Friends of Woodberry Down run a bi-weekly coffee and activity morning to combat loneliness and social isolation for older people aged 50 years and over in Woodberry Down London N4 and surrounding areas.

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Friends of Woodberry Down are nominees for the 2017 Adiaha Antigha Community Awards - Please vote for us!

Please see a recent article about us written by Hanover Housing Association.

Friends of Woodberry Down at Newnton Close

Participants have the opportunity to mingle, talk and share problems, we offer a number of services.

Advocacy – Form filling, making calls, changing appointments etc , Arts and crafts, Befriending , Bingo, Dominoes and card games , Celebrate birthdays, food waste project – collect and deliver food for older people twice per week , Hot meals and refreshments , Group singing – with Musical Memories , Group Chair based Exercise, Group Trips to cinema and Hackney's winter warmer event, Organise summer day trips , Meet and make friends at our vibrant coffee and activity mornings , Winter Pantomime , Seasonal Celebrations

Our oldest member, who still proudly attends is a mere 96 years old! We rely on volunteers and pockets of funding to survive, we have no paid salaries and no full time staff. To keep our organisation running we organise raffles, auctions and stalls at community events to raise funds.

Christmas and New Year, with all its cheer and merriment can be a very lonely time if you are elderly and living alone, we would like to bring a little bit of joy into the approaching festive season for the older people in our local community. Please help us treat 40 older people to a trip to Hackney Empire Theatre to see the winter Pantomime Cinderella in December 2017.

As our members age their social activities and finances change and sadly due to their reduced mobility and lack of reliable transportation they find it difficult to attend activities like this without our help.

Each matinee panto ticket at Hackney Empire costs £36.50. Without your help our elders could not go, they will contribute £7 each, we, Amanda Inniss and Tracey Boothe have raised £500. Everyone will also receive a Christmas snack bag and a bottle of water.

40 tickets x £36.50 = £1460

Elders contribution 40 x £7 = £280

Money already raised by Friends of Woodberry Down = £500

We require a further £900 to make our panto dream a reality.

Please help us create a December to remember, thank you very much!!