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Our Voices Were Heard

Elders Council members worked with Unfolding Theatre to express our genuine recollections of  events within the context of `Spirit of Rebellion’ and Protest.  We were able to incorporate our views and experiences from the 60s to the present day. We soon realised  that events of the past are mirrored in the present day.  We created a performance including well known songs, some with our revised lyrics, encouraging others to pick up the baton of protest.

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Southwark Pensioners Action Group (SPAG)

Southwark Pensioners Action Group (SPAG) is a group of older people in Southwark who work together to influence local and national decision-makers to improve services for older people. We have an active programme of meetings and events, raising awareness and campaigning on issues affecting the health and independence of older people.

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Turning the tanker of Ageism using Birthday Cards

This is the story of Better Birthdays (in the UK), it all started back in the lockdown days of the pandemic, remember them?

I had been working with Dr Hannah McDowell (co-founder of Canopy, a social imagination project) on various programmes. We decided that we needed to focus upon ageing across the life course. There is so much focus is on 50+ and little on changing attitudes to ageing from the get-go of birth.

So in 2020 rather than sitting on our hands we ran a variety of online sessions and thought what better way to highlight the issues and attitudes towards ageing than birthdays and birthday cards? We set ourselves the challenge of designing anti-ageist cards.

You can hear me tell the story in the podcast section of this website.

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