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Seven organisations and charities benefit from donation from St. Monica’s Trust
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Older people are benefiting from a new grant scheme set up to support ideas that reduce loneliness and improve access to nutritious food.
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Sarah Colombini
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Up to 50,000 older people in Hertfordshire spend every day without talking to someone. Small Acts of Kindness are delivering ‘Warm in winter’ bags to help stop older people getting cold in their homes, raise awareness and create opportunities to build new social connections in the local community.
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For the first time, researchers have calculated how much money a person needs per year in order to enjoy a comfortable retirement.
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Three quarters (73%) of the public support a tax increase to pay for adult social care, a Survation poll for the GMB trade union has revealed.
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Unity Trust Bank and Charity Bank provide loans of £8.5m for 30-room dementia care home in Bingley
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The Age-Friendly and Inclusive Volunteering guide introduces six principles that organisations working with volunteers can adopt to get more older people active in volunteering and their local communities.
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Sarah Colombini
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The Centre for Ageing Better and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) have given funding to five projects to pilot ways to make volunteering more age-friendly and inclusive.
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Sarah Colombini
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A new intergenerational care programme has been rolled out in Cambridgeshire. Residents at Moorlands Court in Melbourn are being visited by pre-school children from the local Little Hands Nursery for arts and crafts, singing and story reading sessions, to help improve the happiness and wellbeing of all involved.
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Nancy Platts
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Older people are campaigning to save their free TV licences because so many of them have a disability or very little money
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