Resources

Anam Cara

Anam Cara's intergenerational project aims to tackle stereotypes around dementia and to connect older people and young children for the benefit of bot...

Baby and toddler group (an Intergenerational Shared Site)

Through this project Apples and Honey Nursery hoped to connect younger and older people together. It aimed to bring together communities, to tackle lo...

Back to Life

Back to Life brings seven children each week from Newbyres Nursery to visit residents at Newbyres Village Care Home. Since September 2016 they have un...

Befriending Caithness intergenerational link

Approached by the local hospital and care home, Befriending Caithness was asked if they could fill the gap that currently exists within the community....

Braehead Primary and Crosslet House Care Home

Braehead Primary and Crosslet House Care Home working together to create a stronger community.

Bridging Generations Through Learning and Living

Carrondale Care Home's intergenerational initiative brings together residents living with complex and life-limiting conditions and young people from t...

Childminders, a solution for intergenerational co-location

Having seen many intergenerational programmes in the USA specifically target vulnerable children because of the beneficial impact it has upon their we...

Clark Community Choir

The Clark Community Choir, "Generations Singing Together"

Cool Computing for Couthie Customers

Senior pupils assist older learners to use digital technology.

Deaf Awareness Project

Exploring the impact on people’s lifestyles as a result of being hard of hearing.

Digital Age Project

Digital and social exclusion is a big problem for older people. Many services are moving online and older people are missing out on opportunities to c...

Edinburgh Garden Partners

Winner of the GWT Excellence Award 2022 Tackling Climate Change, this project connects garden owners with volunteers looking for space to grow and bri...

Eyemouth Rowing Project

Reviving the tradition of coastal rowing.

Football Memories

Football Memories aims to provide companionship, mutual support and a sense of belonging to men with Dementia.

Generation Xchange (GenX)

This intergenerational program in Los Angeles aims for a “win-win” situation with increased academic achievement for younger people and a sens...

Getting to Know Your Techno

A number of older people in a very rural community in the Highlands of Scotland expressed a need for support in using digital technology

Glasgow Intergenerational Mentoring Network

This project focused on young people living in the most disadvantaged ares of Glasgow who were interested in entering higher education but who may not...

Govan Intergenerational Project - Craft Cafe

The aim of this project was to tackle stereotypes held by different age groups in one community of Govan by helping to build bonds between the generat...

Grandbuddies Project

Discovering how many of our traits and characteristics are inherited from family.

Growing Friendships

Growing Friendships is an intergenerational project developed by The Compass School and Our Community Kitchen.

Hack Your Age

The Citadel (youth work and intergenerational support), Civic Digits, (digital storytelling and theatre) University of Edinburgh Design Informatics (e...

Home-Start

Support, friendship and practical help to families in their own homes.

Intergenerational Boat Building

Over the years the boat building project was rolled out to 4 locations and 6 boats have been built in Ayrshire coastal towns. The two they are finishi...

Intergenerational Knitting Bee

Award-winning North Argyll Carers Centre tells us how they held an online knitting bee during the pandemic.

Kibble Volunteering

Strengthening community roots and involvement.

Learn Together Cymru

Children in Wales are not performing as well as other UK children and are, on average, poorer. Poverty is linked with poor literacy which in children ...

Life Story

What happens when high school pupils work with older adults with dementia on their life story book?

LIST (Leveraging the Digital & ICT Competences of Senior Women to Extenuate the Knowledge Divide)

Female participation in lifelong learning activities together with an increase in the digital divide has become a concerning issue across Europe. The ...

Making Bridges with Music

Torbay childminders have brought younger and older people together through a project called Making Bridges with Music, tackling social isolation along...

New Spin Intergenerational Project

This project is a continuation of our award winning New Spin Intergenerational project, which was first launched in 2010.

Old School, Oxford Academy

There are significant issues faced by adolescents and the senior members of the community and many of these are common to both groups. The Oxfordshire...

Old’s Cool

It was important to run this project due to the high number of young people leaving school in the local Leith area without a positive destination in e...

Physical Activity Project in Care Homes

Perth College (University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)) HND Fitness, Health and Exercise students have been involved in an exciting project for ...

Rebuilding Bridges

Rebuilding Bridges was an intergenerational music intervention that worked with participants, aged 7 months to 100 years, in 3 care home gardens in th...

Retired Engineers Inspiring the Next Generation

A recent report from the Royal Academy of Engineering has highlighted a shortage in engineers, with an estimated 1 million new engineers and technicia...

Richer by Rationing

To reduce waste by raising awareness of the environmental and economic impact of food waste

Roar do Digital

Roar do Digital wants to enhance digital inclusion and internet safety in Renfrewshire and break down barriers and stereotypes between different gener...

Scotland Reads

Pupils given a more positive outlook to books and reading.

Seedlings to Seniors

Lainshaw Early Years Centre in East Ayrshire were looking for an innovative way to connect with the local community. The answer was simply to build in...

Silver City Surfers’ Schools Squad: Ferryhill

There are two thirds of over 75s who do not use the internet and 99% of teenagers who do.

Spanning the Ages by Brighter Bervie

In Autumn 2018 children and older people came together to plant bulbs in Bervie, creating intergenerational friendships and linking the community in t...

Stories of paper-making in Linlithgow: intergenerational project

This project aimed to explore the working and social life in Linlithgow connected with the local paper mills. The project also collected oral history ...

T in the Street

Organisers from a pilot project called 'T in the Street', witnessed and evidenced the positive impact that the project had on both the young and older...

The Balhousie Link - Balhousie Primary School paired partnership with Balhousie Care Home

Balhousie Primary School has a catchment area with high unemployment, single parent families as well as a very large proportion of children from Europ...

The Friendship Cabin goes digital

The award-winning intergenerational project connected generations during the pandemic.

The power of one to one connection

Heather who lives with dementia volunteers at Jaybees Nursery every week acting as a source of support, a mentor and a friend.

The Snow Queen Intergenerational Project

Learn about Scottish Ballet's innovative dementia-friendly programme project.

Together we dream, believe and achieve

Together, Sunflower Family Nurture Centre and Mossview Care Home have built strong, trusting relationships over a number of years. Our goal is quite s...

Walking Football

'Walking Football' is an ongoing intergenerational project.

We Love Our Grandmas!

The project in Sandfield Close Primary School, Leicester involved a group of ladies who met at the school regularly. With Food for Life Funding and Th...

Working Rite

Appealing to young people who have rejected the education system.

YOBS, Youths On Bikes Scheme

A home delivery scheme for older villagers and the housebound.

Young People at the Heart

Over the years Highlife Highland has pioneered intergenerational projects that have included Get To Know Your Techno. Read about their impact and how ...

‘We can still ‘Bee’ Together’- Intergenerational Bee Project