By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead SATURDAY sees the fifth Ageing Well Torbay Festival this year being held at the Riviera Centre in Torquay. It is the culmination of nearly a year’s hard work by a group of over 50-year-old volunteers who are confident that this will be their biggest and best yet. The Ageing Well Torbay Festival is a celebration of ageing – … Continue reading Our biggest festival yet
Ageing Well Torbay is planning its biggest and best festival yet at the Riviera Centre in Torquay. Saturday 19th October sees the annual celebration of ageing in the Bay with a bumper programme of events, talks, demonstrations, music, dance and sports. Planned and organised by a group of over 50-year-olds for over 50-year-olds, the committee is confident that this, the fifth annual festival, which runs … Continue reading Sex blogger in her eighties to open Ageing Well Festival – #ageproud Grandma Joyce Williams to visit Torbay
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead We are now just 18 months away from the end of the Ageing Well programme and it is time to take stock – begin to review what we have done and work on making sure the work we have started continues. There has been some amazing learning as we concentrated our efforts on finding ways of overcoming loneliness … Continue reading 18 months of Ageing Well Torbay left to go
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead There seems to be a day dedicated to everything you could think of and Tuesday of this week marked a very special one – the International Day of Older Persons. Bit of a mouthful and therefore often reduced to IDOP, but October 1st has been designated in respect of older people by no less than United Nations. Each … Continue reading Challenging Ageism
Council leaders from Torbay have joined others from all over the UK in signing an open letter committing them to working towards tackling ageism and building Age-friendly communities. Torbay Council leader Steve Darling and his deputy Darren Cowell have signed the letter to be published to mark the UN International Day of Older Persons (1st October). With recent research suggesting that a quarter of people … Continue reading Leading Torbay councillors pledge to stamp out “outdated attitudes” to ageing
The new Autumn edition of the AWT newsletter is now available online and in print. This issue features updates on the new Staying Put project – enabling over 50’s to stayin the homes they love for longer, Ann & Jenny’s timebanking travels to the USA, Big Lunches being held around Torbay, the latest on the next Ageing Well Festival and most of all, stories featuring … Continue reading Ageing Well newsletter – Autumn 2019 edition
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead BUSES – or a lack of them – are an issue wherever you go, with the possible exception of London where all communities are well served with regular services and clean modern vehicles. Here in Torbay for the most part we also have a regular service and clean modern vehicles serving the busy commuter routes between the three … Continue reading Battling to bring buses back
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead, IT is done! After months of hard work, the programming for the Ageing Well Festival 2019 is complete. Ten months of graft by a dedicated team of volunteer over 50-year-olds have produced a bumper programme of events, talks, demonstrations, music, dance and sports. We are confident that the Festival committee has produced what will be their best yet, … Continue reading Coming up at this year’s Ageing Well Festival…
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead Life is changing for people – young and old alike – across the Bay. Ageing Well Torbay is a National Lottery Community Funded project that is now well into the fifth of its six-year life span and lives of over 50-year-olds are being changed daily. At the other end of the age spectrum is a new project which … Continue reading Festivals for all ages coming soon
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead Throughout my life, I have been lucky enough to meet some of my heroes, and on the whole it has been a positive experience. The saying goes that you should never meet your heroes because they will let you down, but who would pass up the opportunity given the chance? As I get older, I find I add … Continue reading Meeting your Heroes
