Tag: Age UK

Santander Raises Record £3.2 Million For Age Uk And Barnardo’s

Stuart Mitchell

Santander has raised £3.2million for Age UK and Barnardo’s during its three-year partnership, exceeding its original £3million ambition. Santander staff also contributed over 10,000 hours support, carrying out a wide range of fundraising activities for the two charities, including: International Challenge events with 120 employees travelling to South Africa, Nepal and Cambodia to help vulnerable communities abroad while fundraising to support those closer to home; It’s a Knockout competitions which achieved record numbers of staff participation; and ‘Store Wars’ challenges with Santander employees taking over Age UK and Barnardo’s stores…

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More Than 2.5million Older People Feel They Have No One To Turn To For Help And Support

Stuart Mitchell

As Age UK launches its No one should have no one to turn to campaign, new YouGov research for the Charity has found that 2.65 million older people feel they have no one to turn to for help and support. The campaign kicked off on the 7 November with a powerful new film highlighting some of the challenges that people often have to deal with in later life but which are so much harder to bear if you are facing them alone. These include coping with bereavement, tackling loneliness, getting…

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New Age UK film shows heart-breaking reality of the festive season for many older people

Stuart Mitchell

New research for Age UK shows that nearly a million (928,000) older people feel lonelier at Christmas time, two-fifths of whom have been widowed. Alongside the new findings published to launch Age UK’s Christmas campaign, No one should have no one, the Charity has produced a short filmentitled ‘Just another day’ which shines a light onthe crushing, chronicloneliness which 1.2 million older peopleare living within England. Directed by the award winning and highly acclaimed Philippe Andre, ‘Just another day’ – which premieres on Saturday 2nd December – shows the everyday…

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