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Loneliness Awareness Week

Created and hosted by Marmalade Trust, our annual campaign raises awareness of loneliness across the UK (and beyond!) and gets people talking about it. 

Our three step approach

Loneliness can often feel overwhelming and something out of our control, so it can be useful to have a starting point. To help you and others to feel less lonely we have framed it into three parts.

Visit our brand new Loneliness Awareness Week website!

Our annual awareness week has a new online home! Check it out and get involved in this years campaign.

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Let's talk loneliness.

Marmalade Trust is the UK’s leading loneliness charity offering support for all ages and the only charity in the world specifically dedicated to raising awareness of loneliness. We launched Loneliness Awareness Week (‘LAW’) in 2017 and it grows in momentum each year across the UK and internationally. 

 

Loneliness Awareness Week 2023: 12th - 18th June

The next Loneliness Awareness Week is from Monday 12th June - Sunday 18th June 2023. Visit our new website to find out how you can get involved.

Loneliness Awareness Week is all about creating supportive communities by having conversations with family, friends or colleagues about loneliness. Loneliness is a natural human emotion - we are hardwired to need social connections. By talking about it, we can support ourselves and others.

That Lonely Feeling

 

Our 2022 campaign highlighted the many and varied instances when we feel lonely to normalise the feeling - from childhood, into adulthood and beyond.

#ThatLonelyFeeling

Why is raising awareness so important? 

Whilst we’re seeing an increase in discussion on the subject, stigma remains and there are some key misconceptions that still need to be challenged. Ask anyone to picture a lonely person and most will imagine an older person living on their own.  As such, we often rebuke and dismiss feelings of loneliness because ‘that doesn’t apply to me’.

 

By identifying and acknowledging all the times that we have personally felt and experienced loneliness, we can start to change our viewpoint, accept it and understand how to take action to manage the feeling (and our social connections) in the future. 

Stay up to date about Loneliness Awareness Week

We'd love to keep you in the loop with our plans for Loneliness Awareness Week 2023. Sign up below for occasional email updates. 

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Frequently asked questions

We get to the bottom of the most common queries about loneliness.

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How to talk about loneliness

Here's how we can all tackle the stigma surrounding loneliness.

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The physical effects of loneliness

Did you know - loneliness can affect your health? Here's how and what to do about it.

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