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

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 Simon Sherbersky, who has led the Torbay Community Development Trust since its inception, steps down this week. Here he reflects on that journey. Well, what a journey it has been and what a privilege to have led the Trust over the last nine years. I can say, with complete conviction that I am extremely proud of what we have all achieved together in Torbay … Continue reading TCDT – Bringing People Together, The Torbay Way!

By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead TWO years ago today, the unthinkable happened and a new word was introduced into all our vocabularies – lockdown. Doors across the Bay were closed and we all said goodbye to friends and family as we hunkered down to see what the future would bring. The fear was palpable. Theories, conspiracy theories were available in abundance, but what … Continue reading Two years since our first Lockdown

By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead Every night in shelters and doorways across the Bay, people are bedding down because they have nowhere else to go. Others are not so lucky and have to make their own protection against the elements with whatever is available. People’s reasons for being out on the streets are many and complex, but they all have in thing in … Continue reading Just a taste of sleeping rough

By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead Young people are having it tough right now and need our support more than ever before. Mental health among young people is suffering as unprecedented pressures are heaped upon them at an age when they are ill-equipped to cope. The last couple of years have been hard on everyone because of COVID, but for children and young people, … Continue reading More help for all ages, going forward

By David Gledhill, Marketing & Communications Lead TWO years on, we are told that we should allow life to return to ‘normal’, whatever that means? The Government has made it clear that we are now all at liberty to cast off restrictions and return as much as possible to the lives we lived before we knew the meaning of the word COVID. But before we … Continue reading Two years later…back to normal?

By Paul Trainer, Information Officer for Torbay Together In Director Michael Winner’s 1964 film, The System, filmed almost entirely on location in Torbay, he depicts an English seaside town called Roxham that thrives during the summer months but effectively dies outside of the tourist season; beyond the holiday period, there is little to do in Roxham. Winner perhaps renamed his resort location for fear of … Continue reading Torbay Together’s exciting next move – to Devon!

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