Resources

This guide demonstrates the important role of town and parish councils in creating age-friendly communities and gives examples from local councils who are already leading the way.

This free benchmarking tool provides a snapshot of key data available at the local authority level to help local councils and organisations in England better understand their ageing population.

Download our State of Ageing 2025: Technical Summary and Data Tables.

This resource shows the publicly available data sources for local areas across England which you may find useful in building a picture of the ageing population in your local area.

This report chronicles the work that has happened across Greater Manchester since 2016 towards becoming an age-friendly city region.

This report describes the multitude of positive impacts Age-friendly Communities are having on the local systems they represent and the older people that live there.