Come Eat Together with Age UK County Durham

Did you know that around 80% of older people being admitted to hospital are suffering from malnutrition? Or that loneliness has been found to be as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day?

In 2013 Age Uk County Durham were awarded Big Lottery funding to trial a project to reduce feelings of loneliness and to improve the eating habits of older people in the Bishop Auckland and Shildon.

The Come Eat Together project came first in a national vote to find the best Health Big Lottery funded project and their reward was another million pounds to extend their work to the rest of County Durham.

Gillian Campbell met Chief Executive, Harriet Gibbon, and the Project Development Manager, Christine Fletcher, to find out more......