Loneliness Awareness Week Activities

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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

Tasty Taster

Pennystone Court Blackpool Handsworth Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom

The residents, staff and volunteers at Pennystone Court Dementia Care Home are holding an outdoor event. Music, karaoke and lots of food to try.

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

Loneliness Awareness Session

katherine road community centre, 254 Katherine Rd, London, E7 8PW Katherine Road, London, England, United Kingdom

We will explore the impact of loneliness and discover practical ways to connect and support our community.

Free

Coffee Morning

Green Street Library, 337-341 Green St, London, E13 9AR Green Street, London, England, United Kingdom

Join us for a heart-warming Coffee Morning. Share warm drinks, delightful conversations and a chance to connect with our neighbours. Refreshments will be provided.

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

Quiz for Marmalade

pub quiz in Heineken London and Edinburgh offices to raise money for Marmalade Trust.

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 […]

Adopt a Grandparent

If you’d like to join more than 100,000 people in their mission to combat feelings of isolation and loneliness, sign up below. Our thorough matching process via our app will intuitively pair you with a grandparent, based on mutual likes and interests. Alternatively, do you think your residents or recipients of care could benefit from […]

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. […]

Free Hugs

Hadleigh London Road, Hadleigh, Essex, United Kingdom

The Free Hugs events are run by a team of Essex knitters and crocheters who make colourful blankets free of charge for the local community. During Loneliness Awareness Week, the ladies who live in Castle Point Essex host a stall at the local supermarket where we chat to shoppers about Loneliness and encourage them to […]

Free

Tea and Toast

Greenway Centre, Southmead Doncaster Road, Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Join us for tea toast and connection

Free

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