At North London Cares we wanted to find a way of introducing technology into our regular activities without scaring off existing members or it becoming the sole focus on the activity. This is what we did and what we learnt.
Our Outreach Team offer some insights and advice into approaching older people out and about, and introducing them to groups and activities in the local community.
Older men are often underrepresented within Ageing Better in Camden groups. That's why we started doing outreach in pubs, and hosted an iPad session in a local pub.
Our Outreach Team launched in February 2018. Since then the team (Jo, Jill and recently joined by AnneMarie), has met and engaged with over 1,000 older people across Camden.
The Bangladeshi Community Action project have an member advisory group that comes up with all their activities. The women wanted to go swimming and it has since become a very popular regular activity! Find out what they learnt.