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  1. Education and training

    retirement. Befriending services We combat loneliness through our befriending services, where a volunteer befriender provides companionship to an older person. Sir Naim Dangoor We are grateful for the generous

  2. Age UK

    poverty, unseen and forgotten. But you can help fight this crisis hiding in plain sight. Get involved Volunteer with us Whether it’s supporting your local Age UK shop or lending an ear to someone who’s feeling

  3. Work & learning

    popular Topics Befriending services We combat loneliness through our befriending services, where a volunteer befriender provides companionship to an older person. Sir Naim Dangoor We are grateful for the generous

  4. Margaret's resilience

    at home to look after the children when they were very young. Empathy for older people Even when Margaret retired, she remained busy by volunteering at a lunch club run by a local Age UK group in Northumberland ... with my gran until I got married, so I love older people. I always have. “As part of my volunteering, I used to go and dish the dinner up for them, and play bingo and dominoes. I always say you should

  5. Friendship services for older people

    befriending Befriending services are available at many local Age UKs. They will often involve a volunteer befriender visiting an older person in their home, perhaps for a cup of tea and a chat, or accompanying ... accompanying them to an activity (such as a trip to a cafe or the theatre). In some cases, a volunteer may accompany the older person to occasional hospital or doctor's appointments. Rose and Sarah met through

  6. Motherly advice

    mums give the best advice. Community-minded Agatha has always loved helping people. She’s volunteered at her local Age UK in Wandsworth as a receptionist and telephone befriender, and has been recognised ... born a year later. But Agatha’s husband moved back to Nigeria when the children were still young, so Agatha was a single parent for many years. Steve says that Agatha was a strict mother and a stickler

  7. Telling stories and changing perceptions

    inclusion land with people, I like to tell stories. I was born in the UK in the sixties and as a young child raised in the seventies, experienced challenging times through the lens of my race. It was therefore ... consisted of volunteers who weren’t allowed to fight at the time, as they weren’t deemed worthy, but supported forces in their various roles. My grandfather was one of those volunteers. A change

  8. Poetry and emotion

    isn’t entirely sure when poetry re-entered his life, but he thinks it might be when he had young children of his own who’d bring nursery rhymes back from school to read at home. When they did ... need for worry or fears And when she got through Just an order or two Thank goodness for those volunteers’ A family connection Nadine and Jim picture Jim is thankful for Age UK’s efforts, not

  9. A time for thanks

    normal’ and is imposing a unique set of pressures on us all. I am sure that tomorrow’s young people will ask their parents and grandparents who are living with it now, ‘what was it like ... for your ‘other half’, knowing it’s what they would do for you. Next are the volunteers and staff in our wonderful local Age UKs and in many other voluntary organisations too, who do

  10. Things to do to feel less lonely

    help you – or someone you know – feel more connected. From friendship services to volunteering opportunities, there's all sorts to get involved with. Friendship services We offer various friendship ... services depending on what you're looking for: Our Telephone Friendship Service can match you with a volunteer for a free weekly chat on the phone. Whatever else happens in the week, it can be nice to know there's

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