Re-Engage

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.