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#EldersForum2018 #AgeingInCommon #NCF2018 SKY 4 – Engaged Communities - Bringing People Together Chair: John Kennedy, Co-Author of Power to the People Tracey Robbins, UK Delivery Manager, The Eden Project Communities Team Shared Communities Sylvie Silver, Executive Director, NAPA Care Home Open Day across the Commonwealth #EldersForum2018 #AgeingInCommon #NCF2018

+ working together to reduce loneliness ensuring older people remain active in their social world

Elders within our care homes and villages, cities and streets need to be a part of our lives and our communities not apart from them. Show film https://www.facebook.com/edencommunities/videos/1711702542192171/   Share Example Ellmere Ellesmere House care home – this year doing a commonwealth themed open day Important resource to our communities

Coming together to share food with neighbours and wider communities provides not only the opportunity to connect but events such as these lay the foundations for future friendships and support networks

Feeling connected and wanted increases elders sense of worth and increases their wellbeing

The annual get-together for neighbours, celebrating what we have in common and connecting with others sharing food friendship and fun Bringing people together to celebrate connections, explore diversity AND CREATE a better future for people across the commonwealth

“Commonwealth Big Lunches offer wonderful opportunities for people of all ages to bring our Commonwealth family alive in new ways as we work” The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Patricia Scotland Today sees 2000 attendees from the four Summit forums – Youth, Women, People and Business – come together to share food and friendship and celebrate their commonwealth connections with a Commonwealth Big Lunch. , Ghana kicked off the Commonwealth Big Lunches with an event hosted at Konkonuru School attended by 400 school children and local leaders. We’ve seen events in almost every Commonwealth Country so far: 45 of the 53 nations officially registered to take part Over 600 lunches are planned in Commonwealth countries so far Around the same number again are being planned in the wider world with over 130 countries worldwide registered Hundreds of lunches taken part already from schools and community groups to presidential residences and embassies across the Commonwealth

What ways could you bring different or new people together ? In pairs of fours discuss – depending on how many are in the room What ways could you bring different or new people together ?

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