
Volunteering in a Virtual World
The pace of life has slowed down dramatically due to Covid: we can now pause and appreciate things that we may have overlooked, and take time out to share and converse with our neighbours.
The pace of life has slowed down dramatically due to Covid: we can now pause and appreciate things that we may have overlooked, and take time out to share and converse with our neighbours.
If you’ve not yet been involved in South London Cares during this pandemic, we need you.
Harry started as Head of Programmes at South London Cares a few weeks ago. In this blog, he reflects on the importance of friendship and community and discusses his journey to South London Cares.
The seasons are changing, and so is our Outreach programme. As further restrictions are put in place to curb the threat of coronavirus, we will be adapting our approach to help better connect our neighbours and communities.
In our latest blog we meet Lauren, who's joined the South London Cares team as our new Love Your Neighbour Programme Coordinator for Lambeth.
Six years ago today, we followed the path of our older sibling charity, North London Cares, and took our first steps towards tackling loneliness and isolation in South London.
At the beginning of lockdown, The Cares Family started the campaign #AloneTogether sharing daily activities for everyone to get involved with at home. As a result neighbours have been sharing poems, jokes, recipes, word searches and more. This grew into a weekly virtual social club at South London Cares where neighbours would come together online and over the phone to discuss and share a specific #AloneTogether task and topic. Fiona, from the 3G project, talks about her experience facilitating this club.
It’s easy to consider yourself not-racist by treating everyone equally, regardless of race - but we need to consider what it means to be actively anti-racist. Which is why, at the beginning of July, we linked up with The Anti-Racist Educator, a phenomenal organisation which works to make critical understandings of race and anti-racism from the academic realm more accessible to the wider community.
We thought the shift to the virtual realm would be a good opportunity to get to know some of our community a little better, so invited Poona and Ganga to South London Cares’ new HQ (Zoom) for a makeshift interview. Here’s how it went:
In disconnecting times, listening, hearing, seeing and connecting with neighbours is vital. That's why, every year, South London Cares leads a Winter Wellbeing project – to help older neighbours to stay warm, active and connected. Read some of the stories and stats of the impact of the project this year – one of the biggest to date.