Bridging generations with Christmas gifts

GIFTS collected by children from a nursery in the Porthmadog area have been shared out to older people in the area as part of Gwynedd Council’s Bridging the Generations scheme.

This comes after the Meithrinfa Hen Ysgol nursery contacted Gwynedd Council eager to see whether it would be possible to share out boxes of gifts the children had prepared for the area’s older people who live alone.

Teleri Rowlands, who coordinates the Bridging the Generations scheme worked with the Council’s Community Care team so that Gwynedd’s care staff were able to share the boxes with residents before Christmas.

Since the Bridging the Generations scheme was established, the team has worked with a number of schools, colleges and organisations across Gwynedd to run pilot projects that bring the two generations together.

This has included a scheme between Ysgol y Garnedd and the Cae Garnedd extra care housing development in the Bangor area; a project with Ysgol Nefyn and the Plas Hafan care home along with a project between sheltered housing in Barmouth and Ysgol y Traeth.

Gwynedd Council is working with Bangor University as part of a scheme to evaluate the Bridging the Generations field.

● Teleri Rowlands, Bridging the Generations Coordinator; Donna Ojemeyi, Meithrinfa Hen Ysgol manager; Gill Owen from the Community Care team; Aimee Addison from the nursery and some of the children who were part of the scheme