Festive fundraising
Help change Christmas for older people who are feeling lonely.
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Here's how, with your support, Age UK is supporting older people through the cost of living crisis.
This Christmas, thousands of older people will be isolated, lonely and feeling forgotten.
That’s why we’re calling on everyone to come together and fundraise for Age UK so we can give comfort, friendship and joy to older people who need it most.
Serve up your finest festive treats and organise a bake sale with colleagues, family or friends.
Who can name all Santa's reindeer? Test your festive knowledge with a fundraising quiz!
Organise a sponsored festive jumper day at work, school or with friends.
Michael, 73, finds the Christmas period particularly isolating. He lives alone and can go days without speaking to another person.
Thankfully, Michael heard about the Age UK Telephone Friendship Service. His weekly calls with telephone befriender Gemma help him to feel less alone – at Christmas and all year round.
Every penny you raise can help Age UK provide the human connection that too many older people live without.
£50 could help campaign to ensure older people's voices are heard at the heart of government.
£140 could help pay for a Benefits Entitlement Check, to identify additional income for an older person during the cost of living crisis.
£310 could help pay towards a whole year of telephone friendship calls to a lonely older person who has no one to talk to.