Ageing Better is now moving into a phase of rolling out new projects to test the most effective way of addressing isolation in the over 50’s. Increasingly we are focusing on improving ‘connectedness’ between people rather than labelling people as isolated, as we are finding more and more that people...
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A Birmingham man with HIV who had “nothing to get up for” has praised the “life-changing” impact of a city-wide support group which has helped him get his life back.The 51-year-old, known only as Andy, was diagnosed with HIV four years ago and attends Positive West Midlands, a group funded by our pr...
Ageing Better in Birmingham is out to tender for the provision of Age Friendly Tyburn; a Project within the Tyburn Local Action Plan. Further information on our Priority Area Local Action Plans can be found here.More information in regards to this opportunity can be found on our e-Tendering portal I...
Ageing Better in Birmingham is requesting quotations for the provision of an independent evaluation for four projects within the Tyburn Local Action Plan.More information in regards to this opportunity can be found on our e-Tendering portal In-Tend (click here), submissions and all communications wi...
The Campaign to End Loneliness has found that 89 per cent of people believe loneliness in older age is more likely now than ever – with more than half of all adults saying admitting to loneliness is difficult. Other research suggests that nine out of ten people in Birmingham fear the prospect o...
Ageing Better in Birmingham is out to tender for the provision of Connect Sparkbrook: Addressing Older Peoples Social Isolation. More information in regards to this opportunity can be found on our e-Tendering portal In-Tend (click here), and submissions will be managed through this system.The opport...
Ageing Better in Birmingham is out to tender for the provision of Making Space for Carers; a Project within the Older Carers Local Action Plan. Further information on our Priority Area Local Action Plans can be found here. More information in regards to this opportunity can be found on our e-Te...
National Fitness Day is upon us (27th September 2017) and the news and social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook has been talking aobut it all day. Yes, we agree that it's a good time to be reminded about the importance of eating healthily, drinking plenty of water and exercise regularly. ...
A couple of weeks back a group of people got together at Two Snowhill Tower in Birmingham. They were met with a nice spread of afternoon tea, delicious cakes and great friends and aquaintances. Java & Chow is a group for 50+ LGBT people and their friends of all ages. They regularly get together ...
Last year, our Ageing Better Fund supported Nechells POD to organise activities to get more isolated older people involved in their local community. Noran Flynn, who organise these activities wrote the below feedback and sent us photos from the gorup. We've also included a few quotes from participan...
Ageing Better in Birmingham is out to tender for the provision of the LGBT Badging Scheme; a Project within the LGBT community Local Action Plan. This requires the design and delivery of a city-wide ‘quality mark’ badging scheme to identify places, venues, activities and services deemed ‘LGBT ...
A group of residents in Tyburn had set up weekly activities within their housing accomodation to encourage residents to leave their room and join the community playing cards, darts, do arts and crafts and have a meal together. The group felt they could do more to get isolated people involved, ...
Ageing Better in Birmingham is requesting quotations for the provision of an independent evaluation for two projects within the Older Carers Local Action Plan (LAP)– Telebuddies and Making Space for Carers.More information in regards to this opportunity can be found on our e-Tendering portal I...
Having recently launched our Ageing Better in Birmingham Facebook page, you can now see photos from some of our Ageing Better activities. These have been provided by our Ageing Better Networks - groups of people who come together to make a change for isolated older people in Birmingham!If you log on...
Want to grow things in the nice weather? Why not get isolated older people involved, like Oxhill Road Allotment Carers did, and apply to our fund!People who garden together share ideas and thoughts, plan ahead together and talk about plants, flowers, vegetables and of course life in general. And eve...
Ageing Better in Birmingham is out to tender for the provision of Community Organisers; a Project within the Tyburn Local Action Plan. Further information on our Priority Area Local Action Plans can be found on our website at www.ageingbetterinbirmingham.co.ukMore information in regards to thi...
Back in March, we went to visit Mary and her group of volunteers in Sparkbrook. Mary leads an Ageing Better Network, a group called "Six Streets Residents Activity Group" which aims to help local older people in Sparkbrook by getting them active and bringing them together to make friends. The group ...
Ageing Better in Birmingham is out to tender for the provision of an independent evaluation for two projects within the LGBT Community Local Action Plan (LAP)– Ageing with Pride and LGBT Badging SchemeMore information in regards to this opportunity can be found on our e-Tendering portal In-Tend (cli...
Ageing Better in Birmingham is out to tender for the provision of Telebuddies; a Project within the Older Carers Local Action Plan. Further information on our Priority Area Local Action Plans can be found on our website at www.ageingbetterinbirmingham.co.ukMore information in regards to this opportu...
As part of the Ageing Better in Birmingham programme Four Local Action Plans (LAP) are at verious stages of development for our identified priority areas (Sparkbrook; Tyburn; Older Carers; and the Older LGBT community.) The function of these LAPs is to:Build on local consultation.Address ...