Sitting here writing this I can’t help but feel unbelievably proud of everything the scheme has achieved in the past four years. Before Covid we…

You may know us from our work getting Chatter & Natter tables into cafes up and down the UK. In case you need a refresh,…

Lots of great things have come out of lockdown for me; working from home means that either me or my husband can now drop our…

This week we were delighted to be featured by Independent Living, who rightfully noticed we have joined the government’s Tackling Loneliness Network. Take a look at what they…

It’s my first week working for The Chatty Café Scheme and it’s great to get started and to get stuck into my new role. My…

This week we were pleased to get a notice that The Chatty Cafe Scheme was mentioned on a CNN.com article in their Style editorial. You…

It feels like we should all be writing diaries and documenting this experience. Maybe this epidemic will be taught about in future history lessons and…

After months of work on the Government’s Nesta Tech to Connect competiton, we have today been advised that The Chatty Cafe Scheme is a runner…

The Prime Minister’s daily Points of Light award recognises outstanding individual volunteers – people who are making a change in their community. Alex Hoskyn the…

As part of a competition we are involved in called “Tech to Connect” I have been looking into the differences between social isolation and loneliness.…

Blogs can be really hard to write, you don’t know whether to go deep and meaningful or light and breezy. You think of ideas when…