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WHAT WE DO
With an area of benefit which is coterminous with that of the Strategic Health Authority, Age Concern Hampshire was formed in 1985 as the County “Umbrella” Organisation for the other 30 Age Concerns within the historic County of Hampshire which remain independent autonomous Charities. Age Concern Hampshire has 113 direct employees, 450 volunteers and an annual turnover of £1.4m. It has adopted the slogan, derived from its Mission Statement, of:
putting the WOW into retirement
by engaging the Wealth Of Wisdom to be found
amongst older people.
It seeks to achieve this in a number of ways as follows:
Awareness Raising and Campaigning
Age Concern Hampshire undertakes regular consultation with older people as to the issues which concern them. These can be ranked in order of importance via its Website, Forms given out at meetings and printed in the Age Concern Hampshire newspaper “there’s more to LIFE” – which, at its peak, had a 35,000 circulation.
Frequent talks are given, press releases issued, conferences held and radio and television interviews given. It has major campaigns on Pensions (both State and Occupational) under the banner “Worthy Of Work and pensions”, “Charging for Long Term Care and Alternatives to Traditional Residential Care”, “the Integration of Health and Social Services”, “Ageism in the NHS and Workplace”, “Fear Of Crime”, “Transport”, Wise On Warmth”, “Volunteering”, “Fire Safety”, and has a “kite mark” for “Good Employers of Older People”.
Two Major Conferences are held each year in June and October attracting 200 and 400 delegates respectively. The October Conference has had Ministerial “keynote addresses” twice in the past three years with a further one arranged for this year.
It has a double-decker Exhibition Bus – WOW 531 Wealth Of Wisdom.
Putting the
WOW
into retirement
