118 PLANNING FOR LATER LIFE Is it time to give something back?
Projects can last just a couple of weeks or a few months. Find out more at
www.projects-abroad.co.uk • Many voluntary groups need drivers who can take elderly or disabled people out shopping or to hospital or doctors appointments. Drivers are also needed to deliver meals to the housebound. Contact your local church, community group, Women’s Institute or local council (who often appeal for volunteers to help
clean up local rivers or beaches). • For ways to volunteer in Kent, from working with children and young people or in the countryside or library to being a Kent Greeter or for sporting opportunities, to name but a few, visit
www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and- community/volunteering • RVS,
www.royalvoluntaryservice.org. uk, call 0845 608 0122 (call rates apply) Monday-Friday 8am-6pm.
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• Age UK,
www.ageuk.org.uk, pop into your local branch, or call 0800 055 6112. Volunteering is a gift that only costs you time, but it makes such a difference to other people’s lives. Not everyone can commit regularly, but even if you get involved once a year to hand out refreshments at a charity fun run, bake cakes at home for a local fete or pack up shoe boxes for a world disaster, every little helps!
Diary date
Volunteers’ Week 1st-7th June 2018 Volunteers’ Week is an annual event, which takes place between 1st-7th June and is an opportunity to celebrate volunteering in all its diversity – as well as a chance to say thank you for the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK.
• For more information, visit www.
volunteersweek.org, email
volunteers@ncvo.org.uk or call 020 7713 6161.
The Class of 2018
Employees planning to retire in 2018 are expected to receive an average annual income of £19,900, according to research by Prudential. Its Class of 2018 report, which surveyed 9,896 non-retired UK adults aged 45 or over, including 1,000 UK adults who plan to retire this year, also found that employees planning to retire in 2018 expect to receive an average annual income that is 10% higher than those who retired in 2017. Last year’s retirees had an average expected annual retirement income of £18,100. Retirees in 2018 are set to receive the highest average expected annual retirement income since 2008, predicting an income £1,200 more than 2008s £18,700 fi gure. Expected
retirement incomes have grown steadily since 2013, which recorded a low of £15,300 a year. Predicted annual retirement incomes next jumped up between 2014 and 2015, rising from £15,800 to £17,000. This further increased to £17,700 in 2016. Average annual retirement incomes last fell between 2008 and 2013, with retirees expecting £17,800 in 2009, £16,500 in 2010, £16,600 in 2011, £15,500 in 2012, and £15,300 in 2013.
Less than half (46%) of respondents who plan to retire in 2018 feel they are either not fi nancially well prepared for retirement, or are unsure about their preparations. Half of respondents believe their expected income will enable them to have a comfortable retirement, and 27% think they do not have enough money for retirement.
With more than 1.9 million older people across the nation feeling ignored or invisible and loneliness as harmful to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, Sevenoaks District Council has funded an innovative new project to help combat the issue.
Council gives £40k to tackle loneliness in older people organised at village halls and public
houses across the district, providing older people and their families with a place to go for advice and information, as well as the chance to have a tea or coffee whilst meeting new people. The money will fund a paid co-
Age UK Sevenoaks and Tonbridge have been given almost £40,000 to fund their ‘Pop-Up Pop-Ins’ project, helping older people across the District facing loneliness and isolation.
Sevenoaks District Council has funded the scheme through the Better Care Fund which will see weekly Pop-Up Pop-Ins
ordinator to arrange the events where people will also be offered free exercise taster sessions and advice on nutrition, falls prevention and guidance on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle as well as introducing them to nearby volunteering opportunities.
The co-ordinator will also be
supported by the Council’s Housing and One You teams helping those affected by loneliness to benefi t from making new friends, and getting more involved in their local community.
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