Idea: Campaign to end loneliness amongst older people

 
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  • Created on: 17 Jan 2012
  • Idea status: Underway
  • Town: Brighton
 

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What it's all about

Team v are a group of young people inspired to make positive change in their local communities. We're currently running a campaign about loneliness and isolation amongst older people. This is an issue that believe to be very important as recent estimates place the number of people aged over 65 who are often or always lonely at over 1 million.
There are 3 aspects: Talk, Socialise, Connect.
Talk - meeting older people and talking about their experiences of loneliness and isolation.
Socialise - organising a social event
Connect - raising awareness of loneliness and isolation faced by older people in the community, and asking for help.

What's needed to make it a reality

I need volunteers to bring together a social event for the people we are helping

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  • Avatar Sarah 12:02, 18 January 2012 J49 Team Hello,

    Welcome to Junction49. I'm Sarah here to support you in whatever way I can with your campaign.

    I've heard lots of great things about Team v and the latest campaign looks fantastic.

    I'm not sure what you're planning yet for your social event, but you can check out this page on the site which has some ideas from other young people about intergenerational projects. http://www.junction49.co.uk/partner/5/digitall/.

    There's also a project that a fellow Junction49er Edwina ran back in 2010 in Worthing. You might want to check out her idea/message her to see if she would like to get involved in your campaign in Brighton at all: http://www.junction49.co.uk/idea/2453/vintage_films/http://www.junction49.co.uk/idea/2453/vintage_films/

    I also used to run a project called Digitall which matched young people with older people to teach them computer and internet skills. At the end of the project we ran a celebration event with a Wii and all of the mentees (older people) absolutely loved it - I was completely put to shame! Anyway there' a guide here which may be useful if you wanted to do something along these lines: http://www.junction49.co.uk/public/resources/digitall/Digitall_Volunteers_Guide.pdf

    Also if you are looking for venue space at all for your social event, you may have heard of them already, but if not check out www.somewhereto.com as they can help you find the space you need for free.

    If you need any help at all, just let me know and keep us updated with how it's all going.

    I'll tweet/post about it on Facebook too.

    Good Luck!

    Sarah     Report Abuse
  •   Avatar Sarah 14:24, 06 February 2012 J49 Team Heya,

    Just thought I'd check in to see how everything is going with the second campaign? Did you find any of the links above useful?

    Hope it's all going well.

    Sarah     Report Abuse
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