Further down the road at Castle Park Arts Centre, off Fountain Lane, another group of musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music will be offering three Sunday Afternoon concerts on Sun 24th Sept, Sun 29th Oct and Sun 26th Nov. All the concerts last an hour and start at 14.00. The café at the Arts Centre will be open from 13.00 on cert days serving hot/cold drinks and an assortment of biscuits. Tickets cost £12.00 each and are available from Dandelion on Church Street, or at the door on concert days. This concert series is especially good for people who want to enjoy some classical music during the day throughout the autumn. Please join us if you can and perhaps ask a friend, neighbour or an acquaintance to join you.
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We are looking to appoint an individual (possibly a recent graduate, looking for paid employment) to help us with some research exploring what attendance at the Bee Friends’ Coffee Morning and Soup Lunches means for our visitors. The aim is to collect their stories and create a collection of what we are calling Narratives of Well Being.
We are pleased to issue our annual report for 2021-22. Since Frodsham Bee Friends held its first public launch meeting at the end of 2021, we have seen support for our activities grow in the form of new volunteers and have successfully established our own drop-in and meeting hub, “The Hive”. We have been fortunate to receive funding from a number of external sources in support of our work. This annual report gives you some of the background behind the formation of FBF as well as (we hope) a taste of things to come.
Since 2018 a group of us have been meeting because of our shared concern about loneliness and social isolation issues that seem to face an increasing number of residents living in our town – Frodsham in Cheshire. Our concerns have been reflected across the UK with loneliness now considered to be one of the largest health concerns that we have. It is likely to increase the risk of death by 26% (Holt-Lunstad Report 2015) and is now considered worse than obesity and as bad for our health as smoking. Many organisations, like us, have realised that the Covid pandemic has exacerbated the loneliness crisis which is now believed to be affecting over 9 million people across the UK.
We are a group of local people who have come together because of our shared concern about social isolation and the loneliness felt by many people living in our community. As we begin to emerge from the restrictions, we have all endured during the Covid pandemic, we believe that support in this area is needed now more than ever.