Aims

We aim to tackle the loneliness epidemic.

Connect with people and bring hope of recovery from loneliness through mass advertising, flyers, free empowering monthly newsletter and in person.

We aim to greet and welcome loneliness sufferers in Chitter Chatter Clubs with a lovely friendly volunteer.

We aim to connect people, introduce them and create sociable friendly chats.

We aim to give guests health and wellbeing workshops occasionally and signpost guests to other services.

We aim to increase our bank of health and wellbeing practitioners who refer and bring along patients to the CCCs.

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Values

We value our responsibility for working with highly vulnerable guests.

We value transparency in all our business/financial actions.

We value empathy in all connections, truth, honesty, excellent communication.

We value our volunteers as if they are family.

We value people's comments, criticisms and complaints.

We see, hear and value everyone.

We value sound training in all our policies and procedures, our main focus is safeguarding.

We value that our guests can give back by volunteering, helping others or making a small financial donation.

We value helping guests, seeing guest help themselves then helping others/helping our programme with a small donation.

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Survey

Loneliness Together Chitter Chatter Club

 July 2024 Survey

Please can you circle the answer appropriate for you.

124 replied online and in person

90% over 65 years old

Gender 36 Male  88 Female 

Have you attended a Chitter Chatter Club? Yes 109 said yes  16 said no =88%

Do you feel more confident/socially included and have a better sense of

belonging now? 92 said yes  = 74%

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April 2025 Survey Results

71 guests were asked  69 were over 65 2 were under 65

We asked

 

Since coming to LOneliness Together Chitter Chatter Clubs

 1 Have you formed new connections?     65 said yes =91%

 2 Do you feel more confident in social settings now? 55 said yes = 77%

3 Are you managing day to day life and your mental health better?

56 said yes = 79%

4 Have you found yourself helping others?  58 said yes = 82%

5 Has your social mobility improved? 49 said yes = 69%

6 Are you visiting your GP less? 32 said yes = 45%

7 Do you feel safer in your community? 45 said yes = 63%

8 Would you recommend Chitter Chatter? 71 said yes = 100%

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Attendance and Communities built so far.95% of our guests are over 65

Over 3060 new people have attended Chitter Chatter Clubs in 3 years .

Over 17,610  have returned.5/5/2025

Thousands more attend the independent Chitter Chatters.

39 chat communities have been founded and built over 3 years,

33 still remain, that are independent. These are operational in one form or another.

Making 33 new communities built since 2.2.2022

On average 200 people attend every week across the country, in our dependant CCC's.

 

 

Books Written Our Journeys Through Loneliness by Anne Anderson - Due to be released 1/9/2025