This week is Loneliness Awareness Week (14 – 18 June), hosted by Marmalade Trust, it’s a campaign dedicated to raising awareness of, and to get people talking about loneliness. Below you’ll find resources to support the campaign and more information and resources relating to the Loneliness Campaign North Yorkshire.
Does your organisation help people that are experiencing loneliness?
You can download the Let’s Talk Loneliness toolkit, which includes digital assets, social posts, and more to support the #LetsTalkLoneliness campaign.
Campaign video introducing Loneliness Awareness Week.
Image: Loneliness Awareness week 2021. We get lonely. But we don’t all get loneliness. By building our understanding of loneliness, we can help ourselves and others to manage the feeling. Join the conversation. #LetsTalkLoneliness
Community First Yorkshire’s Loneliness Campaign North Yorkshire
The Loneliness Campaign North Yorkshire (TLC), which was managed by Community First Yorkshire officially came to an end on 31 March 2021, but the lasting legacy of the project still remains with the aim of tackling loneliness across North Yorkshire.
Community First Yorkshire published Be Social, Be Well: A strategic framework for tackling loneliness in North Yorkshire in September 2020. This publication not only highlights all the local work being done to tackle loneliness already in North Yorkshire, but outlines services to help prevent people becoming lonely and includes a framework for action to help those working in local services and community groups think about, talk about and act on loneliness.
Other resources from the campaign include:
- Stand Up To Youth Loneliness – Designed in consultation with young people, it aims to tackle the stigma surrounding loneliness in young people and give them a voice to talk about it. Includes posters, leaflets and a professional’s resource pack.
- Voices of North Yorkshire – a collection of different people’s experiences of loneliness both before and during the Covid-19 lockdown.
- Combatting Loneliness Through Volunteering – Information and resources to showcase how volunteering can help alleviate loneliness and help volunteers stay connected, including a podcast from Marie Curie volunteers.
- Workplace Loneliness – A fact sheet and toolkit for businesses to highlight and start a conversation about loneliness in the workplace.
- Stronger Together: A Toolkit for Building Community Connections – a collection of online resources to support communities, villages and neighbourhoods create better connected communities and tackle the causes of loneliness. It includes a poster, Welcome Pack and webinar giving information about how the toolkit can be used.