Running The Bath Half For Goldies
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This will take place at Trowbridge Civic Hall on Friday 27th April from 10am - 4pm. Admission will be free and we are inviting all organisations who support the elderly in their community to take part. There will be entertainment throughout the day and we invite you to contact us at Goldies for further information or click here to read more.
Please call 01761 470006 or email Emma - events@golden-oldies.org.uk
Our photograph above courtesy of the Wiltshire Times shows The Mayors of Melksham, Devizes and Trowbridge cutting a special cake to mark the Wiltshire launch. Also pictured Nutricia UK Communications Manager, Nicola Davies and Goldies founder, Grenville Jones.
Goldies are pleased to announce that five new monthly singing groups will be starting in Melksham, Trowbridge, Devizes and Chippenham this December. Much support has been shown for the Goldies launch in Wiltshire and many people have rung the office to share their excitement about joining the new singing groups. If you, or someone you know, would like to join one of our new sessions we’d love to hear from you, or feel free to just turn up on the day. For details of venue, date and time please click here, or for our latest Wiltshire press release click here.
These sessions and the Wiltshire Goldies Day is supported by The National Lottery, through The Big Lottery Fund, as well as Nutricia UK, Melksham Town Council, Chippenham Town Council and Samuel William Farmer’s Trust. For further information or to discuss transportation needs, please contact Emma - events@golden-oldies.org.uk or Abby -abby@golden-oldies.org.uk at the office on 01761 470006.
Thanks to support from West Somerset District Council and Yeovil Town Council, a new weekly session has started in Yeovil. Click here for more.
Working in partnership with Age Concern Cardiff and The Vale we will be starting new sessions soon - led by Rhian Sheehan. These sessions are funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund
Click here to find out more.
Ariennir gan y Lotteri Genedlaethol drwy’r Gronfa Loteri Fawr
Gweithio mewn partneriaeth gyda Age Concern Caerdydd a’r Fro Bydd sesiynau newydd yn cychwyn yn fuan – dan arweiniad Rhian Sheehan.
Cliciwch yma i gael mwy o wybodaeth.
Our Picture above shows some of the children in the Colerne Primary School Choir who recorded our "Diamond Day" song in November. Jubilee Time after Time is a Goldies schools inter-generational project which is now running across the West of England. Funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund, many schools have already signed up to take part and engage their children and the elderly in their communities with projects based on the Queens Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Find out how you can download Diamond Day for your children to sing and full details of how your school can get involved with Jubilee Time after Time by clicking here
Welcome to the website of the Golden-Oldies Charity, more often referred to simply as "Goldies!"
In four short years, we have come a long way and now run our popular singing sessions across the West of England each week. In July this year we started our first one in South Wales and have launched regular sessions under the banner Goldies CYMRU.
OUR ethos is to promote and sustain independence in the growing elderly UK population. However, as 'Goldies' has grown we welcome many people to our sessions who have learning difficulties or suffer from Dementia or Alzheimers. Our singing and stretching sessions across the West of England and Wales give people, some who may be lonely and vulnerable, social events and concerts to look forward to and enjoy.
As already stated, many of our weekly sessions are attended by people with learning difficulties and dementia. Goldies is for everyone - the power of music knows no boundaries. Through the fun daytime singing sessions and other organised events we bring together people and promote social cohesion.
We are very proud of the fact that this charity is brightening the lives of thousands of people.
Golden-Oldies also offers a platform so that people who attend the sessions (and their families) learn more about all aspects of a healthy lifestyle. This can include nutritional guidance, home security, help and advice on how life can be lived to the full, whatever your age! Goldies encourages people to venture out from their homes and make new friends.
Our award-winning Time after Time inter-generational school projects have bought together the young and the not so young. Jubilee Time after Time is the latest Big Lottery funded programme reaching out across the ITV West region.
Click onto the video to see what Goldies means to people. Phyllis from Weston super Mare attends the Tuesday morning session at Martindale Court. She is talking to our founder, Grenville Jones and her words are echoed by hundreds of others who look forward each week to Goldies.
In four short years, we have come a long way and now run our popular singing sessions across the West of England each week. In July this year we started our first one in South Wales and have launched regular sessions under the banner Goldies CYMRU.
OUR ethos is to promote and sustain independence in the growing elderly UK population. However, as 'Goldies' has grown we welcome many people to our sessions who have learning difficulties or suffer from Dementia or Alzheimers. Our singing and stretching sessions across the West of England and Wales give people, some who may be lonely and vulnerable, social events and concerts to look forward to and enjoy.
As already stated, many of our weekly sessions are attended by people with learning difficulties and dementia. Goldies is for everyone - the power of music knows no boundaries. Through the fun daytime singing sessions and other organised events we bring together people and promote social cohesion.
We are very proud of the fact that this charity is brightening the lives of thousands of people.
Golden-Oldies also offers a platform so that people who attend the sessions (and their families) learn more about all aspects of a healthy lifestyle. This can include nutritional guidance, home security, help and advice on how life can be lived to the full, whatever your age! Goldies encourages people to venture out from their homes and make new friends.
Our award-winning Time after Time inter-generational school projects have bought together the young and the not so young. Jubilee Time after Time is the latest Big Lottery funded programme reaching out across the ITV West region.
Click onto the video to see what Goldies means to people. Phyllis from Weston super Mare attends the Tuesday morning session at Martindale Court. She is talking to our founder, Grenville Jones and her words are echoed by hundreds of others who look forward each week to Goldies.
An independent research study by Dr. Barbra Teater and Dr. Mark Baldwin from the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath has shown that the work of the Golden-Oldies Charity that brings singing and friendship to the lives of the elderly and isolated in the West of England is having a real effect on their lives.
"The most important result was the statistically significant improvement in self-reported overall health from before their participation in the Goldies sessions to now."
To read the full report from the University of Bath click here
Company Number: 6369123 - Charity Registration Number: 1121600
