Monday 24 December 2018

UK to tackle loneliness crisis with £11.5m cash injection

UK to tackle loneliness crisis with £11.5m cash injection More than 120 projects will receive funding to help those affected and reduce stigma

A coffee caravan in rural Suffolk, furniture restoration projects for men and organised rambles for the recently bereaved are among more than a hundred initiatives being backed with a £11.5m fund to tackle Britain’s epidemic of loneliness.

One hundred and twenty-six projects have been chosen to receive up to £100,000 each in the first ever government-backed fund to tackle a problem that the prime minister, Theresa May, described as “incredibly damaging to our humanity” when she launched a national loneliness strategy in October. The Guardian

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