Volunteers at a charity that is dedicated to helping elderly people celebrated a landmark anniversary last week.
Contact the Elderly brings lonely older people together and hosts monthly tea parties on one Sunday afternoon each month to tackle this isolation, and this week they celebrated 50 years in the community.
Gill Rivas, an Amersham volunteer for the charity, said: “I know that our guests find Sundays particularly lonely because everybody else is with their families, so our monthly tea meetings are really beneficial to them.
“The tea parties are delightful. I thoroughly enjoy the afternoons I spend with the group, so would definitely recommend anyone interested in volunteering to sign up now.”
Contact the Elderly has been tackling social isolation in the elderly since 1965 and now supports over 4600 people nationally.
For more information visit www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk or free phone 0800 716543
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