What we do
When older people live alone, without family or friends living nearby, loneliness can become their only companion.
Many prefer to live independently, yet it can be a hard and lonely road.
"I felt that I had come out of a dark tunnel into the light. Before I joined Contact, I thought that my life had ended - and now it's started again!" an elderly guest.
We help people aged 75 or older. They are lonely, live at home on their own and are unable to easily get out of the house unaided.
Small local groups use volunteer drivers who each pick up 1 or 2 elderly people from their own homes. They take them to the home of a volunteer host where the volunteers and older people spend a few hours together with afternoon tea, usually on a Sunday.
Each group normally meets once a month, welcomed into the homes of different hosts.
To meet the growing numbers of lonely older people, we need more volunteers to join new groups.
