Global intergenerational week 2025
Welcome to our page dedicated to Global Intergenerational Week 2025. We have an exciting week planned for you this year. Keep scrolling to learn what we have in store for you - and don't forget to sign up!
wednesday 23rd 12pm - 1pm
Intergenerational Solutions to Loneliness: What Works & Why it Matters
As loneliness continues to impact communities across the UK, could an intergenerational approach offer a transformative solution?
For Global Intergenerational Week, we’re hosting a webinar in partnership with The Tackling Loneliness Hub to explore what truly effective intergenerational practice looks like in tackling loneliness.
Registration is essential for this event, so please make sure you register below.
thursday 24th 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Workforce Development Taskforce reception
Join us for an inspiring reception evening as we celebrate progress and shape the future of intergenerational workplaces. The evening will feature a dynamic roundup of the Taskforce’s key action points and learnings, an exclusive preview of the Intergenerational Workplace Playbook and its next steps, and insightful talks from thought leaders driving change in the workforce sector. Connect with industry leaders, policymakers, and change makers through this valuable networking opportunity.
friday 25th 11am - 12pm
together with music sing along
Operated by Intergenerational Music Making, Together with Music is a nationwide platform bringing communities together through the power of song. With over 1,500 organisations already signed up, they’re building meaningful connections across generations, one note at a time!
Join this sing along for a fun morning of connection.
monday 28th 12:30pm - 1:30pm
let's talk webinar series: housing
Join us for the first event in our Let’s Talk lunchtime series. This session will bring together housing professionals, community leaders, and sector innovators to explore key challenges and opportunities in housing today. We’re pleased to share that the webinar will be panelled by Omair Haider, Managing Director Millenium Care, Rebecca Rieley, Head of Communities and Projects HACT, Miranda Foster, Head of Programmes and Product at Homes England and Lois Beech, Consultancy & Partnerships Manager at Housing Lin.
Reserve your spot and be part of the conversation.
tuesday 29th 12:30pm - 13:30pm
let's talk webinar series: health
Join us for an insightful webinar exploring how intergenerational approaches can address pressing public health challenges. We’ll discuss how these strategies can help tackle issues like loneliness, mental health, and access to preventative care, and explore the role intergenerational work plays in the NHS Long Term Plan’s focus on prevention, integration, and tackling health inequalities. This session will be led by George MacGinnis, Director, Healthy Lives at Innovate UK, Marlene Krasovitsky, Consultant to the World Health Organisation's Global Campaign to Combat Ageism and Dr Priya Kumar, GP Partner, Population Health Management and Health Inequalities Lead, Kumar Medical Centre to discuss the role of intergenerational approaches in shaping healthier, more connected communities.
wednesday 30th 5pm - 7pm
parliament roundtable: invite only
Joined by decision-makers and sector experts from across housing, health, and workforce, this event will explore key themes driving intergenerational innovation. The event will also provide valuable opportunities for networking and further discussions to deepen collaboration and drive impact.
This will be the third time sector leaders and MPs meet to discuss intergenerational policy adoption across Britain's ecosystem.
global intergenerational week 2024
Last year, we were delighted to have sector leaders share their insights and experiences through our blog series for Global Intergenerational Week. As we prepare to announce this year’s contributors, we invite you to revisit last year’s thought-provoking pieces and be inspired by the impactful conversations they sparked.
let's talk webinar series: housing
Find out more about our panellists below
Rebecca Rieley
Head of Communities and Projects, HACT
Rebecca leads the work of HACT's Centre for Excellence in Community Investment, collaborating across the housing and wider public services sector to nurture the conditions needed for communities to thrive. She is passionate about the power of coproduction with communities, the emergence of collective leadership and how we can put systems change theories into action to create positive social impacts. Her career has centred on working closely with communities across the UK to drive change across housing, homelessness, health and community development. This has included co-leading a national multiple disadvantage programme where she and the team shaped, shared and championed co-production and trauma informed practices across statutory and non-statutory systems. Rebecca is an On Purpose Fellow and an RSA Fellow.
