Over £270,000 for projects to find better ways of supporting and recruiting older volunteers
The Centre for Ageing Better and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) have given funding to five projects to make volunteering more age-friendly and inclusive.
Using creativity to improve health and wellbeing in later life
An age-friendly cultural exchange in the Netherlands took place, where successes and challenges were shared by colleagues and cultural visits were had.
Government funding to help pilot, develop and share better ways of supporting older volunteers
The Centre for Ageing Better will award Government funding of up to £250,000 to pilot better ways to sustain lifelong involvement in voluntary and community activities and attract more diverse older volunteers.
The Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering fund has been set up to develop and document models of good practice in supporting older people’s voluntary and community activity.