Friendship Club is helping to combat loneliness
A weekly friendship club that launched earlier this year has been successfully helping to combat loneliness and bring generations together. The Woolston Friendship Club, run by St Patrick’s Church and St Patrick’s School in partnership us, says it has around 25 regular guests spanning all generations. Regular attendees The club has been a huge success... Read More
Call for volunteers in bid to help support NHS this winter
We are urging people to volunteer in their community to help support the NHS by keeping some of the city’s most vulnerable at home – freeing up hospital beds (January 2022). We are aiming to boost our numbers of volunteers who help our service users with shopping, running errands, simple tasks around the home, doorstep... Read More
Cooee Campaign Featured On BBC Radio Solent!
We were delighted to hear local resident Liz embracing our Cooee campaign on yesterday’s BBC Radio Solent Breakfast show https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p088wcbk (starts at 1.58.52). Liz explains she had put a sign in her window saying ’12 O’clock wave or cooee’ so the next day a neighbour came out and had a chat, and the following day... Read More