Loneliness Awareness Week Activities

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Tea & Newspapers

Tandragee Library Market Street, Tandragee, Armagh, United Kingdom

Meet new people, socialise and discuss local and national affairs in the newspapers while enjoying complimentary tea/coffee and biscuits.

Free

Gonjo’s Happy Cafe

c High Street, Melksham, England, United Kingdom

A Happy Café is one which has agreed to be part of the Happy Café Network, which is being set up by members of the Action for Happiness movement. Happy Cafés provide a warm welcome for anyone interested in happiness and wellbeing, encouraging people to meet together for a drink and friendly chat.

🙂Happy Café in Melksham☕

Gonjoo Cafe Bake House Melksham High Street, Melksham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

For more information see Rethink Mental Illness - Wiltshire Mental Health Inclusion Service on Facebook or contact Stacey on 07570 920 363.

Free

Knit & Natter

Cookstown Library Burn Road, Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Come and have a chat and a cuppa. You can knit, crochet or just hang out! Everyone welcome.

Free

Let’s Go Walking

Randalstown Library New Street, Randalstown, Co Antrim, United Kingdom

A gentle walk, connecting with others and enjoying fresh air, nature and companionship. Booking essential

Free

Tea @ 2.30pm

Want chat with others, meet people in your area, Join us every Wednesday for an informal chat, with lots of free tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits. Everyone welcome

Free

Board Games at Spring Vale Library

Spring Vale Library, Bevan Avenue, Wolverhampton, WV4 6SG Bevan Avenue, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Play some classic board games and meet people in your area on Wednesday 12th June 3-4.45pm at Spring Vale library! Scrabble, chess and more – there’s something for everyone! All are welcome to come along and play some games. Part of the Know Your Neighbourhood project.

Free

Connection Café: Games & Good Company

Cafe Lido, Esplanade Road, Portishead, England, United Kingdom

Join us at the Connection Café: Games & Good Company during Loneliness Awareness Week for a uplifting gathering. The purpose of this event is to come together, play together, and connect together over delicious cakes and refreshing drinks. This event invites individuals of all ages to share smiles and create memories over an assortment of […]

Free

GigMate & GoodShip presents Random Acts of Connection through Music

81 Renshaw St, Liverpool. L1 2SJ 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool

GigMate and GoodShip* would like to invite you to their first record store meet up at 81 Renshaw for an evening of conversation about music, gigs and awareness on the Marmalade Trust National Loneliness Awareness Campaign Random Acts of Connection. We have chosen 81 Renshaw, one of Liverpool's best independent record stores as our venues […]

Free

Connection, Third Places, and Democracy

Zoom

In celebration of Loneliness Awareness Week 2024 💛, join us in making our shared loneliness visible. Discover its power to reconnect us through inner and outer well-being, real third places, citizen-led democracy, and connection skills. ​Meet our contributors: ​Parneet Pal, physician-educator, founder, Systematically Well ​Jordy van Bennekom, co-founder of The Offline Club ​Ieva Česnulaitytė, founding […]

Free

Talking together

X. gimnazija Ivan Supek, Zagreb Ulica Vjekoslava Klaića, Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia

We talk together to encourage connection between students, reduce feelings of loneliness, share experiences and get to know each other better. Students will answer pre-planned questions in social coffee activities. We will form long lines through the hallway of our school where students will get to know each other better and share their experiences with […]

Chatty Chairs Exhibition

The Guildhall Kings Lynn King Street, King’s Lynn, England, United Kingdom

Come and visit The Guildhall and see West Norfolk's Chatty Chair Project Exhibition for Loneliness Awareness Week. Each chair represents a community group in West Norfolk and the chairs come with their own social story. Sam Doughty from Norfolk county Council will be inviting visitors to have a chat about the chairs and hear about […]

Free

Glasgow Health Walks

various Fernleigh Road, Glasgow, Select, United Kingdom

Health Walks are free, friendly walks around an hour long taking in a bit of greenspace along the way. They are suitable for all abilities, we just ask that if a walker needs one to one support they bring a buddy with them. There are 50 walks a week happening across the city every day […]

Free

Blokes Breakfast

TogetherWORKS Caldicot Woodstock Way, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

Join us for a breakfast roll and refill tea and coffee. £2.50 per person. Women welcome too.

£2.50
Event Series Banwell public living room

Banwell public living room

Banwell Scout Hut Banwell Scout Hut, Public Carpark, West Street, Banwell, UK, Banwell, 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. […]

Locking St Augustine’s Public Living Room

Church Centre The Green, Locking, Weston Super Mare, 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. […]

1-2-1 eClinic

Lisburn Road Library Lisburn Road, Belfast, Co Antrim, United Kingdom

IT help for beginners: help with your mobile device, general IT assistance, information about library e-services. Booking essential.

Free

Barn Theatre – make new friends over Coffee, cake & chat

Barn Theatre Barn Theatre, beeches road,, cirencester, Choose County, United Kingdom

The atrium will be open from 10-2pm every day for anyone to pop in for a free cup of coffee/tea and cake. An opportunity to come in, have a chat, make new friends and have some fun!

Free

Oasis at Chipping Sodbury Baptist Church

Oasis at Chipping Sodbury Baptist Church High Street, Chipping Sodbury, England, United Kingdom

The Oasis is a community wellbeing space for people of any faith or none. Situated in the heart of Chipping Sodbury, it's open each weekday from 10am to 2pm and 'everyone is welcome!' Come in for a tea/coffee and a chat - you can be sure of a warm welcome! Share a hobby, join an […]

Free

East Suffolk Skylarks

Multiple Locations Snape and Ipswich

Skylarks is a fun and friendly singing group for people living with Parkinson’s and their companions. East Suffolk Skylarks groups use techniques based on years of research to help those with Parkinson’s to maintain or improve their psychological and physical wellbeing through taking part in regular singing activity. Sessions take place 10:30am – 12pm at: […]

Free