Intergen - bringing older people and schoolchildren in the community together for shared activities - Philippa Lynch

Intergen is a charity bringing together older people and schoolchildren in the community. It exists to address the problems of:

• under performance of pupils in schools
• low aspirations of pupils
• loneliness of older people, and
• hostile intergenerational stereotypes.

Intergen’s vision is a society in which schools and older people work in partnership to make a positive contribution to the development of young people and their local communities. By bringing older and younger people together in their neighbourhood schools it aims to:

• enrich opportunities to learn
• raise aspirations
• share the untapped range of skills and knowledge that older citizens have to offer, and
• build stronger communities.

For more information on Intergen call 020 89800693 or visit intergen.org.uk.