Our intergenerational social action programme connected young people with older people in their communities to create positive change.
All of our social action programmes were participant-led and followed three key stages:
Explore: Learning more about each other through games and conversation
Empower: Discovering shared interests, skills and planning a campaign
Act: Delivering a social action campaign
Social action campaigns
PLANT 4 JUSTICE
#Plant4Justice aimed to raise awareness of climate change, especially for those experiencing conflict in the global south. Older and younger neighbours decorated pots and planted flowers which they handed out around East London. These included handwritten messages designed to prompt people to take action.
RAISE OUR VOICES LOWER THE PRICES
This campaign aimed to highlight the cost of living crisis and the impact this is having on people of all ages. As part of the campaign, they wrote letters to MPs to demand change and they also created their own film to highlight the struggles many people are facing.
Handwarmers against Heating Costs
This was another campaign designed to highlight the rising costs of bills and heating. Younger and older neighbours were inspired by research from Age UK that found that over a million older households in the UK are at risk of facing a choice between heating and eating.
Watch the campaign film for #RaiseOurVoicesLowerThePrices
Social Action Archive
IRIS
Iris, one of our younger neighbours, says she has grown in confidence from conversations with her older neighbours.
LORNA
Lorna is one of our older neighbours. The social action workshops have helped her get outside.
“I used to stay indoors because of my
arthritis but then the children started
coming, filling the air with joy
and laughter. It prompted me to get a
support walker so I could come to the
sessions. Now, whenever I can, I go
outside with it.”
