National Older Peoples Day
Since 1990, the United Nations has recognised a day to
celebrate older people in our society.
The date is always 1st October, and as Inspired Taskforce, we have always celebrated the day with an event to highlight the contribution made by older people.
We are fortunate to have older people around us, whether they’re family, friends, or just general acquaintances. Older people are fonts of wisdom, experience, and storytelling.
Older people have time for each other, for their grandchildren, for volunteering, for travelling, for learning new hobbies, for campaigning against injustices and for making new friendships. Our society is richer for their presence.
We'll provide the activities and all of the fun for many years to come
So lets celebrate National Older People's Day together!
Want to get involved? You can contribute by visiting the link by clicking the button below to our contributions page, whether the contribution is Volunteering your time, donating raffle prizes or even money to help fund our activities, no donation is too little and all is appreciated!
NOPD 2023
We celebrated National Older People’s Day on Tuesday 1st October 2023! It was beautiful how we all got together to organise and set up such a wonderful event to celebrate such a special date with our members.
The theme of the celebration for 2023 is “Fulfilling the Promises of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for Older Persons: Across Generations”. This theme is one of the most important ones we have raised in the past few years, and have continue to spread its awareness and taken action into developing activities and services that support them.
A great big thank you to Doris Cross’ family for attending in her place, Doris was looking forward to this event and sadly she passed away earlier this year.
NOPD 2022
We celebrated National Older People’s Day on Saturday 1st October to recognise, acknowledge and appreciate the contributions that older people have in our community.
Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying them. Older people are full of wisdom, experiences and are an inspiration to all of us. That is why the Inspire Taskforce opened its doors as a project that has developed over the years as a social and well-being support group to older people. We are more than an organisation, we are a family
We started our celebration with live music from GED, then we had a circus skills showcase by Danielle de la Wonk, followed by our service users circus performance and we ended with a dance and live music from Silhouette Band
NOPD 2021
We're back!
We were over at the Klondyke for this NOPD this year.
We all had a great time with fantastic live music from Silhouette Band which we all danced and sang along to!
Take a look at us singing Que sera, sera.
Roy also took part in hosting one of his famous quizzes.
NOPD 2020
In 2020 we want to recognise and speak out against the huge (and unnecessary) death toll that COVID-19 has had on our older population, and also recognise the on-going stress and strain on older people’s lives as they ‘shield’ themselves and stay withdrawn from society to protect their health.
It has been especially hard on those older people without family support or where their families live at a distance. Luckily many of the good people of Levenshulme and Gorton have supported their older neighbours and jumped in with offers of shopping, conversations over the fence or donated to our appeals to provide services such as the Meal Buddies on Wheels and Phone-A-Friend. We thank you for every act of kindness, however small – it meant a lot.
In 2020 we are unable to be together in person, so we have put together some pictures and videos from our previous four years celebrations. We hope you enjoy the selection and the memories it will provoke of happier times.
NOPD 2019
We did what we like to do best, which is party and have lots of fun.
Our regular musical accompaniments, Mick and Tim performed as the Artful Codgers and had the whole room rocking and rolling along to their great songs and hits of the 60’s.
Bring on next summer when we can get them back.
