Alex Smith Cares Family

The cares family is made up of different charities around the country which bring younger people together with older people to share time laughter and new experiences.

Alex smith cares family. Leading the cares family to bring together 17 000 older and younger neighbours to reduce loneliness and generational divides and build community to stem polarisation we also helped shape the world s first ever government level loneliness strategy which was launched at a cares family event in 2018. Alex smith founded the cares family to connect people living in the same community to reduce their loneliness and the gaps across social digital cultural and generational divides. We do that to reduce loneliness in communities and build connections across the generations which everyone can benefit from. Founder and ceo of the cares family my position in a nutshell.

He is a governor at holloway school and was a volunteer in camden during the 2012 olympics. Staying connected in a disconnecting time. The cares family has necessarily had to professionalise in some ways as we ve grown up but we still reject the language of service provision in favour of an altogether more communitarian approach. As he was doing his rounds knocking on doors he met fred a neighbour in his 80s who hadn t been out of his house for three months.

Alex is the founder and ceo of a uk based organization the cares family which brings older and younger neighbors together to reduce loneliness and generational divides in some of the most. Alex smith job title. We opened in 2011 after our founder alex was canvassing for votes as a council candidate in the local elections. The document has moved here.

He was formerly an aide to ed miliband and editor of one of the biggest political websites in the uk. The cares family helps people find connection and community in a disconnected age. Our model does not seek to empower people because people already have intrinsic power. Alex smith founder ceo the cares family alex is ceo and founder of liverpool cares north london cares south london cares manchester cares and east london cares.

With economic and social isolation deepening segregation between older and younger people there s never been a more important time to build solidarity between generations.