In pictures: St Mary’s Secret Garden This week is Learning Disability Week. Connect Hackney partners, St Mary’s Secret Garden, run the Garden Social at St Mary’s Secret Garden – a weekly club for people with learning disabilities aged over 50. Read More
Silver Saturdays – in pictures
Silver Saturday Silver Saturdays is a social club, bringing older people together for fun and creative activities at Mind network, Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest’s Wellbeing Centre. Once a month people from all over Hackney come together Read More
Support for Hackney men with hearing loss
Are you a 50+ male Hackney resident and finding it difficult to hear like you used to? Deafplus, a Connect Hackney partner, has three great workshops that can support you. Deafplus are supporting people who have difficulty hearing or have Read More
New dementia service coming soon
Dementia service for City and Hackney Dementia remains one of the main causes of disability in later life and progresses over time. In City and Hackney, there are about 1,300 people living with dementia. With an increasing and ageing population, Read More
Windrush Cricket event
Windrush cricket The Windrush Cricket Project is a multi faceted inter-generational programme to reigniting the interest and participation in cricketing activity of people from Caribbean and African descent. The project will use the ICC Cricket World Cup and the 30th Read More
Ageing better in Poland
We were impressed in the office when we saw the joyful pictures of our colleague Martyna’s grandmother in Poland. Our Connect Hackney senior media group agreed and decided to put their computer skills to the test and interview Helena about Read More
Hackney Senior magazine Spring issue
Hackney Senior latest issue The Spring 2019 issue of Hackney Senior – the magazine by older people, for older people in Hackney – is due out shortly! The quarterly publication from Connect Hackney includes some great real-life stories by local Read More
Learning to ride a bike in later life
Elizabeth Galloway shares how she learnt to ride a bike later in life. I came to London from the Caribbean when I was 13 years old and I was unable to ride a bike. The children on my street were Read More
Some of the Connect Hackney activities on offer
There are loads of great Connect Hackney activities happening locally. Here are just some of the current activities on offer. Action on Hearing Loss (with deafPLUS) are working with men aged 50+ who have confirmed or unidentified hearing loss. They Read More
Meet the Funder – Connect Hackney BAME Community Q and A
BAME Commissioning Q&A responses Meet the Funder – Connect Hackney BAME Community Q and A 12/03/19 1. Q: If you have previously had funding from Hackney CVS can you still submit a tender. A: Yes. This would not be a Read More