Our local age friendly initiative is led by our Communities team. It's supported by our Adult Social Care team, and the following external partners:

• Age UK Bournemouth, Poole and East Dorset provides services and activities for people over 55
• Bournemouth Town BID represents and supports more than 700 levy paying businesses and promotes Bournemouth as a safe, secure, attractive, clean, welcoming and vibrant place to spend time.
• Bournemouth University Public Involvement in Education and Research (PIER), a public group involved with health and social sciences research at the university
• Community Action Network (CAN) offers wellbeing resources and volunteering opportunities
• Dorset Health Care, a major provider of mental and physical healthcare in the county
• Help & Care, a health and wellbeing charity focused on long-term conditions, including dementia
• PramaLife, an age friendly community provider that creates clubs, groups and activities for older people in the area
• Poole u3a organises classes and activities aimed at skills development for older people no longer in full time employment
• Sovereign Network Group (SNG) has 84,000 homes and house over 210,000 people across Southern England. We support communities where we have homes with our mission to create thriving communities across generations. We are currently establishing a charitable Community Foundation to lead our communities programme.

We also get support from:

• Christchurch Community Partnership, a charity aiming to reduce social isolation in Christchurch
• Morebus, a major local bus operator with age friendly approaches
• SEDCAT provides accessible transport services in the local area for those in need