There are so many lonely older people in the UK, our ward is in the top 0.4% or loneliest areas for older people. We want to reduce loneliness and isolation. One friendship at a time.
And so far, we are. We had a lady last week say because of her visit "she felt alive again" another lady wanted to laugh again and has laughed regularly with her volunteer visitor.
Our service is free for how can you put a price on friendship, but unfortunately our service has running costs, costs to recruit and train and monitor volunteers and costs to accepting, risk assessing and visiting our referrals. These costs need covering so let's start with a just giving page and let's cover the cost of reducing loneliness and isolation in Leicester's Western Ward together.