500,000 elderly people go 5-6 days a week without seeing anyone.

3.9 million people of all ages describe themselves as “lonely”. (Age UK 2019)

500,000 elderly people go 5-6 days a week without seeing anyone.

3.9 million people of all ages describe themselves as “lonely.*

*Age UK 2019

We host Come to Tea and Out to Lunch and have just
re-launched Full Circle, an intergenerational project.

Keys to unlocking potential

Creating Connection

Come to Tea, Out to Lunch, Full Circle and our Connect Cafe are some of the ways we work to overcome social isolation build community and continuity as well as creating opportunities to serve.

We aim to develop and grow these activities at The Branch.

Full Circle celebrates interaction between the generations and encourages primary schools to regularly welcome older members of their community to have lunch, chat, create, laugh and play with a group of children. 

We partner with a Social Practitioner of elderly people at the local health centre to refer those whose health is suffering due to loneliness and isolation.

Outcome

"Intergenerational approaches are an effective way to address a number of issues, many of them key Government priorities, such as building active communities, promoting citizenship, regenerating neighbourhoods and addressing inequality.” 

Beth Johnson Foundation 2001, Centre for Intergenerational Practice