Who are we?

Bringing 18/30s People Together Without Pixels

Making new friends shouldn’t feel like the hardest chapter of your life. Building trust shouldn’t feel impossible either. Our dream is simple: to create spaces where you can finally drop survival mode, show up as yourself, and feel held by real, face‑to‑face connection.
We’re building People Without Pixels Hubs across the country, starting in Weymouth — places where young people and professionals can meet, laugh, breathe, and feel safe in one another’s company. Spaces where the reins don’t sit with me, but with you and re-routing your future so your dreams have a better chance of coming true.
All it takes is one volunteer, and suddenly a 18/30 PWP Games Hub springs to life — a place where conversation flows naturally, friendships forge without pressure, and belonging becomes the norm.
I wonder what you are thinking?

Mission

Our Mission
To bring18/30s together as we all battle today's loneliness epidemic. We will select and train wonderful volunteers who safeguard every face‑to‑face gathering, creating spaces where safety is felt, not forced.
Our mission is to spark an explosion of curiosity, freedom, anxiety free engagement face to face and have fun with belly laughs. We will encourage 18/30s to take healthy risks, try new things, and step into adventures that build confidence, connection, and lifelong new relationships/ communities.

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Vision

Our mission is to spark an explosion of curiosity, freedom, anxiety free engagement face to face and have fun with belly laughs. We will encourage 18/30s to take healthy risks, try new things, and step into adventures that build confidence, connection, and lifelong new relationships/ communities.Our vision is to rebuild what the world has forgotten: connection as a lifeline, community as a birthright, and belonging as the most natural thing in the world.

To see and hear 18–30s enjoying real connection — the kind that fills a room, softens the shoulders, and reminds you that you belong somewhere.

I started Chitter Chatter Clubs nearly 3 years ago and we’ve watched retired communities come into life and thrive Today 38 bubble with life and lively pensioners each week all over Dorset. Our guests transformation is incredible through simple, consistent connection. Confidence has returned. Mental health has lifted. Social mobility has quietly grown. We’ve seen miracles — and we want to see this tenfold for the 18/30s.

We’ve watched people who hadn’t spoken in years find their voice. Groups who met as strangers now take day trips, holidays, and even sit together in doctor’s waiting rooms. We’ve celebrated a wedding. We’ve cheered on couples in their seventies discovering romance. We’ve seen blind guests grow independent. We’ve heard widows laugh again around shared tables.

So when it comes to the 18–30s, we don’t pretend to know what we’ll witness — but we know this: the modern world isn’t as modern as it claims. With one in four families estranged from adult children, half of men aged 25–50 swearing off relationships, and young people getting more left swipes than right, something essential has been lost and needs to change.

Nature tells the truth more honestly than any app.
Birds need birds — alone, they’re vulnerable.
Fish need fish — without their shoal, they fade.
People need people — without each other, we shrink.

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Talking to Strangers

Why men don't want to date

Why men don't go to GP

How we all make new friends

2 sides of Adult children estrangement

Suicide stats for YP's

Our History
Loneliness has walked beside me for most of my life. I’ve known the ache of disconnection, and I believe my mum’s life was shortened by it. After lockdown, the scale of the problem became impossible to ignore. I was invited to a party of sixty people in my block of flats — only three turned up. As a northerner who chats to anyone, anywhere — in the street, on the bus, in the queue, even on the loo — I was horrified to discover how many people had no intention of going back outside. Deliveroo's, closed curtains, and quiet flats had become the new normal.
I didn’t know what the long‑term consequences would be, but I knew one thing: no services were tackling this epidemic of isolation.
So I made a decision.
“Right then. I’ll find lonely people and invite them out.”
At 59, I got on my bike and cycled around Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole. They were everywhere — people staring at pavements, shoulders slumped, spirits dimmed. I said a simple “hi” and asked how they were doing. And every time, life flickered back into tired faces.
That was the beginning.
In 2022, I started the first Chitter Chatter Clubs. Since then, more than 12,500 people have taken brave steps back into community. Over 43,000 cups of kindness have been poured. And miracle after miracle has unfolded — enough to inspire me to write Our Journeys Through Loneliness, with the blessing of our guests.
But the story didn’t stop there.
While handing out flyers in Weymouth in 2022, I met three 16‑year‑old girls. I gave them leaflets to take into school for parents who might be struggling with loneliness. Their faces fell.
“Is this not for us?” they asked.
Their sadness hit me like a stone. That day, I promised them that once I understood how to run the chat clubs properly, I would create a space just for them.
And now — three and a half years later — that promise is becoming real. With the brilliant Hugh stepping forward as a volunteer, the dream I made to those three young women is finally taking shape.
People Without Pixels is for them.
And for every 18–30‑year‑old who deserves connection, adventure, and a life lived face‑to‑face.

How You Can Practically Support This Mission -
Don't leave it to everyone else, that never works. If you give, you get more back.
If you feel able to support this new loneliness‑to‑connection movement, we would be incredibly grateful. There are so many ways to get involved:
•    Volunteering your time
•    Sponsoring the project
•    Sharing our posts (I really do need help — I’m old!)
•    Telling your colleagues and friends
•    Hosting a fundraising event so we can buy brilliant games and cover volunteer expenses
•    Helping us set up or pack down on Monday evenings
Every bit of support helps us build a space where young adults can reconnect with life, laughter, and each other.
And for anyone who volunteers, I’m always happy to provide references and help your CV shine right at the top of the application pile for future jobs.
Together, we can make something extraordinary.
If you feel able to support this new loneliness‑to‑connection movement, we would be incredibly grateful. There are so many ways to get involved:
•    Volunteering your time
•    Sponsoring the project
•    Sharing our posts (I really do need help — I’m old!)
•    Telling your colleagues and friends
•    Hosting a fundraising event so we can buy brilliant games and cover volunteer expenses
•    Helping us set up or pack down on Monday evenings
Every bit of support helps us build a space where young adults can reconnect with life, laughter, and each other.
And for anyone who volunteers, I’m always happy to provide references and help your CV shine right at the top of the application pile for future jobs.
Together, we can make something extraordinary.

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Bringing 18/30s People Together Without Pixels

Mission

Vision

email me - Anne Anderson thechitterchatterclub@gmail.com

CHITTER CHATTER CLUBS

Loneliness Together Chitter Chatter Clubs, Brew Crews and 18/30 Unpixels Club hold the right to refuse entry.