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Support your locals – Community Matters

By Joey Damiral, Community Builder for Chelston, Cockington & Livermead Torbay is an amazing place, full of remarkable people. My role, as the community builder for Chelston, Cockington and Livermead has enabled me to witness this first-hand. We have been through such difficult times over the past two years and despite this, have pulled together and supported one another as best we can. The community … Continue reading Support your locals – Community Matters

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Community support a lasting legacy

By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead AGEING Well Torbay is coming to an end, but much of our work over the last seven years will continue. AWT was just one of fourteen projects funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, tasked with looking at ways of tackling loneliness and isolation in over 50-year-olds. The learning has been phenomenal as each area set about testing … Continue reading Community support a lasting legacy

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Valentine’s Day… let’s share love of community! – Community Matters

By Ceri Silk, Community Builder for Torquay Town Centre Since the 1400s, February 14 is traditionally the day to say ‘I love you’ to that special person with a card, meal or bunch of flowers. However, it can also be a great opportunity to start sharing your passion with others in our community. Living in this beautiful Bay, there is so much to be grateful … Continue reading Valentine’s Day… let’s share love of community! – Community Matters

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Almost two years since the first lockdown began…

By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead We are fast approaching the second anniversary of the day COVID arrived in the Bay. A group of skiers, taking advantage of the half-term break, unwittingly brought the virus back with them and were immediately quarantined, making them among the first in the country to be identified as infected. Not that it mattered, as it turned out as … Continue reading Almost two years since the first lockdown began…

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Need for a party is perhaps bigger than ever – Community Matters

By Gill Knight, Community Builder for Paignton South – Goodrington, Roselands, White Rock, Hookhills, Broadsands, Galmpton and Churston I always find that January hits me with a blast of the blues, and the need to prepare for and look forward to gets many of us through these cold winter months. It is not always easy to find that something, but maybe we can all get … Continue reading Need for a party is perhaps bigger than ever – Community Matters

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The legacy of Ageing Well Torbay

By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead Ageing Well Torbay is coming to an end after an amazing seven years of successfully preventing loneliness in people aged 50 years and over. We can look back with pride at the many innovatory methods we have used down the years to bring people together and to allow whole new communities to grow. Ageing Well introduced social prescribing … Continue reading The legacy of Ageing Well Torbay

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Torbay community building… blue sky thinking – Communtiy Matters

By Marianne Parker, Creative Community Builder for Wellswood Community Building – Blue Sky Thinking What if… What if, we could build our community from our street up, And sing and dance and laugh and cry and live and die together? What if… We could bring together All ages, colours, shapes and sizes, Rich and poor, With or without a front door… To celebrate ourselves To … Continue reading Torbay community building… blue sky thinking – Communtiy Matters

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Lifting measures in the face of Omicron

By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead Here we go again. Nearly all COVID restrictions are lifted as of tomorrow, and it is now down to us. We must ensure that we do not see history repeating itself with an easing of rules leading to a surge in infections and the inevitable subsequent clampdown. The Prime Minister calls it a return to ‘complete normality’, but … Continue reading Lifting measures in the face of Omicron

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Tribute to talented artist and craftswoman Mandy, who brought out the best in those she taught – Community Matters

By Christine Durrant, Community Builder for Preston As community builders, we are privileged to meet and work with many creative and talented people. People who catch the vision effortlessly and help us to run with it. One such person was Mandy Amos. I met Mandy when I was starting out back in 2015. On reading about our work at Ageing Well, she generously offered me … Continue reading Tribute to talented artist and craftswoman Mandy, who brought out the best in those she taught – Community Matters

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Nearing the end of Ageing Well Torbay

By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communication Lead SEVEN years ago, the Ageing Well Torbay team began work, with one of their main aims to reduce loneliness among over 50-year-olds in the Bay. Loneliness has long been recognised as a debilitating problem that has a dreadful effect on people’s daily lives leading to illness, depression and worse. Here in the Bay, a whole host of economic … Continue reading Nearing the end of Ageing Well Torbay

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