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This exciting project has been recently set up to enable older people to make new social connections by meeting up with new friends on a regular basis via Zoom. The relaxed and informal format of each Meet-up Morning will be

Sir Lenny Henry has written an open letter, signed by a number of household names, calling on black people in the UK to have the COVID-19 vaccine. Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, actor Thandie Newton, radio host Trevor Nelson and author Malorie

Racist emails aimed at the Mayor and Deputy Mayor You may be aware of the national and local news coverage about the level of race hate emails sent to Elected Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees and Deputy Mayor Cllr. Asher Craig. This followed

Here is the letter I wrote to Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees about public toilets on 11 March 2021. Dear Marvin I wrote to you in June last year on behalf of Bristol Older People’s Forum asking that the safe reopening of

I hope you are all keeping well, and I suspect most of us have had our Covid jab by now. Some of you will probably have had the booster as well, or it won't be far away. I do very

Bristol Older People's Forum (BOPF) has long campaigned for the Government to come forward with a sustainable long-term funding strategy for adult Social Care. Sadly and inexcusably, this has not happened so far, despite the pandemic exposing the inequalities affecting

I hope you are keeping well and managing to endure this seemingly endless Covid period in our lives. However, there is at last some really good news with the development of what appears to be an effective vaccine, which is

Many years ago Cherry Hartley was very active and prominent in BOPF, as she still was before lockdown with local community groups Malcolm X Elders and Tudor Road Golden Agers and her church. Well done Cherry, you are a vital

Tara Mistry is our newest BOPF Trustee and she has been a great activist around anti-racism and equality issues since she was a young teenager growing up in Leicester. Now in her 60s, and after 38 years of living in

BOPF Congratulates Roy Hackett on his MBE for services to the Bristol Community! It is long overdue! A recent Guardian article speaks of Roy's remarkable impact on this country since his arrival from Jamaica nearly seven decades ago. And now he's