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About us

We're a local charity working in the community across Somerset and North Somerset to support older people, their families and carers.

We want everyone to be able to love later life.

Who we are

Age UK Somerset is an independent local charity. We've been working in the local community to help older people for 70 years. We have the equivalent of 24 dedicated staff and over 200 volunteers helping us to deliver services and activities for older people in Somerset and North Somerset.

Where you can find us

Our main office is based in Taunton but many members of our staff are based all over our area.

Visit our contact us page

How we are funded

We rely on your support to keep serving the community. We are supported by donations from the public, Gifts in Wills, and some charitable grants.

What we do

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    We give advice

    Our trained advisors offer free information and advice to older people and their families. In 2015 our advisers helped local older people to claim over £2.5m that they were entitled to.

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    We cut Toe Nails

    We help to prevent falls by providing a toe nail cutting service for those who can no longer manage to do their own

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    We befriend

    We have a new Active Befriending service and our Friendly Phone Calls service which ran throughout lockdown made a big difference to reducing loneliness.

  • We provide activities

    Our Ageing Well team runs a wide range of physical activity groups, giving older people the opportunity to keep fit and socialise.

Meet our people

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