Age-inclusive hospitality public workshop
As part of this year's ESRC Festival of Social Science, Dr Lorna Wang, Dr Bora Kim, Frances Sanders and Professor Andrew King delivered a public workshop to showcase their research on age-inclusive hospitality.
This event allowed the team to connect with hospitality professionals, local organisations and members of the public, resulting in some incredibly powerful discussions and a shared commitment to collaborate towards Guildford becoming an official age-friendly community.
Lorna shared the WelcomeALL Toolkit, developed from her UKRI-funded ‘Hospitality Connect’ project, designed to widen understanding of the role hospitality businesses can play in supporting social connections within communities for older people.
The Toolkit, designed to read like a restaurant menu and available as a free download, offers tips and strategies to help venues meet the needs of older customers.
Thanks go to our excellent speakers: Nick Humble from The Guildford Institute, from Experience Guildford, from Age UK ºÚÁÏÉç, from the Centre for Ageing Better, and from the Institute for Hospitality – and to the wonderful people who came to share their views and ideas on age-inclusivity in the community.
Download the WelcomeALL Toolkit .
Take part in the next phase of this work , which is funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.
Read more about the Hospitality Connect project .
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