Volunteer It Yourself challenges young people to learn trade and building skills by committing to fix local youth clubs and community buildings alongside volunteer mentors.

They engaged with 1,012 new volunteer mentors, 512 of whom were aged 50 and over. 4,640 young people took part as a volunteer with 3,856 of those gaining skills accreditations.

The Compassionate Neighbours programme at St Joseph’s Hospice creates meaningful community connections and reduces loneliness for people diagnosed with life-limiting illness.

They scaled to 7 new hospices engaging 561 compassionate neighbours with 378 being aged 50 and over. They supported 317 Community Members matches. They are now looking to scale to many more hospices across the UK.

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The Grandmentors programme through Volunteering Matters matches volunteers aged 50 and above to mentor young care leavers on a 1‐1 basis and focuses on supporting them in their journey out of care into independent living.

They recruited and trained 541 Grandmentors and matched 371 with care leavers. The programme grew from 3 to 9 local authority areas by the end of the grant, with a strong pipeline of interest.

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The Eden Project - Deep Roots New Shoots is a programme of support for grandparents and their grandchildren to explore and learn together to improve school readiness.

138 volunteers aged 50 and over were trained and mobilised to support the Little Eden cohorts and on site drop in sessions. They are now looking at sharing their learning with other visitor sites and taking their programme into the community.

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Aesops’ Dance to Health programme aims to reduce the high number of older people’s falls in a way which is empowering and long‐lasting for the older person by using falls prevention methodologies within dance classes.

They ran 34 groups across 7 areas, involving 1104 participants supported by 754 volunteers, 589 of whom were aged over 50. The evaluation showed there was a 58% reduction in the number of falls, positive improvements in participants, physical and mental wellbeing, and a reduced fear of falling.

The Reader runs "shared reading" sessions aimed at people at risk of isolation, where participants read works of literature aloud to one another.

They recruited 556 volunteers, 306 of whom are 50 and over supporting 1668 people across 115 new shared reading groups in the North West. Their evaluation showed that Shared Reading improves wellbeing and reduces social isolation.

Tempo rewards time credits to volunteers who give to their community which they can then spend on local activities.

They tested engagement with older people in 3 areas of Westminster, Kent and Cheshire West and Chester were 1019 people aged 50 and over volunteered their time and benefited from time credits.

St John Ambulance’ Community Advocate programme works with vulnerable communities to increase people's knowledge and skills of first aid, enabling them to support people in their local community.

They have engaged with 1,416 volunteers of which 1,096 were Community Champions and 681 aged 50 and over. Through delivering workshops 4,265 pledges were made by community about sharing their first aid skills.

Fareshare works with volunteers to distribute thousands of tonnes of food waste to charities and community groups which help to feed those that are vulnerable.

They developed their volunteering offer across 6 test sites to engage with 308 volunteers aged 50 and over.