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Age UK
Call in Time- Telephone Friendship Service
Call in Time aims to reduce loneliness and social isolation in older people by providing them with regular telephone chats.
Contact: Call in Time Telephone Friendship Service, Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9NA.
Age UK County Durham
50+ LGBT Group
The LGBT group is run as part or our EngAge programme that involves and empowers older people. LGBT stands for 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender' and Age UK County Durham hosts a group that welcomes you if you are age...
Contact: Age UK Durham County, Age UK House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, County Durham, DH1 1TW.
Activities and Events
We have a range of schemes in the county that are all designed to make older life a happier and healthier experience.This might include learning a new skill, such as how to use a computer, or it might be rediscovering yo...
Contact: Age UK Durham County, Age UK House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, County Durham, DH1 1TW.
Beat the Scammers
Beat the Scammers helps older people to protect themselves from telephone fraud and scams by providing advice and information. For anyone aged over 50 who receive fraudulent/nuisance telephone calls and would benefit fro...
Contact: Age UK Durham County, Age UK House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, County Durham, DH1 1TW.
Come Eat Together
Come Eat Together is a volunteer peer support project which aims to improve older people's ability to access, cook and enjoy healthy food together. The project helps older people to be more resilient and better able to c...
Contact: Age UK Durham County, Age UK House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, County Durham, DH1 1TW.
Intergenerational Programme
We bring together older and younger people with amazing results. We challenge the stereotypes that may exist resulting in a positive exchange of skills, experiences and friendship. By promoting intergenerati...
Contact: Age UK Durham County, Age UK House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, County Durham, DH1 1TW.
Never Alone Always Heard
Our new, Never Alone Always Heard project, started during the Covid-19 Pandemic. It is helping us to keep in touch with our older and younger people living in County Durham and so that we can share the experiences of you...
Contact: Age UK Durham County, Age UK House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, County Durham, DH1 1TW.
Shopping Clubs
Our shopping clubs can help you gain easy access to good, healthy food on a regular basis When you join one of our shopping clubs, you can receive a door-to-door service, get access to a wider variety of shops and super...
Contact: Age UK Durham County, Age UK House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, County Durham, DH1 1TW.
Social Activities
We work to reduce the isolation that is experienced by older people in our community by providing a range of activities throughout the County that are designed to make older life a happier and healthier experience. Our ...
Contact: Age UK Durham County, Age UK House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, County Durham, DH1 1TW.
British Red Cross Society
Get financial help & advice
If you're struggling with debt or other money problems and need to get through a period of financial difficulty, we can help you find free financial advice.
Contact: British Red Cross Society, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL.
Get help with loneliness
If you are feeling lonely, please know that you are not alone. The British Red Cross is here to help you. One in five people in the UK say they experience feelings of loneliness, and during the coronavirus pandemic ...
Contact: British Red Cross Society, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL.
Get support at home
If you are feeling lonely, please know that you are not alone. The British Red Cross is here to help you. One in five people in the UK say they experience feelings of loneliness, and during the coronavirus pandemic ...
Contact: British Red Cross Society, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL.
Carewatch Care Services
Carewatch
Our mission at Carewatch is to provide high quality care outcomes for vulnerable people who want to live at home, independently. We provide quality, personalised home care services designed to enable our customers to re...
Contact: Carewatch, CSN Care Group Ltd t/a Carewatch, Unit 4, Rankin House, Murdoch Court, Roebuck Way, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK5 8GB.
Elder
elder
Elder helps people stay safe and comfortable at home by assisting with daily activities of living via personal care, dementia care and part-time, full-time or live-in care.
Contact: Elder, 1st floor, 230 City Road, London, London, Greater London, EC1V 2TT.
Home Instead Senior Care
Home Instead - Find care near you
We understand that home is where you feel the happiest. If you want to stay living comfortably at home, you can live well, your way with Home Instead. Home Instead has been at the forefront of specialised home care for ...
Contact: Home Instead Lewes District and Uckfield, , Laughton , Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 5SD.
Homeshare UK
Homeshare UK
Homeshare enables two people to share a home for mutual benefit. Typically, an older person living in their own home with a room to spare will be carefully matched with a younger person who will provide an agreed amount ...
Contact: Homeshare UK, Eleanor Rathbone House, Connect Business Village, 24 Derby Road, Liverpool, L5 9PR.
Independent Age
Advice line
Our Helpline and Advice teams are friendly and helpful and our particular areas of knowledge include: care and support, money and benefits, health and mobility for people that are 65 + , their families and carers. ...
Contact: Independent Age, 18 Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RR.
Kifash Care
Home Care and support
We provide bespoke care and support to individuals in their own home. This includes; personal care, medication support, food preparation, respite, hospital discharges, palliative care, live in care, reablement, companion...
Contact: Kifash Care, Freehold Street, Nene enterprise Center , Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN2 6EF.
Oddfellows
Oddfellows, making friends, helping people
Through life's ups and downs, we're there for our members. As a friendly society and mutual – it's what we do. From fun social get-togethers and trusted support and advice when members might need it, to exclusive o...
Contact: Oddfellows.
Omega, Ending Isolation, Ending Loneliness
Chatterbox
Chatterbox is a free telephone befriending service for socially isolated and lonely people. Our clients are carefully matched to DBS-checked volunteer befrienders, with whom they exchange supportive, friendly phone...
Contact: Omega... Ending Isolation | Ending Loneliness, London House, Town Walls, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1TX.