SOUTH LONDON CARES LIMITED

Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020

£90,000 over 5 years (£30,000; £24,000; £14,000; £12,000; £10,000) towards the salary costs of the Programme Coordinator for South London Cares and contribution to Social Club activity costs to deliver the Love Your Neighbour, Social Clubs, ....more

£90,000 over 5 years (£30,000; £24,000; £14,000; £12,000; £10,000) towards the salary costs of the Programme Coordinator for South London Cares and contribution to Social Club activity costs to deliver the Love Your Neighbour, Social Clubs, Winter Wellbeing and Outreach services in Southwark and Lambeth.

Grant to South London Cares Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19

South London Carers supports elderly people by partnering them with younger 'professional' neighbours to tackle the growing problem of isolation and loneliness in Lambeth and Southwark. Through partnerships with GP surgeries, social services and ....more

South London Carers supports elderly people by partnering them with younger 'professional' neighbours to tackle the growing problem of isolation and loneliness in Lambeth and Southwark. Through partnerships with GP surgeries, social services and housing providers they are able to reach the most vulnerable candidates and prior to the C19 outbreak they also ran 23 monthly social clubs and completed regular proactive outreach. During lockdown SLC requires additional funding to scale up its new emergency response programmes, to retain and re-deploy experienced staff and increase and mobilise volunteers. SLC plan to transition existing social clubs to new digital forms, provide digital skills training for elderly people, increase communications via post and email and roll out a wider phone-a-friend service, providing a well-being service to a much wider group of self-isolating elderly people.

Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to South London Cares, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.

A continued partnership with United St Saviour's will help South London Cares to reduce older people's isolation and loneliness, and sense of being left behind, that the layered factors of globalisation, gentrification, urban transience and ....more

A continued partnership with United St Saviour's will help South London Cares to reduce older people's isolation and loneliness, and sense of being left behind, that the layered factors of globalisation, gentrification, urban transience and digitisation engender across the borough. We will do this by targeting our proven model to those most at risk of isolation, including through: > Delivering at least 70 Social Clubs a year (140 in Southwark in total) in United St Saviour’s patch. Six monthly clubs will include film clubs, quiz nights, gallery and museum trips, dance workshops, yoga classes, “back to work” business visits and our much-loved “Desert Island Discs” nights. • 350 older neighbours and 270 younger Londoners will benefit every year from attending these clubs over 1,600 and 800 times respectively, with neighbours enjoying over 166 hours of fun, laughter and conversation directly from United St Saviour’s investment. > For our oldest neighbours, many of whom are housebound, our Love Your Neighbour programme supports weekly at-home visits that foster special long-term friendships. Individuals living in close proximity benefit from an anchor of shared time and shared stories to look forward to. With a £40 budget friends can celebrate special occasions, share dinner together, or rent a film. Many who are mobile enough to venture outside will enjoy a pub lunch, a football match, a gallery visit or cinema trip. • 14 matches are currently supported by United St Saviour’s and a continued partnership will ensure that 15 matches in total are supported in north Southwark annually. Neighbours will spend between one and two hours enjoying a cuppa and a chat every week, with over 300 visits and 550 hours shared each year. > These social activities are underpinned by our proactive Outreach. Last winter alone, through a combination of community events and door-knocking, we spoke to 1,649 neighbours across Southwark and Lambeth. Importantly, we worked with over 172 local community partners to support cross-referrals and signposting. In each of the two years of the partnership, we will deepen these relationships, to gain a greater understanding of need, to enable effective cross referrals, to avoid duplication and to share learning. • 20 meetings a year will strengthen ties with partners in north Southwark and enable over 100 signposting and referral opportunities to support individuals with practical tasks, home maintenance issues, health, housing, financial and legal needs. Additionally, 20 community outreach events at local GP clinics, chemists, supermarkets, and sheltered housing units will compliment door-knocking so we can speak to 500 older neighbours most at risk of isolation and extend a warm invitation to our activities. Research has shown that our model’s combination of community-based group activity, individual relationship-building and proactive outreach can have the biggest impact on reducing loneliness, particularly for those most at risk. And our most recent external evaluation reported that older and younger neighbours participating are shown to feel, improved understanding across the generations and a greater sense of belonging to their community as a result of taking part.

Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019

Building community at scale

70 vibrant social clubs bringing at least 140 older neighbours and 500 young people together to share time, laughter and new experiences; reduce loneliness and isolation amongst older and younger people alike; deepen neighbours’ connection, ....more

70 vibrant social clubs bringing at least 140 older neighbours and 500 young people together to share time, laughter and new experiences; reduce loneliness and isolation amongst older and younger people alike; deepen neighbours’ connection, resilience and power; and expand activity and relationships across social and generational divides in rapidly-changing north Southwark.

Tenants and Residents Social Improvements Grant grant from the Housing & Modernisation department

Help fund vibrant activities to bring older and younger neighbours together in winter to reduce isolation and loneliness in Southwark.

Winter Wellbeing 2017/18

South London Cares is a community network formed of young professionals and older people, two groups most at risk of loneliness. Founded in 2014 and based in Southwark and Lambeth, its proactive outreach programme identifies and invites older people ....more

South London Cares is a community network formed of young professionals and older people, two groups most at risk of loneliness. Founded in 2014 and based in Southwark and Lambeth, its proactive outreach programme identifies and invites older people to participate in its social clubs and its Love-Your-Neighbour one-to-one friendship scheme. The Fore has provided funding to set up and run a new customer relationship management system to improve retention, facilitate expansion and transform operations at South London Cares and its affiliated organisations.

The Fore has provided funding to set up and run a new customer relationship management system to improve retention, facilitate expansion and transform operations at South London Cares and its affiliated organisations.

Continuation of South London Cares’ social clubs in Elephant & Castle, Walworth and Bermondsey helping to connect 180 older neighbours and younger volunteers.

Tenants and Residents Social Improvements Grant grant from the Housing & Modernisation department

North London is a place of social extremes. LB Camden and Islington contain some of the best connected people in the UK - high-flying graduates working in finance, media, the law, PR and fashion – but also some of the most isolated, with ....more

North London is a place of social extremes. LB Camden and Islington contain some of the best connected people in the UK - high-flying graduates working in finance, media, the law, PR and fashion – but also some of the most isolated, with particular challenges to do with deprivation, loneliness, depression and anxiety. Often, these two groups live side-by-side, but hardly ever interact. Through an extensive range of Social Clubs, Love Your Neighbour (one-to-one) activities and Winter Well Being clothes and food drops, neighbours share time, practical help and companionship with the aim of tackling the growing problem of isolation and loneliness across age, class, ethnicity, attitudinal and cultural divides.

Winter Wellbeing 2016/17

Tenants and Residents Social Improvements grant from the Housing & Modernisation department

Support for Winter Wellbeing project