Love dressing up for Halloween but prefer staying comfy and cosy?

Why not cosy up in your fanciest (or spookiest!) slippers for the day on 30th October at school, work or even your scheduled Zoom meetings for a big team selfie and raise funds for Age UK Norfolk - just in time to help us befriend older people this Winter?!

Slip into Slippers is a simple way of pledging support to help us tackle loneliness for older people in Norfolk this winter. For every £12 raised, well be able to provide an older person with a whole month of telephone befriending over the winter period, thats around 400 hours of befriending for our members!

Slip into Slippers is a dress down day that encourages people to donate £1 to Age UK Norfolk as an incentive to stay warm, cosy and relaxed in your fanciest slippers at work or school (wherever its safe to do so!)*

How to get involved?

Simply dress up in your slippers on the 30th October (the spookier/wackier the slippers the better!) and donate £1 to Age UK Norfolk via our JustGiving fundraiser.

At the bottom of this page, youll find some handy posters to help you, one to promote your dress down day and one to use on the day.

Wed love to be kept in the loop with your Slip into Slippers day, so please send any photos to fundraising@ageuknorfolk.org.uk or tag us on social media: @ageuknorfolk / @ageuknorfolkofficial for Instagram.

Support for our befriending service this winter

All funds raised from our Slip into Slippers campaign will benefit our telephone befriending service, which makes friendly, chatty phone calls to lonely older people who may have no one else to talk to.

For every £12 raised, well be able to provide an older person with a whole month of telephone befriending over the winter period, thats around 400 hours of befriending for our members!

Do you know somebody who could benefit from receiving befriending calls? Visit our dedicated Telephone Befriending page to find out more: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/norfolk/our-services/telephone-befriending/

Why raise funds for Age UK Norfolk?

There are estimated to be 38,000 lonely older people in Norfolk and in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, many older people have experienced isolation and loneliness. With your support, we can do our bit to help ease the burden of loneliness this winter right here in our own communities, especially in anticipation of any further lockdown/shielding activity.

Local causes can often be over-looked in favour of bigger, national charities. When you support Age UK Norfolk, your fundraising efforts benefit older people right here in Norfolk that could be your own parents, grandparents or even your next door neighbour!

*Whilst Slip into Slippers is a fun event to take part in, we recognise that there can also be health & safety implications to people wearing their slippers for the day, and would urge people to check with their workplace or school to ensure that there are no additional risks in doing so.