We had the worst weather ever — but we opened anyway — and we were full as usual.
Special thanks to volunteers Emmanuel, George and John from Aecom via Benefacto – plus our regular volunteers Derek, Michael, Ram and Tom.
Community Digital Drop-in Bloggers
Older people using digital inclusion to challenge isolation and loneliness in our community
Wordpad is a basic word-processor that has been free with every version of Windows since 1995. It’s also very good — so if you have a Windows computer, it’s worth searching for.
Our volunteer team today will help you get started with Wordpad — and help you do something that looks difficult, but is really quite easy — adding photographs to your document.
Voice Recorder is a very simple Windows app for recording voice — yours and anyone else close to the microphone. Our volunteer team will show you how to do it.
You can blog your photos easily. Blogging documents and voice recordings is not so easy, but we can do it for you later.
As an added activity, we asked everybody to complete the BBC Loneliness Experiment survey, and to test the new Skype number for the podcast. It was impossible to count the successes, but it kept everybody busy.
Special thanks to volunteers James and Terence from Baringa via Benefacto – plus our regular volunteers Michael and Tom.
An invitation from BBC All in the Mind presenter, Claudia Hammond …
We all feel lonely at certain points in our lives, but for some people that loneliness becomes chronic.
To help us discover who feels lonely and what can be done to help them feel more connected, we’d like as many people as possible to take part in the BBC Loneliness Experiment.
Whether or not you feel lonely at the moment, we’d love to hear from you.
If you can spare the time, we’d be very grateful, because the more people who take part, the better picture we can get of loneliness in society today and how to tackle it in the future.