Talk Lonelines News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Over 800 organisations receive new funding to tackle loneliness More than 840 charities, community groups and grassroots organisations tackling social isolation have received a share of £4m to tackle loneliness From: • Announcement comes one year on from Government relaunching ‘Let’s Talk Loneliness’ campaign • Minister for Loneliness visits Cultivating Community in Somerset to see how grant funding will help them tackle loneliness • WhatsApp among more than 70 organisations that pledges new measures Over 840 charities, community groups and grassroots organisations tackling s...

• Announcement comes one year on from Government relaunching ‘Let’s Talk Loneliness’ campaign • Minister for Loneliness visits Cultivating Community in Somerset to see how grant funding will help them tackle loneliness • WhatsApp among more than 70 organisations that pledges new measures Over 840 charities, community groups and grassroots organisations tackling social isolation have received a share of £4m to tackle loneliness, as the country continues to build back better from the pandemic. Projects across England, including songwriting workshops in Devon, dance classes in Bedfo...

Alongside quarantines, social distancing, and the never-ending torture of working from home, loneliness has been exacerbated by the shutdown of public institutions, the rising death toll of people’s loved ones, and mass redundancies. This is all against the age old backdrop of insecure housing, a broken mental health system, a corrupt Tory government, and rising xenophobic, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic hate crimes – the list goes on. In an attempt to tackle the increasing crisis of loneliness, in 2018, the government appointed the world’s first ever Minister for Lon...