street
London
N1 9RL
The workshops will run from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
To book your place please contact sarah@campaigntoendloneliness.org.uk or call us on 0203 865 3908.
Please tell us your full name, age and location. There are limited spaces on the workshops so please confirm your attendance, and your preferred work shop date by 5pm on Monday 22 January. You only need to attend one date.
We are a charity and have a limited budget, so if you can cover your own costs, please do so. However, if it would help you to be able to participate and attend the workshop, we can reimburse reasonable expenses, when accompanied by original receipts and a completed expenses claim form. Please let us know if you’d like more information on this. We look forward to working with you.
Together, we can end loneliness.
This article has had 8 comments
Workshops in London aren’t much help to people in the rest of the Country.
Hi Ruth, where do you live? We’re running workshops in some local areas as well.
I live in Devon and would love to attend a workshop but the train fare and cost of two nights in a hotel make this a bit out of my reach.
Is there a reason that people over 65 are at the heart of your campaign? Younger people can be lonely too, the disabled, young mums, carers etc. it seems a little unfair that by specifying you would particularly like people of 65 and over to apply you appear to exclude everyone else. I appreciate that you are not, but that’s how it could be taken.
Hi Eve. We’re funded to tackle loneliness specifically in older people. We think the solution to ending loneliness for older people is the same for all ages – making better connections – and we hope our work can bring people of all ages together.
I am 76 and have recently started a Growing Old Disgracefully Group in Stroud which is affiliated to Growingolddisgracefully. org.uk
One of our biggest concerns at the moment is our invisibility as older women and the way older people are seen as a homogenous group. People in authority thus fail to either consult us or listen to us when seeking to ameliorate the Problems they think we ALL have. We are seen primarily as problems, victims, apparently helpless to resolve or change tho present situation. Our experience, skills and knowledge are ignored or not even acknowledged as existing. We aim to support each other to be stronger, effective in our own lives and to have a visible impact on our later years! I’m sure there older people like us throughout the country who could be a powerful force for change. Joan McCarthy
Whilst combating loneliness is not our primary role, it is a part of what we do.
We are a companion driving service, so provide mobility and friendship. The mainstay of our business is taking typically elderly people to hospital, doctors, dental etc appointments and staying with them until they can go home, in the same way that their families would do. We also take people shopping, weather to the shopping centre, the supermarket or the garden centre. This usually involves a sit down for chat, coffee and bun.
Driving Miss Daisy is an international franchise business, with almost 40 UK businesses. We are based in Newmarket.
More established businesses usually organise a ‘day out’ on a regular basis. A group of regular customers are invited to a trip to a some local attraction for a lunch and chat. Most of these people would not have met before, so it is a way of making new friends with us working as the link to make sure everyone has a good time.
I know a few people as well as myself who have friends but absolutely no family – no parents, siblings, cousins, partner or children. That feels very lonely.
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