Launched on 1st February 2011, the Campaign to End Loneliness aims to maintain and create connections in older age and was started in 2010 by four founder partners: Age UK Oxfordshire, Counsel and Care, Independent Age and WRVS. It is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The work of the Campaign to End Loneliness will:

Raise awareness - of loneliness and why working to reduce it matters.

Build the evidence base - gather the evidence, promote what works in reducing loneliness and find the gaps in current interventions.

Share future-proofing ideas for individuals - helping us all to future-proof our own lives against loneliness in older age.

Inspire vision and action from all - working with others to create a vision of a society where loneliness in older age is ended.

Read the press release

In the media
BBC Woman's Hour
BBC News
Your Local Guardian
Daily Mail
Express

For more information visit the Campaign's website www.campaigntoendloneliness.org.uk