Winter hubs: finding the older people you’d really like to welcome.

The Good Practice Mentor (GPM) programme is a new and innovative project that brings together legacy, learning and resources from Ageing Better, a seven year Test & Learn project that worked to reduce social isolation and loneliness in people aged over 50, and engaged more than 150,000 people in over 366 projects.The GPM team includes;South Yorkshire Housing Association, Age UK Camden and Leeds Older People ForumEach partner brings a unique set of learning and skills to the project, and together we offer a wide range of training, bespoke support for your organisation and toolkits and resources to help you on your journey to reducing loneliness and isolation.Find out more about the Good Practice Mentor programme and the range of support on offer by emailingJennie Shrewsbury, Programme Lead - j.shrewsbury@syha.co.uk

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Finding  the older people you’d really like to meet at your warm winter hub space and using a warm welcome to keep them.

Finding the people you’d really like to meet

These are the sessions that provide support around how to find, connect and engage with all groups and members within communities.

Hosting groups to create a sense of belonging

This collection of workshops offers support around creating a 'Warm Welcome' in community groups and ensuring that they are inclusive spaces.

Warm Winter 
guidance

Guidance and support around how to best provide a welcoming and accessible Warm Winter Hub within your community.

Whether you are commissioning or running a warm winter space this session will help you to: <ul><li>find and engage older people in their local communities, including older people less likely to access formal groups, services, activities and support. E.g. older men. </li><li>Overcome ‘it’s not for me’ barriers and preconceptions to accessing winter hub spaces </li><li>Provide an active ‘warm welcome’ to engage new people at warm winter hubs, build rapport and help them to build social connections. </li></ul>Workshop duration: 90 minutes We will be<ul><li>Sharing insight from older people around preconceptions and barriers to engagement with a focus on ‘warm winter’ spaces. </li><li>Looking at how to describe and pitch your ‘winter space’ offer –using language and images to address barriers to engagement and provide an effective steppingstone to engagement. </li><li>Offering examples of outreach friendly comms to promote your offer to harder to engage older people. </li><li>Looking at practical strategies to find and engage the older people you want to meet. Where and how to promote your offer including displaying physical information and how to approach and engage people out on the street. </li><li>Considering how a conscious approach to welcoming people and configuring your space will enable you to keep people engaged</li><li>Explaining why a welcoming approach across your whole organisation can help</li><li>Touching on keeping older people in the lead, working with volunteers and managing challenging behaviour</li></ul>There will be two opportunities to work in breakout groups with others to give you a chance to consider how this might work practically in your settingThis session will be delivered by Joanne Stapleton, GPM from Ageing Better in Camden - where they proactively met and engaged with thousands of older people who were not already in contact with, or were reluctant to access, formal services or support. Jessica Duffy, GPM from LOPF, where the Time to Shine programme worked with over 80 local organisations to identify the ways they supported and engaged older people, especially those reluctant to engage with groups.

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