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Selsdon Centre for Retired

Community Development

We want to provide a place to come to relieve isolation and loneliness for elderly people by providing a lunch time meal and social contact.

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About this cause

Provides a lunch club and social activities for the elderly population of the area. We have a minibus on which we collect people from their own homes to come to the Centre for 5 days a week. We arrange outings and other social events. We hold chair based exercise as well as card games, art classes, computer classes. We have a hairdresser and a chiropodist for nail clipping who attend regularly. Our mid day meal is a frozen meal which is heated on the premises by our 70 volunteers who also drive and escort our clients on the minibus. We have paid part time staff who organise the activities of the Centre. Our aim is to keep people in their own home for as long as possible and reduce the need for state or medical care.

How this cause brings people in the community together

It will sustain people in their own homes and keep them out of hospitals, care homes wherever possible by preventing isolation and loneliness.