10am - 11.15am Anti-Ageism Activism for Everyone

Age Proud Leeds campaigns to raise awareness of ageism and change negative attitudes about ageing. In this workshop the Time to Shine team, along with Dave Martin from The Centre for Policy on Ageing will demonstrate tools developed to support co-production in campaigning against ageism, and explore some of the barriers and challenges faced along the way.

Participants will be given an opportunity to try out some of the co-produced resources that get people talking about ageism and their experiences of age discrimination, opening up discussions about how to overcome some of the barriers we face when we need to challenge ageism in society.

Guest: Dave Martin

Dave Martin started working in Camden in 1972 in the voluntary sector on issues relating to children and young people, then became Head of the Play Service at Camden Council. In 1996 as Assistant Director in the Leisure and Community Services Department he led the ‘Vulnerable Older People’s Project’, a corporate “whole systems” partnership programme seeking to reduce the risk of vulnerability amongst elders.

Dave became an Associate Director with Better Government for Older People (BGOP) in 2002 until leaving in 2007. He was a key member of the joint Better Government for Older People/Audit Commission team which produced a series of Audit Commission reports about Independence and Well-being for older people in 2004.

Dave is an Associate with The Centre for Policy on Ageing, http://www.cpa.org.uk/ and worked on the CPA project “Restor(y)ing Retirement” as part of the Transitions in Later Life programme run by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/our-work/transitions-in-later-life/

Since 2015 Dave has been a member of the Expert Panel for the National Lottery Community Fund Ageing Better programme. https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/strategic-investments/ageing-better

He is currently also an Associate with Canopy, a not for profit organisation which has been developing practice and thinking about social imagination. The focus being to use social imagination to reimagine ageing – taking a life course approach.

This event will be on Zoom, a link with joining instructions will be sent out to you prior to the session.

If you have any further questions about the event please get in touch with Vicky at v.odonoghue@syha.co.uk