Grant to Contact The Elderly (360G-QuartetCF-A458197)
Funding Organization
£500
Recipient Organization
As requested by the donor towards projects which reduce isolation among older people.
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 500 |
| Amount Awarded | 500 |
| Award Date | 2017-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E06000023 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | UA |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Bristol, City of |
| Grant Programme: Code | DD-2017/2018 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Donor Directed |
| Impact Category | Promote reduction of isolation and disadvantage and access to local services |
| Last Modified | 2017-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary age group | Seniors (65+) |
| Primary beneficiary | Older People |
| Primary ethnicity | All Ethnicities |
| Primary issue | Social Inclusion |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1146149 |
| Recipient Org: Description | Contact the Elderly is the only charity solely dedicated to relieving long term loneliness of people aged 75 and over and to providing a sustainable solution to social isolation. Our team of volunteers in Bristol organise Sunday afternoon tea parties for the most vulnerable and isolated members of the community. Our volunteer drivers use their own cars to collect their older guests and accompany them to a tea party held at a volunteer hosts’ home. The guests are welcomed as if they were family, and the tea parties replicate as near as possible the hospitality they would receive from their friends and family. The parties are a simple but hugely effective prevention and cure for social isolation and our older guests often feel an increase in their self confidence and an improved sense of mental and physical wellbeing. Our work is recognised by statutory services as reversing the effect of depression caused by loneliness and reducing older people’s dependency on primary health services. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk |