Legacy
To celebrate two years of Love Your Neighbour at East London Cares and with new and existing matches starting to meet more in person, let’s take a look at how our one-to-one friendship programme works and the friendships that have been made so far.
Aimee has been an East London Cares younger neighbour for two years after joining our first volunteer induction in 2019. She has attended over 20 social clubs, in person and online, and has been a Phone a Friend match with Val for over a year.
East London Cares is looking for looking for volunteers to help run a pilot series of multilingual shared reading social clubs. If you speak English as well as Bengali, Somali, Turkish or Polish, and would like to help us create a welcoming space for older and younger neighbours to build friendships and share literature, poems and more, then this could be just for you!
This year, as part of #NationalLonelinessAwarenessWeek, we want to encourage conversations around loneliness, helping to not only understand but accept these feelings.
To mark volunteers’ week 2021, we spoke to five younger neighbours to find out why they love being part of our growing community.
As our face-to-face programmes return after more than a year, read about how East London Cares neighbours will be spending time together through our new blended programmes.
Inspired by the #LonelinessLooksLike campaign from the Jo Cox Foundation, we asked our network on social media to what extent they’d experienced loneliness over the past year.
We’re looking for a new Social Clubs Coordinator to join the East London Cares family, so we wanted to share some highlights from our Social Clubs so far and tell you all about the enormous difference they make to older and younger neighbours across our community.
Before Covid-19, a typical day for the Outreach team could look like anything - from talking with older patients in a GP surgery, to hanging out with younger neighbours at their workplace volunteering fairs to spread the word about our programmes. In our latest blog, we talk about how we adapted our programme so we could continue reaching out, while staying in.
As the UK reaches its next stage in the fight against COVID-19, we asked a number of our neighbours from across The Cares Family to talk about their experience of receiving the vaccine.