14th June
The focus this time is: ‘mainly webinars!’
It includes:
- Commissioning Community Champions: Lessons From A Pandemic | The King's Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)
- Count on Us for... Olympic Fun! - Skegby Library - Family Learning Tickets, Mon 5 Aug 2024 at 14:00 | Eventbrite
- Informal conversational strategies to talk about loneliness and isolation Tickets, Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 3:30 PM | Eventbrite
- Person-centred approaches to reduce social barriers for older people Tickets, Tue 16 Jul 2024 at 14:00 | Eventbrite
- Feel Good Pizza Party on Saturday 22 June - https://bookwhen.com/renewaltrust
- Thoughts on befriendling: see below
TLC dates for your diary:
- The Little TLC Catch Up! – our informal peer networking lunch gathering (part of Loneliness Awareness Week) – 🌼Thursday 19th June – 12pm-12:30pm🌼. As part of the Great Get Together. All welcome; it’s great to meet a little more informally and share tips or what we are up to. Join A Little TLC Catch Up meeting
- Our next wider Tackling Loneliness Collaborative (TLC) meeting takes place on Tuesday 9th July 2024 9:30am-11:00am on MS Teams.
Click here to join the wider TLC meeting If you have anything you want to share in this meeting please feel free to!
Also, feel free to drop into part of the meeting if it’s hard to make the full time.
“There has been a lot happening this week with many people thinking about how we interact with other people – even in small ways!
At Bassetlaw Community and Voluntary Service 8 of us gathered and shared lunch for a little bit and made time in our day.”
More people added to the nibbles. It was simple, we re-used what we had where possible, it was lovely! (I am biased though!)
We have appointed a Web design company to start on the TLC Website! This week we’ve held two workshop meetings around the Friendly Connector social action concept and had great discussions. We’ve been posting and sharing information on social media too! Find us here: @TLCNotts on ‘X’ (Twitter) and Tackling Loneliness Collaborative on Facebook.
Many thanks, Kirsty
Tackling Loneliness Collaborative Lead
Find us on Facebook and ‘X’ (Twitter)
Loneliness Page – Tackling Loneliness Collaborative Nottingham and Nottinghamshire | Bassetlaw CVS (bcvs.org.uk)
Research and Service Database - www.tlin.co.uk
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Items to follow:
Commissioning Community Champions: Lessons From A Pandemic | The King's Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)
- Community champions are typically members of the community who volunteer to promote health and wellbeing or improve conditions in their local community. The community champion approach is one of many community-led approaches to improving health and wellbeing.
- In 2023, The King’s Fund conducted a survey of local authority commissioners of community champions programmes in England to understand the breadth of commissioning approaches. In addition, we interviewed people involved in the commissioning and delivery of community champions programmes across 15 local authorities to understand local approaches to commissioning and learning.
Come and join us to celebrate the Paris Olympics in your local library this summer. We are putting on a series of FREE creative maths challenges for you and your child. There will be an opportunity to make, measure and model over 2-hours.
What will be covered on the course?
You and your child will use basic maths skills, linked to the primary curriculum, to make paper javelins, medals, the Eiffel Tower and Olympic themed maths games*. The sessions are informal and provide a fun way to introduce maths concepts. You will work with your child to measure, shape, cut and produce a maths challenge.
*activity will differ depending on library location
The Good Practice Mentor team invite you to join them for a practical workshop session, exploring informal conversational strategies to talk about loneliness, isolation and capture insight from older people less likely to access formal groups, activities, services and support.
Ageing Better partners identified a number of barriers that stopped older people engaging with activities which aimed at reducing loneliness and social isolation - from the purely practical to the psychological. This webinar will help you to think about these barriers and practical ways you might approach removing them.
Join us for the Feel Good Pizza Party on Saturday 22 June
Book your 30 minute slot between 12pm and 2pm to make a pitta bread pizza - choose your toppings, decorate your box and take your pizza home to bake.
£1 per person, Cherry Lodge, King Edward Park, Carlton Road, Nottingham, NG3 2AR Various times available.
Book your place here: https://bookwhen.com/renewaltrust
The theme is ‘Random Acts of Connection’ for Loneliness Awareness Week.
As part of this you could send a message, or make a call to someone to let them know you’re thinking of them
You can also help alleviate loneliness in the community by becoming a befriender.
One place looking for people who love to chat to others is The Helpful Bureau. To find out more please contact Vicki on 0115 949 1175 or email befriending@thehelpfulbureau.org.uk
Find out more at https://www.lonelinessawarenessweek.org/ideas
Your local voluntary and community service or hub will also have useful information about befriending and other ways to meet people:
https://www.ashfieldvoluntaryaction.org.uk/
https://www.nottinghamcvs.co.uk/
Useful directories:
ASKLiON | Ask Lion - Nottingham City Directory
National Loneliness Campaigns:
There are two campaigns running in June, will you be signing up to one and creating an event or attending one?
10th – 16th June – Loneliness Awareness Week: https://www.marmaladetrust.org/law
21st – 23rd June – The Great Get Together : https://www.jocoxfoundation.org/our-work/stronger-communities/great-get-together/