There have been so many fantastic connection-building activities and events that have taken place to mark Loneliness Awareness Week 2024, here’s a few highlights so far:
Gymshark collaborated with CLIQ and PEAKIN’ to put on an event for Loneliness Awareness Week in central London. They hosted a morning of community, steps and positivity with a panel discussion with leading expats in physical, mental and social health. All with the aim of bringing people together and making new connections!
As part of Lonely Girls Club’s series of events up and down the UK for Loneliness Awareness Week, their London branch had a ‘Lonely Girls Walk Club’.
Over 100 of our community members came along to meet new people, get their steps in, make new friends and make life less lonely!
Pre-school children from a Stockton-on-Tees nursery school visited elderly residents at nearby Woodside Grange Care Home. Ten three and four-year-olds from The Montessori People Independent Nursery School in Thornaby presented the residents with self-portraits which the children painted at nursery based on photographs supplied by the care home. They also took part in arts and crafts and helped to serve the residents refreshments, including tasty cup-cakes made by the nursery’s in-house chef.
Each year during Loneliness Awareness Week, we host the summer garden party for members and volunteers of the Marmalade Companions project to come together and meet face-to-face for the first time during the week. It is a celebration combining tea, cake, live music and speeches. Marmalade Companions links people experiencing loneliness (Marmalade members) up with telephone volunteers for weekly phone calls over 15 weeks.
This event marked a special occasion for members and volunteers of the Marmalade Companions project to come together, forging face-to-face connections for the first time. We had a fantastic time!
Kindred, a community focused co working space in west London are hosting a week-long festival of fun and in person connection focused events. These included a free Community Dinner, ID8 event focused on ideas that could change the world as well as coffee socials, speed friending and dog walks.
Our friends at Together Co along with Soctopus got involved in Loneliness Awareness Week with a wonderful evening of crafting. They said: "It was lovely to bring everyone together. We really enjoyed it, and the goody bags were a really wonderful gesture too!"
Our friends and Month of Community partners, Eden Project Communities got involved in Loneliness Awareness Week by spreading kindness. Bunches of flowers where dropped in places around the UK, with one for you and one to pass on to somebody else. The tag on the flowers spreads the word about the campaign.
They said: "Make a new connection, cheer an old friend or give to someone who needs a boost Please share and keep a look out for lots of other ideas during June's Month of Community! Pictures feature York and Harpenden, Herts. Coming up: Newport, Kings Cross and more!"
There's still time to get involved!
Join individuals, businesses, schools, charities, governments and public figures to raise awareness and empower everyone to find new connections. Together, let's make Loneliness Awareness Week 2024 our biggest yet!
Visit: lonelinessawarenessweek.org
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