Call5

The initiative aims to encourage everyone to consider who they know from among their friends, family and community who would welcome a telephone call, a friendly voice and someone to talk to during this challenging time. Just that sense of company is so important to someone who is feeling isolated. It really helps to feel remembered.

All are asked to choose 5 people – from their friends, family, and other contacts – and to commit to call them regularly to ensure they know someone is there for them. Although this is primarily a telephone-based project, it also includes contact through Skype, FaceTime, text, email or whatever the preferred contact method is for the people involved.

We have five digits on each hand – looking at our hands is an easy reminder to call, by allocating a person to each digit. For the enthusiastic, there is always a second hand to use to identify five more people to call!

Through Call5, we aim to encourage increased contact across the country, a significant reduction in isolation and loneliness, and an increased sense of belonging to a wider family and community.

Even as we come out of lockdown there are still many who feel isolated and alone. Would you like to be a part of the Call5 movement? For information and to sign up for Call5, please visit www.call5.co.uk.

Call5 has reached hundreds of thousands of people with its message by one means or other, and if each of these made only one call in response then the impact has been immense! If, as we asked, they called five or more people then the number of people helped will have been over the million.