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Loneliness Awareness Week, 09-15 June 2025
Created: 05/05/2025
News/Events Category: Health and Social Care
Loneliness Awareness Week will take place from 09 until15 June 2025. This year's theme, Meeting Loneliness Together, is all about reducing the stigma around this natural human emotion.
Run by Marmalade Trust, the campaign is all about creating supportive communities by having open, honest conversations. As humans we are hardwired to need social connections so loneliness is a natural human emotion. By talking about loneliness, we can support ourselves and others.
Loneliness Awareness Week is vital in increasing awareness and understanding of loneliness and creating a more connected society.
Whilst there has been an increase in discussion on the subject, stigma remains and some key misconceptions 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, Marmalade Trust 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.
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