Community Voice
Ways to get involved:
- Participate in resident and citizen panels, focus groups, and community forums — working alongside local networks and existing initiatives.
- Contribute through advisory panels for older people — helping to shape services and projects across the district
- Share your perspective as a carer — working with local carers’ groups and networks
- Collaborate on dementia-related initiatives — alongside partner organisations across the district
- Share experiences of living with long-term health conditions — helping to inform services and projects
- Take on leadership opportunities — become an Age-Friendly Champion or Community Researcher, helping to guide projects and influence change
Working with partners:
The Centre for Positive Ageing (CPA) is hosted by Age UK Wakefield District and works with organisations across sectors to ensure lived experience informs decisions, services, and initiatives.
Key partners include:
- Wakefield Council — Adult Social Care / Public Health teams
- Wakefield Health and Wellbeing Board
- VCSE organisations, including NOVA Wakefield District
- West Yorkshire Voice and Healthwatch Wakefield
- Local colleges, adult learning providers, and schools involved in intergenerational projects
- Age-friendly employers, business partners, and local networking groups (e.g., We Are Wakefield)
- Community connectors and social prescribers
- Housing associations, transport providers, libraries, arts, and cultural organisations
…and many more community and voluntary organisations across the district
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