Welcome to Age Concern Lancashire, working with and for older people in Lancashire.
Welcome to Age Concern Lancashire
Working with and for older people in Lancashire
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Strategic Priorities
Age Concern Lancashire has identified six strategic priorities for the next five years.
Three relate to our work with older people and three for work within our organisations.
In addition we have made the following promises and commitment to older people that Age Concern Lancashire will:
- Treat older people with respect and dignity
- Value their life experiences
- Make older age fun, rewarding and something to cherish
- Provide the best help and information we can when needed
Our Ambitions for Older People
We will actively develop and promote well-being initiatives that will help all Lancashire’s older people lead healthy and active lives.
We will ensure older people have influence over and are actively involved in local decision-making, policy development and service delivery.
We will ensure older people are fully informed so they have choice and control to live their lives independently and as they choose.
We will be the leading deliverer of appropriate, responsive, quality services for older people.
We will be an effective partner that is able to influence strategic planning, promote good practice and challenge discrimination relating to older people.
We will develop and maintain an organisation with an effective infrastructure to be able to meet the challenges that will provide opportunities and improve the well-being of older people.
If you have any comments about these statements, please contact us admin@ageconcernlancs.org.uk.
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DIGITAL SWITCHOVER - AGE CONCERNS IN LANCASHIRE TO HELP DELIVER DIGITAL SWITCHOVERAge Concern Lancashire working with partners – Age Concerns: Preston & South Ribble; Blackpool & District; Hyndburn and Blackburn with Darwen - are to mobilise an army of charities and volunteers to help residents make the switch to digital TV in the Lancashire sub region, it was announced today.
Starting in April, we will work with other charities and voluntary groups to prepare people for the switchover, which starts in Granada on 4th November. The appointment has been made on behalf of Digital UK, the independent body in charge of switchover.
Please visit our page on Digital Switchover for more information.
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Jubilant volunteers at Age Concern Lancashire, based in Coppull near Chorley, are celebrating after scooping the £2,000 top prize in the Heart of the Community campaign.
Barclays Bank teamed up with the Lancashire Evening Post to offer a series of grants for community projects across the county.
After much deliberation, experts at Barclays have chosen Age Concern Lancashire, to give them a helping hand with their Off the Ground project to create their community allotment.
The garden will be based on land at Coppull Primary School, in Park Road, Coppull, where elderly people will work with primary school pupils and members of the Prince's Trust.
A shortlist of 10 have also been selected for Lancashire Evening Post readers to choose a £1,000 winner and two groups who will receive £500 each.
Caroline Dawber, Coppull outreach officer based at Age Concern Lancashire in St Thomas's Road in Chorley, said: "It means absolutely everything, we have no money.
"We started in the New Year and we had a little help from the Prince's Trust, but they have been and gone. We need this money to get it off the ground, we need seeds and tools and everything."
Rachel Herbinson, community investment manager at Barclays, said: "It was really hard to choose the overall winner as we feel that all the fantastic shortlisted groups offer much valued services to the local community in which they operate.
"We hope our investment through the partnership with the Evening Post will have a lasting effect on the local community."