Omair Haider
Managing Director, Millenium Care
Millennium Care is a Lancashire based care home operator and developer with a focus on developing intergenerational continuing care communities. The organisation is stakeholder value driven and currently the first and only BCorp accredited care home operator in the UK. Omair and his team have been working closely with IE on a forest led intergenerational nursery together with various initiatives in the business. The vision of the organisation is to be an early adopter of creating and developing two care communities with intergenerational connections at their heart and ethos. Omair has been the MD for the last fourteen years and on a journey to consider how those with dementia can live with vibrancy under the household model of dementia care in a de-institutionalised environment that promotes the use of nonpharmacological interventions ageing.
Lois beech
Consultancy & Partnerships Manager at Housing Lin
Lois is responsible for managing the delivery of consultancy, research and advisory services provided by the Housing LIN. She is experienced in qualitative research in relation to housing and ageing and is skilled at research analysis, synthesis and interpretation. She has experience of working in a range of Housing LIN’s projects, including in older people’s housing and supported housing services including with local authorities. She has extensive experience in working with local authorities in relation to undertaking assessments of need for housing/supported accommodation for older people and for working age adults with care/support needs. She is skilled at incorporating the views and perspectives of a range of stakeholders into these assessments. She has extensive experience of supporting councils and other social landlords in relation to reviews of supported housing, sheltered housing and extra care housing, bringing to this her knowledge from qualitative research.
MIRANDA FOSTER
HEAD OF PROGRAMMES AND PRODUCT AT HOMES ENGLAND
Miranda is Head of Programmes and Product at Homes England. Her role covers grant funding programme development, specialist housing, shared ownership, and working closely with Government stakeholders.
Previously she worked for a housing association looking after the sales and post sales teams, and prior to this her career was in banking
let's talk webinar series: health
Find out more about our panellists below
Dr Priya Kumar
GP Partner, Population Health Management and Health Inequalities Lead, Kumar Medical Centre, Slough
Dr. Priya Kumar, a practising GP Partner at Kumar Medical Centre since 2013, is known for her leadership in population health management, digital health innovation, and addressing health disparities. She has held several influential roles within Slough and Frimley ICB, including Primary Care Strategy Lead, Urgent Care Lead, and Health Inequalities Lead. Her clinical leadership has been pivotal in addressing health inequalities through initiatives like the Multigenerational Household Project and the Wider Determinants of Health Questionnaire.
She has been the Clinical Digital Lead for the Connected Care team for the past 8 years, working on a secure, real-time patient information-sharing record across both health and social care. She has further supported the development of the population health analytics tool. In 2023, as Transformational Clinical Digital Lead, she received the 'Digital Innovator of the Year' award at the HSJ Digital Awards for her innovative use of the Johns Hopkins segmentation model in system redesign to address health inequalities on a population level. She is dedicated to integrating health and social care sectors and collaborates closely with public health and voluntary sector partners to develop innovative pathways that serve the local population.
DR Marlene Krasovitsky
Consultant to the World Health Organisation's Global Campaign to Combat Ageism
Marlane is currently consulting to the World Health Organisation's Global Campaign to Combat Ageism. Marlane is also consulting with HelpAge International to map ageism initiatives globally, with a particular focus in low- and middle-income countries. Marlane was formerly the Director and Co-Chair of EveryAGE Counts, Australia's coalition-led campaign against ageism. Previously, Marlane was the Director of Willing to Work, the National Inquiry into Employment Discrimination Against Older Australians and Australians with Disability with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). This Inquiry was led by The Hon. Susan Ryan AO, former Age and Disability Discrimination Commissioner.
Marlane has worked in Commonwealth and State Governments and the not for profit sector in a range of executive, policy and operational roles as well as a number of major public inquiries including the Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force and the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW.
George MacGinnis
Healthy Lives Director, Innovate UK
George MacGinnis leads Innovate UK’s work on Healthy Lives, focusing on wellbeing across the lifecourse which encompasses innovations that enable people to live a long and fulfilling life, maintaining health and wellbeing in both mind and body. This is a broad agenda ranging from nutrition and obesity through to mental health, social care and living well with neurodegenerative disorders.
His background in health and care innovation includes previous work leading UKRI’s Healthy Ageing Challenge, an assessment of the future capacity needs for a reformed health and social care system in the Republic of Ireland, a review of the NHS innovation funding for small businesses and leading the user group for a global industry alliance to enable a consumer-friendly market for digital wellness and health products and services through standards and accreditation.
