Experience a Shared Table with a volunteer host
Event Information
About this event
As part of the Age Proud Festival join us for a shared table meal, meet some of the volunteer hosts and experience a Shared table for yourself.
The event will take place at Left Bank, a lovely, large, well ventilated venue. You will share a table with 6 others and have a chance to chat to some other people as well as asking volunteer table hosts and participants all about it. You will served a simple cold tea, with cake, and lots of hot tea..
Do you love to chat with friends over a meal? Most of us do, but many of us feel shy about heading to the pub for dinner on our own. Join us to find out more about a innovative scheme to help more people get together and make new friends over dinner like this. Unable to meet during much of the pandemic, the linchpins of the Shared Tables experience, the volunteer table hosts are keen to get back to it, so they have agreed to come along and help us to host so you can find out how it works.
Shared Tables was a Time to Shine funded project, where single people were able to share a meal out together. It was so popular when Crossgates and District Good neighbours came up with the idea that they wrote a toolkit and helped others to take it on. We'd love to spread it further across the city and beyond, and we don't think it is just for older people either - don't we all find it easier to make new friends as we share food?
If you’d like to know more about how it works and whether you might be able to organise something similar for your area or organisation there’s a toolkit you can use to help you set things up.
Looking forward to meeting you there.
It's free, but please book a a ticket so we know how many to cater for
Left Bank is a 15 minute bus ride from the city centre (number 19) and there is plenty of on street parking around the building.
Organiser Time To Shine, Leeds Older People's Forum
Organiser of Experience a Shared Table with a volunteer host
Run by Leeds Older people's Forum, Time to Shine aims to reduce social isolation and loneliness of the older population in Leeds.
Time to Shine is one of fourteen areas which form Ageing Better ; and ambitious, large-scale programme funded and developed by the National lottery Community Fund. Ageing better aims to improve the life of people aged 50 and over by reducing social isolation and loneliness.
Time to Shine takes a very positive view on learning. We have developed a test and learn approach to finding out what works to reduce loneliness and social isolation amongst older people. The most important thing is to learn from this and use that learning to improve things in the future.
