RCMG and Calke worked in partnership with a number of organisations and individuals with specialist expertise in addressing issues of loneliness and social isolation, alongside organisations that enabled our vision of HumanKind to come to life. These include:
- Anti-Bullying Alliance
- The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
- The Campaign to End Loneliness
- City of Sanctuary
- Claire Keatinge, Northern Ireland’s First Commissioner for Older People
- Derbyshire Record Office
- Framework Housing Association
- Human’s Best Friend – adoption@justfordogsrescue.co.uk
- Kate Jopling and the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness – the commission has now ended, but for more information about wider national conversations around loneliness and social isolation see ‘Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness: Combatting loneliness one conversation at a time’
- Leicestershire County Council
- Leicester South Food Bank
- Remark!
- South Derbyshire CVS
- Toys on the Table
- WW Engineers
Claire Keatinge, Northern Ireland’s first Commissioner for Older People discusses, in the following film, why older people are more at risk of loneliness and social isolation and what society can do to help:
In this film, Anna Mullaney, from the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) talks about the work that CALM does and shares why it’s so important for men to seek help when they need it, to talk and to connect to help prevent male suicides.
Cheryl Culver, from Remark! Community, shares more about why Deaf people are at risk of loneliness and what organisations, including cultural and heritage sites, can do to ensure that their venues are inclusive and accessible for all.
