Welcome to
Silver Salisbury
Who we are
We’re a small, registered charity based in South Wiltshire. We aim to reduce loneliness and isolation by supporting older people to be active in their local community. We have 5 volunteer founding trustees who all live locally. Our Chair, Irene Kohler is Salisbury’s Older People’s Champion.
What we do
We promote local groups and activities where older people will get a warm welcome in Salisbury, Amesbury, Downton and Wilton and the surrounding areas. Research shows that overcoming isolation improves health and wellbeing, leaving older people feeling better and reducing the demand for health and social care services.
Silver Salisbury is a registered charity in England and Wales (no 1198019)
Stop Press
Silver Salisbury coffee mornings have resumed after the Christmas break
We are very pleased to welcome Gary Nunn to Salisbury Library this coming Friday coffee morning on 10th January at 11.00. Gary will be speaking on the Founding of the Salisbury Arts Centre based on his experience as a young man fifty years ago.
The following week on Wednesday 15th January, Gary will be joining us at Wilton Library coffee morning at 10.30. He will be speaking on the Wilton Carnival. Gary is well known locally and we are delighted to have him as a speaker. Please note that Wilton library is only open for the coffee morning on Wednesday and not for usual library exchange of books etc.
Refreshments will be provided for which donations are welcomed: any queries, please email silver.salisbury@outlook.com
Laverstock, Longhedge&Old Sarum and Ukrainian coffee mornings are also resuming this month and programmes for the forthcoming months will be available in the next week or so on this website and at libraries and Five Rivers Leisure Centre.
If you are aged sixty or over you can pick up a directory of 125 different groups and activities that welcome older people from your local library, Five Rivers Leisure Centre, the Information Centre or Shopmobility. It’s also on our website www.silversalisbury.co.uk.
If you are interested knowing more or in joining Silver Salisbury then go to our website www.silversalisbury.co.uk.
Irene Kohler
Chair Silver Salisbury Group and Salisbury Older People’s Champion
Coffee and Chat Groups
After the success of the monthly coffee and chat groups held at Salisbury Library they have now been extended, both at the library as a spin-off Vinyl cafe, as a separate group in Wilton and as a Ukrainian language group.
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Volunteer Roles Available
We are looking for local people in Amesbury, Downton, Salisbury and Wilton who would like to volunteer to help support older people in their community.
Every year around Silver Sunday a programme of events and activities has been delivered in Salisbury. Due to its growing success, we now need help to expand the program to the areas above.
If you have some time and would like to make a difference to your local community this may be the role for you.
Afternoon tea delivery project - contractor
We are looking for someone to lead the afternoon tea delivery project. During covid we delivered afternoon teas to isolated and lonely older people in our community. We want to do it again next year.
The successful applicant must be great at building relationships, know the local area well and be passionate about supporting older people.