ABOUT OUR SCHOOL PROGRAMME
What: Brings older and younger people together to learn and have fun, sharing the untapped skills, knowledge and experience of life older people have to offer, so they support and inspire each other.
Where: In schools, secondary and primary in their neighbourhood.
Why: Two sections of our local communities are being increasingly challenged:
These two groups are often competing for scarcer resources in order to meet these challenges. Our school programme provides a local approach for these two groups to work together. It successfully contributes to providing solutions to reduce the stress on school and social care resources and enhance the lives of the teaching staff, pupils and older people.
Together we contribute to reducing