Partners Engage with Age

Organisation: Engage with Age

Description:
Engage with Age works to support individuals and groups aged 50+ across South and East Belfast and Castlereagh in improving health and social wellbeing, encouraging active involvement, and addressing issues facing older people.

Its vision is to see older people in this area living to their full potential, participating, exercising choice and contributing to the development of their local community. It does this by working in partnership with community, voluntary and statutory organisations and including older people’s forums.

The aims for the period 2007-2010 are:

• support and connection – to initiate, strengthen and maintain support networks and opportunities for social interaction for older people;

• health promotion and wellbeing – to develop and deliver in partnership, a range of health-promoting and lifelong learning activities for older people;

• influencing others – to challenge and influence organisations and political processes to meet the needs of older people;

• communications – to promote and disseminate accessible and clear information on services, activities and policies that impact on older people.

Contact name: Margy Washbrook

Address:

36 Knockbreda Road

Belfast

Postcode: BT6 0JB

Tel: (028) 9064 9649

Fax:

Email: margy.washbrook@engagewithage.org.uk

Website: www.engagewithage.org.uk

Sector (statutory, voluntary, community, other):
Voluntary/community

Area of interest/expertise:
Health and wellbeing of older people, capacity building with older people, advocacy and lobbying with older people.

Mission statement:
Engage with Age is a partnership of community, voluntary and statutory organisations working together to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in South and East Belfast and Castlereagh; connecting older people to each other and to the community and influencing decision makers.