LFC Foundation supports intergenerational project
LFC Foundation, the club's official charity, is supporting a new project aimed at bringing together older and younger people across the city.
Working alongside Liverpool John Moores University, and with contributions from Our Lady Immaculate Primary School, Riverside Housing, Museum of Liverpool and Tate Museum, the Legacy Café initiative connects local senior citizens with new friends as young as four-years-old.
The six-week programme incorporates a wide range of activities including arts and crafts, healthy cooking, physical exercise, football sing-a-longs and trips to museums around Liverpool.
David McParland, LFC Foundation project lead, said: "Community structures and family patterns are changing, and statistics indicate that older and younger people are becoming increasingly disconnected.
"Intergenerational programmes have proven to be extremely effective in reducing stereotyping and ageism between generations, improving the health and wellbeing of older people and reducing loneliness and social exclusion, particularly amongst the elderly.
"Both groups have skills and resources which can considerably benefit the other, so projects like this are really important in bringing them together and starting that relationship building.
"We can already see some wonderful friendships forming between the kids and the older people, which is fantastic, and we hope to see them strengthen those bonds as the programme goes on."