Volunteering benefits
I’m 83 and have been volunteering for over 50 years. I can’t remember why I decided to volunteer for the Samaritans, but it was both an enlightening and saddening experience. Some people seemed to hav ...
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Should violence be met with violence?
Robert Tanitch reviews My Children! My Africa! at Trafalgar Studios 2, London SW1 Athol Fugard’s play, which premiered in Johannesburg in 1989, is set five years earlier, in the era of Apartheid, and ...
Never too old to learn
Studying for the over 60s is beneficial for so many reasons and not only for improving skills needed in the modern workplace. Learning in your more mature years keeps your brain active. Discussing ide ...
10.6 million people to become carers for older, sick or disabled loved ones in the next five years
That’s just under 6,000 people in a new caring role every day £1.1 billion of Carer’s Allowance goes unclaimed every year 42 per cent of carers miss out on financial support New research by the charit ...