Loneliness Awareness Week, June 15 to 21, was created a decade ago by Marmalade Trust, a UK charity, and is a global campaign dedicated to raising awareness about loneliness and how it can affect mental and physical wellbeing. This annual global event is intended to inspire conversations about loneliness, reduce stigma around it, and promote connection activities happening across the world. Former US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, states “The ultimate solution to loneliness l

Sarah Louise is the founder of Love Squared, a children’s mental health charity running a number of services for children who because of often intersectional mental health and special educational needs/ neurodivergence can be disproportionately isolated. After the covid pandemic, when thousands of children didn’t return to school, politicians, think tanks and commissioners started to talk about “ghost children”. The chair of the Educational Select Committee at the time argue