KiB and COVID-19
Older people feel more alone and isolated than ever before now that care homes and most hospitals have cancelled visits. The crisis hasn’t stopped KiB: our singers are spreading cheer at a safe distance – on doorsteps, through windows, and in the streets.
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Kissing it BetterJuly 2020
At the start of lockdown, we launched a poetry and art challenge for our talented student volunteers: create a work to connect with older people who’re feeling lonely and forgotten. Your entries inspired and amazed us all here at KiB, and the winning works are now creating conversations in hospitals and care homes in Warwickshire.
May 2020
Our afternoon Zoom sessions, Valuing Older People, take you through our volunteering-from-home programme, and offer you unique insight into how to help older people during lockdown. Read on for more details
May 2020
Since lockdown began, KiB singers have been lifting the spirits of older, vulnerable people by performing outside care homes and in hospital gardens. These sessions send a powerful message of hope and togetherness, showing older people that they have not been forgotten by the outside world.
April 2020
We’re all feeling anxious under lockdown and missing friends and family. So let’s take advice from the people who lived through quarantine, homesickness and isolation 80 years ago. Help KiB capture inspirational wartime stories for a new generation to learn from and enjoy.
Help us spread messages of hope and togetherness. Send us your poetry, your artwork and your inspirational articles and we will share them with lonely older people to show them that the world still cares.
March 2020
Spring brings lighter days and lovely flowers and lots of fresh new conversation openers. Here are five to be getting on with….
February 2020
As you know, we love to bring the generations together to tell stories – but it can be tricky to start a conversation with someone who’s so much older than you. Here are five ways to kick-start a lovely warm chat in February…
January 2020
We’re running open evenings for DofE students who want to volunteer with us. If you’re working towards your Bronze, Silver or Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award, and you live in Birmingham or London, please join us to find out how you can sign up for healthcare volunteering experience through KiB.
January 2020
If you love music and live in the Midlands, please join us for a fundraising evening with the fabulous Tarantara choir.
January 2020
The DofE’s brand new list of teenage life hacks signposts young people towards experiences that build character and confidence. And KiB offers three of the top five suggestions.