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” in art: experiment with a variety of art ideas on a gardens theme and explore how creativity and nature can boost wellbeing. Each day you'll […]

£3.50
Event Series Talk and Tech

Talk and Tech

Tobacco Factory Cafe/ bar - Snug Raleigh Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

The Talk & Tech Computer Café meets every Friday in The Snug at The Tobacco Factory 10:15- 12:00. We have a friendly, relaxed and informal environment and even, thanks to the Tobacco Factory, offer a free cup of coffee or tea! Aimed at the over 55s, the sessions are drop in, there is an opportunity […]

Free

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. Then imagine you’re with people who listen, who treat everyone the same, who don’t judge or try to fix you. That’s a public living room. […]

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, creative and empowering Boob Pottery Workshop. Get your creative juices flowing and make some fab new friends at the same time, what’s not to love? […]

£36.50

Jack Watkins — Solo (Song release date)

Apple Music / Spotify / Amazon etc

Solo was written when Jack was at a low point, struggling with feelings of loneliness and isolation. The song begins with a single piano chord to introduce a heart-breaking vocal that tells the story of someone who appears to be functioning normally, but inside is feeling hollow and disconnected as they go through the motions […]

Free

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 us feel happier and more connected with others.... having a few minutes chat with a friend / neighbour / person at the bus stop or […]

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 have a chat.” Chatty Benches are designed to help tackle loneliness and support positive mental health within the community, according to Mid and East Antrim […]

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 plaque on the bench with a unique QR code on it, which residents can scan to access information on the Loneliness Network

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 plaque on the bench with a unique QR code on it, which residents can scan to access information on the Loneliness Network.

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 plaque on the bench with a unique QR code on it, which residents can scan to access information on the Loneliness Network.

Free

Chatty Bench – Northern Ireland Larne promenade/Larne Community Fridge

Larne Community Fridge Tower Road, Larne, 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 plaque on the bench with a unique QR code on it, which residents can scan to access information on the Loneliness Network

Free