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Lunch Club With Rest Less Events

Rest Less Events 47 Butt Road, Colchester, United Kingdom

Join our Lunch Club, a weekly virtual gathering for engaging conversations and meaningful connections! Each week, take this time to connect with like-minded individuals from around the world. Share your thoughts, discuss interesting topics, and enjoy a friendly and welcoming environment. Why lunch alone when you can have a virtual lunch date with Lunch Club? […]

Online small business meet-up: Buckinghamshire

Enterprise Nation UK Office Enterprise Nation 133 Whitechapel High Street, London, United Kingdom

Are you an existing or budding small business owner? Want to grow your network in a friendly, relaxed, and supportive environment? Enterprise Nation’s monthly online meet-ups bring together founders from all sectors to share ideas, learn new skills, solve challenges and inspire one another. Running a small business needn’t be lonely. Register for the local […]

Free

Age UK Bristol FAB St Werburgh’s LGBT+friendly Cafe

Woods Cafe St Werburghs Community Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom

Pop into Woods Café at St Werburgh’s Community Centre, Bristol BS2 9TJ - meet up held every Thursday. On 15th June Helen from Marmalade Trust will be popping in around 10.15 to open up the conversation about loneliness and chat about the importance of moments of connection.

The Music Train

Christ Church, Downend Road, Downend, Bristol, BS16 5UF Downend Road, Downend, Bristol, United Kingdom

The Music Train, which is overseen by charity Milestones Trust, provides free live music during the day for people who might find it difficult to attend night-time concerts, including people who need the support of a carer to access events. Come along to listen to, and join in with, our talented musicians. Everyone is welcome!

Free

Social prescribing link worker catch up

Zoom

In our service we often work in isolation, from home or in different offices, and don't get much time together. It can sometimes get a bit lonely. As a team focused on improving connection for others, we thought it important to connect with one another. We arranged an online meet up to start organising an […]

Private Event – Phone Club

North London Cares North London Cares, C/O Camden Collective 5-7 Buck Street, London, United Kingdom

📞 Phone Club: You Must Be Mistaken Where: On your mobile or landline phone. See below for how to join. Date: Thurs 15th June Time: 1.00-2.00pm Join this month’s phone club and tell us about your most mistaken, mixed-up, mortifying moments! It will be a chance to share stories, listen and laugh with others. You […]

Virtual Tea Break

Zoom

Do you want to join me for a tea break? 💛 Next week is #LonelinessAwarenessWeek so I'm holding two virtual tea breaks 🫖Tuesday 11am 🫖Thursday 1pm (BST) To join me for a cuppa, DM and I'll send the Zoom link #ConnectionMatters #ConSocSci #Conservation

Free

Online small business meet-up: South East London

Enterprise Nation UK Office Enterprise Nation 133 Whitechapel High Street, London, United Kingdom

Are you an existing or budding small business owner? Want to grow your network in a friendly, relaxed, and supportive environment? Enterprise Nation’s monthly online meet-ups bring together founders from all sectors to share ideas, learn new skills, solve challenges and inspire one another. Running a small business needn’t be lonely. Register for the local […]

Free

Online small business meet-up: West Yorkshire

Enterprise Nation UK Office Enterprise Nation 133 Whitechapel High Street, London, United Kingdom

Are you an existing or budding small business owner? Want to grow your network in a friendly, relaxed, and supportive environment? Enterprise Nation’s monthly online meet-ups bring together founders from all sectors to share ideas, learn new skills, solve challenges and inspire one another. Running a small business needn’t be lonely. Register for the local […]

Free

Online small business meet-up: West London

Enterprise Nation UK Office Enterprise Nation 133 Whitechapel High Street, London, United Kingdom

Are you an existing or budding small business owner? Want to grow your network in a friendly, relaxed, and supportive environment? Enterprise Nation’s monthly online meet-ups bring together founders from all sectors to share ideas, learn new skills, solve challenges and inspire one another. Running a small business needn’t be lonely. Register for the local […]

Free

Get Singing Again With Rest Less Events

Rest Less Events 47 Butt Road, Colchester, United Kingdom

Get back into the joy of singing with this easy and accessible online workshop. Your host, Julia, will start by taking you though a short, tailored warm up, to brush the cobwebs off those vocal chords. Then, with the help of backing tracks, there will even be a chance to sing along to some all-time […]

Spark a Connection

Discover ways in which you can connect with others and find things to do locally in West Norfolk. Meet local groups and organisations Find out about volunteering

Free

Tea and Talk on Teams

Microsoft Teams

A 30-minute get-together on Microsoft Teams, to have a cup of tea, have a nice chat and take a moment to connect. In an era of remote working, online play, and social media, we'll talk about what loneliness means to us in the 21st century.

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 ÄŒesnulaitytÄ—, founding […]

Free

Understand more about the Psychology of Loneliness and Social isolation

online

Mark Loneliness Awareness Week with the Good Practice Mentors by finding out where and why people are lonely, and how you might start to tackle this loneliness. Time to Shine in Leeds, and the 13 other Ageing Better partners across England set out to use a range of techniques to reduce social isolation and loneliness […]

Free

Connecting Colleagues: Loneliness

online

A colleague discussion linking up our workability and mental health groups at Aon and giving colleagues a forum to discuss their own experiences of loneliness.

Free

Informal community assets and co-production for ‘Random Acts of Connection’

online

Using informal community assets and co-production approaches to engage and capture insight from seldom heard voices: Making the most of your ‘Random Acts of Connection’ with people in the community - learning from the Good Practice Mentors . This year’s Loneliness Awareness week is running under the theme ‘Random Acts of Connection’, exploring how connecting […]

Free