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| Outcomes of the Active at 60 Community Agent programme |
| Author(s) | Areenay Hatamian, Daniel Pearmain, Sarah Golden |
| Corporate Author | Community Development Foundation - CDF; Department for Work and Pensions - DWP |
| Publisher | Department for Work and Pensions, London, 2012 |
| Pages | 4 pp (Department for Work and Pensions Research summary) |
| Source | http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rrs-index.asp |
| Keywords | Voluntary work [elderly] ; Social interaction ; Participation ; Development projects ; Grant allocation ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The Active at 60 Community Agents programme, which ran from March 2011 until 31 December 2011, was a £1 million Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) fund that was administered nationally by the Community Development Foundation (CDF). The programme's overarching aim was for community groups and their volunteers to help people approaching and post retirement to stay or become more active and positively engaged with society, in particular those at risk of social isolation and loneliness in later life. This Research summary outlines the findings of Department for Work and Pensions Research report 808 (103 pp; ISBN 9781908523860), which reports on research by the CDF, based on surveys and interviews with local funders, funded group leaders, Community Agents and older people. It considers the role of the volunteer Community Agent; the ways in which Community Agents reached and engaged with older people; and how groups used the funding. It also comments on the difference that the programme made and its legacy. One of the lessons learned is that there was a value in someone taking a lead role to engage with and encourage older people to participate. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121127001 E |
| Classmark | GHH: TMA: TMB: IGD: QCG: 4C * |
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