Campaign to end loneliness

Jessica Duffy, Good Practice Mentor based at Leeds Older People’s Forum, recounts her experience of running training sessions on social isolation and the psychology of loneliness.  Understanding the psychology of loneliness Despite some initial hesitancy around ‘teaching grandmothers to suck eggs’,  I love running the Good Practice Mentor sessions on social isolation and the psychology…
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Campaign to End Loneliness (CEL), TransPennine Express (TPE), House of Books and Friends, and author Max Dickins are joining forces at Manchester International Airport Station on Monday 3 July. Customers travelling through the station are invited to stop by for a free tea or coffee between 10 and 12 as part of TPE’s partnership with…
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Anxiety is the theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week. For social anxiety in particular, there is a two-way relationship with loneliness: when we are socially anxious we are more likely to become lonely. When we are lonely, we are more likely to become social anxious.  Given the week, it was fitting to spend…
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Tackling Loneliness through the Built Environment   The design of our neighbourhoods can play an important role in tackling loneliness and helping people connect. Our report Tackling Loneliness through the built environment (2022) sets out why the built environment matters for loneliness, what features make a difference to our experience, and how this can be…
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Make our future neighbourhoods less lonely places on World Cities Day With new figures showing 3.8 million people in Britain are now chronically lonely, the design of our neighbourhoods can play an important role in tackling loneliness and helping people to connect, according to the Campaign to End Loneliness which published a new report Tackling…
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We recently held a series of events as part of our Research and Policy Forum to explore the evaluation and measurement of loneliness. You can read more about our work on loneliness measurement and access watch these events via our Evaluation and Measurement page. In anticipation of these events, Professor Simon Hunter from Glasgow Caledonian…
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Tackling loneliness through the built environment was published in October 2022 and sets out why the built environment matters for loneliness, what features make a difference to our experience and how this can be achieved.

Yung-Chia Hsueh, UCL Division of Psychiatry and Dr Alexandra Pitman, UCL Division of Psychiatry; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust summarise findings from their systematic review which aimed to bring together the research literature describing the effectiveness, acceptability and potential harms of community interventions that target place-based factors to address loneliness and mental health.  Humans…
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On Thursday 30 April 2020, we hosted our first virtual Research and Policy Hub meeting on the topic of loneliness and bereavement. In this blog, we look at some of the key findings, evidence, and ideas from the event. What is grief? Does bereavement increase the risk of loneliness? We heard from a range of…
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The Government have just launched a new campaign to tackle loneliness during the Coronavirus lockdown. Deborah Alsina MBE, Chief Executive of Independent Age and Chair of the Campaign to End Loneliness, said: “We welcome the Government’s initiative to highlight and support people struggling with increased isolation and loneliness due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “Even before…
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