Social Isolation Event

In honour of Carers' Week, an event took place today to tackle social isolation and raise awareness.

Freeman Street Market was filled with organisations working with the local community who brought many different activities and giveaways.  

The LINk was handing out copies of their nationally recognised young people's DVD which has been praised by the Department of Health and talking to people about local health and social care services.  

Activities included a raffle, guess-how-many (each jelly baby in a jar represented a concern raised with the Safeguarding Adults team), line dancing, chair based exercises, Tai Chi, New Age Kurling and the Knitting Challenge.  

The Knitting Challenge is a quirky fund-raiser for Age UK.  Between now and November, volunteers will knit 650,000 miniature hats to sit on top of Innocent Smoothie bottles.  In exchange, Innocent Smoothies will donate 25p from each smoothie to Age UK.  At Freeman Street Market, attendees knitted over one hundred tiny hats. (I made one in the LINk colours!)