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Get a free weekly friendship call. We'll match you with one of our volunteers. Our service is flexible to suit the different needs of everyone who takes part.
Why do we value old objects over older people? Age UK is here to change how we age.
Here's how, with your support, Age UK is supporting older people through the cost of living crisis.
A range of products to help you make the most of later life are available through Age UK Trading, with profits given to the charity.
As part of The Big Help Out, Don Warrington, Angellica Bell and Dev Griffin recently volunteered with Age UK.
Volunteer with The Silver Line Helpline
advice, support and a range of services to help older people. Sign up now Age UK is unable to accept volunteers who live outside the UK and is unable to sponsor visa applications. Thank you for your interest ... home from hospital. Helping an older person regain confidence after a bereavement or fall. By volunteering for your local Age UK, you will be using your skills to make a difference to older people’s
Sign up as a volunteer for the telephone friendship service to talk to older people to help loneliness and isolation.
Ruth Lowe explains why we need more volunteers for the Age UK Telephone Friendship Service and how rewarding the service is for older people and their telephone friends alike.
This International Women’s Day, we speak to 3 Age UK volunteers about helping others and – inspired by this year’s theme, ‘Give to Gain’ – what they’ve gained from giving back.
The Age UK network is working with Yoti, a digital ID application, to provide volunteers with the ability to identify themselves to clients as well as to businesses and organisations such as grocery stores ... of their volunteer role. The Yoti application delivers a secure digital ID that features anti-spoofing technology and we believe this is a helpful addition to our services. If your volunteer manager has
Champion Programme aims to tackle digital exclusion by recruiting and training Digital Champion volunteers to provide support for older people to improve their digital skills, as well as providing loan
compassionate people offering friendship and support. At the heart of all these services are volunteers . These volunteers give their time, of course, but they also provide a listening ear, empathy, a comforting ... comforting word, as well as a joke and some good cheer. We couldn't do without our befriending volunteers , but we desperately need more and next year we'll be launching a major new campaign to recruit more.
Engage your employees by volunteering to make a weekly friendship call to a lonely older person.