Today’s brief is a very important one for us all to get involved in. I’m sure every single one of us has been affected by this during the past year or so… so let’s help raise awareness with powerful and positive messages today in typical OMBLE-style!!

BRIEF:

It’s Loneliness Awareness Week and the theme of the week is acceptance.

We all get lonely sometimes, but we don’t all get loneliness.

We’re looking for creative ways to get people talking about loneliness to break the stigma around it and to build our understanding of it as a normal emotion.

By accepting loneliness as a normal emotion, we can help ourselves and others to manage the feeling.

Please avoid words such as: ‘Tackling’, ‘mental health’, ‘suffering’, ‘combatting’ & use words which encourage acceptance that it’s OK to feel lonely. Let’s keep things positive.

Find out more at: https://www.marmaladetrust.org/law

Please tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs & @MarmaladeTrust with the hashtags #LonelinessAwarenessWeek

Prize:

£100 cash prize for today’s winner!
£50 cash prizes for 2nd and 3rd place pledged by Radioactive PR.

About the Marmalade Trust:

We offer a vital link between lonely people and the communities and resources that can help them. We have two bi-annual events: our Christmas Day Lunch and Loneliness Awareness Week, which is held in June. We are also currently supporting Marmalade members struggling with isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic with regular telephone support. We raise awareness of loneliness all year round to help people to reach out and make positive changes within their own lives and communities.