Loneliness Awareness Week Activities

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A Secret Garden Art For Wellbeing Challenge

Medley Online GB, United Kingdom

Would you like to take part in a daily art for wellbeing challenge for the month of June 2023, in your own time from home? Create your own “secret garden” […]

£3.50

Antrim Public Living Room

Antrim Antrim, United Kingdom

We’re the public living room people. What’s a public living room? Imagine the feeling you get when you sit down somewhere you love and feel the world lift a little. […]

Free

Boob pottery making with The Boob Pot Company at High Hill Tap

Hackney brewery & Hign Hill Taproom hackney brewery & High Hill taproom, unit 10, Lockwood way, London, United Kingdom

Sunday 11th June - Boob pottery making with The Boob Pot Company at High Hill Tap On Sunday 11th June we’re heading to High Hill Tap for a super fun, […]

£36.50

Southmead moments of connection

Southmead Hospital, Donal Early Way, Bristol BS10 5NB Southmead Hospital, Donal Early Way, United Kingdom

Drop into the Macmillan Wellbeing Centre and add your own moment of connection speech bubble to our connection wall.... helping us all to recognise how those small moments can make […]

Free

Barbican Library – Book display

Barbican Library Level 2 Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, United Kingdom

It's #LonelinessAwarenessWeek so we've created a display of fiction and non-fiction around the themes of loneliness, solitude and alienation.

Free

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Cullybackey

Maine Riverside Walk Dreen Road Cullybackey, Ballymena, United Kingdom

“We are realising more and more that connection matters. ‘Chatty Benches’ are a great way to break down that social barrier as they encourage us all to say hello and […]

Free

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Whitehead Railway Garden

Whitehead Railway Museum Garden Castleview Rd - Whitehead, Carrickfergus, United Kingdom

The ethos behind it is to encourage anyone who wants to engage in conversation with someone to sit down on a bench and just have a chat. There’s also a […]

Free

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Portglenone Marina

Portglenone Marina Bannview Terrace Portglenone, Ballymena, United Kingdom

The ethos behind it is to encourage anyone who wants to engage in conversation with someone to sit down on a bench and just have a chat. There’s also a […]

Free

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Ballykeel Community Garden

Ballykeel Community Centre 20A Crebilly Road, Ballymena, United Kingdom

The ethos behind it is to encourage anyone who wants to engage in conversation with someone to sit down on a bench and just have a chat. There’s also a […]

Free

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Glenvale

Glenvale Glarryford, Ballymena, United Kingdom

The ethos behind it is to encourage anyone who wants to engage in conversation with someone to sit down on a bench and just have a chat. There’s also a […]

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Ahoghill Park

Ahoghill Park 80 Cullybackey Link Rd - Ahoghill, Ballymena, United Kingdom

We are realising more and more that connection matters. ‘Chatty Benches’ are a great way to break down that social barrier as they encourage us all to say hello and […]

Free

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Sentry Hill Park

Sentry Hill Park Sentry Hill, Ballymena, United Kingdom

The ethos behind it is to encourage anyone who wants to engage in conversation with someone to sit down on a bench and just have a chat. There’s also a […]

Free

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Harryville Motte

Harryville Motte Moat Road, Ballykeel, United Kingdom

The ethos behind it is to encourage anyone who wants to engage in conversation with someone to sit down on a bench and just have a chat. There’s also a […]

Free

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Ballykeel Memorial Garden

Ballykelly Memorial Garden 26 Main Street, Ballykelly, United Kingdom

We are realising more and more that connection matters. ‘Chatty Benches’ are a great way to break down that social barrier as they encourage us all to say hello and […]

Free

AEL Lunchbox Cafe – half price tea and coffee

AEL Lunchbox cafe 32 - 34 Pound St, Larne, United Kingdom

AEL Lunch Box Café is also getting involved in Loneliness Awareness Week by offering half price tea and coffee throughout the week - come and have a drink and a […]

OOt Launch Party

Deloitte 8 Adelaide Street W, Toronto, Canada

You go to work, school or events, but you feel like you’re in a room full of strangers. You don’t know how to start conversations, and you end up feeling […]

Free

Newsletter article

Southern Brooks Community Partnership Coniston Community Centre, Patchway, Bristol, United Kingdom

We will include a short piece in our newsletter, which highlights LAW and the importance of moments of connection. We send out various newsletters targeted at the voluntary sector in […]

The Business Growth Network

The Business Growth Network Somerset House, Temple Street, Birmingham

The Business Growth Network is the UK’s fastest growing hybrid network, offering both in-person and online networking events. We empower businesses, business owners and professionals to network, connect and grow. […]