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Supporting Lonely and Isolated People

RKTRURO — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:06:24 GMT

I wonder if you can help. We have a group that has been supporting people shielding from the pandemic or who are housebound

in our area. We have had over 30 volunteers and helped over 100 different people with 1000 jobs. All of this we have done with no funds

and without having to raise money.

One of the main issues we have come across in the loneliness and isolation of a lot of people. To combat this we have organised to buy

10" tablets setup with suitable software to allow the clients to have face to face contact with family, friends and the Support Group. We also

plan to setup a community network to link people together, have virtual book clubs, virtual coffee morning and online local events which clients can join from home.

We have raised £5k so far and have negotiated very favourable deals on tablets and video phones. The issue we have is linking these to

the internet, we are looking at Sim only deals for around 5-8Gb. These would be paid for by the monies raised by the group from grants.

We have seen deals for between £5-£8 but would like to obtain something for up to 100 tablets with a cost of £2/month or less.

If this is something you can help me with or there is another part of EE that can please let me know. This project is being closely monitored by Cornwall Council with a view to extending it over the whole county. It will be widely promoted and publicised acknowledging

benefactors/

Regards

Russell Keeble

Co-ordinator

Re: Supporting Lonely and Isolated People

Schockwave — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:11:54 GMT

@Leanne_T , @Christopher_G , @Miles are any of you able to suggest or help in any way here for such a good cause?

Re: Supporting Lonely and Isolated People

Alex_S — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:17:26 GMT

Hi @RKTRURO,

Welcome to the community 🙂

Thanks for coming here with this. It sounds like you have done some amazing work already in your local community during the pandemic.

I have sent you a private message to get some further details from you.

Alex 🙂

Re: Supporting Lonely and Isolated People

RKTRURO — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:38:43 GMT

Alex

Did you get any feedback on this at all?

Regards

Russell

Re: Supporting Lonely and Isolated People

Christopher_G — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:18:00 GMT

Hi @RKTRURO

I can see your details have been passed to the relevant team. They do receive a lot of requests and they will be in touch via email if they are able to support you with this.

Thank you.

Chris