Tackling Social Isolation - Voluntary Sector Networking Conference

The voluntary sector has worked for decades to reduce social isolation for carers, disabled people, older adults, people with a mental health condition, children, people from marginalised communities - in fact every sort of person you can think of who is likely to call upon the voluntary sector to help. Our next networking conference on social isolation will build on our existing work with one another about developing our combined efforts to tackle this great social ill.

 

 

Keynote speakers:

Campaign to End Loneliness - Anna Goodman: Loneliness - the national perspective
Public Health Barnet - Rachel Wells: Public Health, its relation to social isolation?
Age UK Barnet – Helen Newman: Using IT and other methods to reduce social isolation
Young Foundation, The U project - Radhika Bynon: Neighbourly, neighbours!

Showcasing the Voluntary Sector 
Context: Tackling social isolation - the impact your organisation/project has made

~ Parenting Consortium - Zoe Kattah
~ Barnet Mencap, Community Inclusion Project - Shelley Gibbons
~ Mind, Befriending Service - Christina Meacham
~ Friend in Need - John Wilks 

Networking

Short delivery by Radhika Bynon: Being ‘commission-ready’ / showcasing impact
* Organisations share what they are doing to tackle social isolation
* Lessons learnt – taking this forward? Partnerships, meeting up again, funding opportunities 
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