Support on offer for older people
Loneliness can affect people across the UK in different ways. If you or someone you know is struggling with feelings of loneliness, there are many organisations who can help.
You can also use loneliness help and wellbeing resources by the Red Cross to support yourself or someone you know when experiencing feelings like stress, worry and anxiety.
Harrogate and District
Community Connect
The Community Connect service run by British Redcross provides a befriending and enabling service in the Harrogate and Rural District with up to 12 weeks of support in the community. The service has been serving the community by way of medication delivery, shopping and befriending telephone calls.
The service is for people aged 18 and over. Referrals can be made through a GP or health professional or people can self refer.
Phone 07740 422 492 or email celinajowett@redcross.org.uk to find out more.
Learn more about Community Connect
Mind in Harrogate District
Mind offer a befriending service for people across the whole district, and is now supporting people in the market towns of Boroughbridge, Knaresborough, Ripon, Pateley Bridge and Masham as well as Harrogate. You can find out more by phoning 01423 503 335 or sending an email to befriending@mindinharrogate.org.uk
Learn more - visit Mind in Harrogate District
North Yorkshire & Darlington
Age UK North Yorkshire & Darlington offers a range of quality support services for people aged 50+, including information and advice, meals at home, and dementia day care.If you are interested in any of the services below please call us on 01325 362 832.
Visit the Age UK North Yorkshire & Darlington website
North Craven
Age UK North Craven run both a visiting befriending and a telephone Befriending service. If you would like more information on either of these please phone 01729 823 066.
Visit the Age UK North Craven website
North Yorkshire Coast & Moors
Age UK North Yorkshire Coast & Moors offer information and advice and social prescribing and well-being. Find out more by giving them a call on 01723 379 058.
Where to go for help with loneliness
Organisations in the UK that support people who feel alone
Age UK's vision is to make the UK a great place to grow older. Their volunteer befriending service is one of the ways Age UK tries to beat loneliness in later life.
Alzheimer’s Society are there for anyone affected by dementia, and do everything they can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Campaign to End Loneliness believes nobody should be lonely in older age and that loneliness is not inevitable.
Carers UK aim to be there for the 6,000 people who start looking after someone each day.
Community Connectors, a British Red Cross service, can help lonely adults of all ages establish or re-establish connections.
Co-op Foundation highlights a number of projects supporting young people with loneliness.
Cruse Bereavement Care UK offers support for people experiencing loneliness following bereavement.
Eden Project Communities connect people and communities, encouraging everyday people to make positive change where they live.
Home-Start work with vulnerable families or parents struggling to cope for any reason across the UK, including people who are feeling lonely or isolated.
Independent Age offer regular friendly contact and a strong campaigning voice for older people on care and support, money and benefits, health and mobility.
Marmalade Trust help people make new connections and find social activity in their local community.
Refugee Action has spent 35 years helping refugees build safe, hopeful and productive new lives in the UK.
Royal Voluntary Service is a volunteering organisation that aims to enrich the lives of older people and their families across Britain.
Sense is a national disability charity that supports people with complex communication needs to be understood, connected and valued.
The Silver Line is a free, 24 hour, confidential helpline for older people.
