All about our Golden-Oldies Charity
Click here to go directly to our Goldies website to learn more about our work, our sessions, our songs and our smiles.
The Golden-Oldies Charity reaches out to older people across England and Wales (as Goldies Cymru) through its daytime singing and activity sessions. From small beginnings and four sessions in January 2008, that number has increased to over 150 with the sessions taken by 50 enthusiastic freelance session leaders.
Hundreds of schools across South West England and South Wales have already taken part in our inter-generational projects. In the months ahead we will be sending out information newsletters to primary schools and if you would like to be added to our mailing list, please email grenville@ourmemories.org.uk
Thousands attend our Sing&Smile sessions which are based on the memory-evoking songs of the 60s and onwards. Goldies is NOT a choir, although sing-alongs of popular melodies are at the heart of all we do. These take place across the South West of England, South Wales (Goldies Cymru) in Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire, Essex with recent launches in Devon and Cornwall. To discover where the sessions currently take place please click on the following links:
In South West England - http://www.golden-oldies.org.uk/where.html
In South Wales - https://www.goldiescymru.org.uk/eng/where/
Our award-winning schools inter-generational programme from 'Goldies' (as it is fondly known) was first launched in 2010.
It encourages schools to open their doors to older people in their local communities and grandparents of their pupils.
This is a new project supported by The National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Garfield Weston Foundation, The Moondance Foundation, The Royal British Legion and The Santander Foundation to help primary schools to recognise and commemorate the final two years of WW1 from early in 2017 until November 11th 2018 when the nation will look back on that time in 1918 and remember ... This website will help schools to find project ideas, offer an easy to download medley of WW1 songs and encourage all schools to make contact with the Golden-Oldies Charity in England and Wales so that older people can participate in school project days, special WW1 events and promote communication between the young and the young at heart.
This project is led by the founder of the Golden-oldies Charity, Grenville Jones
Email Grenville - grenville@ourmemories.org.uk for more information.
Hundreds of schools across South West England and South Wales have already taken part in our inter-generational projects. In the months ahead we will be sending out information newsletters to primary schools and if you would like to be added to our mailing list, please email grenville@ourmemories.org.uk
Thousands attend our Sing&Smile sessions which are based on the memory-evoking songs of the 60s and onwards. Goldies is NOT a choir, although sing-alongs of popular melodies are at the heart of all we do. These take place across the South West of England, South Wales (Goldies Cymru) in Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire, Essex with recent launches in Devon and Cornwall. To discover where the sessions currently take place please click on the following links:
In South West England - http://www.golden-oldies.org.uk/where.html
In South Wales - https://www.goldiescymru.org.uk/eng/where/
Our award-winning schools inter-generational programme from 'Goldies' (as it is fondly known) was first launched in 2010.
It encourages schools to open their doors to older people in their local communities and grandparents of their pupils.
This is a new project supported by The National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Garfield Weston Foundation, The Moondance Foundation, The Royal British Legion and The Santander Foundation to help primary schools to recognise and commemorate the final two years of WW1 from early in 2017 until November 11th 2018 when the nation will look back on that time in 1918 and remember ... This website will help schools to find project ideas, offer an easy to download medley of WW1 songs and encourage all schools to make contact with the Golden-Oldies Charity in England and Wales so that older people can participate in school project days, special WW1 events and promote communication between the young and the young at heart.
This project is led by the founder of the Golden-oldies Charity, Grenville Jones
Email Grenville - grenville@ourmemories.org.uk for more information.
