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Volunteering

Volunteers are welcome to help with our activities:

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Funding available..

We can help with your inter-generational project by providing funding through our SMALL GRANTS FUND (read more...)

About us

Generation Xchange is working in Wakefield District to bring young and older people together through intergenerational volunteering projects.

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Conservation

Developing allotments and gardens, clearing of shared communities. Environmental projects in local communities with younger and older people.

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Life Skills

We intend to develop activities that will enable older people to develop technological skills in line with recent advancements, and younger people to develop both life skills and traditional skills.

 

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Sports & Physical Activity

Activities between generations. These may include team sports, walking, cycling and other forms of exercise. Coaching and training older people could offer training and support to younger people.

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Literacy Projects

Schools based reading and mentoring, these may take the form of one to one reading projects, circle time of historical experiences, poetry, story reading, life stories and art projects including the clay workshop.

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Innovation and Development

Activities could include history projects, young and old working together to research their family tree. Multi media projects, film making, mobile phone clinics and most recently Clay Workshops.

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Competition results

Congratulations to our poetry competition winners!!

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GENERATION XCHANGE is an intergenerational programme in partnership with:

Age Concern Wakefield District   DISC Voluntary Action Wakefeld Groundwork Wakefield Wakefield Council  NHS Wakefield District