We’d like to thank you all so much for coming along to the final Ageing Well Festival – a fantastic community buzz all around the Riviera Centre. Ageing Well has supported various projects in all our communities across Torbay throughout the last seven years, and what a way to showcase this. We had over 2,250 attendees and have already received lots of feedback, including how … Continue reading Feedback on Ageing Well Festival 2022
Take a bow, Ageing Well Torbay – you nailed it and pulled off a festival that was both celebratory and commiseratory at the same time. Continue reading A final bow – Ageing Well Festival 2022
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead What a turbulent few years we have lived through. Life, it seems, has thrown everything at us and is now at the end of an era. Torbay Community Development Trust would like to share its deepest condolences with the entire Royal Family after the very sad news that Her Majesty The Queen has died. “Her Majesty was a … Continue reading Ageing Well Festival to go ahead in honour of Her Majesty
The Ageing Well Torbay Festival is back, and it is live, in person, for the first time since 2019. The eighth and possibly final festival will take place this year at the Riviera Centre in Torquay on Saturday, September 17th between 10am and 5pm, after COVID forced it online for both 2020 and 2021. Organisers boast that it is bigger and better than ever, with … Continue reading It’s nearly festival time…Ageing Well Festival 2022
Festival Programme We are glad to announce that the programme for this year’s Ageing Well Festival is now available online, and will be coming to you in print over the next fortnight. Our festival committee and staff have worked tirelessly to bring together a great line-up of talks, entertainment, interactive sessions, and organisations/groups from around Torbay for you to meet. And now, you can read … Continue reading Festival programme out now, and volunteering opportunities
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead In just one month’s time, we will be throwing open the doors of the Riviera Centre in Torquay for the eighth Torbay Ageing Well Festival. We are getting very excited about welcoming you all back in person on Saturday, September 17th after two years online because of COVID and we promise you that it will be bigger and … Continue reading One month until the next Ageing Well Festival
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead WE are getting very excited about the Ageing Well Festival planned for the Riviera Centre in Torquay in just over two months. Once again, we are bringing together the cream of the Bay’s talent to entertain, amaze, advise and inform when we take over the main part of the Riviera for the day on Saturday, September 17th. The … Continue reading Bigger and better than ever – Ageing Well Festival 2022
THE Ageing Well Torbay Festival is back this year and the organisers are planning on it being bigger and better than ever. Sadly, the last two festivals had to be broadcast online and Riviera FM as COVID made bringing people together impossible, but this year it will be held at the Riviera Centre in Torquay. The Riviera centre was also the venue for the last … Continue reading The Ageing Well Festival returns
By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead Ageing Well Torbay is dead. Long live ageing well in Torbay. It is hard to believe that it is seven years since Ageing Well arrived in Torbay and what a difference it has made to so many lives, particularly the lives of older people. The aims were simple, to reduce levels of isolation and loneliness in over 50-year … Continue reading Post-Ageing Well Torbay
By Ruth Tshoukas, Paignton Timebank Broker Have time on your hands? Do you enjoy meeting people? Then the Timebank is for you. There are groups of people all over Torbay who want to give their time to benefit others. The Timebank has been going for a number of years and gradually more and more people are signing up. It works like this: you give an … Continue reading Sharing your time is a treasured gift – Community Matters
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