Local forums

Our Speaking Up for Our Age co-ordinators can put you in touch with a forum in your area. Contact:

England: Debbie Beale - debbie.beale@helptheaged.org.uk

Scotland: Tara Anderson - tara.anderson@helptheaged.org.uk

Wales: Programme Co-ordinator - SUFOAWales@helptheaged.org.uk

If there is no forum in your area and you would like to start one, they can offer advice and support to help you through the early stages.

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Useful addresses

If you come across a great site which your think will be useful to forum members, please e-mail Carmel Davis at carmel.davis@helptheaged.org.uk

Help the Aged Policy Offers are pleased to hear from older people's forums and can give information and advice. Contact David Sinclair, Head of Policy, on 020 7239 7562 or email david.sinclair@helptheaged.org.uk

• Better Government for Older People (BGOP)
• The Charity Commission for England & Wales provides free information leaflets on all aspects of running a charity.

To keep up to date on Ministers and their portfolios: -

• Department of Work and Pensions
• Department of Health - at homepage, click on 'About Us' and then 'Ministers'
• Enid Irving MSc, Editor, Forum to Forum - enid.irving@onetel.net
• The National Association for Voluntary & Community Action (NAVCA) Their website lists contact details for all their members.
• The National Association of Widows
• National Benevolent Fund for the Aged
• NHS Direct and NHS 24
• National Pensioners' Convention
• Seniors Network
• VITA (Volunteering Initiative in the Third Age) promotes volunteering in England by people aged 65 and over.
• Our thanks to Laura, who visited our Bulletin Board and recommended www.v-word.org.uk - a very interesting site about volunteering.

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Forum websites

One of the main aims of the Seniors' Forums website is to provide networking opportunities for forums. If your forum has a website and you would like us to provide a link from this site so you can share information with other forums, please let us know.

• Blackburn with Darwen Older People’s Forum
• Cambridge Older People's Enterprises
• Croydon Older People's Network
• Devon Pensioners Action Forum
• Eastbourne Forum for Older People
• Eastleigh Southern Parishes Older People’s Forum
• Elders Coucil of Newcastle
• Enfield Branch Over 50s Forum
• Gateshead Forum for Older People
• Grey Wolves, Wolverhampton Branch
• Holbeach Seniors Link
• Highland Senior Citizens Network
• Mansfield Wise Owl 50+ Forum
• Older People's Forum - 50 Not Out
• Older People’s Forum – North Tyneside
• Senior Forums Association (South West Dorset)
• Shropshire Association of Senior Citizens Forums
• Skegness & District Seniors Forum
• Southampton Pensioners Forum
• Watford Senior Citizens' Forum
• Wealden Senior Citizens' Partnership
• Telford & Wrekin Senior Citizens Forum
• Wolverhampton Over 50s Forum