Re-Engage

Voluntary Organisation or Charity

Last updated 1 year ago

Re-Engage

020 7420 5812
Sarah McKean
Leisure Activities Befriending Age

About the Service

Re-engage is a charity that is positive about older age and committed to fighting loneliness so that people can have social lives and friendship groups however old they are.  We inspire and enable meaningful connections and shared experiences within communities across the UK for people over 75 facing loneliness and social isolation.

 

Our volunteers work together to create better communities and help to enrich the lives of our members by giving them something to look forward to.

Older people who may have felt very alone, now feel valued as individuals, continue to form friendships, and have groups that give support. We make sure that people know they are important well into old age. Respectful, determined, warm, pioneering, and local: we are Re-engage and we are bringing generations together.

 

We currently have a telephone befriending service (call companions) Find a call companion: phone befriending & companionship (reengage.org.uk) and we also offer a telephone befriending service specifically for older people from the LGBT+ community (rainbow call companions) offering weekly calls from volunteers who also identify from that community.  We have in person social groups (monthly tea party gatherings) Tea Parties for Older People: Companionship & Friendship Clubs (reengage.org.uk) where older people can interact and socialise with volunteers and other older people. 

Accessibility

Physically Accessible: Partially
Dementia Friendly: No
Autism Friendly: No

Key Info

Opening Hours

Mon. 9-5
Tue. 9-5
Wed. 9-5
Thu. 9-5
Fri. 9-5

Notes - Times vary depending on the hours of volunteers. However Office hours are listed.

Service Usage

Minimum Age: 75
Cost: Free

Eligibility Criteria

Tea party guests must be able to weight bare and be able to get into a volunteers car with minimal support. No personal care needs are able to be met. For more information on what we are looking for volunteers and group coordinators, please see our website Re-engage: Charity Supporting Older People Through Volunteering (reengage.org.uk)

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