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Caitlin, a volunteer for our telephone friendship service, explains how chess lessons brought her and her friend Sydney closer together.
Sajeda, who works as a volunteer with Age UK Barnet, discusses her experiences of Ramadan, past and present.
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older people in the UK will feel lonely this Christmas. For the first time in 20 years, Age UK volunteer Terrence won't be one of them.
Deirdre decided to volunteer as a befriender for older people with her local Age UK after she retired. She's now friends with an older person who is living with dementia.
Age UK is using fashion marketplace Depop to help raise money to fund our vital work. The volunteer who singlehandedly set up and now runs Age UK’s Depop shop tells us more.
has has generously supported Age UK’s work, by running the Leeds Abbey Dash multiple times and volunteering to be part of the Age UK Telephone Friendship Service.
says Olivia who oversees this project. “We’ve got an amazing group of volunteers to help us maintain the plot.” One of these volunteers is Bridget. “Initially it was a question of getting the allotment into ... order,” she explains of the large area of dry grass that used to be here. “We’ve gradually got more volunteers that have made it the productive little unit it is at the moment." The benefits of the allotment