29 Mar 2008
I’ve recently joined the Good Neighbour scheme run by Age Concern and for the last few weeks I’ve been visiting an elderly neighbour for an hour a week to provide them with an hour of company. Within about ten minutes of my first meeting I realised it was going to be one of the most rewarding and important hours of the week. And so it has proved. Age Concern operates around the country and if were interested in the scheme, I would unhesitatinly recommend it, both for yourself and the person you would be visiting. Nothing I have done in my life has been quite so plainly rewarding, interesting and easy. And it only has to be an hour. Let’s be honest, I don’t think my neighbour could take much more of me!