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You're helping older people across the country get the right support at the right time. Through our friendship services, impartial advice, research and campaigning, we're working to change how we age – and your kind support makes it all possible.

You're tackling loneliness

Nearly a million older people in the UK often feel lonely. But through in-person befriending, our 24-hour helpline and our Telephone Friendship Service, we're helping isolated older people to feel connected again.

In 2025, your support helped us facilitate more than 190,000 telephone friendship calls – equating to a staggering 5,362,799 minutes (more than 10 years) of much-needed conversation.

Our friendship services

You're fighting pensioner poverty

As the cost of living crisis continues, you're helping us be there for the nearly 2 million older people across the UK who are living in poverty. 

Last year our advisers answered more than 35,000 queries about finances, helping individuals access life-changing benefits they didn't know they were entitled to. 

Benefits checks and services

You're providing expert advice

With a selection of free information guides and an Advice Line that's available every day of the year, we're on hand to provide impartial, life-changing guidance to older people whenever it's needed most.

Our expert team handled more than 185,000 enquiries in 2025 about care, housing, health issues, finances, and more.

Our Advice Line

You're strengthening communities

Across the country, local Age UKs are offering activities that foster friendship and bring communities together – from cookery classes to tea dances.

You're also helping local Age UKs support older people with vital services like home help and digital workshops.

What's happening in your area

You're campaigning for older people's rights

You're helping us push for change and amplify older people's voices, with campaigns like our successful petition to save the Winter Fuel Payment.

Together, we're determined to make the UK a better place to grow older.

Our campaigns

Your support is helping to change how we age. Thank you.

Learn more about the impact you're having:

Our annual report

Read the latest annual reports from Age UK about our activities and impact.

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James' cost of living crisis

Your support has helped people like James, a retired nurse with Parkinson's, who couldn't afford to eat properly as prices soared.

How we helped James

News and stories

Read the latest news and views from Age UK and the people we support – from analysis of the big issues affecting older people, to personal stories of hope and resilience.

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