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June 4, 2020
Ageism should come with a health warning!
Ageism can have harmful effects on our health and wellbeing. This is revealed in the largest examination to date of the health consequences of ageism in the…
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May 28, 2020
Time to Shine update: June 2020
Time to Shine entered its final year under the most difficult of circumstances for everyone, so we decided to give you a monthly update of where our…
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May 28, 2020
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
These are almost the only people who have not volunteered to make RU OK? calls to isolated and lonely Leeds residents. In the last three weeks or…
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May 28, 2020
We are many groups, but One Community: the Leeds Irish Community’s response to Covid-19
On 15 March a local businessman, musician and Leeds Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Chair, Séan Gavaghan contacted me at Leeds Irish Health and Homes (LIHH). We discussed whether…
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May 27, 2020
Life between Iraq and a hard place
The recent experiences of living in lockdown have brought back memories of when my husband and I lived abroad for over 30 years. The strange similarities between…
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May 26, 2020
Street Bingo – people can’t come to us, so we’ll go to them
The current situation with Covid-19 obviously means people can’t come to us as usual. So how do we get out into the community to host something that…
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May 21, 2020
Are you OK?
Are you OK? How are you doing? Is everything OK? These are questions I’m sure we’ve all asked and been asked many times in the past few…
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May 20, 2020
Kindness is all around us
Kindness has been important so far during the Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown. Many of us have seen stories of people reaching out to neighbours, communities coming together…
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May 20, 2020
Speaking up at Westminster for the lonely people
The British Red Cross recently put out a call for evidence as the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Loneliness was running a major independent inquiry into…
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May 14, 2020
Have I got older (people) news for you!? (May 2020)
At Time to Shine we see and read a lot of interesting stories and resources about older people. We share a few of these with you each…
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