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Leeds Older People’s Forum

Time to Shine Volunteer Listeners report

December 2019
Louise Warwick-Booth, David Woodcock, Leeds Beckett University

This Volunteer Listeners report provides stories about older people’s experiences of social isolation as part of the evaluation Of Time to Shine, Leeds. The report details the Volunteer Listeners Approach as an idea, its development, pilot testing and full implementation during 2019. The methodology is simple, volunteers hold conversations with older people to capture their stories, and notes about these are then produced as stories.

Key learnings: Co-production